Disturbing kid's TV programs

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I remember growing up and seeing unpleasant shows on CBBC and CITV during the 80s and 90s that looking back were pretty heavy going, especially for kids.

Ones I remember we're children's ward. Especially when the girl (who ended up playing Maria in coronation Street) died.
Also this one called Dramarama with one off stories. I remember this particular episode about a boy who steals a rabbit and his dad thrashes him with a belt.
And this drama called the secret set partly in Eastbourne where these kids mum goes missing.

Grizzly tales for gruesome kids. Some of these were effed up!
Are you afraid of the dark?
Goosebumps

Some of these were proper creepy!

'Running Scared' & 'The tripods' gliffed me but I loved Jim Henson's The storyteller.

@Dilbertian - that was Waybuloo! It was reshowing on CBeebies when my DD was small - I rather liked it. The music had a trippy relaxing 90s hippy vibe with the windchime sound. Used to get in from work about 6 and collapse with a glass of wine in front of the Bedtime Hour and close my eyes as DD did “yogo” to Waybuloo. 👍😂

I was very freaked out by the stories they used to show us in school as part of “Look and Read” - anyone remember “Dark Tower”?

Yes The Singing Ringing Tree.
Also the scariest villain ever must be The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Band Bang.

I remember chocky and Children's Ward. It was great. I remember an anorexia storyline that really resonated with me. I have no clue if there are any children's dramas anymore?

Are you shitting me Wikipedia? Did I just read that “Dark Towers” was actually written by famous screenwriter Andrew Davies, of Pride & Prejudice etc.? Fuck me. I had no idea I was being terrified out of my wits by Great Art 😂

The Boy from Space has to be the worst and it was a school programme!

Dark towers was awesome. I liked the song. "Oh come with me, yes come with me, to Dark Tow-Ers doo-doodoodoo-doo". It was on YouTube a while ago.

Oh and a final memory before I go to bed - I was once aged about 8 absolutely scared out of my tree by an episode of “Dramarama” featuring some kind of old fashioned train and ghost soldiers….still shiver thinking about it now.

There's was a programme when I was a child there was a programme called Changes. It scared the shit out of me. Machinery turned against humans. I remember being terrified of pylons for ages after!

There was one with a group of teens from an astronomy club so went to the Australian outback and some were abducted by aliens. One episode closed with a cliffhanger where they'd crashed the hero and they were all injured or dead, and you didn't know which.

Those faceless things in robes in Raven also terrified me.

The Animals of Farthing Wood! Not traumatic in the same way but it was still bloody awful. Its like Game of thrones compared to today's Peppa Pig.

There was another show about a little girl who lived on a farm. She had a beautiful white pet lamb. All I can remember is her father telling her there was foot and mouth, wrestling the lamb away from her as she cried and shooting it behind the barn.

Changes was fucked up it's true. There were a few paranoid type storylines in kids' programmes in the 70s. All the Russians' fault ofc.

This is the weird Australian alien drama — Jeopardy.

Moondial terrified me.

AdoptedBumpkin Yes I remember Zzzap. DD used to watch it after school, but she was scared of Daisy Dares and would always shout me to sit with her when she came on. Mind you she scared me a bit tbh.
It was a very weird show.

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Watership Down.

The bit of Labyrinth where the creatures take their heads off.

And when the horse dies in the Never Ending Story, that traumatised a whole generation!

The Little Vampire scared me, must have been around 7 years old or so, mid 80s. I only saw the ending of an episode (when we had turned over from Children's hour on BBC to Children's hour on ITV, as you used to do back then ha) and was terrified for days.

Also the later series of Worzel Gummage where he went to Australia. The Australian Crow Man wanted to burn him, my sister and I were so traumatised we weren't allowed to watch the next episode. I disagree with this to be honest, if my daughter is scared of something on TV or in a film I sit with her but we watch until the end so that she can see it turns out OK, with Worzel I still don't know if that Crow Man every caught him ...

The deamon headmaster that scared the life out of me and I wasn’t even that young
Not a children’s programme but My mum let me and my sister watch prisoner cell block H and I was about 10 sister 7 and someone got hit over the head with a shovel that traumatised my sister she had to sleep with me for months after
What was my mum thinking? She’s a professional in safeguarding children 80\s 90/s were really bizzare times

tim thaler
a german one
very creepy.

The Singing Ringing tree scared me to death. I've seen bits on YouTube and it still does.

I bought the DVD of the Singing Ringing Tree just to check whether it was as scary as I remembered - it was.