What TV scared you as a kid?

[gjh1971]

This clip scared the shit out of me when we watched it at school. Threads, a drama depicting a nuclear attack on Sheffield

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z52dWAY_J_E

 

[johnny jigsaw]

I seem to remember a program called "Wessex Tales" (I think) & there was one episode which featured a Bigfoot-type thing living in the woods, which really put the willies up me at the time.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Bill and Ben, The Flowerpot Men. I was TERRIFIED the gardener was going to get them

 

[Jam The Man]

The band in the muppets

 

[Frutos]

Knightmare

 

[Franks Wild Years]

The Didimen used to scare the shit out of me and if we went to a Circus I would cry when the clowns came on.

Am I normall ?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7cX07V4iwBM&feature=related

I don't remember seeing it on widescreen, though.

The VIOLENT ATTACK at the end is TERRIFYING.

 

[NMH]

The Didimen used to scare the shit out of me and if we went to a Circus I would cry when the clowns came on.

Am I normall ?

Little blue man who lives in my computer says "no".

 

[NMH]

I was worried by an episode of The Flintstones, where a robot clone of Fred kept ranting monotonously "yabba.......dabba......doo".

Also, an Abbot and Costello I saw at the Saturday morning pictures in Portland Rd, where there was a lumbering robot in that, that stomped after them with arms outstretched. Nightmare CITY!

 

[magoo]

the opening credits of tales of the unexpected scared me. they weren't meant to be scary but they just spooked me. the silhouette woman and the flames *shudder*

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Blimey, "Threads" brings back some memories. Not least the sodding electricity going off just as nuclear annihilation occured on the television screen. Some buffoon had gone up to the pub leaving me with two very small sleeping children and no fifty pence pieces - they'd gone up to the pub with him!

But what an excellent find!

 

[Robdinho]

Moondial scared the hell out of me

 

[Wilko]

the opening credits of tales of the unexpected scared me. they weren't meant to be scary but they just spooked me. the silhouette woman and the flames *shudder*

That scared me too for some reason.

Anyone remember a kids program called Chocky in the mid 80's - I recently bought that on DVD and still thought it was pretty scary shit for kids.

 

[Hiney]

I remember watching Quatermass & the Pit one Christmas when I was younger.

VERY scary

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I remember watching Quatermass & the Pit one Christmas when I was younger.

VERY scary

Lucky you. I remember being told that I COULDN'T watch Quatermass and The Pit, because it was very scary.

 

[Razi]

Moomins have ALWAYS freaked me out. They were the 1 cartoon that I could not watch as a child.

 

[portslade seagull]

It was always Dr Who at the start when there was some sort of spiral thing along with the music...always hid behind the sofa...

 

[magoo]

That scared me too for some reason.

Anyone remember a kids program called Chocky in the mid 80's - I recently bought that on DVD and still thought it was pretty scary shit for kids.

ooohhh....

 

[Marc]

Chocky was quite freaky

although Chorlton & The Wheelies for its downright WEIRDNESS used to scare me!

 

[Bry Nylon]

That video they used to play in schools warning kids not to play on farms scared the SHIT out of me ...

It started with a whole bunch of kids, and by the end, one by one, they had all met a gruesome end...

One drowned in a grain silo... one got caught up in the PTO in the back of a tractor... another got crushed under falling bales... After that I stopped watching...

Mildly less distrurbing was the video of the kid flying his kite into high voltage power cables...