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Top 10 TV Shows That Terrified Us as Kids
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- Top 10 TV Shows That Terrified Us as Kids
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They frightened us then. They still frighten us now. For this list, we're counting down the very best of children's television, but ranking the shows that were most likely to give us nightmares. From "The Chronicles of Narnia" to "The Demon Headmaster", these shows were full of fear factor!
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#10. “Jigsaw” (1979-84)
#9. “Doctor Who” (1963-89, 2005)
#8. “Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons” (1967-68)
#7. “Chocky” (1984-86)
#6. “The Storyteller” (1987-88)
#5. “Knightmare” (1987-94)
#4. “Terrahawks” (1983-86)
#3, #2, #1: ???
So, which one gave you nightmares!!!
Into the Labyrinth
Moomins scared the bejesus out of me
Nosey-bonk. He still can!
Worzel Gummidge. I am 42 now and he still scares me.
WatchMojoUK I would of put trapdoor on here
What about Grizzly tales for gruesome kids, that scared the hell out of me as a kid.
OMG SAMMMES
I remember that show on CITV.
Neil from The Young Ones was the narrater.
Raging Reality I think what people found the most scary was the terrifying stop motion animated host of the show, Uncle Grizzly, who I will admit, creeps me out a bit still to this day.
I would try everything to not watch that show when it came on
Fuck that shit I was traumatized ever since no was 6
I used to be terrified of Mr Blobby.
AJHaeford89 we’re all with you there
Who wasn't!
I don’t think I was terrified of him as a kid but when I saw his encounter with Jack Whitehall, i realised I should have been
I’d actually pity him, having to team up with Jack Whitehall to stay relevant
I don't know why but I thought he was cute and funny because it remind me about the Teletubies and I'm into horror anyway so👋😕👋😎☺
Completely forgot about the demon headmaster! Feel nostalgic and terrified at the same time. ;)
It was seriously terrifying. I mean come on, a 'kids' TV show, really?
michael Longford I always think of the Demon Headmaster when I see Jacob Rees Mog as I think he looks just like the Demon Headmaster
It’s coming back now
Make sure to watch the 2019 reboot. It's on iPlayer and it's really good
The Demon Headmaster looks exactly like Jack Straw.
Who else got scared by those gas masks kids from doctor who
Are you my mummy?
That was my intro episode to the whoniverse
Me!
Oh fuck yes, I'm still terrified.
Na, this is a few years later but I am more scared of the silence.
Knightmare wasn't terrifying . It was cool.
It *was* genuinely tense at times, though, especially with iconic moments like the infamous corridor of blades!
"Take a small sidestep to the left" - proceeds to take a sidestep the size of a small car and then wonders why they just fell off a narrow walkway. Spellcasting M.U.P.P.E.T.S.
It was scary when the life meter peeled back to reveal a skull, and when you tried to work out how the human player was actually interacting with the CGI background.
Good list.Do a top 10 disturbing public information shorts.
Chocky was amazing - great story and effects for the time. I remember my mum loved it too. It was a mature show but I couldn't wait for the next episode - kids love being scared and it has stuck with me. The theme music still gives me the chills when I hear it - hauntingly wonderful.
Yeh i loved chocky,i told a friend couple years ago a little about it,he watched it and said its well advanced for its time back then👍💙💎🕊️
Yeah, I kinda remember having to take a break from watching Doctor Who around series three. When I was little I used to dream of pig people entering my room and turning me into one of them! xD
Are you sure you don't mean the goosebumps episode with the girl turning into a pig because of her greed just a suggestion😎🙂👍
Lauren Jeffery no he means the Pig Slaves from Daleks in Manhatten and Evolution of the Daleks from Doctor Who series 3
You can't talk about scary British kids TV shows without mentioning Worzel Gummidge!
Jim'll Fix It? seriously one the the scariest shows ever put to scene.
For me Children of the Stones, still scary even by today's standards, and who can forget The Tripods?
I always found THE TRIPODS pretty scary
MickeyKnox you mean that old show that was based on or ripped off the war of the worlds by h.g. wells?
MickeyKnox yeah sci fi was way spooky then, also the triffids...
I Loved the Tripods.
Such a shame they never finished the trilogy
How was Captain Scarlet scary as a kid. I've seen it when I was younger, it wasn't scary at all.
Our teachers would play old vhs tapes of The Chronicles on Narnia episodes when they didn't feel like teaching.
Mythic Star we had a teacher that was easily distracted. Kids would ask him about the war, and he would spend the entire lesson, even double lessons, rambling on about guns and battles instead of the lesson in hand. Kids are cruel, they only did it to avoid doing any work and sadly I dont think he realised at the time.
