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Another "do you know the name of..." - scary children's tv show - 80s

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Penthesileia · 10/02/2009 21:17

Ok. My memory of this tv show is hazy, as it scared the daylights out of me, so I have obviously blanked it from my memory...

It frightened me like The Owl Service and Chocky...

So, the 2 scenes I remember are:

  • a girl is possessed (in some way) by the spirit of another girl who is somehow lost in time... She's been saying the "name" of this girl, but no-one understands, until she happens to be in a greenhouse (or something) and the window is steamed up; she writes the word she's been saying: and it's a girl's name, said/written backwards, which appears as a real name to the children standing outside.
  • the children are in a church, and it's coming up to some critical time when the girl trapped in time is going to be released (?), and a huge bell falls from the tower onto the children - or perhaps just the girl? - and when it is removed, they're/she's gone.

Like I say, my memory of this is really poor, but these two scenes have stuck with me forever.

Help me! I know there must be someone out there who knows what I'm talking about... I need to purge myself of these scary memories!

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ProfYaffle · 11/02/2009 16:41

Right then, if anyone can put a name to this programme I will be amazed.

I can only remember one scene, some children are in a large stately home type mansion, they decide to put on a show but they have no audience. They decide to stuff some clothes with newspapers and sit them on chairs as a pretend audience. They do their show, and when they finish, the 'audience' slowly start to applaud in a jerky fashion, kids realise their stuffed clothes have come to life and flee screaming ...... (I think the 'audience' may chase them out)

ugh, properly freaky.

SOLOveMeTenderLoveMeDo · 11/02/2009 16:51

What year(ish)?

ProfYaffle · 11/02/2009 16:53

I can only just remember it so probably 77/78ish?

SOLOveMeTenderLoveMeDo · 11/02/2009 16:54

No idea, sorry!

Flightattendant12 · 11/02/2009 17:02

Does anyone remember the Moon Stallion? A bit more late 70s I think, it was pretty frightening. I can still remember the theme music, but nobody remembers the programme

Flightattendant12 · 11/02/2009 17:02

ProfYaffle that's the Ugly Wugly scene from - erm - one of those E nesbit ones.

Flightattendant12 · 11/02/2009 17:05

The Enchanted Castle I think? Adapted in 1979.

ProfYaffle · 11/02/2009 21:00

Ooh, interesting I'm off to google.

ProfYaffle · 11/02/2009 21:12

Many thanks Flight - that's the one. Sadly couldn't find any images on the net and it's not released on dvd but I may buy myself the book. Not sure why I'm so keen to see something that scared me so much though.

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