Paradise Towers Paradise Towers Paradise Towers is the second serial of the 24th season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 October 1987. In the serial, Kroagnon, the incorporeal architect of the giant residential building Paradise Towers, takes over the body of the Chief Caretaker (Richard Briers) so he can kill everyone in the Towers. The Doctor and Mel Bush, looking for a swimming pool, land in Paradise Towers, a luxurious 22nd-century high-rise apartment building now fallen into disrepair and chaos. It is divided between roaming gangs of
The Rani (Doctor Who) experiment, grew to enormous size and ate the President's pet cat, and according to The Master, "took a chunk out of him too". She is established as being the same age as the Doctor. The Rani was, like the Master, intended as a recurring foe of the Doctor, but only appeared in two serials, "The Mark of the Rani" (1985) and "Time and the Rani" (1987), before "Doctor Who" went off the air in 1989. The Rani also appeared as the principal villain in "Dimensions in Time", a 1993 "Doctor Who" charity special created for Children in Need. She was