SCROBBLED!

The special anniversary Blu-ray of The Box of Delights includes Time and Tide, a new feature-length documentary from film-maker CHRIS CHAPMAN. Taking his rightful place at the heart of it? The elusive DEVIN STANFIELD, four decades on from his spellbinding central performance as intrepid schoolboy Kay Harker. Without a tosser to his kick, BOB FISCHER scrobbles them both.

I first watched The Box of Delights when I was four or five years old,” says Chris Chapman. “We had it on VHS, taped from the telly. It was a programme my mum and dad adored, and they wanted to introduce me to it. My dad loved it because he was a train buff and it had so many shots of the SevernValley railway line! And my mum loved it for the traditional British folklore and fairy tales it features. “Whereas I just found it completely magical. I genuinely think it’s the BBC’s greatestever endeavour. In terms of every department going full steam, every cylinder, it’s the most ambitious series they ever made. It had a budget of a million pounds, and a director in Renny Rye who was hungry and…

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