To still be unnerved by tv programmes from childhood? (Light hearted)

[Ujjayi]

For years I have had a vague recollection of a chilling ghost story about a young girl transported back to Victorian times when she looks in a mirror. I have just remembered it was called "Come Back Lucy" & searched online for details... And I am freaked out all over again, despite being 43!

I love a good ghost story but I can't believe that was considered ok for me to watch. I must have only been 7 or 8 when it was shown.

Does anyone else recall it?

Also scared witless of what I think was The Singing Ringing Tree - the weird dwarf making thorn hedges spring up everywhere.

catweazle was creepy. liked the theme music and titles though.

ADORE Jon Pertwee but only as Doctor Who, found him creepy in Worzle gummidge.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=QlDDCqbqAzI

Children of the Dog Star complete series. I have already wasted 2 hours on this thanks to this thread!

The watcher in the woods.

Whwn she wrote Nerak on that mirror I nearly shit myself!

The movie 'Paperhouse' based on Marianne Dreams....terrifying.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVuXWwWlDY

'Maelstrom' - sorry if it's already been mentioned, but TERRIFYING. I've been scared of dolls ever since..

I remember "Ghostwatch" and was terrified watching it as a 15/16 year old, what made it worse was that we didn't know it wasn't real until the next day! Even the Dr Who theme tune would terrify me as a child and couldn't watch it! Does anyone remember a programme in the 80's about a group of kids that lived in either a children's home or were all fostered by one family? It had Madness' "Our House" as its theme tune if that helps jog anyone's memory...

Alice and Crow, on You and Me, scared the heck out of a very small me. Also, Hartley Hare on Pipkins. I am convinced his name will come up in connection with Yewtree, the creepy moth-eaten hare.

Lizzie Dripping scared me and, to this day I can't really cope with black fingerless gloves.

Pretty much all the public information films gave me nightmares.

I remember my younger brother being terrified of Chocky. I think I decided early on that this was not for me, but he stuck with it and suffered the nightmares.

When dd was little I remember me (not her) being freaked out by that house on the story teller programme with Chris (showbiz other half of 'and Pui'). The puppets on it were hilarious, but the house with a face...not so much. Both she and thought the Numbertaker was creepy. Only recently have I realised how like Slenderman he is. Who uses that idea for a pre-schooler's programme?!? A very small ds was petrified by an episode of In the Night Garden, where the Ninky Nonk drives up a tree trunk, upside down. He screamed and kind of climbed into my lap, curled into a ball and facing away from the telly. He continued screaming for quite some time. The Haa-Hoos also used to give him nightmares.

My brother was terrified of Duncan the Dragon on You and Me -- I'd completely forgotten that until you mentioned Alice and Crow.

Now I can't sleep, anyone remember orm and cheep? Or Lottie (story of a dollshouse)??

These 2 shows terrified me c.1985!

There's a tv show that I'm sure I'm not imagining from my dim and distant youth: I think it was one of those dubbed European ones, I can only remember snippets, there were two boys sneaking into a domed city to try and stop a missile/ bomb thing, I remember it as looking very grimy and cold. That series of images has been with me for so long now and I cannot remember any more!!

Just googled 'Threads' and that was definetely what we were shown at school as part of Modern Studies class - totally freaked me out for ages ,especially the part where she has to give birth alone and bite the cord! So bleak and I see it had a 15 rating - I didn't choose Modern Studies as a Std Grade subject so would have watched this age 11/12 in S1 or S2.
Also used to think Moondial was scary
Loved through the dragons eye though
Loving reading about all these old program's and seeing how similarly freaked out everyone was !

Sorry if it has been mentioned upthread, but I've just scanned this quickly. It wasn't made for children's TV but the Beeb's 1972 Christmas ghost story The Stone Tape was so scary that my mum and I turned it off, and have regretted doing so ever since! I've bought it so I can see the end at last, 42 years later!

I can't believe noone has mentioned the grinnygog! Known as Thé Witches and the Grinnygog. I use to wander about hopefully looking for a grinnygog on the side of a building.

Moon Stallion - came out in about 1978. Loved that film!

There was also something I have a faint memory of - there were buried toad bones, blackshmiths, hares and white chalk horses. That was a bit disconcerting.

Oldsilver, that was the Moon Stallion, set around the Uffington white horse. 1978. Loved it - still do!

There was a radio programme on at least 2 years running at Christmas. It was about a dolls house and there was a nasty doll who eventually sets the place on fire.
Can't remember what it was called or anything. One of the dolls may have been Lottie?

But why would people think it was a good thing to have on for children at Christmas is beyond me. Why it was considered okay to be written at all is beyond me too.

Well, for anyone who's feeling traumatised by all these ghastly childhood memories, help is at hand in full of new takes on all the classics that the 70s did so well. Enjoy!

Does anyone remember a children's film (think it was one of the Children's Film foundation Friday specials) about a little ghost boy and a pit pony who appeared on the cliffs in Cornwall? Think it was about a mining tragedy and you heard the tapping noise from the miners before the ghost appeared.

They showed it on the big telly at school as a treat when we had a snow day and only about 20 kids showed up for school. Bloody terrifying!! What were the teachers thinking?!!

morningtoncrescent

Knackers Yard @ 1.00m is very funny.

in fact as the fox hunt approached, Mr Fox shat himself.

Moomins was something I had discovered just before the (first) TV animation. My dad had bought me a box set of all the books for christmas, and even only half understanding them, I was enthralled by them and read them over and over. Re-reading them as an adult, they are so clever and well-written but The Groke scares the shit out of me. Can't remember finding it that scary/poignant as a child.

I also loved 'Lizzie Dripping' and 'Carrie's War' - not scary but evocative and powerful.

My dad also used to buy me at motorway service stations those Pan Books of Horror - short story compilations. There is one story I have never forgotten and I could never remember who wrote it or what it was called but sitting here typing this, the name 'Rosemary Timperley' came into my head. I just went and looked her up but can't find it.

TBH the 70s' Public Information films (esp that one about drowning in ponds - a kid in the year above me drowned in a pond not long before that one aired) creeped me out way more than anything labelled 'horror'. Also those horrible, creepy (but presumably cheap so plentiful) Eastern European cartoons. I found 'The Snow Queen' esepcially haunting and read it over and over.

If you want a really evocative late 70s/early 80s scare look up 'The Flypaper' episode of 'Tale of the Unexpected' - it' become much more current than when it was written. And the bleak fenland landcapes are like something from a Scandinavian TV show...

Anyone else remember Friday night (or was it Saturday?) the Hammer horror shorts, 'Appointment With Fear'? I loved them so much I started writing my own gothic plays at school and my teacher encouraged me to stay in playtimes if I wanted, to write (which I loved) as he said one day I could be a writer.