Main menuStephen Wyatt, Doctor Who - Paradise towers
Release details
| Title | Doctor Who - Paradise towers | ||||||||
| Artist(s): | Stephen Wyatt | ||||||||
| Category: | BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: |  BBC3 - BBCDVD 3002 | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc DVD's | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1987 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | A0101790549-A933 02 IFPI L556 Sony DADC | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | No | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by |  2 entertain | ||||||||
| Page views: | 1620 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 3027, rank in dvds is 169. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
My copies information
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| Detail | Value | ||||||||||
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| Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | - | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
| What type of seller was used | Amazon online shop | ||||||||||
| Where can I buy this release? | You may be able to purchase this release from the following websites (others are available!) | ||||||||||
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Tracks
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| Side & track no | Track and Artist | Length | |||||||||
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| A1 | Part 1 | 24.33 | |||||||||
| A2 | Part 2 | 24.39 | |||||||||
| A3 | Part 3 | 24.30 | |||||||||
| A4 | Part 4 | 24.21 | |||||||||
| A5 | Horror of the high rise cast - The making of the series | 34.04 | |||||||||
| A6 | Deleted and extended scenes | 7.54 | |||||||||
| A7 | Continuity | 3.54 | |||||||||
| A8 | Girls! Girls! Girls! - The Eighties | 21.44 | |||||||||
| A9 | Casting Sylvester | 3.48 | |||||||||
| A10 | Photo gallery | 4.35 | |||||||||
| A11 | Radio Times billings [PDF] | ||||||||||
| A12 | Coming soon - The sun makers | 1.10 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 2:55:12. | |||||||||||
All release pictures
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Reviews
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| My rating | 3 | |
| Guest rating | Current average value is 3. To vote, please select one of these buttons: | |
Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
StarringSylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor) Bonnie Langford (Mel Bush) Richard Briers - Chief Caretaker / The Great Architect Clive Merrison - Deputy Chief Caretaker Elizabeth Spriggs - Tabby Brenda Bruce - Tilda Judy Cornwell - Maddy Howard Cooke - Pex Julie Brennon - Fire Escape Annabel Yuresha - Bin Liner Catherine Cusack - Blue Kang Leader Astra Sheridan - Yellow Kang Joseph Young - Young Caretaker Simon Coady - Video Commentary Written byStephen Wyatt Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner Directed byNicholas Mallett SynopsisAccording to the sales brochure, Paradise Towers is a utopian blueprint for community living, with its fabulous architecture and state-of-the-art facilities. The perfect place for Mel to take a leisurely swim, in fact. But when the TARDIS arrives, the Doctor and his companion discover that the futuristic tower block has fallen into ruin, and a series of unexplained disappearances have the tenants living in fear. As gangs of teenage girls run wild in the hallways, a squad of bureaucratic Caretakers struggle to retain control. To keep the citizens of Paradise Towers safe, the Doctor must confront the resident evil lurking in the basement ... BackgroundIt is perhaps a blessing that Harry Hill's TV Burp was not a feature of the TV schedules during Season 24. With villainous old ladies in pastel cardigans, Bonnie Langford being harassed in a swimming pool by a bright yellow robot crab, and a zombified Richard Briers sporting a comedy moustache, Paradise Towers presents an easy target for ridicule. But although the show undoubtedly has a few less than triumphant moments, there is still much to enjoy. As the Seventh Doctor's first proper adventure (discounting Time and The Rani, given that he wasn't really feeling himself ...), it offers a taste of how Doctor Who would change under the new script editor Andrew Cartmel. Gone are lengthy TARDIS scenes and continuity-bound exposition; this is a stand-alone tale, and it comes like a breath of fresh air. Here, as in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Stephen Wyatt creates a fascinating environment that has its own logic and language, and is simultaneously comfortingly familiar and unnervingly strange. In a script tailored to his performance style, Sylvester McCoy starts to make the Doctor his own, doffing his hat to vending machines, baffling the Caretakers with their own rulebook, and generally engaging with his surroundings instead of raging against them like his predecessor. Although it would take the production team a few more stories to get a proper handle on the Seventh Doctor, his genesis is undoubtedly here. And as to whether Red or Blue Kangs are the best, well there's only one way to find out ... Fight! | ||
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