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Post by klee on Aug 30, 2005 15:51:08 GMT
There's a clip out there in telly-land somewhere of a Rosie and Jim kiss after which Jim calls Rosie "a slut".
Pob used to freak me out something chronic, and I was technically too old to watch it.
What about The Dark Crystal? The Skeksies were bloody terrifying - even if they do sound like a combination of Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy with hindsight.
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Post by jode* on Aug 30, 2005 21:09:51 GMT
What about The Dark Crystal? The Skeksies were bloody terrifying - even if they do sound like a combination of Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy with hindsight. They are definitely freaky. Even more so when you find out all of the visible backbones and bits of skeleton are just their clothes and they are all weedy and saggy skinned underneath:
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Post by spinme on Aug 30, 2005 21:31:36 GMT
What about The Dark Crystal? The Skeksies were bloody terrifying - even if they do sound like a combination of Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy with hindsight. The image that stays with me is of one of our friends the skeksies getting ill and TURNING INTO DUST WHILST LYING IN BED... Scarred for life. , Michael. xxx
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Post by somethingbiblical on Sept 3, 2005 21:56:10 GMT
I know it's not a kids show, but Richard O'Brien in The Crystal Maze always freaked me out when I was younger, my parents used to watch it all the time. All that bald head........ oh christ. And he always used to pretend to talk to his mother or something like that? I always get laughed at when I tell people this it still creeps me out a little bit.
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Post by Lucinda on Sept 11, 2005 17:49:01 GMT
Seriously? Richard O'Brien? I adored him. He was about sixty-two different kinds of aceness. Then they tried to carry on doing The Crystal Maze without him and it was crap. God, I used to love it so much. I thought it was hilarious that "Mumsie" would be sitting in one of the levels (like the Aztec area or the one that was like a cruise ship) with a snake draped around her. Good times. But looking back on it, I can see why he could have been a bit odd. However, the aspect of The Crystal Maze that distressed me the most as a child was when the people got locked in. There were different reasons for this, sometimes if they touched the floor three times, or put a wrong puzzle piece in for the third time or something. I used to be terrified for them and be urging the other teammates to bail the trapped person out!
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Post by SweatShop on Oct 27, 2005 23:55:29 GMT
I bloody love "The Crystal Maze" and was obsessed with tha show and Richard O'Brien at he age of four. 11 years later, the obsession is restarting.
I'm watching Rocky Horror over and over again with audio commentary and trying to catch Crystal Maze repeats on Challenge. I guess there is a point though...
I can laugh whenever the completely annoying contestants get locked in. They always annoyed me, the lot of them. Shouting obvious things in while their team-mate was trying to do the puzzle and generally being no help. Shut the fuck up! I generally watched it for Richard and the harmonica. Still do when I catch it.
I don't find it scary at all. It's funny if anything.
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Post by ruthie on Oct 28, 2005 11:12:15 GMT
I’ve just been reading through this thread, and now have the theme tune from the Poddington Peas in my head, unfortunately I can’t remember more than the first couple of lines of words
‘Down at the bottom of the garden, among the birds and the bees, a little lot of little people, they’re called the Poddington peas…’
Which, if you think about it, is quite creepy, little people always are (see Borrowers). Humming it to myself is certainly unnerving my colleagues.
For sheer terror, though (although Return to Oz comes close) nothing beats Labyrinth.
I was also a bit scared of Richard . He had a mad look in his eye that suggested he might lock you in one of those little rooms and it would all be for real.
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Post by joined up talking on Nov 1, 2005 23:06:22 GMT
What about The Dark Crystal? The Skeksies were bloody terrifying - even if they do sound like a combination of Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy with hindsight. I watched The Dark Crystal for the first time last week and was terrified of them (and I'm 18). They reminded me of Charn from Through the Dragons Eye - I was made to watch that when I was about 5 at school and have remained slyly scared of Charn ever since. It was a good show though. I thought Richard was incred. I loved how he used to chat to the camera about his weekend or pick up his harmonica and play a tune, whilst the team was busy panicing and making a mess of everything and trying not to get anyone locked in.
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Post by austinmaestro on Jan 23, 2006 21:32:41 GMT
There's a clip out there in telly-land somewhere of a Rosie and Jim kiss after which Jim calls Rosie "a slut". Pob used to freak me out something chronic, and I was technically too old to watch it. What about The Dark Crystal? The Skeksies were bloody terrifying - even if they do sound like a combination of Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy with hindsight. Pob was freaky, he'd spit at the screen. He annoyed me once, when I was five. He used to pull villages out of the sand, and one time, he pulled a bin truck out, and put on a hat, and the narrator said he was "Refuse Collector Pob". This infuriated me, and I screamed at the TV: "What's a refuse collector?? He's a binman!" I was five. The End. There was an Australian programme years ago, think it was on The Children's Channel, about these slimy green monsters that came out of the sea and were disguised as people. I think it was called Under The Mountain or something.
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Post by billythekid on Jan 25, 2006 17:12:47 GMT
there were two Look and Read(remember Wordy?) shows that scared the shit out of me, one was called The Boy from Space <--click and the other was called Dark Towers <--click scary stuff man.
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Post by polyannapolyfilla on Jan 26, 2006 0:44:33 GMT
ooo, the Look and Read that did me in was 'Through the Dragon's eye', with the melting of the people and the dragon thing called Charn with his craggy hands. I saw a repeat of it a while back and remembered every word of the theme tune (and the one for Geordie Racer, though that was decidedly unscary, unless you're scared of pigeons).
