The Paradise Club

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.

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Seasons

1. Unfrocked in Babylon

Air Date: 1989-09-19

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.

2. Family Favours

Air Date: 1989-09-26

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.

3. Sudden Death Tango

Air Date: 1989-10-03

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.

4. Crack in the Mirror

Air Date: 1989-10-10

Frank tries to trace a missing teenager and Danny takes explosive action to prevent a ruthless drugs baron from pushing crack and heroin.

5. Bring on the Cavalry

Air Date: 1989-10-17

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.

6. Up Jumped a Swagperson

Air Date: 1989-10-24

Ma Kane's ghost appears to haunt the Kane brothers, while the hunt for cop-killer Peter Noonan intensifies.

7. Short Story

Air Date: 1989-10-31

Danny suspects that his wife and his minder are having an affair.

8. Revolving Funds

Air Date: 1989-11-07

Frank gets involved with a crooked gambler and Danny launders dirty money.

9. Sins of the Fathers (1)

Air Date: 1989-11-14

Special Branch want to keep Danny on the wrong side of the law and the right side of a sinister organisation.

10. Sins of the Fathers (2)

Air Date: 1989-11-21

Sarah Turnbull blackmails Danny into staging a daring robbery, intending to double cross him at the last minute. Only Frank can save him, but can he do it in time?

1. Chinese Whispers

Air Date: 1990-09-25

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.

2. Hell's Kitchenette

Air Date: 1990-10-02

The Inland Revenue are after Danny for £284,000 back tax on undeclared income - can he find the money and meet the deadline?

3. Faces From The Past

Air Date: 1990-10-09

While Frank rekindles a romance, Danny deals with a vicious ex-convict, Albert Styles.

4. The Great Fly Tipping War

Air Date: 1990-10-16

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.

5. Old Pals

Air Date: 1990-10-23

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.

6. Lord of the Files

Air Date: 1990-10-30

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.

7. Rock and Roll Roulette

Air Date: 1990-11-06

The music industry has more villainy than the Kane brothers expect, as a record label plays dirty in trying to get back one of its artists from the Paradise Club.

8. The Rotherhithe Project

Air Date: 1990-11-13

Danny is asked to invest in a new property development in Rotherhithe, though it soon becomes apparent that the earlier owners have been forced to sell. The finger is pointed at the Kane firm

9. Snow Business

Air Date: 1990-11-20

A hard-drug deal goes wrong and the wheel man, shot by the police, finds himself in Frank's care. However, Frank learns that the driver is in fact an undercover detective. Danny is offered a share in the deal.

10. Dead Dogs Don't Bark

Air Date: 1990-11-27

At the suggestion of the local Rabbi, Delia Rich, health club owner asks Danny and Frank to act as private detectives to prevent her husband Ronnie being arrested for a major art theft. While Frank and Polish Joe earn a £5000 bonus for getting Ronnie safely out of the country, Danny can't resist carrying through the theft for himself.

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Rating

5.8/10

Release Date

1989-09-19

Episodes

20 (2 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

Zenith Entertainment