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A Live Action TV Show based on a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield. It is a sequel to The Midnight Folk, and was first published in 1935. Expect strange 80s auto-tuning, music, and some splendiferous [[Nightmare Fuel]].
A Live Action TV Show based on a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield. It is a sequel to ''[[The Midnight Folk]]'', and was first published in 1935. Expect strange 80s auto-tuning, music, and some splendiferous [[Nightmare Fuel]].


Schoolboy Kay Harker is going home for the Christmas holidays. On the train he meets Cole Hawlings, a travelling Punch and Judy man who claims to be [[Older Than He Looks]], and two clergymen with long names who rob him then turn into wolves.
Schoolboy Kay Harker is going home for the Christmas holidays. On the train he meets Cole Hawlings, a travelling Punch and Judy man who claims to be [[Older Than He Looks]], and two clergymen with long names who rob him then turn into wolves.
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On his way to saving Christmas (or the Christmas celebration at Tatchester Cathedral) Kay meets giant mice, Pagan Gods, an evil governess, a cult, a boy in a waterfall and a Caroplane-Aeroplane.
On his way to saving Christmas (or the Christmas celebration at Tatchester Cathedral) Kay meets giant mice, Pagan Gods, an evil governess, a cult, a boy in a waterfall and a Caroplane-Aeroplane.


The Box of Delights is a cult Christmas classic to the point where many people know whole sections off by heart. It's comparable to early [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]] (for more than one reason) if it had been directed by [[David Lynch]] in a good mood. It's also similar, if only in tone, to the BBC Narnia adaptations which were made around the same time and also for Christmas showings.
''[[The Box of Delights]]'' is a cult Christmas classic to the point where many people know whole sections off by heart. It's comparable to early ''[[Doctor Who]]'' (for more than one reason) if it had been directed by [[David Lynch]] in a good mood. It's also similar, if only in tone, to the BBC Narnia adaptations which were made around the same time and also for Christmas showings.


Fans are known as Boxers and can be recognised by their reactions to mentions of the Purple Pim.
Fans are known as Boxers and can be recognised by their reactions to mentions of the Purple Pim.


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* [[Age-Appropriate Angst]]: Completely missing. Scrobled Governess? Robbers in your house? Golly, don’t be pathetic!

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* [[Age Appropriate Angst]]: Completely missing. Scrobled Governess? Robbers in your house? Golly, don’t be pathetic!
* [[Badass Normal]]: Everyone {{spoiler|unless they aren’t normal}}
* [[Badass Normal]]: Everyone {{spoiler|unless they aren’t normal}}
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Fat Joe and Foxy Charles
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Fat Joe and Foxy Charles
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* [[Gentleman Thief]]: Abner’s cronies
* [[Gentleman Thief]]: Abner’s cronies
* [[Gold Digger]]: {{spoiler|Pouncer}}
* [[Gold Digger]]: {{spoiler|Pouncer}}
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull Cole.]
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: [[wikipedia:Ramon Llull|Cole.]]
* [[Large Ham]]: Abner, Abner- "WHERE IS THE BOX?"
* [[Large Ham]]: Abner, Abner- "WHERE IS THE BOX?"
* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Mariah, when she’s not just crazy
* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Mariah, when she’s not just crazy
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* Tomboy: Mariah, but not her sisters
* Tomboy: Mariah, but not her sisters
* [[Totally Radical]]: They have their whole own dialect
* [[Totally Radical]]: They have their whole own dialect
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?]]: To say the Box of Delights is trippy [[Needs a Better Description]]. That could refer to the eponymous box or the film itself.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: To say the ''Box of Delights'' is trippy [[Needs a Better Description]]. That could refer to the eponymous box or the film itself.


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Latest revision as of 00:05, 5 October 2020

A Live Action TV Show based on a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield. It is a sequel to The Midnight Folk, and was first published in 1935. Expect strange 80s auto-tuning, music, and some splendiferous Nightmare Fuel.

Schoolboy Kay Harker is going home for the Christmas holidays. On the train he meets Cole Hawlings, a travelling Punch and Judy man who claims to be Older Than He Looks, and two clergymen with long names who rob him then turn into wolves.

When he gets back home he finds himself landed with the Jones Children who have been abandoned by their parents, and later the nefarious Abner Brown who wants to find Hawlins and steal his Box of Delights. Fortunately Hawlings escapes into a painting on a donkey, meets Kay in a dream and gives him the box. But all is still not well.

On his way to saving Christmas (or the Christmas celebration at Tatchester Cathedral) Kay meets giant mice, Pagan Gods, an evil governess, a cult, a boy in a waterfall and a Caroplane-Aeroplane.

The Box of Delights is a cult Christmas classic to the point where many people know whole sections off by heart. It's comparable to early Doctor Who (for more than one reason) if it had been directed by David Lynch in a good mood. It's also similar, if only in tone, to the BBC Narnia adaptations which were made around the same time and also for Christmas showings.

Fans are known as Boxers and can be recognised by their reactions to mentions of the Purple Pim.

Tropes used in The Box of Delights include:
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