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?

Day of the triffids which if I remember correctly was on at teatime on a Saturday. No wonder the A team was such a breath of fresh air when it appeared around the same time!

999 lifesavers? I remember being put off javelin forever when a school kid got one through his neck and somehow survived.

I remember it. It's based on a children's book by Rumor Godden. All her stuff is dark!

The Last Unicorn. Film rather than tv though.

Was it 'Through the Dragon's Eye'?

Yes! @Avocadocream ! That’s the one. Im reluctant even now to google it - funny how those feelings can last for years. I’m no spring chicken.

Anyone remember a series called "sky" about an alien boy with blue eyes
I screamed when he sat up in the leaves
I was 8 and still remember the terror .

Do you remember the ‘scarecrow jury’ who would decide the fate of the other scarecrows? All there clapping their hands in that weird stiff way. And the punishment was to burn him alive!

There was some horrible three part series on rabies that freaked me out. I recalled an alsatian frothing at the mouth.

An absolutely awful depressing film that was on TV on Xmas eve one year. It involved a boy that had cancer as a result of radioactive matter being dropped on him/near him further war. He died on Xmas eve under the Xmas tree. He had pet wolves I think that howled at his death. That was a cheery little film.

There were two films that still haunt me that my grandma let me sit up and watch when I was about 8. The first involved witchcraft and entailed a suspected witch being crushed to death by being placed under a wooden door and having rocks piled on top of her. Another involved two twin sisters (or maybe just sisters). On a car journey, one tied the others shoe laces together, the car crashed, went up in flames and she was unable to get out and died. She got her revenge by plotting the deaths of other family members, including using a pizza cutter through a bannister and causing someone to plunge to their death.

There was one awful film that I saw that stuck in my mind. I have never been able to track it down. It involved a teenage boy in Sheffield, I think, whose parents moved house without him one day. He ended up homeless in a parking lot with a bunch of equally depressing characters. One sat on top of a lifeguards chair whilst ringing an old air raid alarm. There was also someone who played a saxophone. I have hated the saxophone ever since.

And Threads. We were subjected to it at school. Now that was a cheery little film!

The bbc adaptation of Pinocchio around 1980

The Boy from Space

Dark Towers

Dr Who but I loved Tom Baker the best Dr Who imo

Century Falls. Absolutely terrifying for 7 year old me!

The Boy From Space, watched at school !!! Along with Wordy the wierd orange thing !

The early 1980s adaptation of The Enchanted Castle with The Uglie Wugglies - absolutely terrifying.

The Day of the Triffids
Tales of the Unexpected, some pretty disturbing episodes.
Sapphire and Steel, especially the ghost stories and the one about the faceless man who can kidnap people through photos.

Actually thinking about it maybe you are also thinking of The Enchanted Castle?

Wtf at Noseybonk! I remember being terrified of Funnybones which was on in the 90s

Not really a children’s show but Armchair Thriller. Especially the opening titles, bloody terrifying!

Sapphire and Steel

The Boy from Space (schools TV Look and Read)

Just about to say Boy from Space. Also watched at school and it terrified me.

At home, Dr Who did scare me, but I loved Tom 'jellybaby anyone?' Baker

Ones I loved, but which terrified me:

Children of the Stones, (I read the book as an adult and rewatched the programme - still scary!)

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.)

Loathed as too revolting: Catweazle and Worzel Gummidge

Frightened me to death, even the theme music was horrifying: The Owl Service

Special mention to an episode of Magpie that featured a segment on Mother Shipton’s predictions, including one that said the world was going to end at one particular date in the mid-1990s, without pointing out it was all nonsense! I remember running upstairs screaming my head off in terror, (and I believed it for years!) Quite remarkably irresponsible television!

OMG yes to the bbc show, I swear it had SOS or something in the title. I also vividly remember the episode where someone was impaled on the railing, I’ve never forgotten it. Think they fell out of a tree

I thought it was just me! We had Douglas and the blue cat on a record. Even just the audio was terrifying!

The demon headmaster

I used to watch that. Oh my goodness, the name of the seeds!

Another vote for Knightmare. Particularly when the goblins and the clockwork man were chasing the dungeoneer. Scared the life out of me!