The Box of Delights
(1984)
TV Miniseries
Country: UK
Synopsis
Based on the classic children's novel by John Masefield, the story follows the exploits of a young boy, Kay Harker, who finds himself drawn into a world of magic and danger when he encounters an old Punch and Judy man.
Notes
- 6 x 30 minute episodes
Cast
- Devin Stanfield
(Kay Harker) - Patrick Troughton
- Robert Stephens
- Geoffrey Larder
- Jonathan Stevens
- Carol Frazer
- Crispin Mair
(Peter)
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Based on the 1935 novel by John Masefield, this is one of the finest ever adaptations of a children's novel for British television. There is a great deal to like in this thoroughly English story: suspicious foreigners, kidnapped choirboys, "the wolves are running", servants who know how to make a posset, Master Kay bonding with Herne the Hunter in a primordial English forest, a strange fusion of the Pagan and the Christian, not to mention Patrick Troughton (surely one of England's finest ever actors) adding gravitas to the proceedings, and Robert Stephens hamming it up beautifully as the evil Abner Brown. Devin Stanfield is wonderful as Kay Parker. Devin has a charm that is hard to describe, a sort of slight hesitancy in his gestures - perhaps something to do with his being on the cusp of puberty. Troughton was later to say of the young Devin that he believed that he was the boy whom Masefield himself would have chosen to play the role of Kay - and I think Troughton was right.