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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]].
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.
''[[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.
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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}}
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* Tomboy: Mariah, but not her sisters
* [[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.
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