Rent The Box of Delights (1984)
4.1 of 5 from 73 ratings
2h 57min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- As he travels home on the train for Christmas holidays Kay Harker (Devin Stanfield) has the strangest feeling something very mysterious is about to happen...there is snow on the wind and wild dogs are roaming the countryside. Then a chance meeting with an old Punch and Judy man, Cole Hawlins (Patrick Troughton), the guardian of elixir of life and a shabby box of powers, pulls Kay into an array of fantastic worlds where he encounters ancient heroes, wolves, Romans, rats, flashing rings and flying ponies.
- Actors:
- Devin Stanfield, Robert Stephens, Geoffrey Larder, Jonathan Stephens, Heidi Burton, Joanna Dukes, Flora Page, James Grout, Carol Frazer, Crispin Mair, Glyn Baker, Patricia Quinn, John Horsley, Helen Fraser, Patrick Troughton, Anne Dyson, Nick Berry, Stewart Harwood, Bill Wallis, Charles Pemberton
- Directors:
- Penny Rye
- Producers:
- Paul Stone
- Writers:
- John Masefield, Alan Seymour
- Aka:
- The Box of Delights: Series
- Studio:
- BBC Worldwide
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Children & Family, TV Classics, TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- People of the Pictures, Remembering Julian Sands and Frederic Forrest
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/11/2024
- Run Time:
- 179 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Time and Tide - Making 'The Box of Delights' (New)
- Trails and Continuity (New)
- 2004 Kay Harker and Director Interview
- Blue Peter, Take Two and Pebble Mill Clips
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following episodes:
1. When the Wolves Were Running
2. Where Shall the 'Nighted Showman Go?
3. In Darkest Cellars Underneath
4. The Spider in the Web
5. Beware of Yesterday
6. Leave Us Not Little, Nor Yet Dark - Disc 2:
- This disc includes special features
