Chorlton and the Wheelies...the stuff of nightmares.

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Especially Fenella. She was awful! God...the TV we watched (us old people!)

AIBU to think kids tv is far less scary now?

The only kids programme that ever really scared me was a series called Changes, where the electricity pylons came to life. Think it was on in the mid 70's for about 6 episodes.

"The Changes (1975)
This mildly frightening drama sees a Britain where a sudden enveloping noise emanating from all machinery and technology causes the population to destroy them. The resulting upheaval displaces many people and reverts society to a pre-industrial age where there is a deep suspicion of anyone who may be harbouring machinery. Even the words for technology are taboo. The remnants of modern technology that escape destruction (such as electricity pylons) produce a physical and sometimes violent repulsion among those left in Britain. Young Nicky Gore who has escaped the destruction and chaos tries to look for her parents and solve the mystery behind what's going on in the country"

There was another drama series too called Touch and Go which was quite scary as well. I think that was the title but I cant find anything about it. It was two children who were in a naval town in the UK (possibly Portsmouth or Plymouth) and some creepy bloke called Willy. I know I had the book as well.

Oooh! and Lizzie Dripping. Loved that too. :)

Ludwig! Pink ball with long legs if I recall. Very weird.

I was absolutely petrified of that witch. It was the way she could just pop up wherever she wanted, there was no escape

It kept me awake at night when I was little.

Having said that, my dc both ran screaming from the room at Mr Maker's shapes.

Chortling was ace and bonkers!

As was Hartley Hare (was the programme called Pipkins?) That hare was indeed sinister, and looked flea-ridden.

I remember Ludwig too. Didn't it emerge from itself and start playing a vioin?

Terrified of The Wheelies. Even reading the thread title made me feel really anxious! I used to have horrible, horrible nightmares about them as a child. Vivid, wake up screaming or sleepwalking type night terrors 😳

As an older child, does anyone remember Chocky (sp?)?

I met the Animal Krackers when I was a kid - creepy feckers...

Hartley Hare was bizarre but fab 😁😁

Mr Benn was on an acid trip when he 'went to he costume shop' wasn't he?

Scared by and loved Chorlton and the Wheelies.
Most terrifying show was the one featuring 'noseybonk' cant remember what it was called.

Loved Chorlton and the Wheelies!!

Cake Jigsaw!

I'd forgotten that the witch could just vanish through floors and pop up again at will.

Hartley Hare. Manky, sinister but brilliant. Wouldn't get air time these days.

Thank goodness- thought it was a thread about me!

Grey yes, Chocky was fantastic!

Cobblers my DC were frightened of those shapes too! Oldest is 11 but all I have to do to terrify here still is sing "I am...a shape!"

Children of the Stones was proper horrifying. Even worse than Chocky.

Love, love love Chortlton and the Wheelies! And now the theme tune is stuck in my head. Yeah, thanks for that.

Anyone remember Bod? "I think I'll have . . . . a banana milkshake.l". I loved Bod, Mr Benn, Camberwick Green, Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine. What about the Banana Splits, and Why Don't You?

Yes to The Changes and Lizzie Dripping, although I loved them both. Catweazle and Monkey freaked me out

I remember Bod and Aunt Flo but I hated the frog band. Willo the Wisp terrified me as a child and Fingerbobs was odd too. I did love Painting with Nancy though.

Worzel Gummidge - that was proper traumatising .

Used to waste hours of time doodling 'Evil Edna'

DC were frightened of Dirtgirl.

Fennella scared me so much I used to vomit. I really hated that show, even now I have to turn it over.
There was a kind of a mime thing, possibly on something with Tony Hart, with a big white face mask with a long nose. Not quite in the Fennella league but pretty scary.
There was also an episode of Flintstones that was so scary it drove all the kids on our street outside. I remember being huddled together with my friends on the pavement discussing how freaky it was, something about a hole to the centre of the earth.

Oh God, Livia, that's him. Holy shit, who thought these things were fine for children's programming?