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From a trans LA showdown to a pastoral Nintendo game, Guardian critics have the yuletide covered
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From a trans LA showdown to a pastoral Nintendo game, Guardian critics have the yuletide covered
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Devin Stanfield as The Box of Delight's Young Hero, Kay Harker Credit: BBC Director Renny Rye recalled feeling “terror” at the prospect of directing The Box of Delights. Adapted from the classic children’s novel by John Masefield, it was (by BBC standards in 1984, at least) a lavish, technically ambitious series: at the time, the BBC’s most expensive ever children’s series. “Every page you turned in the script and the book had yet another fantasy,” said Rye in a 2004 interview. “It was quite a challenge.” Devin Stanfield, who played Kay Harker – schoolboy adventurer and wi...