Characters that used to scare you as a Child.

The garlics (daleks) and worzel gummage (sp) when he took off his head!

Grotbags scared the living day lights out of me and also the witch of Why don't You! Ugh!

Just thought of another. That TV witch thing out of Willow the wisp (is that what it's called?)

Chorlton and the Wheelies. Even now they scare me silly.

Not so much a character, Roald Dahl's Tale of the Unexpected used to frighten the bejesus out of me. I loved it. The television adaptation of Day of The Triffids too. I would imagine that they are laughably bad if you looked at them now. I'd quite like to see them again.

The Moomins and Big Bird

The Daleks. Silly since I'm such a huge Doctor Who fan, but they terrified me as a child.

The singing ringing tree - still have nightmares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Daleks, The Wombles and E.T

The dungeon master dude from Knightmare (the VR game show). Even when I watch repeats as an adult, it really freaks me out.

I never had a problem with Willo the Whisp as a kid - but it really freaked me out when I watched it as an adult. I had to switch the video off and have never watched it again.

There used to be a horrible skull like alien at the end of the credits for Star Trek - I always made sure I was out of the room by that point!

Oh God, and the programme with the plant where you'd get zapped ino the ether- the Adventure Game? Terrifying.

I was really scared of Margaret Thatcher. I was four in 1979 when she came to power and she scared the bits off me every time she was on telly which was a lot!

Ooh, yes I remember him! My dad used to wind me up and ask if he was my boyfriend, meanwhile I was behind the couch too scared to look haha. Used to scare the bejeebus out of me.

(eta- this was in reply to MaxieMax but I can't quote)

Knownowt are we exactly the same age - exactly WYS - Chorlton and the Wheelies esp Fenella, and that aspidistra type thing from the adventure game

Spring - the tv from willow the wisp was called Evil Edna.

The characters/ tv programme that scared me were dungeons & dragons and the evil thundercats. Both scared me loads!

I can't remember the name of the programme but it was on at lunchtime and people were dressed up as animals - lions, tigers etc. I was terrified and my mum had to take me into the kitchen so my sister could watch it. This was probably 1978/9.

animal crackers?

I had a vague idea it was called that but not 100%. It was my sister's favourite programme and she rushed home from school at lunchtime to watch it. She hated me! ?

That was her Blackkat - yes she was evil indeed!

I used to the frightened to death of the chief witch from the witches (Roald Dahl) - I was convinced that the spinster that lived across the road from mum and dad was one and would sniff me out! ?

Rent-a-ghost weirded me out. Particularly the jester and the 'normal' couple.

The Cybermen in Dr. Who. I don't think I could even look at them now and I am a grandmother.

FAAARRRRKKK!!!! Evil Edna lived in my lampshade!!! Oh, I pretty much pooped myself on a nightly basis at the though of the ariel-based wrath she'd release upon me!

D&G less scary - but I think I had a cartoon crush on that Merlin dood [and let's just forget Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds at this point...].

I used to hate noseybonk from Jigsaw (I think), he was really creepy.

The Wheelies in Return to Oz, they scared the cr@p out of me and I only had to hear the noise when we were watching it to be hiding behind the sofa.

My worst was when I was about 4 or 5 though and it wasn't a character from TV, it was one I'd made up/ imagined. His name was Slagum and I had a bad dream about him, he was kind of a scary hobo/tramp type person who wheedled his way into our house and then grew and grew until he was bigger than the house. I repeated this all to my little brother who then couldn't sleep for about a week - his sleep wasn't great anyway due to epilepsy, so you can imagine my mum really thanked me for that!

Me too.

And the witch in Terrahawks.

And anything on Doctor Who? Which still scares me stupid now, even though I love it.

And um, Tom and Jerry. Oh yes, I was a ridiculously oversensitive child.?

Me too he terrified me!

I also hated Worzel Gummage, he scared me.

I also had a bogeyman living under my bed and the sofa too that would grab my ankles if I put my feet on the floor, it was made worse when we used to have those long power cuts in the 70s when everything was dark and we lived by candlelight!

I LOVED, LOVED , LOVED Worzel Gummage but it freaked me out when he took his head off.

PG Tips monkeys used to scare me - I used to have nightmares about them kidnapping me. That and evil Zelda from Terrahawks and some slug thing from Dr Who (with Colin Baker)

I don't really remember being frightened of anything

i do remember having nightmares after watching 'armchair thriller' on reflection perhaps my mother should have realised this was far from appropriate viewing for an eight year old ?

i've just wiki-ed it...it was animal kwackers, seemingly

in the picture of blue lion is actually quite scary, but i never noticed when i was a child. i loved it when he put glasses on to read the story ?

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