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

My dds were very scared by the cannibal natives in the new KING KONG.

Norman Wisdom!

Dr who was so scary

Kids' teatime drama in 1970s called 'Touch and Go' featuring creepy man scaring the shit out of two kids. Still have nightmares about it...

Dr Who

Oh god, Ghostwatch

I was so terrified by this, it gave me nightmares for years afterwards!

I was reading thsi thread adn asking DH what it was called but he couldn't rememebr it, so in explaining it to him I have scared myself again!

here's more...

Ooooh, drippinglizzie,
i want your name!

how did i miss Ghostwatch?

There was a scary ghost drama that involved a doll being dropped down a well and some Victorian children being locked in a house and the house set on fire (but I think the modern children managed to rescue them and set it right) but I don't know what it was called - anyone?

I hated Ken Dodd, he gave me the creeps.
There was something called Michael Bentines Potty Time that had weird squeaky voice creatures.
Daleks - I couldn't walk past one once in a beachside amusement arcade - was in hysterics apparently and wouldn't walk past the building.
Fire safety public information films - nightmares after those
Once saw some wartime drama with the Bethnal Green tube station tragedy - basically people fell down the steps of a crowded tube station after an air raid, and some suffocated to death. I couldn't quite grasp how someone falling at the top could lead to people dying - totally freaked me out, still can't bear to have covers over my face - DD loves climbing under the bedclothes when she comes in in the morning and it still makes me panicky when she puts the duvet near my face!
Oh, lord, I'm just a big wuss really....

LOL

we've gone from Halloween, nightmare on elm st....
....to Ken Dodd

sounds like the amazing mr blunden classic 70s film, someone mentioned it earlier kathy

i saw that bethnal green programme housemum, it stayed with me for years.

Southeastastra - I'm so glad someone else has seen it! Whenever I've mentioned it people give me blank looks - i wish I knew what it was called as I would love to see it again. Maybe it was just an episode of Danger UXB or something like that

If you want to go down the really-give-me-the-creeps route you can also include Timmy Mallet and Paul Gambaccini - eeeuuurrrghh - without wanting to be libellous they look v dodgy...

Aha - just IMDB'd it - must be that; thanks SEA!

yes i've never met anyone who had seen it either! maybe it was danger uxb, that was gripping wasn't it.

i didn't even realise it was true until i saw a clip of it a couple of years back. i'll have a google for it

Jaws - still hear the music when I go swimming

Dr Who - especially an episode with giant maggots

Tales of the Unexpected and Hammer House of Horror

not scary but very rude....Bouquet of Barbed Wire - does anyone else remember this?

I really don't know why I was allowed to watch these programmes. Bizarrely my grandmother would only let me watch BBC, she said ITV was 'common'!

this is all i can find housemum. (scroll down)

it was called: it's a lovely day tomorrow. i can still see the pictures in my head.

still can't watch the bit in Jaws
when the small boy is on air bed thing

haha if you google it's a lovely day tomorrow, a mumsnet discussion comes up on page 3!

we just turn up everywhere

Oh and what was that rabbit thing, Pipkin, Nutkin or something. That was so bloody awful looking, really raggedy and not in a cute way, I used to cry when it came on. It had really jaggy looking teeth and claws. Who the hell would have made that for a kids programme!

Giant maggots in Dr Who - yes! They sprayed people with green slime, which then spread all over them. I remember having to leave the room.

aw twoif hartley hare! i loved pipkins

Arrrggghhh! Southeastastra! That thing is just as bad as I remember.

No wonder I cried at it.

Ugly, nasty

Bloody rabbit!

Yes!!!!!

see early post....I was petrified of the pig in the basement.

And hartley and his awful cousin in the country.
And teh clock..its time for a story!!!

Horrific stuff

i must be your era i was petrified of sapphire and steel. it looks so dated now (bits i've seen)

Must try get hold of copies of S and S.

Also.....read MISTY girls magazine when i was 8.....didn't sleep for a week!