The Box of Delights [DVD] [1984]

Classic BBC adaptation of John Masefield's children's fantasy novel The Box of Delights starring Devin Stanfield, Patrick Troughton and Robert Stephens. As he travels home on the train for the Christmas holidays Kay Harker has the strangest feeling something 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, the guardian of the 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.