Scary tv moments when you were a child?

[Talcyoyo]

What made you hide behind the sofa???

Mine......Lizzie Dripping
Sapphire and steel

Oh, and was allowed to watch The Omen aged 10

the child catcher in chitty chitty bang bang...

cybermen and androids

The Birds. I still have a bird phobia now

Yes!!!!

The Child Catcher

Horrid

Adverts warning about fireworks gave me nightmares!

I don't know what it was called, but there was a drama about rabies - there's a bit where some infected person becomes terrified of a glass of water and it gave me nightmares for years.

Also Tripods! Those big 3 legged giant things - the site of them standing on the skyline

jaws - saw it once in parents bedroom when was forbidden. Didn't swim even in the swimming pool for ages.

Was it The Mad Death, Boco? I was scared of that too.

The granada/Thames tv music (with the picture of St Pauls and the Thames) still brings me out in goosebumps. I think the link is Tales of the Unexpected, but not sure if there is something else which I have blocked out ...

The Nightmare Man

80's drama series

Tales of the unexpected - the opening music [scared emoticon] And wasn't there something called 'armchair horror' or something. I seem to recall the opening sequence of that being quite scary.

Jaws - my older brothers and sisters made me watch that when I was quite young.

An episode of Juliet Bravo when a young boy died from glue sniffing. Scared the crappola out of me and my brother.

omg yes - the thames music used to scare me too!

The Hammer house series had really spooky opening scene in graveyard

YB - was it played just before TotU or was there something else linked to that music ?

I loved the books of TotU, but not the TV adaptations

I saw a preview of a film where there were some people on a train and a voice came over the tannoy 'You have all been subjected to a highly contagious disease. Anyone attempting to leave will be immediately shot' and men appear in hazard protection suits with blowtorches and seal the windows shut.
It haunted me for years and I finally tracked it down and watched it a couple of years ago (it was called 'The Cassandra Crossing') and it turns out they sort out the disease with no trouble at all by just giving the people oxygen.
All those years I'd been having nightmares....

Child Catcher (still makes me shudder)

The safety films, especially:
the one of a kid sinking in slurry on a farm
and
the one with the Grim Reaper hanging around when kids played in ponds filled with rubbish.

worzle gummidge!

Now that was weird

Do you think Worzel was probably a paedophile? There was definitely something funny about him.

Just the theme of Doctor Who was enough. I used to run toward the tv with my hand over my eye shouting "turn it off!"

I was about 8 at the time

Used to so same with Tales of the Unexpected theme too. Don't think I ever saw any of the programmes.

Cybermen for me, too, dh had to hold my hand when they brought them back in the new Dr Who!

Also Day of the Triffids scared me rigid.

Armchair Thiller - the one with the faceless nun, in a rocking chair, in the attic.

The safety films, and the TV adverts with "Charlie says", they used to terrify me for some reason, and of course Doctor Who. my mum commented the other day about the fact that Ds2 (7) sits and watches Dr Who now and never bats and eyelid, when I was his age I was behind the sofa crying

indignatio - now I come to think of it I may be associating it with tales of the unexpected, or the aforementioned armchair thingy.

Now if I ever see it it just reminds me of Morecambe and Wise. Lovely.

I saw a safety film about strangers in cars the other night on one of those nostalgia programmes.Really scary!