What TV programmes scared you as a kid?

[Coffeeandcrumpets]

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!

Armchair Thrillers is the name of the programme.

The film 'The fugitive' had nightmares for weeks

Also found 'Tales of the Unexpected' scary but I kept going back for more, a Friday night treat. Remember one episode about a young couple moving into an old cottage and when doing renovations found an animal, or something, buried in the walls. It really creeped me out.

The theme tune to Casualty scared me 🤣

@LApprentiSorcier

Tottie (the BBC serialisation of Rumer Godden's novel). The ending was faithful to the book and both are unbelievably gothic for something aimed at primary school-aged children.

I agree about Bagpuss - not so much him but the general atmosphere of him being on his last legs and everyone going to sleep and sepia when he did. I bought them on DVD a few years ago and still haven't plucked up the courage to watch them!

There was also a very sinister dubbed series called Oscar, Kina and the Laser - about a boy, a goose and a laser, with kidnappings etc.

Jigsaw - the scariness of Nosey Bonk - need I say more!

Don't have nightmares, do sleep well.

I had the book Tottie and Marchpane was terrifying in her callousness and evil!

found Bagpuss comforting.

Wizzbit was terrifying! The yellow triangle wizard hat thing! don't know why but it gave me the newbie newbies

The Muppets and Fraggle Rock characters that had no eyes were a bit freaky though did enjoy the programmes generally

I remember seeing Wordy when watching Look and Read for the first time and being a bit "wtf??" Him floating around like that was very weird

those P IFs about pylons gave me a real fear of pylon s. I still don't like them

@SpikedTea

The theme tune to Casualty scared me 🤣

Same here and The Bill theme tune too! Brookside and Eastenders themes made me nervous. My stomach would feel tight and tense and i would sometimes go trembly

Dr Who (although I like it now) and Worzel Gummidge - the changing heads really terrified me

The tripods? No idea if that was a program or part of something else.

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Casualty (someone being very burnt on a boat)

The company of wolves?? This is vague, I seem to recall face melting.

I wouldn't have a bath after watching some kind of Freddy thing at a friend's house.

The Enchanted Castle. Those walking dolls with paper faces.

The Boy from Space - we watched it in school.
Dr Who
The Hulk

Weird space boy thing. V v blonde hair and blue clothes. Might have been on same programme as Wordy. Scared crap out of me.

Agree about the Public Safety videos in the 80s - the pylon one with the football was horrible

twinkie01 The Boy from Space

Dougal and the Blue Cat it was a film based on the Magic Roundabout. We had it on an album and even now o can't think about it without feeling scared

A programme called Monkey.

Worzel gummidge - terrified me when he changed his head.

A couple of posters here have reminded me of something I have been trying to recall for years. A very scary programme that I had begun to think only ever existed in my imagination.
It was Children of the Stones.

Also, Sapphire & Steel. Truly terrifying, even my 16 year old big brother used to fidget uncomfortably when it was on. It used to be on at Saturday tea time FFS.

Sapphire and Steel, the one that freaked me out .
Was about a WW2 soldier and it was so eerie.

Are you afraid of the dark?
Goosebumps.

Agree with a PP about that fucking terrifying wolf thing from Neverending Story. I also remember scaring myself shitless as a child by watching a show about 'real' supernatural happenings called Strange But True (presented by Michael Aspel I think?). I actually stumbled across an episode a few years back on YouTube and it was laughably tame but 7-year-old me was traumatised for weeks!

Wurzel Gummidge
Grotbags
Knightmare

Murder, mystery, suspense!

A Blue Peter episode looking behind the scenes at the the London Underground.

I was John Noakes I think, who demonstrated how maintenance staff caught on the line between stations had to crouch down under the track if they had nowhere to escape an on-coming train!

I still get freaked out using the underground all these years later.

Dr Who. I can still picture Bonnie Langford being captured and held in a net although I'm not actually sure if it happened. The whole thing scared the living shit out of me.

I never saw the actual programme but saw a trailer and heard my aunties talking about it. Not sure what it was called but it was about a half human/half monkey baby 😱 It might have starred Charles Dance?

The thought of it haunted me.