Apparantly the video's for sale on the bbc website for £51. How can I justify buying it?
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Post by puppydogstail on Jan 30, 2006 10:15:07 GMT
I've just revisited Day Of The Triffids and The Tripods thanks to Forbidden Planet. Both still shit your pants scary!
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Post by coxy1979 on Feb 2, 2006 13:35:53 GMT
The Box of Delights used to scare me - have no idea why as I can't even remember what it was about.
Tripods was also terrifying
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Post by bittersweet on Feb 2, 2006 19:48:28 GMT
there were two Look and Read(remember Wordy?) shows that scared the shit out of me, one was called The Boy from Space <--click That programme was scary, gave me nightmares for ages. The Thin Man with grey hair in the overcoat who kept chasing the kids round a quarry was terrifying! Even looking at the picture of him on that link now makes me feel a bit nervy.
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Post by Joel on Feb 12, 2006 0:11:18 GMT
Aww crap, when I was at sixth form, there was this AWESOME Look and Read series with Andrew Sachs (Manuel in Fawlty Towers) in it. I can't remember the name. It was about this whole bunch of evil people, called The Takers, who were going to come from another dimension and take over the world. There were all sorts of twists and betrayals and stuff. If you could ignore the bits when they explained about vowel sounds it was great.
Breakfast Serials was the scariest thing ever though. The Runners and Nice Chap. *shudder*
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Post by raspberry on Mar 2, 2006 13:53:37 GMT
Would you have guessed it, Russell T Davis wrote for Breakfast Serials? I'm now haunted by half memories of Nice Chap - what was it about? I can only recall being scared.
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Post by raspberry on Mar 2, 2006 13:57:51 GMT
I also recal another show where people's hands were stolen. It was meant to be comedy but it was the early 80s and I was too young and terrified to laugh. I actully did watch from behind the sofa.
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Post by raspberry on Mar 2, 2006 17:09:40 GMT
Why does this image scare me?
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Post by smellslikesomeghost on Mar 8, 2006 12:10:23 GMT
There were a series of children's plays on way back in the olden days. One of them involved a missing child and a really scary voice calling wheedleingly (sp?) "Cassie? Caaaa-sss-iiiieee?" which was very creepy. I'm not sure if it was the same one or another, but it culminated in a climb up the stairs to an attic where you could hear before seeing it the creaking back and forth of a rocking chair. As you saw it you noticed there was a nun in the chair which is scary enough, but then she lifted her head and HAD NO FACE!
Scares me even now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2006 17:33:41 GMT
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Post by Bungle on Jun 20, 2006 19:34:07 GMT
Breakfast Serials is one of the most bizarre programmes in the world. It's almost brilliant.
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Jun 24, 2006 19:07:11 GMT
Did anyone see The Eliminator? It was only on a couple of years ago but it freaked me out as a proper grown up person, I shudder to think what it did to kids. The contestants on it (for it was a gameshow) were little kids who had to answer questions and then according to the difficulty of the question they would move forward one, two or three spaces on the gameboard. And behind them was The Eliminator, who looked like an evil space ninja from hell. Aside from his terrifying appearance his inexorable progress along the board was quite disturbing, as was the fact that the kids weren't allowed to look behind them as he advanced. Later they fiddled with the format and made The Eliminator less scary, but also made the set cheerier and this had the perverse effect of making the Eliminator seem a bit scarier again, thus cancelling out any lack of scariness and keeping the whole fucked up nightmare going. www.ukgameshows.com/page/images/f/f0/Eliminator_underwood.jpg (think that's the less scary version)
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Post by Golden Meg on Jul 3, 2006 10:47:59 GMT
Dr Who is the obvious one - although I remember there being a Tom Baker story about evil Stonehenge things that come to life and crush people. That fucked me up more than Daleks.
The Children of Green Knowe was scary as it was about an evil tree!
The Box of Delights had its moments - vicars turning into wolves is pretty subversive for a kid's Xmas drama!
Skeksis... yup. They were naaasty. Did I hear in Big Brother that they're all calling Lea a Skeksi now? lol.
Anyone remember a drama called Maelstrom? It wasn't for kids but I sneaked a few viewing anyway and that scarred me for life.
Hammer House of Horror wasn't for kids either, but I stayed up late once and saw the one about the evil hitchhiker with the long nail. Brrrrr!
Likewise a horror drama called Chimera. About a genetic mutation thing that killed off most of the main characters in the first episode.
I had months of nightmares after V was first shown. I think it was how friendly the visitors seemed compared with what they were really up to.
Triffids I couldn't watch when I was a little'un. Salems Lot I couldn't watch when I was a little'un. Yes, it's pretty amazing I haven't grown up terrified of my own shadow! And I LOVE horror films now. They don't scare me at all.
Is any of this meaning anything to anyone? I can go on. For some reason I remember the things that scared me as a kid more than anything.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 3, 2006 11:45:01 GMT
Fingerbobs. Not the 'Bobs themselves, but the bearded freak who wielded them, waving his cardboardy digits around. He looked like he would use them for sex games afterwards. I used to have nightmares about him. Well, him and the Grinning Face of Noel Edmonds (he was on Swap Shop at the time); basically beards were just a big no with me.
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Post by Golden Meg on Jul 16, 2006 1:53:37 GMT
There was a kids TV show called Dramarama that aired in the early 80's and was basically a different story each week. It usually put the shits up me.
Please tell me if you remember this. I can find literally nothing about it on the internet!
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