TV shows as a child that freaked you out

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Just thought I would start a threat for fun, I was trying to describe this particular show to my partner and he had no idea what I was talking about but after much researching I found out it was Wizbit, which was played by Paul Daniels. The yellow hat and the rabbit honestly freaked me out. For context I'm 33 so this was early 90s it must have been on..anyone got any shows that still give them the ick as an adult?

Sapphire and Steele

Going back a bit, but The Changes from 1974. For kids TV it was terrifying

Those 90s Crimestoppers ads between programmes that had that terrifying, ominous music in them!

I always used to ask to switch over but we had to go over to the set to change the channel so I’d almost always already been scared!

Willo the Wisp
I'll only have been really young, so just remember some wicked witch or something in a telly?
Edna?. Something like that
Great thread, some proper flashback nostalgia!

That sounds like Fury from the Deep from 1968 - it's one of the missing series, there are only a few clips and stills surviving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_from_the_Deep

@Dee1224

Dr Who - an ancient b/w episode with moving shop dummies whose wrists flopped down to reveal weapons. For years I was terrified of shop dummies and I still find them creepy now. (The writers revisited the idea in a Billie Piper episode.)

That's Spearhead from Space, Jon Pertwee's first story, from 1970. It was the first made in colour (I know we still had a black and white telly then).

I haven't linked the Wikipedia article because it has a photo of the Autons with their drop-down guns and (more frightening for me) eyeless faces.

Which reminds me of one scene from The Android Invasion that scared me when I was about twelve - the android Sarah Jane's face falling off and showing all the wires, with the moving eyes. Creepy!

Yep, that was Armchair Thriller. Only part I remember of it is the rocking chair scene, scared the bejesus out of me.

Two that scared me were aliens from episodes of Lost in Space - Mr Keema from The Golden Man, whose real face looked like a cross between a Picasso and a plate of mince meat, and the Saticons, who had bowler hats, long black robes, and featureless dark blue/black faces. They scared me however often I saw them.

@toastandtwo that was Strange but True. I loved it!

Fraggle Rock

The riddlers.. used to scream whenever it came on 😂

Ren and stimpy. Why didn't we only see the bottom half of the parents ?

Tripods? I think that was the name, tv show in the 80s. Giant metal tripods stalked the country and took kids. I think put implants in them or something.

eww

Strange but True - terrifying as a kid!!

I’m becoming increasingly convinced this show didn’t actually exist, but William’s Wish Wellingtons. I can’t remember why, I just remember it terrifying me.

The singing ringing tree... if you know , you know.

@Catsmere THANK YOU
see, I'm not mad! so, it being lost explains why its never talked about- one of the DCs had a friend who was a real Dr Who geek and they denied all knowledge. So I must have been 8 and really shouldn't have been so easily frightened but I remember seeing all the foam swooshing around in the washing machine in the kitchen and feeling really uneasy.

Agree with everyone about the sing ringing tree, just so wierd. The fast show did a funny spoof of it.

Chimera really freaked me out!

The Tripods didn't just collect kids! They chloroformed them and returned the girls with implant things on their heads and then summoned them back when they hit puberty, murdered them and arranged them in a museum organised by hair colour!

Bit like Victorian era butterfly collecting, now I think about it as an adult...

I can't remember how much of the books they televised (yes I was an idiot child and bought and read the trilogy even though the TV programme was scary) but it turned out what was IN the tripods was actually worse...

I tried watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a few years back. The child snatcher scared me!

Also, I didn't realise Alan Garner's The Owl Service was televised. I visited Alderley Edge recently (some of his books were set there) and that is some creepy countryside on a misty day...

By the way, if anyone wants to try a bit of bang up to date children's horror, my 11 year old introduced me to Creeped Out on Netflix.

The head lice one stands out as particularly unpleasant!

3 children and it, with the samiyad...

Did the Samiyad eat the other two kids?

There's a scene in Sesame Street where Ernie and Bert are exploring inside a pyramid, and the statue of a pharaoh that looks like Ernie starts speaking every time Bert leaves the room. And it freaks Ernie out but Bert doesn't believe him. Then they sing Rubber Ducky together, but he goes back to being a statue when Bert comes back. It was so spine-tingling it felt like watching a horror film!