Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Doctor Who. Paradise towers [videorecording] / BBC ; written by Stephen Wyatt ; directed by Nick Mallett ; produced by John Nathan-Turner.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. : 2 entertain Video Ltd. ; Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2011.

Description:

1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

According to the sales brochure, Paradise Towers is a utopian blueprint for community living, with its fabulous architecture and state-of-the-art facilities. The perfect place for Mel to take a leisurely swim, in fact. But when the TARDIS arrives, the Doctor and his companion discover that the futuristic tower block has fallen into ruin, and a series of unexplained disappearances has the tenants living in fear.

Series:

The Sylvester McCoy years 1987-1989.

Sylvester McCoy years, 1987-1989 ; story no. 149.

Subjects:

Doctor Who (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Time travel -- Drama.

Science fiction television programs.

Television series.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Wyatt, Stephen, 1948-

Mallett, Nick.

Nathan-Turner, John, 1947-2002.

McCoy, Sylvester, 1943-

Langford, Bonnie.

British Broadcasting Corporation.

BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.

2 Entertain Video (Firm)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Other Title:

Paradise towers.

Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989)

Notes:

Title from container.

Release date: Aug. 9, 2011.

Originally broadcast on BBC, October 5-26, 1987.

"Story no. 149."

"The Sylvester McCoy years 1987-1989."

Special features: audio commentary by actor Judy Cornwell, writer Stephen Wyatt, and special sound designer Dick Mills; "Horror on the high rise": cast and crew look back on the making of the story (34 min.); "Casting Sylvester" (3 min.); deleted and extended scenes (8 min.); continuity (4 min.); "Girls! Girls! Girls! : the eighties" with Sophie Aldred, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton (21 min.); alternative soundtrack; photo gallery; PDF materials.

Music, Keff McCulloch.

Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital; aspect ratio, 4:3.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ISBN:

0780671287

9780780671287

Publisher Number:

1000181014

Other Number:

743311718

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

297716

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Doctor W

Medium:

[videorecording]