Paradise Towers: Part One

But it would have been interesting to have another season post-trial with Colin and Bonnie Langford would have been great.

Yeah, I could have seen him in Delta and the Bannermen and maybe Dragonfire, but I don't know whether I could see him in Paradise Towers or, as you say, Time and Nirvana.

Yeah, I guess maybe

Delta, although Delta and the Bannermen for me is where mccoy everything comes together about mccoy's performances so so it's sort of yeah i feel like it would kind of break my heart for that not to be mccoy but i guess yeah story-wise colin could definitely carry that off and it would actually be quite nice for him to get the relationship with ray and that sort of gentle aside in there as well would be really nice for him to do and dragonfly yeah i partly i guess because glitz is in it he could he could do dragonfire pretty well just being a bit angrier all the way through

My name is Paul and I am here with Mr. Joe Ford to talk about part three of the, I was going to say the Happiness Patrol again, I almost said it again, Joe.

It's Paradise Towers.

Good evening, Joe.

How are you? Soon, soon I shall be free.

Yeah,

I don't know what it is, but it is like a mental thing.

And I want to sing Happiness Patrol when I'm in Paradise Towers.

I mean, I just I can't tell the difference between a man made out of licorice all sorts and a man Richard Bryce covered in silver paint either.

Here's what I think is good.

Don't choose Paradise Towers.

I did that with my friend Hazel.

And at the end of episode one, she said, I think I'm done.

I mean, Jesus

Christ.

Briars in Paradise Towers? I mean, come on now.

Did somebody mention From Marcy? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

He was Gilbert M in Paradise Towers.

Was he? Yes.

Okay.

[laughs] Good evening, Joe.

Uh, lovely to be back again, and lovely to be walking the, the halls of Paradise Towers.

Indeed.

I mean, uh, you know, last time we were trying to determine whether this was social commentary, character drama, comedy, horror.

You did.

Oh, maybe it was, maybe it was subconscious then.

Uh, but you put that tune in my head and you've moved out the, the cleaner music from Par- uh, from Paradise Towers.

So, um-

And, and they're both very, very studio bound, which I know is something you've mentioned with your slight dislike of, um, uh, The Happiness Patrol.

Don't know how you feel about Paradise Towers yet when we get to that, but...

Can I jump into that now?

Yeah, go for it.

Um, I liked Bonnie's performance in this.

Um, I thought, yeah, and, and I really enjoyed it.

And I f- and I thought that I, when I'd heard about this as a story, you talked about how grimy the sets are and stuff, I, I kind of figured when I heard the premise of what Paradise Towers was gonna be, I was thinking automatically, "Oh, they're gonna fudge this.

It's not gonna be grimy, it's not gonna be dirty.

And I think it succeeds in a lot of ways.

This is a very similar story to Paradise Towers in many ways.

And I think it succeeds in a lot of ways that Paradise Towers did not.

Yeah, Happiness Patrol is a better story than Paradise Towers.

I think partly because Helen A. Sheila Hancock's performance is stronger than the villain of Paradise Towers.

And the Candyman is a more interesting villain and character than anything in Paradise Towers.

Yeah, similar themes, I feel.

Similar setting.

Oh

... of Paradise Towers.

This is the picture of Sarah Sutton in her new costume, which Sandra Dickinson didn't like at all, and I told her to leave the studio.

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