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    The Black Archive #68: The Happiness Patrol

    Stack, Mike (2023) The Black Archive #68: The Happiness Patrol. Edinburgh, UK: Obverse Books. ISBN 9781913456481.

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    Abstract

    “Have a nice death!” The Happiness Patrol is perhaps one of the most peculiar tales in Doctor Who. The story gradually gained a reputation as a gay rights allegory then, twenty-two years after broadcast, became the focus of press outrage over alleged BBC bias, before being name-dropped by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his Easter sermon the following year. So this Black Archive asks: is The Happiness Patrol queer? Is it really political? Why did it take so long for the press to complain? And what does the story really say about happiness?

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    Item Type: Book
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Depositing User: Mike Stack
    Date Deposited: 22 May 2024 18:12
    Last Modified: 22 May 2024 18:12
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/52769

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