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What TV programmes scared you as a kid?

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Coffeeandcrumpets · 01/02/2021 20:26

Just as the title asks, what TV programmes scared you as a kid? I'll get the ball rolling. I'm an 80s child and I hated Doctor who. The music was terrifying and I had to leave the room. I also hated he-man. Especially when he shouts 'I have the power' in the opening credits. Bag puss also frightened me. A very large pink cat was unnatural!

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allycat4 · 04/02/2021 12:03

The boy from space. The thin man was terrifying!

RuthW · 04/02/2021 12:06

Banana Splits. I hid behind the sofa.

peak2021 · 04/02/2021 12:12

Like the OP, Doctor Who. Now just feel its scary when I have seen the Doctor's (from childhood's) grandson at the theatre.

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 04/02/2021 13:15

Some ghost thing, but so long ago I have no idea what it was called. IIRc two blokes had made a pact that if they were dying, they’d appear to each other.
So IIRc bloke one started hearing breathing during the night, but there was nobody there.

The breathing go louder and heavier, until finally the dying bloke did appear, as if on his deathbed.
Absolutely scared the pants off me.

CleverCatty · 04/02/2021 14:28

Tales of the Unexpected - some of them scared me and my brother and also stuff like the Twilight Zone.

pazwaz70 · 04/02/2021 15:02

@purpledagger

The Wizard of Oz 2.

The woman with the room full of heads and also those people who had wheels for arms.

The wheelers. They were terrifying!
mrsnibblesisahero · 04/02/2021 15:40

Terrified of Worzel Gummidge. Terrified.

mrsnibblesisahero · 04/02/2021 15:50

There was a Tales of the Unexpected where a man tried to poison his wife, came back home to find her lifeless, held a mirror under her open mouth to check for breathing. She wasn't dead but I can't remember what happened- probably too scared to look! That has stayed with me. Must have been a teenager I guess. The Miss Marples also freaked me out. Am a bit of a wuss.

DenisetheMenace · 04/02/2021 19:09

Oh yes, Tales of the unexpected, the morphing into a bee one. Shudder.

DenisetheMenace · 04/02/2021 19:12

What was the fifties (I think) drama with Michael Hordern and a sheet that becomes a thing in his bedroom?
That was very scary, when you thought about it again hours later in bed.

wellthatsunusual · 04/02/2021 19:20

I remember as a child crying because I was scared of Mr Humphreys and Captain Peacock on Are You Being Served. Where that came from, I've no idea.

DenisetheMenace · 04/02/2021 19:23

Come to think of it, Mrs. Slocombe was pretty scary too!

plinkplinkfizzer · 04/02/2021 19:33

Born in '69 so armchair thriller , hammer house of horror ; The house that bled to death . And my parents took me to see Jaws at the cinema when I was about 8 . Oh and Sapphire and Steel .

haliborange0verdose · 04/02/2021 19:37

I used to be terrified of a little kids' show called Pipkins. it had a character called Hartley Hare and for some reason it gave me the creeps, and I would scream and hide if it came on.
Also had nightmares after watching an episode of The Enchanted Castle, where the girl put the wish ring on and wished to become a statue, then the ring turned to stone along with her and they couldn't change her back. Couldn't sleep for weeks!!
Many many years later, when my kids were little, there was a C Beebies show called Numberjacks. My two year old would get hysterical whenever it came on as it had this horrible character called the Number Taker.

Jellykat · 04/02/2021 19:43

Ken Dodd and his creepy Diddymen!

AdaFuckingShelby · 04/02/2021 19:58

Christinaismyperson I remember that date is, it did have Charles Dance in it. It was called First Born. It had a big impact on me, it was definitely unsettling.

AdaFuckingShelby · 04/02/2021 19:59

Date is?! Series. Ffs autocorrect

ItallwentwrongwhenBowieleft · 04/02/2021 20:01

For anyone born in the 1960s surely it has to be The Singing Ringing tree, truly terrifying gave me nightmares for weeks. Was a German film, a brothers Grimm tale I think.
The most surreal & menacing children's programme I've ever seen Grin

What TV programmes scared you as a kid?
What TV programmes scared you as a kid?
Bvop · 04/02/2021 20:02

Badger Girl.

DenisetheMenace · 04/02/2021 20:10

plinkplinkfizzer

Born in '69 so armchair thriller , hammer house of horror ; The house that bled to death . And my parents took me to see Jaws at the cinema when I was about 8 . Oh and Sapphire and Steel .“

Me too, though my auntie and uncle. That bit where the head pops out of the hole in the boat 😱🤣🤣

Timepasses · 04/02/2021 20:14

@dinot

The Boy From Space - why? Just why would you do that to kids?
I had nightmares about this for years. Watched it in school. I used to sit with my eyes closed.
Doihavetogotoworkdotcom1 · 04/02/2021 20:15

Hammer house of horrors

olderadult · 04/02/2021 20:16

There was some hideous public information film about what to do in the case of nuclear war! A bloody nuclear bomb wiping out houses. Not sure if I remember it clearly though, but it scarred me

Willow4987 · 04/02/2021 20:16

Worsel gummidge gives me the absolute creeps

Genuinely the stuff of nightmares

plinkplinkfizzer · 04/02/2021 20:55

@DenisetheMenace

plinkplinkfizzer

Born in '69 so armchair thriller , hammer house of horror ; The house that bled to death . And my parents took me to see Jaws at the cinema when I was about 8 . Oh and Sapphire and Steel .“

Me too, though my auntie and uncle. That bit where the head pops out of the hole in the boat 😱🤣🤣

What were parents in '70s thinking about ,really . Let us watch stuff like this at a young age , and then send us to bed ! And expect us to sleep !