The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.
20 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
1989
Rating
5.8/10
4 votes • HD
Episodes
Episode 1 • Sep 19, 1989
When their criminal mother dies, a streetwise priest and a reluctant villain, estranged brothers, are reunited again and wonder who will get the Paradise Club.
Episode 2 • Sep 26, 1989
As Frank settles in at the Paradise Club, Danny's would-be assassins are on trial for attempted murder, and the outrageous Great Crane Robbery seals the fate of Glasgow gangster Elliot Rossini.
Episode 3 • Oct 03, 1989
A police plan to foil a major gem heist goes tragically wrong and Danny convinces a young would-be armed robber that a life of crime leads to misery.
Episode 4 • Oct 10, 1989
Frank tries to trace a missing teenager and Danny takes explosive action to prevent a ruthless drugs baron from pushing crack and heroin.
Episode 5 • Oct 17, 1989
Danny is arrested, but confounds his lawyer by refusing to provide an alibi for a crime he did not commit, leaving Frank to take on vicious drug dealer Colonel Mombassa.
Episode 6 • Oct 24, 1989
Ma Kane's ghost appears to haunt the Kane brothers, while the hunt for cop-killer Peter Noonan intensifies.
Episode 1 • Sep 25, 1990
When Frank foils the escape of one of Wally Fagan's men during a bank raid, he calls on Danny to make amends. When the prisoner makes his own escape from the police Danny is left with repaying the money Wally lost, closely watched by the Flying Squad. As Danny and bodyguard Jonjo plan a 'job' to raise the money, Frank has plans of his own and finally wins the money in a Chinese game of chance.
Episode 2 • Oct 02, 1990
The Inland Revenue are after Danny for £284,000 back tax on undeclared income - can he find the money and meet the deadline?
Episode 3 • Oct 09, 1990
While Frank rekindles a romance, Danny deals with a vicious ex-convict, Albert Styles.
Episode 4 • Oct 16, 1990
Kiddie porn is being transported through the Kane manor, much to Danny's anger. Meanwhile, renovations to the Paradise Club leads to two fly-tippers taking a shortcut in disposing of its rubbish-leading another gangland leader, Mad Max Wheeler, to think that the Kanes are leaving a calling card.
Episode 5 • Oct 23, 1990
Harry Vincent, a former schoolmate of Danny and Carol Kane, interests Danny in a property investment in Africa. However, he has more sinister motives. Frank is holding a drag queen night at the Paradise Club, which brings him into contact with a call girl who has been beaten up by a client.
Episode 6 • Oct 30, 1990
A computer expert is murdered in broad daylight, but suspicions soon surface that he was the wrong man. Attempts on Danny Kane's life seem to indicate that he is a target.
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