How is Box Of Delights not on this list?!
it was a brilliant series, i still watch it at Christmas and I'm 57!
You could probably add The Box Of Delights.
one of my favourites
Thank you so much for reminding me of this! I had the snowy imagery from the show in my head but couldn’t for the life of me remember the name of it!
The Tomorrow people (1970s) Sapphire and Steel.....
UncleJackOnline - I still don't have a Scooby what Sapphire and Steel was about.
It's very easy. _All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned._
I miss the splendid surreal World and mind fuck sapphire and steel was, 70s sci fi the best...
Definately Sapphire and Steel!
I’m 17 so I’ve never seen any of these except Doctor Who (and Sarah Jane), the only scariest show I remember is Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids on CITV 😂
No mention of Jimll Fix It?
The Demon headmaster is like the Master both with hypnotic powers.
"You will obey me."
Nosey bonk terrified me (alot)
1998's Worst Witch when Miss Hardbroom suddenly appears whenever her pupils talk about her and give them the intimidating look. She looked so scary with pale skin, dark hair in a gun and never really smiles. Yet 2017's version isn’t too far off.
What about "The Tomorrow People"? Or "The Changes"? Or "The Day of the Triffids" mini-series? Those all horrified me growing up.....even over here in Australia!
Windsor Davies is awesome.
I would add: 'The Changes'; 'Children Of The Stones'; 'Dark Season'; 'Timeslip'; 'The Singing, Ringing Tree'; Space: 1999'; 'Baldmoney, Sneezewort, Dodder and Cloudberry'. None bothered my sleep at all, but my kid brother... 🙁
Children of the stones...
Just the intro theme makes this entire list look like a spring picnic.
Mr Vampire watched that recently on here, and ive no idea how they classed that as a kids TV show ! Good adult viewing.
A few years ago I made a pilgrimage in my camper van to Avebury where it was originally filmed, solely because it was ingrained into my mind. The intro was very disturbing for a child, the theme music by Sidney Sager with Ambrosian Singers chanting and the low-angle, looming monoliths filmed with a wide-angle 'fish-eye' lens. soundcloud.com/the-mekon/children-of-the-stones-theme
Sidney with the singers would also go on to do the theme to Into The Labyrinth.
I started watch doctor who when I was 2- both my mum and dad watched it aswell as my older cousins. Whilst they were scared and had nightmares of the Daleks I didn’t really find anything scary about it but it still turned out to be my favourite show. I didn’t find the daleks,cyber men or weeping angels scary but I can admit getting a little bit freaking out at the waters of mars episode and the host from the Christmas special, Also the guy that gets possessed by the beast. I didn’t find Midnight scary until I was older.
For me the most frightening children's show was Grizzly tales for gruesome kids.
Jigsaw is the scariest show on the list
Facts
Scary show but a banger of a theme tune
Jigsaw looks terrifying glad I was born after that
He'll still find you...
Yes, I will
The Cyber men in Dr Who really made me uncomfortable.
Think it was knowing the remains of a tortured person is inside the cyberman suite. So that could happen to me.
The Thin man from "The Boy From Space". Just the thought makes me want to curl up in a ball and return to the mantra of "he's not real, he's not real".
When I was young I was very scared of the Trickster from Sarah Jane adventures and now if I think about him, I get the chills.
sapphire and steel great existential horror, my older sister still can't face it
The Boy From Space gave me nightmares. We were made to watch it at school!
I too watched that in school and really enjoyed it. I wish someone would upload it to youtube.
I also enjoyed Dark Towers.
Look And Read with Wordy had some good stories on it.
Bloodyhell, the boy from space still scares my 40 year old self now. I had actual nightmares about it and my mam went to the school and I was excused from having to watch it, but then I had to sit in the deserted school on my own thinking about it while they were all in assembly watching it.
@@hoggy2much999 The Boy From Space is on DVD released by BFI,you know.
I have seen Stuart Ashens Mr Nosybonk and was surprised to find it not as scary as I expected. However I'm not sure I could say the same for the original which i have only seen in little bits and pieces. Chronicles of Narnia aired here in the US on PBS. The way they did the animals was both fascinating and disturbing.
Pedant alert: there were two Storyteller shows: the first one, in the '80s, had John Hurt doing Grimm Bros. stories, the second one, in the '90s, had Michael Gambon doing Greek myths (Hurt was deformed, Gambon wasn't). They've shown a clip from the second one, with Derek Jacobi being Daedalus.
