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The Happiness Patrol (reference book)

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The Happiness Patrol was a reference book published by Obverse Books in 2023. The book covered the Doctor Who story The Happiness Patrol.

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“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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