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.
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.
The Inland Revenue are after Danny for £284,000 back tax on undeclared income - can he find the money and meet the deadline?
While Frank rekindles a romance, Danny deals with a vicious ex-convict, Albert Styles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Frank tries to trace a missing teenager and Danny takes explosive action to prevent a ruthless drugs baron from pushing crack and heroin.
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.
Ma Kane's ghost appears to haunt the Kane brothers, while the hunt for cop-killer Peter Noonan intensifies.
Danny suspects that his wife and his minder are having an affair.
Frank gets involved with a crooked gambler and Danny launders dirty money.
Special Branch want to keep Danny on the wrong side of the law and the right side of a sinister organisation.
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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| Language | English |
| Release | 1989-09-19 |
| Producer | Zenith Productions |