Behind the Sofa.......

[Hazel at the Hill]

Dr Who for me too - both the recent Blink with the weeping angels (Carey Mulligan just brilliant!) and from the mid seventies a Tom Baker one with pulsating giant larvae. Will have to go and look that up....

Edit: tell a lie, it was Jon Pertwee and the episode was The Green Death

[Bren In Pots]

Does anyone remember "The Owl Service"? That was scary too.

I can't remember it but I've Just done a search and found it on youTube :-

T|-|E 0 \/\/ |_ SER\/ ICE EPISODE 1 PART 1 - YouTube

Gosh, the opening credits are still just as spooky.

I've watched the 1st episode on youTube but still can't remember seeing it on TV. although the title seems familiar.

[Aberdeenplotter]

anything with Titchmarsh in it

[julesapple]

Alan Garner? Again it was the book for me - I remember tracing the motif in a notebook!

Oh Oh Oh.....The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. It freaked me out as a nine year old and again when I read it thirty years later. And there was another creepy kid's tv series about the stone circle at Avebury - can't remember what it was called.

And Tales of the Unexpected used to send me scurrying sometimes, although I loved the theme music.

[Kirk]

.......What did you watch on tv that made you hide?

Dr Who, Stingray (oh, those evil Mysterons!) and The Tomorrow People. Oh, and Blake's Seven. Scary, scary, stuff!

You were really hiding deep behind the sofa, the Mysterons were Captain Scarlet not Stingray. Troy Tempest fought the sort of evil fish people.

[WilliamD]

'Protect and Survive', the nuclear war drama set around Sheffield. It was banned for years for being so disturbing. Everyone I knew was shell shocked for days after it was finally shown.

[Potstubsdustbins]

You lucky youngsters.

Quatermass and the Pit was scary but by the time William Hartnell cracked off in Dr Who 1963 I was in the pub.

Potty

[veggiechicken]

Same here Potty. Dr Who and Torchwood lose some of their scariness when you've walked in on the film set in the local woods

[julesapple]

You were really hiding deep behind the sofa, the Mysterons were Captain Scarlet not Stingray. Troy Tempest fought the sort of evil fish people.

Oh yes...so it was! In mitigation, I must only have been about 5 or 6. I should remember really because I can still sing Aqua Marina. We used to sing it to my mother, who's much-loathed first name is Marina.

[Hazel at the Hill]

I remember The Changes as being extremely scary - all the electricity was baaaaaaaaad and everyone walked around avoiding pylons!

[Martin H]

My mum delights in telling everyone that I used to hide behind the sofa when Sooty got up to his tricks!

[veggiechicken]

....so did Sweep

[Bill HH]

You lucky youngsters.

Quatermass and the Pit was scary but by the time William Hartnell cracked off in Dr Who 1963 I was in the pub.

Potty

Hahaha me to.

[SarzWix]

Day of the Triffids, Tales of the Unexpected, Alfred Hitchcock...

[SarzWix]

Quite envious of Hazel's personal library!

Books that freaked me out were 'Elidor', another Alan Garner, and 'Brother in the Land' by Robert Swindells, which was another post-nuclear war tale set in Yorkshire. We did it in English so there was no getting away from it. Still pretty horrific reading now.