The Seventh Doctor and Mel visit the luxury tower block of Paradise Towers in the near future. However, the microcosm within the Towers has collapsed into chaos as the Caretakers, the Kangs and the cannibalistic Rezzies are all being attacked and killed by robotic Cleaners. The Chief Caretaker is feeding the bodies to Kroagnon, the Great Architect of Paradise Towers, who lives in the basement. Kroagnon possesses the Chief Caretaker and fights the Doctor and Mel’s new friend Pex to the death! But sadly, both perish…

Paradise Towers

★★★★☆

TX: 5-26/10/1987

Written by Stephen Wyatt     Directed by Nicholas Mallett

The Seventh Doctor and Mel arrive in a tower block in the near future. The dystopian microcosm within Paradise Towers includes multi-coloured gangs of young girls called Kangs, cannibal old ladies called ‘Rezzies’ and the bureaucratic caretakers who police the towers. The Chief Caretaker captures and accuses the Doctor of being the Great Architect behind Paradise Towers. Mel narrowly escapes being eaten by the Rezzies when she is rescued by muscle man Pex. It transpires that various residents of Paradise Towers are being killed by the cleaner robots and taken to the basement to be fed to Kroagnon, the real great architect. Kroagnon possesses the body of the Chief Caretaker and begins to reimpose his designs on the Towers. Pex sacrifices himself to defeat Kroagnon/Chief Caretaker. The Kangs give the Doctor and Mel a present before they depart and the various groups in the towers resolve to live in harmony with one another. Paradise Towers is loosely based on High-Rise by J.G. Ballard.