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.

mornington crescent Jinty! And one called Misty I recall which I read with all the lights on, practically pooing raw, actual fear

I soon as I saw the title I thought The Singing Ringing Tree. Was sacred stiff by it.

Oh god they're all coming back to me now. Archer's Goon anyone?? They all seem to be accompanied by terrifying music

Yay, more TTDE people who remember quagmire!

I'm 30 creamoftomato, so pretty much the same age.

I've also just remembered Uncle Jack and the Dark Side of the Moon - that was compelling and a little scary. Also, Archer's Goon.

Does anyone remember a really scary episode of (I think) Dramarama based around the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens? I have vert vague but traumatic memories of it.

the series (not mexactly children but family prog) of Planet of the apes.

that big black gorilla face appearing in the titles-was his name Urko or something?- the bad ape!

aaarrrggghhh!

Hate monkeys/apes/gorillas etc to this day.

X-post with babyfed about AG!

My childhood was blighted by the memory of The Day Of The Triffids, terrifying killer plants in suburban England.

Then I got very brave a few years ago and decided to re-watch. Yeah, ever so slightly less scary than I remember. They should have called it 'Some Rhubarb Has A Bad Day And Gets A Bit Cross'.

And there was a mid 80's BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre. Jane wakes in the night to find mad Bertha Mason leaning over her.

Eeeeeek, that one has always stayed with me.

The only Dramarama one I remember is where the girl gets transported back in time to WW2 when a bomb fell on her school.
Some of those comic stories were freaky, I remember one that scared me away from portraits for years - a girl visited an old house with pictures of other girls on the walls and a creepy old woman living there. The girl gets lost and ends up in a secret passageway with eyeholes in it and at the end is one of the portraits herself. Weird!

Day of the Triffids

And I'm sure I watched The Twilight Zone too early, that one where the boy can make wishes, that image of his sister is still in my mind all these years later!

I liked Mr Nosey Bonk because I liked his music!

Ujjayi

Funny what you were saying about mirrors.

I remember being very scared of a TV Drama story - I think it was Jackanory Playhouse - which was a BBC jackanory spin off and instead of someone reading a story all the way through they had a short little drama/story. Often they were new fairytales like "The Princess and the Pineapple" or other made up stuff.

Anyway the one that scared me was about a boy who when he looked in the mirror this magician man would appear behind him. The magician was called something like Mr Mystifo or Misteefo or something like that. I remember him as having a big black curly moustache, very dark eyebrows, a tall black top hat and a sweeping black cloak.

I had a long mirror in my bedroom and at night was terrified of the mirror in case Mr Mysteefo appeared.

I have googled for this endlessly because I'd love to see it again as even thinking about it brings back that feeling of unease as a child. And I can't help wondering why it was so scarey.

Does anyone else remember a programme like this? It was a one-off thing I'm pretty sure, and I think it was Jackanory Playhouse but wouldn't 100% swear to it.

The music of the Tomorrow People used to scare me stiff.
The Children of the Stones opening credits are terrifying. All that demonic moaning and shrieking!
When I was very little the programme 'How' scared me because someone said 'How!' at the end of the credits in a really deep loud voice.
I was petrified of the witch in Lizzy Dripping and still even now get the shivers in cemeteries.

I've got the theme music to the Tomorrow People in my head and it won't go away! Anyone remember the storyline based on an alternative reality where the Roman Empire never fell?

There were also the Armchair Thrillers. I seem to remember them as early evening family viewing rather than children's TV as such. They were serials, and the one set in a convent school scared the living daylights out of me at about the age of 12.

Chocky and the Gemini Factor for me. Loved Dark Towers!

Lizzie Dripping also used to be a tad worrying. I did like Rentaghost though.

But does anyone remember the awful safety information films like

That gave me nightmares!! Dead children lined up on the tracks, terrified passengers being pelted with stones through train windows. Shudder..

The one wasn't too nice either..

Does anyone remember a kids program that had a bunch of kids and some creepy dude in a windmill? The kids didn't know he was there. It used to scare the crap out of me but I can't remember what it was called.

Gels bride it's not Round The Twist is it? Kids in a lighthouse which has a ghost in it

Did anybody else have a mini heart attack at that pic of Charn?! Through the Dragon's Eye scared the poo out of me.

Have never forgotten The children if stones/ Marianne Dreams thing even though I was only about 5 when I saw it.
ditto The Changes.
was a bit older by then, think it aired mid to late 1970s?
Pylons still unnerve me.

I loved round the twist. I fancied the older brother.
Omg just the mention of the nun with no face has given me the heebie jeebies. I hope i don't dream about her tonight. My mum had the book of it with a picture of the nun on the front. Can't even look at it now. Funny to think of it freaking others out too,i thought it was just me.
I also remember the plague thing it has bugged me for years because i can't remember the name.

Scaring the bejaysus out of kids was an art form in the 70's and 80's.

Yes, I still feel creeped out by pylons, thanks to The Changes. I was only about 4 or 5 when I saw it but the scene with the kind of communicating rock thing in the last episode is absolutely seared on my memory.

Also can't get beyond the petrifying theme tune of Children of the Stones, let alone watch the series.

Those public information films were the absolute worst, though. One called Play It Safe has stayed with me and given me a lifelong fear of electricity substations.

I found Chucky rather creepy but I loved it.
What terrified me (other than those awful information adverts about not flying kites or throwing frisbees near electricity) was an episode of Words and Pictures where there was a pumpkin head man who kept walking past windows. I had so many nightmares about him.

I seem to remember Moondial as being scary.

I also remember seeing a Newsround special on Forgotten Children which scared and upset me for what seemed like ages afterwards.

We watched Watership Down once at school and that was scary!

I remember the book Marianne Dreams too.