SCP Item 8100201437060: "Hannigan."

 Item 8100201437060:  "Hannigan."

Class: Safe

Security Level: 1

Containment:  Minimal.

Description:  Bulky 1980's television set with wheeled stand and top loading Betamax player.  Requires electricity to operate.  Betamax tape winds and plays by itself, as if controlled by some otherworldly entity.  Attempts to replace the Betamax with a DVD or BluRay player, VCR or electronic gaming equipment have resulted in technicians contracting Egyptian plagues, which go away the moment Betamax is returned to the machine.

Displays one program, Hannigan, a plodding formulaic TV movie series which ran from 1968-2006.  Hannigan only has 21 episodes in total, but the anomalous television, according to most recent tabulation, has generated more than 367 variations on those 21 episodes, including several in which the detective is brutally murdered, loses his badge, or makes no appearance in the program whatsoever.

The effect of watching the program appears to be harmless.  Programming continues to play, regardless of whether anyone watches it or not.  The device seems to be merely a self contained universe of fictional characters embued with life through unexplained otherworldly energies.