A psychotic android encountered by the Doctor and Ace on the human colony planet of Terra Alpha. The Kandyman was composed of sweets along with its electronic parts. It had been created by Gilbert M, but it did not accept his authority over it.
Helen A, the despotic ruler of the colony, employed the Kandyman as an executioner. It used prisoners in its experiments to devise sweets that were so good that they killed you - but you died with a smile on your face.
Being composed of confectionary, it was susceptible to heat which might melt it. It could also find itself glued to the floor when it stepped in spilled lemonade.
When Helen A's regime collapsed, Gilbert M fled the plant with her consort Joseph C, whilst the Doctor and a human ally named Earl Sigma forced the Kandyman into the tunnels which once carried molten sugar beneath the city. The native creatures of Terra Alpha reactivated the machinery and the Kandyman was destroyed by its own "fondant surprise".
Played by: David John Pope. Appearances: The Happiness Patrol (1988).
- The BBC got into trouble with the design of the Kandyman due to its similarity to Bertie Bassett, emblem of Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts.
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