The school scenes in the demon headmaster were filmed in the school i go to today :)
Oooh cool
There was another segment in Jigsaw I remember, where two people dressed in black with white clay for faces pulled each other's faces apart. It was a bit like that scene in Beetlejuice where the ghosts try to look scary, except it was accidentally terrifying. Also. WATERSHIP DOWN. Oh my god. I guess that's a film though. I can't believe it's rated "U".
I watched an episode where someone was capturing people in televisions screens and then turning them off. I spent years in fear wondering how soon before he got to my house. I mean, sure, I can laugh about it now 😬
children of the stones
Only really needed the opening credits
I'm so glad PBS brought Chronicles of Narnia to the States in the 80s! It was beautiful!
My mum once showed me this one show when I was younger. It was about a sick little girl who imagined a house with a little boy living there. The house was surrounded by these creepy rocks with faces. I remember one part with a radio where a freaky voice started saying “We are coming!” Over and over.
That will be 'Escape Into Night', ITV's adaptation of 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr which was also adapted as the film 'Paperhouse' (one of my favourite films). I've not seen the TV series but understand that it follows the book more closely. I've also heard that it's pretty scary! It's on DVD so I'll have to get hold of it sometime.
Aspectify It was, the whole thing was in black and white and it was all so surreal
'Escape Into Night' and 'Children of the Stone' were obvious contenders for #1 spot and at the very least deserve a mention.
DO TOP 10 HORRIBLE HISTORIES SONGS!!!
We Sell Any Monk
*D A V E*_*T D S*
They do have a video of that now
Another Good Video for a Top 20 to include shows like Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, Terror Towers, 999 & Look & Read: The Boy from Space & Dark Towers.
Jigsaw is the only one that scares me
I wasn’t even alive when some of these were around but I think I’ll have a lot of nightmares
Chorlton and the wheelies mate, Chorlton and the friggin wheelies!
What no Day Of The Triffids? SMH.
I watch that as a kid in the 1980's and it scared the hells out of me.
After being allowed to watch Chucky when I was around 8 I've not really been scared by horror films etc but I think I'm going to have nightmares about Mr Nosey Bonk and those Terrahawk puppets...... WHO THE HELL THOUGHT THESE WERE SUITABLE FOR KIDS?!?!?!?!?
Children of the stones, time slip, the tripods, the tomorrow people all should have been on this list.
4 episodes of Doctor Who scared me, Mobius, Planet of Evil, Pyramid of Mars and Terror of the Zygons
The scariest programme for me was Trapped, I'm too young to have watched these on here 😂
The doctor who monster that scarred me for life were the weeping angels. Blink n they r there😖
*sees Mr NosyBonk* OH DEAR GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?!?!
The stuff of nightmares for all kids growing up in the late 70s! As was the music they played whenever he appeared. lol
@@TheGramophoneGirl I’m glad I never watched his show
@@mudkipforever6754 lol, I wish I hadn't lol. There wasn't a lot on back then and this character was just a small part of some other tv show. I think it was meant to be an entertaining interlude but inadvertently turned into a traumatising nightmare lol.
@@TheGramophoneGirl wasn’t this show from Britain?
@@mudkipforever6754 Yeah it was. When it was being shown back in 1979/81 there were only 3 tv channels. No cable, no satellite and no internet.
I remember watching Elidor but I could never remember what it was called, I can stop driving myself crazy now. Also Round the twist was pretty creepy.
So we gonna ignore how the first 1 said ‘he will watch u sleep and get a knife and knife....knife....’ like-
The Chronicles Of Narnia is good series
When I was a kid, Captain Scarlet didn't scare me, but when watching Thunderbirds, I got scared when The Hood's eyes lit up and that eerie music played - the episode "The Mighty Atom" was especially scary for me as a kid. I used to have to ask my mum to fast forward the tape when that scene was about to play.
Canadain Doctor Who fan 2005-
Chocky was broadcasted once in Spain back in the day and I fucking love it, but I missed the fucking last chapter due a dentist date!
70's tv program Children Of The Stones was frightening.
Noseybonk is awesome 👏
There was one character I remembered from being a very small child. For a long time I thought I'd dreamt him up (literally), but then I found a picture of him online. I crapped myself even at 40.
The most terrifying kids program on uk tv,
The theme started like this...' Your letter was only the start of it...'
The boy from space freaked me out
Jamie the empty child in Doctor Who definitely frightened the figurative pants off me when I saw it as a kid but ive always thought the daleks were positively cute. Jamie was truly pants wettingly terrifying. My brother would then use the phrase "are you my mummy" in his prepubescent boyish voice just to terrify me for laughs. Funny because now, I think the episode is one of the best ive ever seen and the are you my mummy phrase is my ring tone for my brothers texts. Nosy bonk on the other hand OMG holly shit how in hell was that broadcast to thousands of children without at least a few parents writing in to complain that one of its main characters looks like he light murder you in your sleep. That face is straight out of hell and straight into my nightmares. Forget the empty child Jamie, nosy bonk takes the fekin cake for shit the bed terrifying.
