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Old 22-04-2008, 12:33 AM
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When I was little we had a sofa to hide behind but we didn't have a telly !!

" I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception" Groucho Marx
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Old 22-04-2008, 04:55 AM
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not that it made TV, but Peter Watkins 'the war game' gave me nightmares for 3 days and that was in my early twenties. By the time I got to see it, B&W was waaay out of fashion, but it still rang true. Far better than the US equivalents I felt.

the (original) cybermen and daleks probably rank #1 for most people.

'the ruling classes' and 'if' both had pretty upsetting effect on me. and nosferatu (again, the original not the Klaus Kinski remake, good though it was) was very very chilling.
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Old 22-04-2008, 06:04 AM
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Some foreign thing in the early 60s, 'The Singing, Ringing Tree', some real nasty dwarf dude on it.....................
.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!
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Some foreign thing in the early 60s, 'The Singing, Ringing Tree', some real nasty dwarf dude on it.....................
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Old 22-04-2008, 11:29 AM
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That's the Dude, BATS!

Forgot the bear & the pretty girl though, probably Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Does anyone remember 'Fergus The Fish' from the early 60s? My brother was terrified of it. What a wally, i thought he was cute
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What we may call B-Films of the 1950s - 1960s like the doom of traveling into space
and the effects of bomb tests (THEM) (IT) was very scary to a formulating mind.
One news story at the time that frightened me was the contamination of milk and the grass eaten by cows. (It still does)
'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!
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I remember the public information film on what to do when the bomb goes off and how to protect yourself from the radioactive fallout. I was really small and remembering thinking that the world was going to end. That must of scared the hell out of a lot of kids.

Yeah, me too! Give up now we are all gonna die!

It was terrifying!

I always used to worry about what we would do when the food ran out!!

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...My all time scarey moment is the 'Black Nun' in the rocking chair from Armchair Thriller - 'Quiet As A Nun'. (1977)

No. 2 - Hammer House of Horror (1980): Two Faces Of Evil - the guy with the 'claw' fingernail...

No. 3 - Threads (1983) - because it can happen...

No. 4 - The Omega Factor (1979) - one episode about witchcraft and a missing girl in a haunted house...

No. 5 - Doctor Who (1975): The Ark In Space - this was the first programme I watched at home in colour (!!) well, I was only 5 at the time...
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The Woman In Black ... all of it!
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Quatermass and the Pit! I was about 7 when this was shown and it scared the crap out of me. Didn't stop me watching it but did give me nightmares.
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It's been mentioned before on another thread but the troll and the big fish in The Singing Ringing Tree were between them just about enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.
My brother was deeply upset by Kenneth Williams having his leg cut off in Carry On Jack.
Finally I was terrified of the staring open mouthed alien on the end credits of the original Star Trek.
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Ooops, just saw the troll and fish were already covered. D'oh!
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angela rippon in fishnet tights, on the morecamb and wise show..
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I remember the public information film on what to do when the bomb goes off and how to protect yourself from the radioactive fallout. I was really small and remembering thinking that the world was going to end. That must of scared the hell out of a lot of kids.
I remember as i was 10 years old, my dad sitting me down to watch the World at War episode where they nuke Japan. Cheers Dad!

After that for years if i heard a band in the distance id wonder if somewhere like Manchester or Liverpool had been nuked, and wondered how long it would take the nuclear whirlwind to reach us. (A tense few minutes to say the least)
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