The Happiness Patrol

149 – The Happiness Patrol
Doctor Who serial
"The Kandy Man"
Cast
Doctor Sylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor)
Companion Sophie Aldred (Ace)
Others Sheila Hancock — Helen A Ronald Fraser — Joseph C Georgina Hale — Daisy K Harold Innocent — Gilbert M Lesley Dunlop — Susan Q Rachel Bell — Priscilla P Jonathan Burn — Silas P Tim Barker — Harold V David John Pope — Kandy Man John Normington — Trevor Sigma Richard D. Sharp — Earl Sigma Tim Scott — Forum Doorman Mary Healey — Killjoy Steve Swinscoe, Mark Carroll — Snipers Philip Neve — Wences Ryan Freedman — Wulfric Annie Hulley — Newscaster
Production
Directed by	Chris Clough
Written by	Graeme Curry
Script editor	Andrew Cartmel
Produced by	John Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	Dominic Glynn
Production code	7L
Series	Season 25
Length	3 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast	2 November–16 November 1988
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → Remembrance of the Daleks Silver Nemesis

The Happiness Patrol

Author	Graeme Curry
Cover artist	Alister Pearson
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	146
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	15 February 1990
ISBN

The Happiness Patrol is the second serial of the 25th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from 2 November to 16 November 1988.

The Seventh Doctor and Ace visit a human colony on the planet Terra Alpha, and are unsettled by the planet's unnaturally happy society. Cheerful music plays everywhere; the planet's secret police force, the Happiness Patrol (governed by the vicious and egotistical Helen A, who is obsessed with eliminating unhappiness), roam the streets wearing bright pink and purple uniforms, while they hunt down and kill so-called 'Killjoys', and the TARDIS gets repainted pink so as not to look depressing. While exploring the planet, the Doctor and Ace encounter Trevor Sigma, an official galactic census taker, who is visiting Terra Alpha to discover why so many of the population have disappeared.

The Doctor and Ace have a brief period of incarceration in the Waiting Zone (Terra Alpha's version of prisons), to find out more about the planet's laws against unhappiness, and meet unhappy guard Susan Q, who becomes a firm ally, and allows Ace to escape when she is taken away from the Doctor to be enrolled in the Happiness Patrol. The Doctor, meanwhile, encounters another visitor to the planet, Earl Sigma, a wandering harmonica player who stirs unrest by playing the Blues. Earl and the Doctor venture to the Kandy Kitchen, where most of the missing population of Terra Alpha vanished to, and discover Helen A's twisted executionist, the Kandy Man; a grotesque, sweet-based robot, created by Gilbert M, one of Helen A’s senior advisers.

The Doctor manages to outwit the Kandy Man by gluing him to the floor with lemonade, and he and Earl escape through the candy pipes below the colony, where dwell the native inhabitants of Terra Alpha, now known as Pipe People. They want to help overthrow the tyranny of Helen A. The Doctor returns to the surface, and begins stirring up trouble, supporting public demonstrations of unhappiness, encouraging the people to revolt, and attempting to expose Helen A's 'population control programme' to Trevor Sigma.

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