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?

Carrie (1976)
Armchair thriller (1978) Rachel in danger
Invasion of the body snatchers (1978)
Tales of the Unexpected (1980) The flypaper
The day of the triffids (1981)
The day after (1983)
Threads (1984)
A nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

and a movie with a moving hand but I don't know which and I'm not sure I want to look back to find out!
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Dr Who with the daleks

Mr Claypole, played by Michael Staniforth. He was CB in the original London cast of Starlight Express. Died quite young.

The most terrifying part of that is that you're answering the question "when you were younger"

I was still 20...

I loved Chocky, but a couple of episodes gave me nightmares.

Oh and bloody Watership Down with the myxomatosis.

The Moomins...in particular the one with little My under a bridge

Are you afraid of the dark. Goosebumps

There was a kids programme about medical emergencies …like a documentary on CBBC, I have totally forgotten the name and my memory is hazy, google isn’t helping. Anyway it really freaked me out, there was one where someone got impaled on a railing. I’m now wondering if it was an adult programme that I shouldn’t have been watching! Also the film Lassie, really made me cry!

Just came on to say Knightnmare. It was scary!

Also WTAF is Noseybonk? Never seen it before this thread and I'm definitely having nightmares tonight

YES!!!!!! It utterly terrified me - for some reason we watched it at school. There was one episode where a silver man chased these kids and they were hiding behind cars - I can still feel the terror now!!

@EVHead I think I need to go and sit in a dark room after watching that....

Strange But True with Michael Aspel!

Chico the Rainmaker.
Not a TV program but a series shown weekly at the Saturday morning kids club at our local cinema . Children find a talking shunken Amazonian head in a box and have adventures with it .

Not sure if it’s been mentioned yet…the end segment of the teletubbies with the bear and the lion. Absolutely demented.
I remember it being re-edited to be less scary and it was in fact, arguably more terrifying sped up with fairground esque music.
I was also scared of Preston in Wallace and Gromit but grew out of that later on. As an adult I’m still scared of the bear and lion, does anyone know if it’s still played? Asking incase I need to steer my 8mo away! 😂

Wind in the willows...especially the episode with the stats and the weasles.

Wtfffff

The opening sequence on captain scarlet

Cracking theme tune though.

Also when Pinocchio turns in to a donkey. The squeal was awful!

astonished at those who were scared of the Moomins!

Sometime in the 1960s there was a Dr Who series that no one but me remembers
It featured some very scary foam that had black seaweedy stuff thrashing around in it

I know it doesn't sound scary but it was

@CassTheFox I was coming on to say orm and cheap!
First time I remember feeling properly sad about something was watching that but had also developed my life long fear if rats!

Knightmare was so scary!

astonished at those who were scared of the Moomins!

Ah, come on now, they were creepy little cunts.

Beverley Hillbillies opening when the oil came up from the ground (“black gold, texas tea”) used to give me the creeps

dr who and the daleks

dr who and cybermen

thankfully I’ve never seen Noseybonk!