Paradise Towers (novelisation)
Novelisation
- This novelisation is based on the original television serial (TV): 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 …
Chapter Titles
1. The Last of the Yellow Kings
2. No Visitors
3. Tea and Cakes
4. The Chief
5. This Way and That
6. Brainquarters
7. Come into My Parlour
8. The Illustrated Prospectus
9. The Basement
10. The Pool in the Sky
11. Kroagnon
12. Farewells
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)
