Paradise Towers (novelisation)

Doctor Who – Paradise Towers
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Melanie Bush
Main enemy:	Kroagnon
Main setting:	Paradise Towers, the 21st century
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Target Books, W.H. Allen & Co]]
Writer:	Stephen Wyatt
Release details
Release number:	134
Release date:	December 1988
Format:	Paperback Book, 143 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20330-5
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Novelisation

• This novelisation is based on the original television serial (DW): Paradise Towers, shown from 5 October 1987. It was written by Stephen Wyatt
• The cover and information on the right are for the original Target edition. It features the artwork of Alister Pearson. (See below for information on editions with different covers).
• The cover art of the original 1988 edition marked the first appearance of an image of Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and, in fact, the first time an image of the then-current incarnation of the Doctor had been featured since the final use of a photographic image of Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor on the cover of Enlightenment in 1984.
• A hardcover edition was planned, but cancelled.

Publisher's summary

1988 edition

Much in need of a holiday, Mel and the Doctor head for Paradise Towers: a luxury man-made planet with sparkling fountains, sunny streets, exotic flowers and a shimmering blue swimming pool.
But when the TARDIS materialises in a dark, rubbish filled, rat-infested alley it seems that this particular Paradise has turned into Hell!
Pursued by rogue cleaning machines, authoritarian caretakers and old ladies with strange eating habits, the Doctor and Mel track down the source of the chaos to one mysterious character – the designer of Paradise Towers, the Great Architect himself …

Illustrations

• None

Deviations from televised story

To be added

Writing and publishing notes

• The inside back pages feature colour advert for Fantastic Doctor Who Posters Offer!
• A proposed hardback edition for July 1988 was never published.

Additional cover images

• 2ParadiseTowers.jpg

  1991 edition; Cover by Alister Pearson

British publication history

First Publication: Paperback (December 1988)

• Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 25,000, priced £1.99 (UK).

Re-issues: (1991)

• Target / Virgin Publishing, estimated print run: 9,000, priced £2.50 (UK).

Editions published outside Britain

To be added

See also

• The Target Book by David J Howe (Telos Publishing 2007)

External links

• On Target a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal