People on TV who frightened you as a child

[Stumpy Pepys]

Peter Woods (the newsreader)

[Sporting]

Not a person as such but the threat that the farmer would come back early and discover that Bill and Ben were alive.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Ken Dodd and the Diddymen.

Mainly the Diddymen:

[pebblethefish]

The earliest nightmare I can remember was about the Great Elk from a Littlenose story on Jackanory.

And I wouldn't say frightened as such, but Gladys off Hi-de-hi used to really freak me out.

[ad hoc]

The bloke who got rabies on Z-Cars

[tracteurgarcon]

Noseybonk. Even now, 30+ years later, photos of him freak me out.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Rod Hull. I liked Emu but he was as creepy as fuck.

[3 Colours Red]

I've mentioned this before but whatever: Archie the skeleton from the Scotch video cassette adverts.

[ursus arctos]

Barry Goldwater

[Snake Plissken]

Worzel Gummidge

[Toby Gymshorts]

Noseybonk. Even now, 30+ years later, photos of him freak me out.

Every word of this. The music was bad enough.

[San Bernardhinault]

Worzel Gummidge

Yes! Yes, yes, yes! I had to change channels or leave the room if Gummidge came on.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Peter Woods has got some stiff opposition.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Ian Paisley

[elguapo4]

For some reason when Mr Magoo looked into the double O's of his name in the starting credits and his eyes got big,it freaked me out, I didn't like Alfred Hitchcock on "Alfred Hitchcock presents " either.

[blameless]

The Tall Knight from Dark Towers.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Jimmy saville. I saw jim'll fix it when i was about 9 and he got a child a flight in a spitfire, and my abiding memory was "What the fuck is that and how is he on television."

[Billy Casper]

Sage the owl.

[tee rex]

Patrick Moore.

Hector (of the House).

[Guy Profumo]

I've said this before

The kite from Pinky and Perky

[tee rex]

The man who appeared suddenly in "Mr Benn". What was his deal? Where was he going to jump out at you next?

[Sean of the Shed]

Hartley Hare. Motherfucker was made from re-inflated roadkill.

[irony towers]

It was the end-credit music for Pipkins that spooked me.

And Bungle Bear off of that Rainbow.

[Sean of the Shed]

There's been a fair few different Bungles over the course of Rainbow's history.
The early one is a proper fucking horror show

[3 Colours Red]

You might want to put a spoiler warning on that one, Sean. And I definitely want a change of boxer shorts.