If you start on the 19th November of every year, that times the last episode for Christmas Eve.
Over the next six weeks, well find out ifThe Box Of Delightsreally is worthy of its reputation.
To get you in the mood for it, here is the marvellous opening credits sequence.
Feel free to hum the tune.
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The opening episode, then.
Its by turns charming, engaging and bluntly utterly puzzling.
Theres clearly a lot more to it than that, but thats the fundamental heart of the narrative.
You simply cant accuse it of pandering to its audience at all, though.
So lets take a look at the effects work.
Its the cleverness and ambition of that effects work, for 1984 remember, thats staggering, though.
Comparisons with that erasDoctor Whodo not favour the Time Lord.
The sequence of the phoenix in the fire, in particular.
Credit to Ian Emes, whose detailed animation work is really exceptionally strong.
Particularly considering the age of the target audience.
Ive been humming it constantly while Ive been writing these words.
Next week, well take a look atWhere Shall The Nighted Showman Go?.
With a title like that, the episode is bound to, er, be a bit more straightforward.