Scary Kids TV

[Jonny]

Rosie and Jim were just on CITV

They freak me out

One minute they're lifeless dolls and then they're evil giggling puppets from hell

This reminded me of how freaky The Riddlers were

So, what programme mentally scarred you as a child?

[Deleted]

Anything written by Russell T Davies, pretty much. I still wake up shouting and screaming because of Dark Season (and Earth Shocks, if that was him).

I am also really scared of the evil Poddington Peas. They looked really gone-off and evil. Imagine having to eat that - it'd bite your tongue off.

[klee]

Century Falls, which was also by the sainted Russell T, was exceedingly creepy. Moondial was also fairly frightening, if I remember correctly.

Shit-scariest of them all, however, was Ulysses (*Sings* Uly-see-ee-ee-ee-eeze, going round the galaxie-eeze*). The 'sleeping' people on the ship, twitching as they hung there in the air. Nightmare stuff.

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klee said:

Shit-scariest of them all, however, was Ulysses (*Sings* Uly-see-ee-ee-ee-eeze, going round the galaxie-eeze*). The 'sleeping' people on the ship, twitching as they hung there in the air. Nightmare stuff.

"What's happening Ulysses?"
"Well Telemachus, it would appear that the GODS have trapped us in a ring of FIRE and ICE. Again."

[zaffra]

Oh where to start? it's easier to list the programmes that didn't freak me out, I was a very sensitive child.

Have you seen the episode of Father Ted where Dougal is discribing the horror movie 'A car that can drive by itself? that's not right' and Father Ted says he's not aloud to watch 'Herbie' ever again. well my family thought this was extra funny because we had a Beetle when I was very small and I never wanted to be left alone in the car in case it drove off like Herbie.

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For the same reasons, I am scared of Brum. That car is far too small to carry a human being, so it isn't even serving a useful purpose. It's just alive, terrorising the public, like the automobile version of a wasp.

[rondette]

The Adventure Game. That grid at the end where if they fucked up they got teleported or destroyed or whatever. My mum tried to console me by saying that the people ended up on the high street in my town, so I had a rather lovely image of people in boiler suits appearing out of nowhere, blinking and looking confused.


I also used to HATE HATE HATE Grotbags, and the bit in the Yellow Submarine where Frankenstien turns into John Lennon. Oh and Return to Oz shat me up something chronic. THE FUCKING WHEELIEEEESSSSSS!!!!!

[joined up talking]

Rondette said:

Oh and Return to Oz shat me up something chronic. THE FUCKING WHEELIEEEESSSSSS!!!!!

Yesss !! Thats the only bit of it I remember clearly, and because it scared me so much, I have refused to watch it since.

[rondette]

brrr. Evil fuckers. Much like Swiss referees.

[joined up talking]

Hmm, they don't look as scary there as I remember them to be. Maybe its time for the second viewing.

[moondial]

klee said:

Moondial was also fairly frightening, if I remember correctly.

I've never met this person before in my life.

[Twiggy]

Return To Oz was twistedly brilliant.

The Riddlers were freaky. One of my friends was (cruelly, but justifiably) nicknamed a Riddler because she looked a bit lot like one.

[Golden Meg]

The witch off Return to Oz is the worst cos she can twist her head off. And she keeps all her spares in glass boxes... brrr!

[jode*]

The scariest kids TV I ever saw was an episode of Round the Twist with a guy who always wore gloves because he was growing extra hand and toe nails..... I have written more about it in the Round the Twist thread.

Aaaaargh!

[chartfreak]

The Moomins - how freaky was that shit, totally agree about Return To Oz - even now don't want to look at the Wheelies - and that bit when Dorothy is running down the corridor in the witch's castle, and all the witch's spare heads are screaming at her - JESUS!!!

The theme tune to Babar was fucking creepy too, Round The Twist, Willow The Wisp, Rosie and Jim... I could go on

[FWWM]

The Moomins was great! Nothing scary about those cuddly talking hippo things. Although there were a few Miyazaki-esque moments - there was one episode set in a creepy decrepit old house during a thunderstorm, and there were these cloaked hump-backed creatures with no faces but visible glowing eyes wandering around the place. That could have been quite frightening if watched in the right setting.

[SBaholic]

Nah, in Return to Oz it's where she has to secretly fetch the magic powder when Mumbi's asleep that is the ultimate shit scary moment; she opens the glass box and the eyes of the head just open: "Dorothy Gale... DOROTHY GALE..."

Urghh! Shivers.

[Gary Gillatt]

I was absolutely terrified by an HTV kids' drama series called King Of The Castle, which starred Fulton McKay. It was, on one level, the story of a boy entering a fantasy world below the basement of his tower block, and on another, a meditation on his real-life nervous breakdown.

There's not enough scary, shocking TV at the moment. Unless you count any scenes between Deena Payne and Adele Silva on Emmerdale.

[Lucinda]

Oh God. That scene with all the heads screaming at Dorothy scared the shit out of me too. I also found it disturbing that she was treated so cruelly in the institution she was in at the start. That freaked me the fuck out because she wasn't in Oz, she was in Kansas! Real-life! But as much as that film freaked me out, I really love it, a lot more than the original. Probably because it seems much more dark and twisted. I think I'm the only person who loves the sequel more. I get funny looks when I tell people that.

[Smudge]

I used to howl when that CITV show came on with the singing black lady who lived in a castle with a goose called Gobbledygook.

She wore striped tights and had comic relief-style red noses on them. She also sung also sung a song called "Red Nose" and the lyrics went like this:

"red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose, red nose"

[jode*]

I've never heard of it but I am terrified.

[Carrotline]

Billy Webb?

I think that was what it was called. Billy had a watch that could stop/change time. I think it had that annoying bloke off the Flash Adverts (Carl Howman?) in it as the boys dad.

Anyway, I vaguely remember in the last episode this evil genie like bloke who used to help billy on his stop-start time adventures bidding him farewell, as Billy walked innocently an eight foot high wall, and saying:

"Break a leg billy webb......BBRRRREEEEAK AAAAAA LEEEEG!" , in this creepy accent.

Next thing, billy falls and the series ends! I think the scariest thing of all was there wasn't even a motive!

It was horrid and I've not walked on an eight foot high wall wearing my time altering watch ever since.

[jode*]

Bernard's Watch?

[Jonny]

All New Bernard is deeply upsetting. It's just wrong.

When it was twee and middle class (Bernard stopping time so he could cheat at croquet or suchlike) it was great but sticking him in school, making him some mini-Maxwell type oik and giving him a black best friend for no reasons other than racial equality mean it's unwatchable bollocks of the highest order.

It's like when Fearne Cotton went rock but worse

[spinme]

jonny said:

Rosie and Jim were just on CITV

They freak me out

They're even worse now that they have working legs, and can walk about terrorising the public as opposed to just talking about doing such a thing.

Me and my boyfriend spend entire evenings discussing Rosie's racial origins.

For a long time after seeing Return To Oz, I actually thought the wheelers were out to get me, and that they'd disappear behind lamp posts and trees whenever I turned my head.

, Michael. xxx