The Paradise Club

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC One
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 2
Total Episodes 20
Original Language EN

The Paradise Club (1989)

Created by Murray Smith
⭐ 3.1 / 5 (5 votes) 🎬 2 Seasons 📼 20 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, Crime 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

Focuses on brothers Frank and Danny Kane. Their mother is the matriarch of a South London criminal gang, assisted by Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club following the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Unfrocked in Babylon

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.

E2 Family Favours

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.

E3 Sudden Death Tango

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.

E4 Crack in the Mirror

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

E5 Bring on the Cavalry

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.

E6 Up Jumped a Swagperson

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

E7 Short Story

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

E8 Revolving Funds

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

E9 Sins of the Fathers (1)

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

E10 Sins of the Fathers (2)

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?

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