Kandyman The Kandyman or Kandy Man was a robot created by Gilbert M and employed by Helen A . Biology and personality . The Kandyman was a pathological , psychopathic , robot ic killer , employed as an executioner by the egocentric Helen A . It delighted in creating torture and destruction with confectionary . One of its favourite methods was drowning people in pipes filled with its " Fondant Surprise " , a thick solution composed of boiling liquid candy . It was a sadistic executioner with a very warped sense of humour , speaking with a squeaky , almost child - like metallic voice and producing a variety of deadly sweets to suit its role of execution for sadness . These sweets were supposed to be so delicious humans were unable to cope with the pleasure , overloading their senses and killing them . The Kandyman claimed most of its victims in this manner — " with smiles on their faces " — but it was perfectly happy to throttle them if they refused to co - operate . Its external shell composed of recognisable sweets like liquorice , sherbet , marzipan and caramel . Kandyman was created by Gilbert M , with whom it shared an almost symbiotic relationship . ( TV : " The Happiness Patrol " ) The Kandyman was tasteful killer but ruthless . The Doctor discovered that he could be stuck to the floor with lemonade . Biography . With the Happiness Patrol . The Seventh Doctor and Earl Sigma ran into the Kandyman after escaping the Happiness Patrol . The Doctor outsmarted the Kandyman , making it break open a bottle of lemonade and stick itself to the floor — it was forced to keep moving on the spot to try to get away from the spilled lemonade lest its external candy shell dissolve or stick to the floor . The Doctor along with Earl escaped , but later the Doctor returned to the Kandy Kitchen to confront the Kandyman , forcing it to retreat into the pipes . The Kandyman was killed shortly afterward when its external candy shell was dissolved in a pipe by a flow of its own strawberry fondant surprise , released by the oppressed Pipe People . ( TV : " The Happiness Patrol " ) Rebuilt . The Seventh Doctor encountered the Kandyman again on the planet Tara . Count Grendel rebuilt it after its charred remains crash landed on Tara . ( PROSE : " The Trials of Tara " ) It attended the Dæmon Bonjaxx ' s birthday in his bar on the space station Maruthea , as did the Doctor and Ace and a future incarnation of the Doctor and his companion Ria . ( COMIC : " Party Animals " ) Legacy . On Erratoon , Ace described the Kandyman to Zara as a " bloke made of liquorice " . ( AUDIO : " The Prisoner ' s Dilemma " ) Behind the scenes . After part two of " The Happiness Patrol " aired , HB Stokes , CEO and chairman of , wrote to complain of the resemblance of the Kandyman to their mascot . An internal investigation by the BBC determined that the resemblance was coincidental and no copyright infringement had been committed . However , Stokes was assured the character would not be appearing in the series again . Strax actor Dan Starkey commented , " The Kandy Man was like " Doctor Who " trying to do a Tim Burton movie , but being made in TV Centre and not quite getting it . The idea of it was quite nice , even if the execution wasn ' t quite as successful as it might have been . " ( DWM 475 , p . 18 )