Most heart breaking moments on kid's TV????

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What are your most heart breaking moments on kid's TV? It can be either from modern day kids TV or from when you were growing up. Mine are:
*On Topsy and Tim. When Tim goes to his 'friend' Tony Welsh house. Tony and his new mate completely ignored Tim. You can see him crying inside until Tony's dad invited him to help out in the garden.

• On Old Jack's boat Christmas special. When he thinks all his friends are too busy to meet up to commemorate his dead wife. Yet they all surprise him at the end for a proper sing song

'Debbie!'

Bold’s death in Farthing Wood.

Same. Over 40 years ago. It's is banned at home.
"Motherrrrrrrr" (shudders and bursts into tears).

Another one. In an episode of Muppet Babies, Gonzo loses Camilla his cuddly toy chicken. His sense of loss and despair made me weep (I still blame Bambi).

A movie rather than TV but when Artax the horse drowns in the Swamp of Sadness in Never Ending Story. Deep DEEP trauma as a kid.

When ET goes home and the kids are all crying.
(Another loss. I blame Bambi).

Land before time (see above).

Therapy needed.

@Heather37231 my DF told me that Bambi's mother was shot with a tranquilliser dart, taken to the vet and released in Richmond Park. He even pointed her out to me. It wasn't until I watched it with my own children that I realised what really happened!

@pinkhousesarebest same as me, and Judy’s death was one of the first saddest things I had seen on tv, but couldn’t remember what the series was called!

It's like Bad Girls when Bastard Fenner bricks up Yvonne!

There was a documentary on kids tv which was supposed to be jolly documentary about a family who bought a zoo. However the mum had died of breast cancer. For some reason the programme makers had pressed ahead. There was dad on his own working away. They interviewed the kids in a “isn’t it great” way and the little girl burst into tears and said “I just want my mum”. Christ I and both my then primary age dds were all in tears.

That is lovely. What a nice DF.

Wasn't the same actress who would later play Maria on coronation Street? I remember that episode. In fact children's ward was pretty heavy going for a kid's program

My Dad died when I was 23 and I haven't been able to watch it without sobbing since. For years, I had to leave the room before the end because I couldn't bear it! I'm in my 50s now!

Argh…this

I just tried to watch a full episode on youtube bit it cuts short. Why can they only see her once in a while?

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And of course the Land Before Time. Littlefoot 😭

I remember this one off kids drama called the tide race (I think that's what it was called). This boy with down syndrome laughing at his sister's boyfriend who is mocking him. Then he gets sad when his sister defends him. Awful scene

This!

I think I still have the original Watership down on video. Also I forgot about Tarka the Otter. Might have that on video as well!

Oh god. Sleepytime EVERY SINGLE TIME! If I hear those movements of Holst's The Planets I now have a Pavlovian cry response!

There was a Disney non-animated film about children and pit ponies working in a mine. I was taken to see it when I was about 7 and loved it, so when it came to our local about a year later my mum took me again… she was then quite embarrassed when I cried all the way home because the pit pony DIES, somehow I hadn’t properly understood this the first time.

Incredible Hulk end credits

Where he's walking along to the sad music with his 70s flares and puts his thumb out to hitch a lift

@Mookie81 😱Woah yeah, he was a wrong'un wasn't he!! Makes me shudder just thinking of it!!

The end of the good dinosaur

beginning sequence of UP

horse in never ending story

goodnight mr tom

book not film - velveteen rabbit