Television Affair Episode 12: TV that freaked us out

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  • @jonkasonic
    @jonkasonic  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just came across this th-cam.com/video/mtRjp51B1G0/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ITVSocialPurpose got a bit of a creepy vibe

  • @FernandsLiveShowShow
    @FernandsLiveShowShow 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    THIS was a great episode. Many a nodded head to scary moments I agreed with, namely World In Action which now as an adult is actually addicting to watch, the ominous nature of needing to unplug your TV after closedown, and of course the well known and loved BBC corporate logo (25:52). That one especially was wayyy too sombre and dark for us kids 😅
    One I'm very surprised isn't here, the 1988-93 BBC 9 O'clock News titles! The dramatic thundering of drums and horns with the stylised aerial looking like it was getting electrocuted - especially ESPECIALLY if someone has turned up the volume too loud? Maaaaan. Bedtime for me!
    Never seen the one at 25:12 before, but bloody hell that one's scary ain't it 😶

  • @paulstables187
    @paulstables187 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The music from the ident/logo from the BBC home video releases in the late 80's/early 90's used to scare me as a kid. It was just really sombre for a kid just trying to watch Postman Pat.

    • @skootergirl22
      @skootergirl22 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It didn't creep me out it gave me nostalgia

  • @JoJoWhizzKid123
    @JoJoWhizzKid123 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Fun fact: The Video Collection would later go on to be renamed as VCI in 1995, with a logo that has animation that still holds up well today, but of which also was considered scary to several people.
    Although if you're looking for a truly scary VHS company opening logo, the 1987 one for Castle Vision is another notable example.

  • @SushiSunshine2000
    @SushiSunshine2000 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was scared of the Thanes Television ident when I was a kid. The "skyline" ident resembled a horrible monster with a cheshire cat grin that spelled "THAMES", and the theme tune... the "BOM BOM BOM BOM" gave me an unsettling feeling as if it was saying "I'm coming to get you" and the other part sounded like an villainous laugh.

  • @TARDIS9
    @TARDIS9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    4:10 That reminds me of when the first ever Captain Scarlet episode aired on April 29, 1967. It was done as a late-night test transmission by ATV Midlands (formerly part of ITV) in the London area, before being publicly broadcast on September 29 that same year. You can imagine how someone would feel hearing ‘the voice of the Mysterons’ so late at night before the show became a thing!

    • @jonkasonic
      @jonkasonic  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow that must have been as scary as heck

  • @rtc9063
    @rtc9063 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Don’t even get me started about Bravo! I loved that channel when it finally arrived on Astra 1C and it had such a loyal following. And then on one Sunday night it changed the logo and all the cult shows dropped. They should have given the relaunch a new name. I think the only I watched on was Alias! No tears shed when it finally switched off

  • @renbymon
    @renbymon ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Watching this and when I got to the BBC Video logo I thought "Oh shit that logo for 'The Video Collection' kinda freaked me out" then minutes later I discovered that I wasn't the only one, lol

    • @SweetStevieAaron
      @SweetStevieAaron ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it was the total silence followed by that.

    • @TheGerkuman
      @TheGerkuman ปีที่แล้ว

      I wasn't scared of it, but it is very nostalgic.

  • @HarenchiFairy
    @HarenchiFairy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Channel 4 Terrified Me, nothing to do with Martin Lambie-Nairn, because of David "Bloody" Dundas

    • @jonkasonic
      @jonkasonic  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yeah hehe. I wonder if these days that TV idents are made to not scare the freak out of people

    • @HarenchiFairy
      @HarenchiFairy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      BRAVO 1997 idents Scared when i was a Kid, and i feel Paranoid and Traumatized, and i gonna puke like watching Blood and Gore films

  • @childofnature4402
    @childofnature4402 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Technical faults always freaked me out a little as a kid, especially when they played music for some reason. Ceefax and Teletext were similar. I'm not really sure why. Oh and the BBC ident on VHS tapes in the early 90's. DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN!

