h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

They have been asking us for years, and now I ask you. Just what IS the Secret of the Black Magic Box? Anyone who can answer gets to have me abseil into their room to leave a box of Milk Tray

Ask The Doctor. After all, the slogan was 'Who knows the secret of the Black Magic box', so maybe Tom Baker or one of the younger incarnations might know.

PS you'd have trouble abseiling into my room. The windows are double-glazed and locked, and there isn't much of a window sill to leave the box on.

I always thought his thing was jelly-babies?

Yes, it was. And Peter Davison always used to wear a stick of celery in his lapel. However, the older Doctors, who might have been into chocolate (we were never told), have all died. So unless you hold a seance ...