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.

@Buttons294749

*elidor

Who thought this was appropriate for kids???

I've been trying to identify this series for years! Utterly petrifying

@foxgoosefinch

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”?

I can remember an episode with figurines of a 'chinaman' and 2 had to be put together to solve the clue.

Definitely Knightmare, I watched it too young and thought what happened to the kids in it was real!
Also Round the Twist gave me nightmares.

@TyrannysaurusXXrightshoarder

And Noseybonk from Jigsaw. Horrific.

Noseybonk was weird as fuck 😮

@Cherryana

I also got the occasional sneak peak at Tales of the Unexpected...I remember one where someone died of internal bleeding caused by someone putting fragments of tiger whiskers in their food (apparently they're as sharp as glass).

Chocky frightened the life out of me and The Cuckoo Child was pretty disturbing at the time.

@MintyCedric so disturbing!! They were written by Roald Dahl

Can anyone remember the film 'Watcher in the wood'?
Couldn't believe it when I found out as an adult it was a Disney film 😂
I remember someone being trapped in vines under water then a seance in church and the bell falling on the girl.
Love horrors now though!

OMG just remembered The Nightmare Man - only thing I remember was the titles - the background was red and there was the sound of someone breathing!

And Hanging by a Thread - stayed with me for many years

My younger brother was absolutely petrified of Charlie tap- from button moon. He’d literally leg it out the room until he’d gone

Rosie and Jim !!

[quote foxgoosefinch]@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. 👍😂[/quote]
I liked waybuloo too, and it's trippy hippy 90s vibe, lived the windchimes and my dc did yogo too

I liked Abney and Teal too as it reminded me of the stuff I watched in the 70s like bagpuss.

I remember being haunted by the children's ward episode where a girl died been working in a sweatshop or something, I was quite old at the time though, definitely mid teens but maybe it hit home more at that age.

Grange hill was the one that haunted to but I was too young when I watched that, two mean girls pushed a fat boy they were bullying into the swimming pool and he didn't come up again...

@bookworm14

Oh god, the public information films. The one about electricity substations haunts me to this day.

Yep me too!!

@steppemum

anyone mentioned Carrie's war yet?

great famous well known book to teach kids about evacuees and the war.

But the TV adaptation.... bugger me it was terrifying. Culminated in a fire which was arson and I can't remember why but was terrifying.

I loved the book at a child, absolutely loved it. The adaptation left me a gibbering wreck. It was something to do with a skull, wasn't it. Ugh.

I've still got my original copy of Carries War. And Back Home, a story of the same era.

There was the 'screaming skull' in the book of Carrie's War - I assume it was in the TV series too.

[quote JustDanceAddict]@FancyFlipFlops - just had a bit of a Google re S&S and it was def more of a ‘family’ show like Dr Who.
It def wasn’t on in the after-school
Shot![/quote]
Ah! Thanks for the information, I suppose as my parents never watched them with us as they classed them as ‘kids stuff’ I always think of them like that.

@JustDanceAddict

Ooh, I forgot that I was sh*t scared of the televised story of The Monkey’s Paw. They showed it to our class in year 6 so would’ve been v early 80s. Omg it still freaks me out thinking about it now.

I remember seeing the Monkeys Paw at the Saturday Morning Kids Cinema. That was way back when we’d pay a £1 and we’d have cartoons, a series and a film

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome kids, the opening is terrifying and not really suitable on kid's tv at all.

When v small I was terrified of the witch from chorlton and the wheelies.
Also quite disturbed by some of the scenes from how we used to live. I remember the main daughter from the poor family was in love with the son from the rich family. Poor family had a younger son who was very innocent and didn’t understand the implications of going to war, thought it would be an adventure. The girls boyfriend looked after the younger brother and they both died on the battlefield together. ☹️.
Box of delights was exceptional weird/creepy.

Children of the Stones.
Wickerman for 70's kids. Honestly terrifying.

My daughter was absolutely terrified of the lion and the bear on the Tellytubbies.

When I was a kid I hated spooks of bottle bay! Horrible creepy things. I hate puppets.

Mini pops, early days of channel 4 IIRC, how on earth was that a good idea?

Another vote for the singing ringing tree, that's tonight's nightmare sorted.

@TyrannysaurusXXrightshoarder

Hartley Hare from Pipkins. Terrifying.

God yeah....scary as hell!

Terrahawks. I was apparently terrified!

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