- Paradise Towers
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*Working titles for this story included "The Paradise Tower" Brief | id=7e | title=Paradise Towers] .
*AuthorStephen Wyatt based his story in part on theJ. G. Ballard novel "High Rise ", which depicts a luxury apartment building which descends into savagery .
*The music track was originally meant to be provided by a member of theBBC Radiophonic Workshop , but producer John Nathan-Turner had decided that the incidental music no longer needed to be produced in-house. Instead, freelance composerDavid Snell was hired to provide the score, but Nathan-Turner terminated the commission late in production as he was unsatisfied with the way the score was turning out.Keff McCulloch provided the final score at short notice.Casting
*Nisha Nayar, an uncredited extra playing one of the Red Kangs, later appeared in a more substantial speaking part in the 2005 two-part story "
Bad Wolf " and "The Parting of the Ways ". This made her the second performer to appear in both the classic and new series of "Doctor Who".
*Julie Brennon, who played Fire Escape, was married at the time toMark Strickson , who had been theFifth Doctor 's companionVislor Turlough .
*Features a guest appearance byRichard Briers . See alsoCelebrity appearances in Doctor Who .Commercial releases
This story was released on
VHS in October 1995.In print
Doctorwhobook
title=Paradise Towers
series=Target novelisations
number=134
featuring=
writer=Stephen Wyatt
publisher=Target Books
coverartist=Alister Pearson
isbn=0 426 20330 5
set_between=
pages=
date=1 December 1988
preceding=The Smugglers
following=Delta and the Bannermen|A novelisation of this serial, written by Wyatt, was published byTarget Books in December 1988. It reveals that the Blue Kang Leader is named Drinking Fountain.References
External links
*BBCCDW|id=paradisetowers|title=Paradise Towers
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_7e | title=Paradise Towers
*OG|7e|Paradise TowersReviews
*OG review | id=7e | title=Paradise Towers
*DWRG | id=para | title=Paradise TowersTarget novelisation
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/1988/paradise/88paradi.htm On Target — "Paradise Towers"]
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