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
Before the Flood (Doctor Who) "Before the Flood" is set in both 2119 and 139 years before, in 1980. In the cold opening, the Doctor explains to the audience the nature of the bootstrap paradox, posing that if a time traveller recreated Beethoven's music after learning Beethoven never existed, what is the origin of the music, or "Who really composed Beethoven's Fifth?" The Doctor, O'Donnell, and Bennett arrive in 1980, before the town was flooded and the day the alien craft landed. Bennett asks why they are in Russia, and the Doctor explains they are still in Scotland, but in a mock Soviet town. They