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.

I didn't think anyone else still remembered Jinty magazine! Thanks for reminding me. I used to go my granny's from school on Fridays and she always got the Jinty, the Tammy and the Look and Learn for me every week. Great memories!

Terrahawks scared the living beejesus out of me as a child. I mean look at that bloody thing!

I adored The Amazing Mr Blunden. I found Diana Dors much more scarey than any of the ghosts!

Somebody upthread mentioned Sky, the boy with the starey bright blue eyes and no pupils. I'd completely forgotten that - buried the memory, I think.

I just googled Misty because I didn't remember it. I see that it didn't start until 1978, by which time I'd moved on to Jackie and Blue Jeans. Pity, because I think I'd have liked it. I'm sure I still have some old Tammy, Sandie and Jinty annuals tucked away somewhere. Must have a look...

Galaxymum - I remember Pipkins...with Hartley Hare & Pig? Or am I confusing my scary childhood tv shows?

I've remembered another...Fingerbobs. The puppeteer was creepy & weird.

Duncan the Dragon from You and Me, early 80's. Used to hide behind the settee when it came on so my mum could check if it was an episode 'presented' by him and turn it off, or if it was Alice and Crow (also slightly creepy but tolerable) and I could watch in safety. Decided recently it would be good idea to google him and laugh at how silly I was back then. His terrifying face popped up and I had to look away and get my sister to close the page and sleep with the light on that night

Bloody grange hill when zammo was going through his harrowing heroin addiction I couldn't watch it it scared the bejesus out of me I had to go out of the room every time zammo came on it gave me nightmares!

Anyone remember the hoax mockumentary Ghostwatch with Sarah Greene and Mike Smith? It was "live" and I was about 14 at the time. I was so scared. I tried phoning in to say I had seen the ghost but I couldn't get through. I didn't sleep for a week after that.

And Paperhouse. I was petrified all the way through right til the very end when Marianne is in a room and you see the massive microphone at the top of the screen. I remember thinking "oh it's not real"

Yes I remember that butterfly I was as about 18 I think wasnt there some controversy about a girl commiting suicide after it?

At school, the telly was wheeled in and we had to watch this programme of a man sitting a chair telling stories.

Sounds innocent but this man scared the crap out of me and I ran out of the room.

He was huge, with a beard I think and he may have had a couldron of water next to him which he stuck his finger in to make the stories appear.

What the bloody hell was that?

LOVE LOVE LOVe come back Lucy . Watched the whole series on YouTube the other day. Maybe slightly scary though but intriguing plot . Also watcheD Children Of The Stones, THe Moon Stalion and the boy from outer space.
I can't remember being frightened of them when I was a child but loved them all when viewed recently

Misty comic! always remember the most creepy story was a girl who bought a bunch of bananas and therew as a tarantula in the bunch-she didn't see it, but story ended with her in the bath and her hand hanging over the side and the spider creeping tomwards her hand.....shivers me now"

Davros on Dr Who. STILL scares me.

Namechange was it The Storyteller? That was bloody creepy sometimes.

The thing that scared me the most as a child - and I have no idea what it was, if anyone could tell me I'd love it - was a series (I think) in the early / mid-eighties (I think) and all I remember is that it involved people with disfigured faces (like some sort of stone-like growth over their skin? I think?) and the last shot was of them leaving the place where they lived; as they leave a little girl drops her doll, it's a talking doll and the programme ends with it repeating a phrase over and over in its doll voice I don't remember what the phrase was, something typical of talking dolls like "I want my Mummy" or some such thing. That is literally all I can remember of this programme, other than that it was utterly terrifying.

Yes Terrahawks was scary as hell. Not sure if anyone has mentioned it already but did anyone see Children of the Dogstar? I still have flashbacks when I see a weathervane.

How about Chocky, Chockys Children and Chockys challenge. Jane Eyre and Betha's wicked laugh from the attic used to give me nightmares every sunday night but I was determined to watch it to see what would happen next!!!

anyone remember this?

TOUCH AND GO (1978)
This above average serial begins as a psychological drama in which a girl called Emily wakes up in hospital after a car crash. Her grasp on reality is particularly unsettling to watch especially when she's convinced to have seen something she's not supposed to. The serial then turns into a runaround with Emily and her friend Charles mixed up with a right-wing pressure group of villains called the Dedicated Few, intent on blowing up an African delegation.

Unusually for the times the group is headed by a woman, Chairmaine played by future Eastender Sandy Ratcliff with a bitchy finesse.The seaside village and craggy cliffs backdrop invite comparisons with traditional kids adventure serials. Two particularly memorable aspects for are the blue van the gang drive with a large white bone on top which seemed to turn up when one least expected it and the face of Willy, a repulsive tramp, played with disturbing relish by Aubrey Morris

I remember Sky and the leaf covering

If I remember rightly the Clifton House one was filmed in The Georgian House, in Bristol which is still a museum now.

scarey but must-watchable programme - The Feathered Serpent, the music....

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.

DH recently read a story called Newel to our eldest (6) and she was petrified. It is apparently quite an old short story about a little girl who puts a hat on their house's newel post at the foot of the stairs/bannister, and it starts climbing and creaking up the stairs to the kids' bedroom in the night. Totally creepy and I was not best pleased by the midnight screaming it caused. Actually I was a bit creeped out by it myself...anyone else know I this one?

The Daleks. I was terrified of them. I knew they couldn't climb stairs so I would plan my route home from school so that I only walked past two storey buildings where possible. I used to run past all the bungalows.

And then when they brought Dr Who back, the bastards made them levitate.

I still get a little frisson of fear when I see one unexpectedly.

And Children of the Stones. Shiver.

Worzel Gummage scared the shit out of me.

Yy to Bergeracs the haunting of cassie palmer. My parents let me watch it at the age of 9. I was terrified, had nightmares for weeks and wouldnt go upstairs on my own for months.

I think that bloody episode gave me a lifelong fear of really dark spaces and the unknowm. What on earth were my parents thinking?

Yes to Daleks here too. There was one in the window of my local library when I was little. I felt survival was only possible if I didn't look at it.

Took DCs to the Dr Who Experience at Olympia...I was more scared than they were! They think the Daleks are funny!

blackhearts my mum let me watch the original Bouquet of barbed wire aged 10 or so

YY to lots on here - The Boy from Space and Armchair thriller. I may utube the nun one if I'm brave enough.

Tales of the unexpected used to scare me too.

My parents let me watch an episode of Bergerac where a person was in a car on a cliff and the grim reaper was standing there and put his arm out, the doors all locked and the car burst into flames - at least that is my memory of it.

Another program, a girl was kidnapped and kept in a box underground! I have no idea how old I was but those two programmes gave me nightmares for ages.