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.

oldsilver I have those memories too - I asked what they were from on the last thread like this but no-one else remembered.
Can anyone help with buried/ arranged animal bones, horses etc?

PS: because I got so thoroughly scared by well, pretty much everything else

...on this thread I am very understanding of the fears of children in my class, and always take them seriously, even when the fear is 'going on a bear hunt', or ducks.

I remember going to see Jason and the Argonauts in the cinema in 1963 I was only 8! Not only the Thalos figure coming to life but

traumatised for life

God yes the skeletons! Very clever for the fifties
But scary as fuck.

Carries War did it for me. Very evocative. Did the BBC use different colours in film during the 70's-the muted colours add to most of these darker programmes like they were saving the paint box for the day the Night Garden was conceived.

Wow had forgotten about Moondial, loved it but I did get spooked by it.
The Moomins also made me feel odd, even now I don't like seeing it if I come across it on you tube. A movie which also really freaked me out was the Wizard of Oz 2 where Dorothy gets chased by the wheelers. Anyone remember Pob? He would blow his breath on the TV screen and then write words. I found it a bit creepy.

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

If it's the late 70s it could be the Moon Stallion. I seem to remember the heroine being addressed as 'Diana, moon child' or 'Diana, moon princess' and Wayland Smithy was important though I can't remember how.

Not exactly creepy, but still very unnerving, was Midnight Is a Place. I can't remember it in detail, but I know it involved two wealthy children who lose everything and have to work in a factory to survive. The younger one, the girl, has to be 'snatcher' in a carpet factory, and it's a dangerous job that inevitably leads to death or serious injury. I was old enough to know that it was a reasonable reflection of what children in this country had to do in the past and in some parts of the world still did, so it really got to me.

Anyone remember a time travel serial about children going back to the 18th century to free slaves brought here from Sierra Leone?

The Clifton House Mystery was excessively scary for a children's programme...

Oh lord. I had forgotten about this... but I can now remember enough about it to know that it scared me half to death. Didn't help that my family was from Bristol so visits there just got scarier.

But what the hell were my parents doing letting me watch it? I was 8!

[[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1383693/index.html Woo hoo, it was The Moon Stallion!! Thanks morning

And, bloody hell, we are now actually watching Day of the Triffids - the version I remember watching .... some seriously scarey glockenspiel playing occuring

Try that again The Moon Stallion

they were just showing Day of the Triffids on BBC 4.

jhow many episodes were there? they showed 1 and 2 tonight. ive never wathched it as I remember it scared the beegees out of me as a child-looks really tame now- and so didn't watch it then.

and why am I remembering one with 2 or 3 boys and pylons? thought THAT was Day of the triffids.

was the pylon one a childrens drama?

Are you thinking of The Tripods?

Jaundiced, I remember that Nule story, in fact it creeped me out so much I still don't like to leave coats and scarfs draped over the newel post. shudder!

I remember a BBC serial from probably early 80s where a boy ended up mixed up with a cult of some sort who were brainwashing him. I can't remember what it was called, would love to know. That still makes me feel goosebumpy when I think about it even though I can't recall the story exactly. Anyone else remember it?

Margaret Thursday or Thursday's Child. It was serialised by the bbc. I was only about 4 or 5 and used to insist on turning all the lights off to watch it. I think the thing that frightened me was the orphanage.

I thought that orange alphabet head thing was weird - Words and Pictures?

Chockys children was very random and bit of searching I think it was Children of the Dog Star too!

ahh they don;t make 'em like they used to

Remember the very werid cartoon 'Ludwig'? Here is how Charlie Brooker remembers it:

weird not werid!

ah yes, the Tripods, that's it.

thanks.

YY to Thursday's Child. I remember it well - there was a very scarey matron-type character who terrified me as a child.

Brilliant take-off by Charlie Brooker, Gerund. I'd quite forgotten Ludwig.

Have we had Ghosts of Motley Hall yet? Or [uncontrollable shudder] Catweazle?

Bloody catweazle! I nearly said him.

I quite liked poor ludwig

Ah Catweazle was so sweet.

In my head catweazle is mixed up with worzel gummage