    • @TimmyTickle
      @TimmyTickle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      “BBC, has killed your, mum and dad…”

  • @marcuslavaggi-bowen6539
    @marcuslavaggi-bowen6539 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    World in Action was scary, but Equinox on Channel 4 made me jump behind the sofa with that voice!😆

  • @BenceVass11
    @BenceVass11 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The RTL Klub Hungary logo from the early 2000-s. Especially the first startup ident with a spaceship dropping an egg which breaks midair and the red-white-green (the biggest color was red) logo jumping out and freezing for 1 minute.

  • @davidprice5563
    @davidprice5563 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The starting intro of Jamie and the magic torch cartoon always freaked me out a little.

    • @jonkasonic
      @jonkasonic  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it was strangely scary at the start. I think your expecting a PIF and... no it's cartoon. Sigh of relief

  • @SRlikethetoothpaste
    @SRlikethetoothpaste ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the things I enjoy the most about these videos is the sound. Something about the combination of brightness / energy / slight muffledness is reminiscent of, at least to my mind, the a voiceover that you might of heard on Channel 5, circa 2000. Just the right amount of enthusiasm. Excellent work as always.

  • @albertobellido95
    @albertobellido95 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There was a sketch on Spitting Image (series 3, I think) where Thatcher turns into the title character in Alien and attacks a scientist. I’m 23 and I still can’t watch it.

    • @FlyingHeadbutt100
      @FlyingHeadbutt100 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was about 12 when that went out. Properly scary, I have the DVD set now and it hasn't lost it's impact

  • @skootergirl22
    @skootergirl22 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those VHS animations dont even creep me out they just gave me nostalgic

  • @SweetStevieAaron
    @SweetStevieAaron ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Reminds me of some kind of PIF that was on before Ghostbusters when we first rented it, so this’ll have been 85 or something, and there was this video recorder on fire and I thought it was a Gremlins trailer or something and I was afraid to see that (which is funny cos we eventually got that on pirate and I loved it). Never seen it since but it may have been advertising video piracy or something, which would have been ironic I guess.

  • @andrewglw12345
    @andrewglw12345 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Major Protect & Survive vibes from the World in Action title music

  • @robmortimer4150
    @robmortimer4150 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So glad for the jump scare on the one I suggested! Yes it was the horse bloke, I’m guessing it was because it felt so different and eerie compared to Central that I usually watched!

  • @Chris_Elliot84
    @Chris_Elliot84 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To answer your question, I watched Round The Bend back in the day, and whilst the puppets did freak me out a little (but nowhere near as much as the Spitting Image puppets) I loved the show

  • @Jiren261
    @Jiren261 ปีที่แล้ว

    Christ alive you are a god send, That allsorts theme has been stuck in my head for YEARS and I could never remember what it was from until this video.
    Thank you
    One ad that used to freak me out was the drugs ad where the guy gets arrested abroad and it ends with him in prison with his head shaved.

  • @Acidonia150reborn
    @Acidonia150reborn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was ill at Home on a school day one day and watching BBC schools watching though the Dragons Eye and it got a Techical Error right at a Scene with a Skeleton Bird Wizard fighting a Dragon when he shot a lighting bolt. By time it fixed it self the episode was almost at the end.Though I saw the Episode oin School like a year later at least. But for a while i thought i imagined it ever happening.

  • @SweetStevieAaron
    @SweetStevieAaron ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can’t believe you got through all that with no mention of Mr Noseybonk!

    • @TheGerkuman
      @TheGerkuman ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's before our time though! (Johnny being Elder millenial, me being mid millenial and I think most of the viewers being either of our generation or early Gen Z-ers.)

    • @SweetStevieAaron
      @SweetStevieAaron ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheGerkuman, aye, that’s true. I JUST remember…

  • @pugwall316
    @pugwall316 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lots of memories here! Bad and good! I’ve subscribed! ❤

  • @sg-zd8eb
    @sg-zd8eb ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Always watched Popeye on CBBC but don’t remember the incident at all.

