what is scariest memory from tv from your childhood?

Question

mine was spitting image puppets, i loved the show but used to have recurring nightmares that margaret thatcher was in my house trying to kill me

i just remembered the twilight zone music and episode from twilght zone about a gremlin thing on wing of a plane that only one passenger could see and it was ripping bits off the plane

Answer 1

a film called the dead of the night,where a ventriloquists dummy comes to life,& takes over the man.it ends with the dummy walking across the room,& saying ive been waiting for you sylvester,then strangles him.i was only 8 & had nightmares for ages after!!

Answer 2

Mine was also from one of the earliest Twilight Zones. I can still remember it clearly. It was called Where the Woodbine Twineth. A young girl was sent a doll by her Uncle in Africa and she would come to life and murder people. This was when I was about 10 years old. 50 years later I still have an irrational fear of dolls.

Answer 3

There was something called "Weird" on when I was a little kid. Scared the hebbie-gebbies out of me. Gave me nightmares something awful. I don't remember any details of the program, but seems like it was very similar to what was later called "The Twilight Zone."
Nowadays TTZ is pretty laughable, but there was something about Weird... that really scared me.

Answer 4

Day of the Triffids, and the margaret Thatcher doll was really scary towards the end on spitting image

Answer 5

My sister learning to drive!! I was in the back of the car (I was too young to be left alone at home - I would have preferred staying home!! I was like 5 and this was scary!). Bunny hops, yelling between Mum and my sister "Do this!" "I AM!!". Traumatising. I remember I went the once (when she was first driving the manual car) and then she came and picked me up from school once she'd got her license. I didn't want to get into the car :D I was too young to understand that if she got her license she'd have to be good at driving. :)

Oh, and TV-wise, the Count from Seasame Street always freaked me out. I think it was all the thunder and lightning, I'd hide behind the couch :D

Answer 6

I1) Watching "The Exorcist" with my mom. I don't think I slept for a week!
2) Watching "House on Haunted Hill" (the original) with my brother and his girlfriend. We squeezed the stuffing out of him!
3) Watching "The Sentinel" (great 1970's horror movie). Scared me to death.
4) Watching "Psycho" with my friend when we were 12 years old. Didn't take a shower for over a week. LOL. =)

Answer 7

I remember that twilight zone episode, my parents were out and I watched it alone, haunted me for a while! My worst though was a cartoon whose storyline I dont remember, but a bird was trying to save its bleeding partner from dying, and the only way was to sacrifice his own blood for her, so he slammed himself against a rose thorn so by some means the blood would be drawn out of him, and he was in agony and slamming harder and its colour was being drained until it died. I was mortified at the sight and 20 years later I can still remember it.

Answer 8

I know this is weird but there was this kids show in the 70's called "The Banana Splits" where people dressed up in these costumes and had wacky adventures. They totally creeped me out and the gorilla looking one that wore sunglasses always seemed like a child kidnapper or Manson family member.

Answer 9

You've just brought back a memory for me, my son also used to be scared of the spitting image puppets. He was also frightened of the talking model head in Art Attack, anyone remember that? For me, it was the old black and white dracula movies, how pathetic, they are so not scary and i'm also showing my age.

Answer 10

It was an episode of Casualty, I was probably about 5 and I remember that there was a mini bus crash with loads of teenagers in it and it just terrified me. I had bad dreams about it for weeks. Even now 20 yrs later the Casualty theme tune makes my tummy churn.