What?! No Ratafak Plachta? No Morso? What a shame!
Who on bloody earth thought that jigsaw 👁👃👁 wasent looking Scary ?
IQ 0
I don't ever remember being scared of any of these children's programmes. The only TV that terrified me when a kid were horror films.😱😱
Literally liked this just for Knightmare.
Like a dystopian Crystal Maze, for kids, in PRISON!
The only time Doctor Who scared the crap out of me was "The Pyramids of Mars" where Sutekh was set free with the destruction of the eye of Horus and Scarman's cadaver changes into the evil Osiran
I loathed the TV version of Elidor chiefly because I loved the book so much, and I hated seeing it mucked about with by the TV producers.
"You're in a room!"
Grizzly Tales and certain episodes of the Sarah Jane Adventures (cough Oddbob)
YES, Demon Headmaster is No. 1, as a person who grew up in a time with no Doctor Who as a kid, what I can say about the Demon Headmaster is... THAT was the most terrifying show on telly... Me and my big sister always tuned in during the late 90's to enjoy being creeped out and frightened by the near disturbing qualities of the villain every 90's kid loved to be frightened by.
Two Gerry Anderson shows!!! And they super seed Doctor Who!!! I am a happy man!! You see, this is one of the good reasons why we have a UK version of WatchMojo. The main one would've only counted Doctor Who.
As a kid in the 70s, born May 23rd 1968, nun of them really made me scared,,!! From northern Ireland UK
Yeah actually it's weird how these are all from the same era.
You know what’s the scariest thing about Doctor Who is,it’s not the Daleks or Weeping Angel or even the Master, but Christmas.
Every 1970s PIF EVER????? Anyone?
David Lance - TIMMY!!!!
The Ghost of Lonely Water.
You forgot the singing, ringing tree.
Oh god yes. Creepy as owt!😂
The Demon Headmaster scared the shit out of me. Didn't help that my middle school science teacher looked exactly like him either.
Despite being a Henson fan, his creepier stuff like Storyteller used to freak me out a bit. I like Gerry Anderson stuff as well but have never seen Terrahawks. I'd heard of it but thought it was one of their live action shows like UFO.
Another show which could have been on this list is Dizzy Heights/The House of Gristle. Although I still watched them (being a puppet fan) they were disturbingly ugly puppets.
Mr. NoseyBonk is not scary he’s cool
No Dramarama ? Or The Booktower (anything with Tom Baker in was terrifying !)
I really did not like Nosy Bonk. Dr Who used to frighten me too, especially a story called The Assassin.
This is very good
Umm....I can't see what was terrifying about the Lion, Witch, Wardrobe. I loved it as a child. I found it entirely enchanting. Prince Caspian I found boring. Dawn Treader was the only one that I was a little nervous of, when the sea serpent attacks & twists itself around the ship, with Lucy's screams of horror. But it wasn't all that bad because I remember when watching it, that there were still more episodes left to air, so I knew everything would be ok!
I loved Jim Henson's The Storyteller. The actor shown in the clip with all the devils is the guy who played the warden from the first Jurassic Park who uttered the classic line, "Clever Girl!"
I hated those villains in Terrahawks. Absolutely hideous.
Day of the Triffods terrified me as a kid too and the Incredible Hulk.
About the storyteller actor you’re referring to Bob Peck
Mr. Noseybonk LOL hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I remember Gogs scaring me as a kid. I never really watched it, but seeing snippets of the animation really disturbed me.
3 of my faves in there.....Knightmare, The Chronicles Of Narnia and The Demon Headmaster
I have no memory of Jigsaw
Nosey Bonk, oh lord, stuff of my kid nightmares, the sparse straggle seaweed hair, truncheon nose, Stargazer make up white goth face, and fixed rictus grin, and yes he's still creepy now. I've had two exes (who I didn't like!) who resembled him as well which intensifies the all round ghastly vibe of this creation. Nothing else can come close.
I actually liked the Daleks, I thought they were cute, like huge moving whirling salt and pepper pots.
How's about top 10 scary adverts. I can think of several:
The judderman (mets)
Aids
Charlie says...
The water ad with death
Can't believe they used to advertise AIDS, so irresponsible.
The Tripods, Box of Delights, Moondial, and The Gift did it for me.
I would have put Nosey Bonk near the top and I would replace Naria with The Tripods.
4:57 Hugo Myatt: Ooooohhhhh nasty...