  • @heartofglass693
    @heartofglass693 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    some of the road safety adverts that were shown in the uk scared me as a child but there was one in particular that itv 2 used to show just before gmtv kids of a morning and that was the story about the aliens as a child waiting for gmtv kids at 5.55 am it used to scare me badly

  • @andrewvincent1828
    @andrewvincent1828 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For me it was the intro to equinox on channel 4 that shit me up as a kid, still scares me now tbh

  • @Tomsonic41
    @Tomsonic41 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was never really scared of anything in this video when I was a kid. What did scare me is when Channel 4 had an American Football version of their ident, with the 4 turning into a football player and grunting (with steam coming out of the helmet). The BBC Video ident I remember is that one with a big star in the middle and coloured bars forming up the logo while a synth fanfare plays; supposedly that scared quite a few kids.
    I was scared of some of the cheap CG effects in kids shows like Knightmare though - looking at them today, they look so primitive!

  • @ReidBlakley
    @ReidBlakley ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have my own personal example of this from when I was a kid, watching the Detroit feed of PBS in Regina, Canada sometime in ‘98 or ‘99, copied verbatim from when I commented under a Blameitonjorge vid two years ago:
    When I was around 5, I watched a lot of PBS and Teletubbies was a popular show, and there was some live event called “Teletubby play day” that the network was hyping up for what seemed like weeks. One day they just broadcast a still graphic of Dipsy or LaLa for a few seconds, with no music bed, and a deep male voice-over said “Teletubby Play Day has been cancelled” in a very firm tone. I didn’t expect to go to it and it was the fucking *Teletubbies*, but it was quite frightening the way they did it. I think it changed me.

    • @TimmyTickle
      @TimmyTickle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I remember you commented this on Jorge’s Joanna Lopez video

  • @zetametallic
    @zetametallic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Im not alone in my fear of the 1970's Open University symbol as a child then! Also the Channel 4 weather music from the late 80's early 90's was creepy. Im into TV DX so as i child I'd get spooked when tuning to see what i could pick up and BOOM! a random distorted foreign test card is rapidly fading in and out with a buzz on the sound.

  • @Chris_Elliot84
    @Chris_Elliot84 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When I was watching initially, at 7:04 it started buffering and wouldn't stop, until I realised it was a network error I'd wondered if this was some kind of meta joke about the programme stopping abruptly and you'd done something to the video to make it stop at that point

    • @jonkasonic
      @jonkasonic  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The universe has its way of messing around :P

  • @steeviebops
    @steeviebops ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm the same age as yourself and I always found the All Clued Up game show music a bit unsettling, especially the bit when a round is won. I recall having a nightmare of it when I was about 6 or 7! Also, home video production music always had something uneasy about it. The Video Collection was one of them, as you showed. I also had an Irish copy of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it had a Jim Henson Home Video advert at the end of it with a caption hastily super-imposed over it "NOT AVAILABLE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND", which combined with the music certainly made me feel uneasy. Another one I had was the Abbey Home Entertainment/Tempo Video one. And, no joke, while I looked that one up on TH-cam to see how I felt about it now, my doorbell rang and that scared the absolute crap out of me!

  • @marcuslavaggi-bowen6539
    @marcuslavaggi-bowen6539 ปีที่แล้ว

    Round the Bend was fantastic, especially Vincent's awful jokes!

  • @boabdownunder
    @boabdownunder ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You missed the scariest thing on TV , the mid 90s Equinox intro!

  • @carlpollington5059
    @carlpollington5059 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Probably already in these comments, but just in case:
    1) Agree with the BBC Video logo - both the 1980s synth-overdose sounds in trippy neons and the 1990 version with the ominous build up with bongos and a flattened CGI globe in your video.
    2) the Hot Spot in Strike it Lucky

  • @trackerjohn
    @trackerjohn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember being terrified of the Thames Video Collection logo that was on the front of DangerMouse. The synth mixed in with the unsettling minor chord.
    One other ident that terrified me was the generic Central Cake. My dad got a new colour TV. He muted it for some reason at the end of Blockbusters but then unmuted it when the ident came on. Scared the hell out of me.

