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.

The Gemini factor. It was one series and scared me but I loved it. The cuckoo sister. Was scared of my baby sister being taken after watching that. Plus one show I don't remember the name of but every child in the school was given a computer which then hypnotised them later on at home. :o. That one came true!

effin DC1 (20) still thinks it's bloody hilarious to walk towards me saying 'are you my Mummy' in a plaintive little voice again, and again, and AGAIN.

This close to infanticide...

Ipswichwitch The haunted House school programme was called Dark Towers

I remember the cuckoo sister and moon dial. I loved moon dial and still love Belton house now. I have been in an 18th century reenactment there and it was brilliant getting to swish round those gardens in a long dress and cloak! Another seriously weird at times programme was dramarama. Flashback and torches end episodes spring to mind. And there was children of the Dog Star about a weather vane that was part of a spaceship. Scary stuff.

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DD sat upstairs in her bedroom with her hands over her ears during that episode. She was petrified by it. She also used to turn our copy of the dvd Titanic away so she couldnt see the title, she was so scared of the idea of the Titanic, she had never even seen the film.

Not children's tv but we watched a post nuclear war show called "Threads" at high school and it scared the bejesus out of me for months afterwards.

Armchair Thriller OMG can you still see it I am off to you tube it and see if it still frightens the Be Jesus out of me.

I work with a man who is mr claypoles double
I remember Mariannes dreams, used to scare me but loved to watch it.
The tomorrow people used to be a bit weird too

I think the best Dr Who episodes of recent years (Blink, Silence in the Library, the Empty Child) are very influenced by Sapphire and Steel.

Shahrazad, you may be onto something here.

AAArghh...Children of the Stones.....
I read "Come back Lucy" and "the Owl service" as a child and loved them both, I didn't see the tv series as we were tv-less then. But Children of the Stones left me terrified!

Pinocchio a version made by the BBC directed and produced by Barry Letts. I watched it when I was about 10 (though first shown in 1978) I think all characters were puppets its was very scary

Barry Letts also directed and produced Dr Who when it was at its most scariest (and best) the Tom Baker years

Dark Towers was scary too

Alice in Wonderland is just creepy the story still freaks me out I have never liked it

Moniker1, Oh I loved The Faraway Tree. Mr Saucepan!! and Dame Washalot!
Thank you for reminding me of that.

Children of Green Knowe - with the whole 'rocking-horse rocking in the attic all by itself' scene. Bloody terrifying.

Dojo - yes - The Boy Who Lost His Laugh! Wasn't it set in Malta and really badly dubbed? I remember having to run into the garden and sing a song to escape from it. It had some nonsense about invisible ink, didn't it?

No one ever remembers this one - a programme shown on kids TV circa 1980/1 where children living in a village became convinced that people were suffering from the plague and ran about at night in white nighties painting crosses on front doors. shivers.

Also a one off programme, possibly one of the Dramarama ones - which were nearly always scary - where a young Victorian woman called Abigail falls into a canal and drowns while reaching for her engagement ring that had fallen in, the in present day (well, 1982/3 ish) a girl finds the ring and has flash backs. Shivers again.

Oh and I also remember Children of Green Knowe, which I loved but I was older by then and Moondial, same. Noseybonk was definitely weird. I can even recall his theme music!

The wolf at the end of The Box of Delights - argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Escape into night AKA Marianne Dreams - just terrifying! Singing ringing tree - worse! I used to hide behind the sofa when Dr. Who came on. An actress that had been on it (Damaris Hayman) came to open a fete nearby and I was scared to meet her as even the association with the Daleks terrified me! Mum still got her autograph though!

Does anyone remember the Tripods?

I loved The Tomorrow People with every fibre of my being.

Later on, I also loved Sapphire and Steel, but by god that was one of the creepiest shows on telly. Images from it haunt me still!

I had exactly that reaction to both! I loved Come Back Lucy, but I think I watched it at the age of about 11 or 12 so maybe not so easily scared by then. I was just jealous of her because I wanted to travel back to Victorian times! I bought the video of Children Of The Stones which terrified me as a child, and watched it with my then-pre-teen DDs. I was just as scared as I'd remembered being the first time, but DDs took it in their stride though they found it a bit puzzling.

Moonhare that programme sounds rather like the children's novel Children of Winter by (I think) Bernie Doherty. I don't remember it as a TV programme, but I wasn't watching kids' TV by 1980/1.

Anyone remember Timeslip? I think between that and Tomorrow People I developed a longstanding fascination with time travel. I can remember reading my copy of Charlotte Sometimes (was it ever made into a TV serial?) until I almost knew it by heart.

was it children of the stones or the changes?

glowing or vibrating gravestone looking things?

Paulus the woodman (thinbk it was called) the witch was horribly creepy.

Den of Geek have just posted up a look back at the first part of Box of delights.

Thinking about creepy children's TV has reminded me of the Jinty comic which I was addicted to at the age of 10 or so. Full of time travel and some really quite creepy narratives. There was one about a resentful, disobedient 1970s teenager who gets trapped in time as the maid of a demanding elderly mistress, and is condemned to answering the bell forever. I've never forgotten that. Plus the long-standing serial Merry of Misery House about the adventures of Our Plucky Heroine sent to a 1920s reformatory for a crime she never committed.

I'm not going anywhere near it !!!

Fucking Fucking FUCKING MR NOSEYBONK. I am like this even thinking about him, the shit