What tv character freaked you out as a kid?

The Crowman · 16-08-2018 5:54am

I used to find the opening sequence of HR Puffinstuff unsettling when the boat changes and the sky goes dark.

salmocab · 16-08-2018 7:35am

I was scared sh1tless of bagpuss

lawred2 · 16-08-2018 7:37am

The banshee from Darby O Gill... Not that I'm of that vintage like..I just watched it as a child

digzy · 16-08-2018 7:39am

Gargamel from the smurfs..... I was scared of any baldys I met as a child!!

punk_one82 · 16-08-2018 7:45am

The witches in Hocus Pocus and when they changed their face shapes in Beetlejuice!

Aceandstuff · 16-08-2018 8:00am

Everyone and everything in Angela Anaconda. That "animation" style is some freaky s#it!

smilerf · 16-08-2018 8:11am

Timmy Mallet ðŸ˜‚

GaGa21 · 16-08-2018 8:51am

Not a character exactly but anyone remember the Kit Kat ad in the 80's with the angel and the devil? When the elevator would open up and he would turn to shout "shaddup" to the screams in the fire pit! Oh my God, I was terrified. Was so afraid of going to hell, it gave me nightmares.
Didn't help that my teacher at the time was a religious nut so our school day was a non stop mass.
Traumatizing really......

16-08-2018 8:56am

The incredible hulk scared the life out of me,i always thought he would jump out of the tele and in to the room ðŸ™ˆ

The Crowman · 16-08-2018 4:19pm

GaGa21 wrote: »

Not a character exactly but anyone remember the Kit Kat ad in the 80's with the angel and the devil? When the elevator would open up and he would turn to shout "shaddup" to the screams in the fire pit! Oh my God, I was terrified. Was so afraid of going to hell, it gave me nightmares.
Didn't help that my teacher at the time was a religious nut so our school day was a non stop mass.
Traumatizing really......

I found it really funny but my nan used to be a bit freaked out by it

BIGT4464 · 16-08-2018 4:20pm

40 Coats

The Crowman · 16-08-2018 4:25pm

These things in Stingray, the main bad guys minions

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the purple tin · 16-08-2018 4:31pm

lawred2 wrote: »

The banshee from Darby O Gill... Not that I'm of that vintage like..I just watched it as a child

Yes and the death coach that came out of the sky. Also when the horse got possessed and his eyes glowed.

Michael Myers gave me nightmares on and off for a few years. I still can't watch Halloween without getting the willies.

George White · 19-08-2018 10:02am

GaGa21 wrote: »

Not a character exactly but anyone remember the Kit Kat ad in the 80's with the angel and the devil? When the elevator would open up and he would turn to shout "shaddup" to the screams in the fire pit! Oh my God, I was terrified. Was so afraid of going to hell, it gave me nightmares.
Didn't help that my teacher at the time was a religious nut so our school day was a non stop mass.
Traumatizing really......

Was that the one with Ken Campbell (British alternative theatre/comedy titan, the annoying flat-capped/cravatted pal of Basil's in Fawlty Towers - The Anniversary), one of a series, I believe, with the Ballina, Mayo-born actor P.G. Stephens (not Quentin Crisp as commonly believed, but the essayer of various Irish types in UK TV, the priest in the Only Fools Miracle of Peckham ep with the leaky roof in the church) as the angel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mQESvoyHjQ

GaGa21 · 19-08-2018 10:38am

George White wrote:

Was that the one with Ken Campbell (British alternative theatre/comedy titan, the annoying flat-capped/cravatted pal of Basil's in Fawlty Towers - The Anniversary), one of a series, I believe, with the Ballina, Mayo-born actor P.G. Stephens (not Quentin Crisp as commonly believed, but the essayer of various Irish types in UK TV, the priest in the Only Fools Miracle of Peckham ep with the leaky roof in the church) as the angel?

Yes, yes it was.
Thanks for the reminder! Not so scary now but terrifying at the time.

The Crowman · 19-08-2018 1:23pm

George White wrote: »

Was that the one with Ken Campbell (British alternative theatre/comedy titan, the annoying flat-capped/cravatted pal of Basil's in Fawlty Towers - The Anniversary), one of a series, I believe, with the Ballina, Mayo-born actor P.G. Stephens (not Quentin Crisp as commonly believed, but the essayer of various Irish types in UK TV, the priest in the Only Fools Miracle of Peckham ep with the leaky roof in the church) as the angel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mQESvoyHjQ

Ken Campbell was also in Derek Jarman's The Tempest. I re-watched Letter to Brezhnev recently for the first time in nearly 30 years and he pops up in a small part as a reporter.

Hangdogroad · 31-03-2021 4:50pm

wakka12 wrote: »

I used to find the plasticine figurines in wallace and gromit and those kind of movies very frightening especially when they smiled

Well you ain't seen nothing yet. Prepare yourself for Lenny Henry's live action Wallace And Grommit sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpX72_Z_bnY

Worztron · 05-04-2021 8:16am

I recall hiding behind the sofa when Bill Bixby as Dr David Banner turned into The Incredible Hulk - the sight of the green fella running towards the camera was terrifying to my young self. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_(1978_TV_series)

smilerf · 05-04-2021 11:11am

Chris Packham

black & white · 28-09-2021 10:53am

The Daleks from late '60's, I was fairly young but used to run and hide when they came on.

Daisy78 · 23-10-2022 4:38am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/107801190#Comment_107801190

This. Couldn’t handle it at all. Also the opening theme to He Man. When he starts yelling about having the power of the universe, or something to that effect. Made me want to hide behind the couch.