    • @jonkasonic
      @jonkasonic  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Thames video one... I think it may have been on a sooty video I had. I remember it being quite blaring, like Yorkshire TV but on a keyboard, and like its asking you a question like it isn’t sure.
      I used to love central's cake because of the rainbow colours and being 4 or something. I quite liked the egg/moon/babybell central, and I preferred the music over late 80s version

  • @sound.and.vision94
    @sound.and.vision94 ปีที่แล้ว

    if you ever do another one of these; for me it's gotta be the opening ident/logo for Tempo Pre-School... creepy ass jack in the box

  • @Boxuga
    @Boxuga 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hey jonkasonic, 10:47 rage actually still broadcasts on ABC3 rebrand called ABC me which I believe happened around 2016 I'm not sure. but it broadcasts for the last program before sign off on ABC me. it also used to broadcast on ABC TV (or ABC 1) according to Wikipedia it has been broadcasting since 1987. I remember when I was younger I would watch rage in the morning because they used to air around 6am awst on ABC analogue broadcast but they ended that in 2013. I say that would be around 2011-2012. because I do remember the commercial channels broadcasting alot of get digital ready ads. but also good video :)

  • @97channel
    @97channel ปีที่แล้ว

    - The intro to Telly Addicts. Haunting nuclear fallout sound effect, freaky caricatures of celebs, a possessed TV. It's all there.
    = Blockbusters, when someone lost a Gold Run. The sad jingle was ghostly.
    - Bullseye, when Bully ejects from the coach in the opening sequence. His evil eyes as he flies right at you.
    - Fresh Fields. Old 80' sitcom. Just the very words Fresh Fields are menacing.
    - The Wind In The Willows. That whole cartoon was possessed by an unsettling spirit.
    - Terry's Chocolate Orange advert. A frightening old man searching for his wife's stashed chocolate orange discovers hell, literal hell, located behind a cupboard in his living room. If you don't know of it, you really need to see for yourself just how nightmarish that advert truly was. It traumatised little me.

  • @DonJohnsonTN
    @DonJohnsonTN ปีที่แล้ว

    I was terrified as a kid of the 80's HBO logo where the giant "HBO" came towards you out of space

  • @lucymorrison
    @lucymorrison ปีที่แล้ว +1

    holy shit i got my own power hour lmaooo

  • @skootergirl22
    @skootergirl22 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No one made a creepy pasta of these indents is surprising

  • @samhaine6804
    @samhaine6804 ปีที่แล้ว

    there used to be an advert on british tv around 2005 of a woman in an office looking worriedly at a ringing telephone and theres like a sinister beeping sound getting closer and closer and then white text on a black background saying DEADLINE. i think it was actually just something about taxes but i found it so scary as a kid. anyone remember it?

  • @nathanforester5993
    @nathanforester5993 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can understand the fear of those Spiting Image puppets considering they are based on caricatures.

  • @TimmyTickle
    @TimmyTickle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Crimewatch - I know some people found the reconstructions scary, but not me.
    What creeped me out was when they showed the phone number underneath a mugshot or E-fit… if they showed one or the other separately I didn’t mind, but when they did it together…

  • @Redrally
    @Redrally ปีที่แล้ว

    The Welephant ads were just funny XD

  • @TheNorthenSquirrel
    @TheNorthenSquirrel ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, I grew up in the late 1980’s and some of these clips were a blast from the past, not least the 28:25 ‘The video Collection’ always hated it as I was hoping there was one more program on the video but really scared me was a TV program about missing persons called ‘missing’ the music would give me nightmares… but can find no trace of this early 1990’s program? Was hoping it would be on this video?

  • @castle6742
    @castle6742 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    tots TV puppets we're pretty terrifying as well 🤣😱😱😆

  • @tsimeone
    @tsimeone ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved the TSW ident.

  • @Andygoz
    @Andygoz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bulbasaur 😂

  • @ChrisHack150380
    @ChrisHack150380 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best episode yet!

