The Paradise of Death (audio story)

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The Paradise of Death was a BBC Radio drama first broadcast in 1993. It was the third audio drama produced for radio, following Exploration Earth and Slipback, and the first publicly released[1] audio drama to feature Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. This made him the earliest actor to portray the Doctor that also lent his voice to an audio serial. However, he would only perform one more audio story in his lifetime.

The story introduced new companion Jeremy Fitzoliver, played by Richard Pearce. The story also featured a number of actors who also played different characters in the TV series, including Maurice Denham, Trevor Martin, Philip Anthony, Peter Miles and Harold Innocent.

Publisher's summary

When a horrific and inexplicable death occurs at Space World, a new theme park on Hampstead Heath, UNIT is called in to investigate. The Third Doctor is highly suspicious. Just who controls the Parakon Corporation, the shadowy organisation behind the running of the park? What is "Experienced Reality" and what are the limits of its awesome powers?

Plot

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Cast

Crew

Worldbuilding

  • The Doctor takes Bessie to the press coverage of Space World.
  • The Doctor used to ride skimmers on Gallifrey during his childhood with his friends, which are likened to bicycles, and says he is several hundred years older than Sarah and Jeremy.
  • Sarah and the Brigadier meet for the first time.
  • Freeth notes that, whilst being on Earth, he is part of an ethnic minority.
  • The Brigadier mocks the Doctor's use of the phrase "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow". The Doctor says that it would sound like nonsense to a classical subatomic physicist.

Notes

Novelisation cover
  • The Paradise of Death puts a different spin on the opening moments of the television story Invasion of the Dinosaurs. Television viewers may have thought the opening moments of Dinosaurs directly followed the closing scene of The Time Warrior, but The Paradise of Death suggests otherwise, depicting the first meeting of the Brigadier and Sarah Jane Smith.
  • A novelisation by Barry Letts was published in 1994. It was the final release in the (original) long-running Target Books novelisation series.

Continuity

Releases

  • Cassette release

    Cassette release

  • CD release

    CD release

  • The BBC Radio Episodes release (box)

    The BBC Radio Episodes release (box)

  • The BBC Radio Episodes release (CD)

    The BBC Radio Episodes release (CD)

  • Revised cover with the 2018 logo

    Revised cover with the 2018 logo

  • Vinyl Record release

    Vinyl Record release

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Glorious Goodwood (1974) starred Pertwee as the Third Doctor and Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, but was not given any wide public release until 2005.
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