Paradise Towers (novelisation)
Paradise Towers was a novelisation based on the 1987 television serial Paradise Towers. 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 Target Books 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...
1991 Target Books edition
THE DOCTOR WAS NO LONGER WITH HER. SHE WAS WELL AND TRULY ALONE IN PARADISE TOWARS...
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...
Doctor Who - Paradise Towers was broadcast on BBC television in 1987. This novelization is by Stephen Wyatt of his own original script.
Chapter titles
- The Last of the Yellow Kangs
- No Visitors
- Tea and Cakes
- The Chief
- This Way and That
- Brainquarters
- Come into My Parlour
- The Illustrated Prospectus
- The Basement
- The Pool in the Sky
- Kroagnon
- Farewells
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.
- This was the first novelization to feature artwork of the Seventh Doctor.
- This was also the first novelization since The Five Doctors to feature the Doctor at all, due to the disputes which prevented Target's covers from depicting Peter Davison or Colin Baker.
Additional cover images
to be added
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).
Audiobook
This Target Book was released on 5 April 2012 complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Bonnie Langford.
The cover blurb and thumbnail illustrations were retained in the accompanying booklet with sleevenotes by David J. Howe. Music and sound effects by Simon Power.
Audiobook cover