  • @townsjim
    @townsjim 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The "in the summertime" UK anti drink-driving advert from the 90s is very scary, it's on youtube watch with caution if you are of a nervous disposition.

    • @skootergirl22
      @skootergirl22 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wasn't it meant to scare you?

  • @LoveLondon-ue4gg
    @LoveLondon-ue4gg 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That’s grimace 19:38

  • @TheGerkuman
    @TheGerkuman ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I didn't make the organ version of the BBC video theme that the viewer remembered, but I did make the version you used for this video! (As part of Adam Martyn's newer 'Video Scaries' theme)

    • @jonkasonic
      @jonkasonic  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah that will be my bad tbh, I found a compilation in a CBA moment and went through and got the most interesting one :P But I recognised it from amtv :)

    • @TheGerkuman
      @TheGerkuman ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jonkasonic I am not offended, I am happy it was used :) A pinned comment with a thanks wouldn't go amiss.

    • @jonkasonic
      @jonkasonic  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @TheGerkuman well of course, thank you, I really like the audio, sounds the thing you'd expect in the early 1990s

  • @centureye
    @centureye 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What about the tyeme from Yhe picture box for a show that eas aimed schools and colleges the music was creepy

    • @jonkasonic
      @jonkasonic  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm going to do a follow up at some point so I might give it a mention :)

  • @SweetStevieAaron
    @SweetStevieAaron ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So you’ve got me reading about Allsorts again (on Wikipedia) and though I felt I was too old for it by the time the box showed up (thank goodness), I found out this weird tidbit on Wiki… “Wayne and Andrew were originally joined by Vivienne Mckone as 'Natty' and Virginia Radcliffe as 'Spike The Dog'. Natty and Spike were later dropped from the cast and were replaced by Virginia, played by Virginia Radcliffe (who originally portrayed Spike The Dog).”
    So Virginia became a real human being but that just wasn’t good enough was it?!

  • @rtc9063
    @rtc9063 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Video Collection - the beginning of the end for Betamax

  • @SAMwise-ps6zo
    @SAMwise-ps6zo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    😮 i thought i was the only one who thought the 90s open university music reminded me of the dreamcast start up music

  • @danps7167
    @danps7167 ปีที่แล้ว

    So Elaine Stritch messed up her lines and the whole show was stopped. wow

  • @PhilipMurphy8Extra
    @PhilipMurphy8Extra ปีที่แล้ว

    Nowadays anything goes wrong with a live TV show, Fault silde or showing a pre recorded other programme.

  • @j0hnf_uk
    @j0hnf_uk ปีที่แล้ว

    You think this lots scary, try looking up, (or is it listening up?), some of the old interval signals from radio of the past. Imagine having an older brother who you share your bedroom with, who left his radio on when going to sleep, only to be woken up at about 2am by hearing this eerie sound, repeated over and over again, for what seemed like ages.
    Radio Tirana (old), Radio Sweden and Deutsche Welle are 3 examples. Listening to them now still causes my hair to stand on end and get a lump in my throat.

  • @SkunkMantraTechnoSkunk
    @SkunkMantraTechnoSkunk ปีที่แล้ว

    i hated the Sinotab Advert from the 80s early 90s with a Skull on the screen.

  • @CJJC
    @CJJC ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ll look silly if this is already in the video but just in case - one word: Sinutab

    • @jonkasonic
      @jonkasonic  ปีที่แล้ว

      It's not in the video... but a couple of people have mentioned sinutab. I will be doing a follow-up video :)

    • @CJJC
      @CJJC ปีที่แล้ว

      SINUTAB

  • @equinoxx
    @equinoxx ปีที่แล้ว

    Far too many ads during this thirty minute video!

  • @lucymorrison
    @lucymorrison ปีที่แล้ว

    new upload
    day made

  • @rtc9063
    @rtc9063 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The worst video logo had to be The Thames Video Collection - utter ****

  • @JRD-u2u
    @JRD-u2u 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    100th