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This. She was scary as. -
Our class was shown this at primary school, I would have been 6 at the time. I found it pretty scary, especially the guy known as 'Number Two'. It never registered with me when I watched Grange Hill a few years later that Mr Bronson was played by the same actor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Burst
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The devastating Lady Of The Cold episode of The Moomins (the Polish animated adaptation)
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Certainly not children's TV of course, and I've probably said it before but at our school in "Humanities" they'd regularly make us watch films and then write about them. Things started relatively lightly with The Russians Are Coming and then they upped the ante considerably by getting a load of 14 year olds in a darkened room and making us watch....... Threads.Comment
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My most traumatic memory from school holiday mornings is a Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film in which they are trapped in a web and this giant spider is coming for them. Genuinely horrifying for a kid and should really not have been shown as a kids' TV film.
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That thing in the late 60s with the teleporting toadstools that converted people into toadstools themselves.
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Other than Mr Noseybonk, the ghost knight in "Dark Towers" (1981).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QST_Lov3Pq0 (about 14m15 into this video).Comment
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There was an even scarier Tom & Jerry where Tom was sitting on a railway line waiting for a train to come and kill him. Jerry told the story of how Tom'd tried to woo a female, but lost out to a much richer cat, before saying that his own girlfriend was truer. Then Jerry's girlfriend goes past in a car with another mouse and a sign saying "Just Married" on it, so Jerry goes down to join Tom on the railway line to wait for the train. That cartoon upset me.Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
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Yep, remember that one. Another that freaked me out a tad featured a fugitive white mouse that was reported as being a highly combustible robot* (I think?) on a radio news report. This was then re-reported as being a hoax much to the relief of Tom who had previously tried to capture it. Almost inevitably, the thing exploded in his grasp, causing the destruction of the entire city: the action then closed with a further bulletin re-stating the hoax - after which a frazzled Tom emerges from the rubble to announce in a post-apocalyptic monotone 'DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!' That final scene gave me the willies, I don't mind telling you.
Edit: Thanks to GO's link, I found that one also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missing_Mouse
(*It was a radioactive lab rodent, seemingly - which I guess would make more sense given the time.)Last edited by Jah Womble; 28-01-2019, 15:31.Comment
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The driver of the train in The Finishing Line was Don Henderson, who the same year starred in Star Wars as a General in the scenes in the board room with Vader and Tarkin...Comment
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After a lot of Googling trying to remember a show I saw on CBBC when I was about seven with this absolutely horrifying puppet host wearing a gold lame jacket and an Australian accent... I found it:
Fucking hell, it's even worse than I remember.Comment
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So, for me - The Animals Of Farthing Wood. I bet anyone who watched it can still remember the theme tune too.
So much death. Minor characters, leading characters, whole families... But then I suppose it's a journey of refugees and that's kind of what happens. Especially if a shrike thinks you look delicious and wants to impale you on some gorse to eat later.
4pm on the BBC, folks:
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I watched Apaches a few years back and found it hilarious. Then I had a child and it is unwatchable now. So, so sad.Comment
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That Moomins episode is pretty grim for kids stuff,the Lady of the cold reminds me of the Banshee in "Darby O'Gill and the little people ", John Mc Kenzie, director of Apaches, also directed "The Long Good Friday " and a lot of inferior stuff.Comment
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Agreed on the Tall Knight, but offset slightly by the fact that he routs the villains at the end.Originally posted by Crusoe View Post
And no kids TV programme could possibly be as scary as those public information films mentioned previously - kids drowned in disused quarries or being suffocated in old fridges, electrocuted by flying kites into pylons, getting squashed by Ford Cortinas for not looking the right way at a crossing, playing with a sparkler and ending up with their hand wrapped in enough bandages to mummify an elephant - it's a wonder those of us born in the 60s and 70s got any sleep at all after that shit.Last edited by blameless; 30-01-2019, 16:38.Comment
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I've been looking for this since the thread started. I couldn't remember the name. A Rubovian Legend.
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The Herbs
You're rushed into a high walled, enclosed garden where uncaring, cold posh people live.
You just know they're going to turn their backs on you when Sage - the Flying God Of Terror swoops down to look at you with those eyes.
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Jesus, my wee sister loved that show. I had no idea it was like Come and See for primary school bairns.Originally posted by Kevin S View PostSo, for me - The Animals Of Farthing Wood. I bet anyone who watched it can still remember the theme tune too.
So much death. Minor characters, leading characters, whole families... But then I suppose it's a journey of refugees and that's kind of what happens. Especially if a shrike thinks you look delicious and wants to impale you on some gorse to eat later.
4pm on the BBC, folks:
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Good thing Gordon Murray decided not to give his Trumptonshire trilogy characters mouths... or any defined facial features at all for that matter.Originally posted by Capybara View PostI've been looking for this since the thread started. I couldn't remember the name. A Rubovian Legend.
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