The Paradise of Death

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caption=CD release cover
serial_name=The Paradise of Death
doctor=Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor)
writer=Barry Letts
director=Phil Clarke
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length=5 episodes, 30 mins each
date=27 August – 24 September 1993
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set_between="The Time Warrior" and
"Invasion of the Dinosaurs"
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type=radio play|

"The Paradise of Death" is a radio audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", produced by the BBC and first broadcast in five episodes on BBC Radio 5 from 27 August to 24 September 1993. The original radio play was released on CD as part of the BBC Radio Collection in March 2000. A second radio play featuring the Third Doctor, "The Ghosts of N-Space", was broadcast in 1996.

ynopsis

The Third Doctor, Sarah and the Brigadier investigate the shadowy machinations of the Parakon Corporation and their new theme park Space World.

Cast

*Doctor Who — Jon Pertwee
*Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart — Nicholas Courtney
*Sarah Jane Smith — Elisabeth Sladen
*Freeth — Harold Innocent (who previously portrayed Gilbert M in the serial "The Happiness Patrol")
*Tragan — Peter Miles (who has portrayed several roles in "Doctor Who" including Nyder in "Genesis of the Daleks")
*President — Maurice Denham (who previously portrayed Azmael in the serial "The Twin Dilemma")
*Jeremy Fitzoliver — Richard C. Pearce
*Onya — Jane Slavin
*Grebber/Reporter — Brian Hall
*Clorinda/Sec Gen of the UN — Jillie Meers
*General Commanding Unit — John Hardwood
*Odun/Patrol Leader — John Fleming
*Captain Waldo Rudley — Jonathan Tafler
*Greckle — Emma Myant
*Rasco Heldal — Michael Onslow
*Medan/Hunter — David Holt
*Yallett/Officer of the day — Philip Anthony
*Crestin/Bill/Radio Voice/Ambulance Man/Man - Andrew Wincott
*Nobby/Kitson/Wilkins/Soldier - Dominic Letts (Son of scriptwriter Barry Letts)
*Echolocation Operator/Lexhan - Julian Rhind-Tutt
*Kaido/Guard 2/Ungar/Custodian of Data Store/Jenhegger - Trevor Martin (who previously portrayed a Time Lord in the serial "The War Games" and the Doctor himself in "Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday.)

Continuity

*This adventure is set between the television stories "The Time Warrior" and "Invasion of the Dinosaurs", however the events of the latter appear to follow directly on from those of the former making it difficult to place this adventure within established canon. The Doctor and Sarah discuss the events of "The Time Warrior" in the first episode, explicitly stating that this is only their second adventure together.

Naglon

Self-described as "barely humanoid", they are bipedal but have mauve faces that display extreme changes of color and motion in reaction to emotion or stress. The Doctor has had trouble with the species before. The single Naglon in "The Paradise of Death" is an extreme sadist who revels in causing pain and death as well as enjoying feeling those emotions in his victims.

In print

"The Paradise of Death" was novelised as part of the Target Books range by Barry Letts in 1994 (ISBN 0-426-20413-1); it was the 156th and final novelisation to be published by Target, ending a series of books that began in 1964 (and under the Target label since 1973). The following serial, "Ghosts of N-Space", would be novelised under the Virgin Missing Adventures series.

External links

*Doctor Who RG | id=paradise | title=The Paradise of Death

Reviews

*OG review | id=radio-1 | title=The Paradise of Death
*DWRG | id=paradise | title=The Paradise of Death

Target novelisation

*OG review | id=book-paradise | title=The Paradise of Death