Paradise Towers: Part Four

Episode aired Oct 26, 1987
TV-PG
24m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

530

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Richard Briers, Sylvester McCoy, Annabel Yuresha, and Julie Brennon in Doctor Who (1963)

Adventure Drama Family Sci-Fi

Meeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagno... Read allMeeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagnon and his robotic Cleaners.Meeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagnon and his robotic Cleaners.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

530

YOUR RATING

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8ianweech

I liked this episode

A lot of people hate this season. I think most of this season is bad, but this episode is good. Part 1: 9/10 Part 2: 9/10 Part 3: 8/10 Part 4: 8/10

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Paradise Towers: Part Four

Well it was highly ambitious for Doctor Who to pay homage to J G Ballard's High Rise. Before 1987 I wonder how many people outside sci fi would had been aware of Ballard. His writing were regarded as difficult to adapt and High Rise only made it to the cinema as a movie in 2015.

Ironically it was in 1987 that Ballard became widely known. Steven Spielberg directed his semi autobiographical Empire of the Sun.

Paradise Towers was out of reach for a television series that had its budget slashed.

The production techniques just were not there for Doctor Who in 1987. Marred by a poor script and some abysmal acting.

McCoy is all at sea but Richard Briers gets worse in the fourth episode.

Kroagnon the great architect has taken over the the Chief Caretaker's body.

The Doctor must unite everyone in Paradise Towers against him. A few rousing an unconvincing words later, Pex is ready to fight to the death while others just stand and watch.

The worse scenes must have been the swimming pool ones. Mel failed to see a big yellow mechanical monster in the pool.

Trivia
This episode was watched by 5 million viewers on its original transmission.

Goofs
When Mel is attacked by the robot cleaners in the pool, she is clearly dragged under the water several times. However, after she escapes and emerges from the pool, the hair on top of her head is dry.

Quotes
Kroagnon: Attention all robotic cleaners. Attention all robotic cleaners. At last Kroagnon can leave the basement prison they trapped his bodiless brain in and return, in this borrowed body, to the corridors and lifts of his own creation. They buried me away because I wanted to stop them using the Towers, and now you and I will destroy them.