Things on T.V that scared you as a child.
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Steel Icarus
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The music AND the presenter.
Steel Icarus
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Oh, and stuff like this
Kuso
drinking like george best, gettin less women
watched the tommyknockers with my younger brother while we were staying in a caravan (in Wales I think), while our folks were at the pub. It terrified my brother while it was on, oh how I laughed at him. But when it was over I got proper freaked out n went to find my mum n dad, got lost in what I thought was a huge forest (few trees really) and was later found in tears, proper hysterical... 
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
some kids' drama serial which featured some things called the 'ugglie wugglies' - these kids'd made people (to act as an audience?) out of old clothes and newspaper and stuff, like a scarecrow or a guy... and they came to life, like zombies.
i was properly traumatised (i think maybe about 6 years old?) and my sisters tortured me relentlessly. just the words 'uggly wuggly' were enough to make me cry.
i was properly traumatised (i think maybe about 6 years old?) and my sisters tortured me relentlessly. just the words 'uggly wuggly' were enough to make me cry.
Kuso said:watched the tommyknockers with my younger brother while we were staying in a caravan (in Wales I think), while our folks were at the pub. It terrified my brother while it was on, oh how I laughed at him. But when it was over I got proper freaked out n went to find my mum n dad, got lost in what I thought was a huge forest (few trees really) and was later found in tears, proper hysterical...
Still like forests?
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
ok - so i've investigated this - it was called the enchanted castle, and it was shown in 1979 - so i was 5. a quick read of various plot outlines on the web reveals firstly that my memory's pretty good (they were indeed an audience the children had made), and also brings back other scary and unsettling bits that i sort of remember. There's a lot of talk online about it from people similarly traumatised, but it's not available to watch anywhere. the book is by E Nesbit, so i may give it a read at some point. when i'm feeling brave enough.
Ms Ordinary
randompointlesschemistry
Children of the Stones
I was about 6 or 7 when I watched that, thanks to the music, you didn't need to understand the plot to be rigid with terror.
Kuso
drinking like george best, gettin less women
yes actually, although ghostbusters and a particular halloween mask that is *still* in my parents freak me out. the film didn't scare me but I was playing with ghostbuster toys one day and my dad decided to stick on this really horrible halloween mask, crawl into the room I was playing in, stick his head round the drawers and moan "hellllooooooo, liittttlllleeee boooooyyyyy"... I proper lost it then
I get uneasy watching ghostbusters even now or seeing the mask when my folks get the dressing up box out at halloween for my nephews n nieces
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
That was very scary!
I remember an episode of Nationwide which had a report on werewolves and it convinced me they must be real!!
Voley
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juice_terry
Here is a man who would not take it anymore.
Duncan the Dragon on you & me petrified me as a four year old..can i find any images on t'intenet ? can i fuck!! 
Duncan the Dragon on you & me petrified me as a four year old..can i find any images on t'intenet ? can i fuck!!
Type "duncan you and me" instead.
juice_terry
Here is a man who would not take it anymore.
Cheers Citizen... for years I thought he was something I dreamt up ..
gaijingirl
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Two episodes of Tales of the Unexpected... to a lesser extent, the one where the man eats too much Royal Jelly and turns into a bee.
But the one that really scared me involved a man who feigns being dead to get out of prison in a coffin - making a deal with the coffin-maker to bury him together with the next inmate who dies at the jail. The coffin-maker is then to come and dig him up later after the funeral and release him from the coffin - leaving just the actual dead inmate inside. It is all going really well until the funeral is finished and the man gets out his lighter to see (out of curiosity) with whom he has been buried and sees the coffin maker lying next to him. The camera pans back as you hear the man scream.
I must have been really quite young when I saw that but it has stuck with me ever since.
But the one that really scared me involved a man who feigns being dead to get out of prison in a coffin - making a deal with the coffin-maker to bury him together with the next inmate who dies at the jail. The coffin-maker is then to come and dig him up later after the funeral and release him from the coffin - leaving just the actual dead inmate inside. It is all going really well until the funeral is finished and the man gets out his lighter to see (out of curiosity) with whom he has been buried and sees the coffin maker lying next to him. The camera pans back as you hear the man scream.
I must have been really quite young when I saw that but it has stuck with me ever since.
Superdupastupor
fun to funky
Return to oz 
and Jonathan creek which I'd watch despite being terrifid of it- it's not really a childerns show is it?
and Jonathan creek which I'd watch despite being terrifid of it- it's not really a childerns show is it?
That was an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour called Final Escape.
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/The_Alfred_Hitchcock_Hour_-_Final_Escape
I was the one who brought my family's first TV into our home when I was 15 so I never watched any TV when I was a child. A few things have scared me as an adult, though.
gaijingirl
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That was an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour called Final Escape.
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/The_Alfred_Hitchcock_Hour_-_Final_Escape
Gosh... thanks! I must have seen it on a re-run as I was born after that was made!
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