Doctor Who: Paradise Towers - Part 1
11:00 pm - 12:30 am, Saturday, November 22 on IPTV HDTV (12.1)
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Paradise Towers - Part 1
Season 24, Episode 5
"Paradise Towers", Part 1 of four. The Doctor visits a planet that was once a resort and finds it has become a filthy urban jungle, overrun by violent young girls, ruthless bureaucrats and malicious old ladies.
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1987
English
Sci-fi
Action/adventure
Fantasy
Cult Classic
Cast & Crew
Sylvester Mccoy
(Actor)
.. The Doctor
Bonnie Langford
(Actor)
.. Melanie "Mel" Bush
Clive Merrison
(Actor)
.. Deputy Chief Caretaker
Brenda Bruce
(Actor)
.. Tilda
Elizabeth Spriggs
(Actor)
.. Tabby
Richard Briers
(Actor)
.. Chief Caretaker
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Did You Know..
Sylvester Mccoy
(Actor)
.. The Doctor
Born:
August 20, 1943
Bonnie Langford
(Actor)
.. Melanie "Mel" Bush
Born:
July 01, 1964
Clive Merrison
(Actor)
.. Deputy Chief Caretaker
Born:
September 15, 1945
Birthplace: Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Birthplace: Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Trivia:
Has appeared on stage many times and was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in the 1970s. Appeared as Sherlock Holmes on BBC Radio 4 from 1989 to 1998. Played the Headmaster in the 2006 radio adaptation of The History Boys.
Brenda Bruce
(Actor)
.. Tilda
Born:
July 07, 1919
Died: February 19, 1996
Died: February 19, 1996
Trivia:
Brenda Bruce found success and steady employment playing supporting roles on stage, television, and in feature films. She began her long career at age 12 as a dancer in a chorus line. Bruce boosted her reputation after working with the Birmingham Repertory company from 1936 through the early '40s when she returned to the London theater scene to establish herself as a key interpreter of George Bernard Shaw's work. In 1943, Bruce launched a film career with Millions Like Us. During the war years, up until 1953, Bruce appeared in many films. In the '50s, she and her husband, director Roy Rich, hosted Rich and Rich, a highly rated British television show. Her subsequent film career includes appearances in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) and All Creatures Great and Small (1974).
Elizabeth Spriggs
(Actor)
.. Tabby
Born:
September 18, 1929
Died: July 02, 2008
Died: July 02, 2008
Richard Briers
(Actor)
.. Chief Caretaker
Born:
January 14, 1934
Died: February 17, 2013
Birthplace: Raynes Park, Surrey
Died: February 17, 2013
Birthplace: Raynes Park, Surrey
Trivia:
British leading man Richard Briers appeared in several TV adaptations of venerable stage plays in the 1960s. His interpretation of cross-dressing Lord Fancourt Babberly in Charley's Aunt managed to find a berth on American public television in 1968. The warm gust of applause greeting the actor's appearance indicated that he was already an audience favorite - as indeed he was, having appeared in such films as Girls at Sea (1962) and Fathom (1967). When American viewers next saw Briers, he was starring with Felicity Kendall on an agreeable BBC sitcom, Good Neighbors (Briers' second starring series). The series was a light, easy-going account of two city dwellers trying to make a go at country living; Richard Briers and his superb supporting cast made the slender material seem far funnier than it really was.
