What tv character freaked you out as a kid?

Aysha · 17-06-2009 6:19pm #1

Mine was the witch out of HR Puffinstuff...!

todolist · 17-06-2009 6:24pm

'I Dream of Jeanne' I was freaked out seeing a woman forced into a bottle during the opening credits.:eek:

todolist · 17-06-2009 6:46pm

Nobody else freaked out??????????????

Ruu_Old · 17-06-2009 6:50pm

Supergran terrified me for some reason, I don't know why but I used to run from the room when I heard the theme tune coming on.

trout · 17-06-2009 6:54pm

I still have nightmares about Cleo Laine

Aysha · 17-06-2009 6:56pm

Jeez, cant remember supergran at all. Around what year was it on?

SpodoKamodo · 17-06-2009 7:02pm

Wurzel Gummage. And his girlfriend (At least I think it was his girlfried... some kind of blue doll)

Aysha · 17-06-2009 7:09pm

SpodoKamodo wrote: »

Wurzel Gummage. And his girlfriend (At least I think it was his girlfried... some kind of blue doll)

Aunt Sally!

Baraboo · 17-06-2009 7:10pm

For some reason Tommy Cooper used to really scare me. Guy in a Fez making strange hand signals and talking incomprehensibly.

SuperTyper · 17-06-2009 7:13pm

Has to be the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, still find him creepy:eek:

Burkatron · 17-06-2009 7:27pm

SuperTyper wrote: »

Has to be the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, still find him creepy:eek:

+1 on that!
Also 40 coats freaked me out,still does!
Oh & the McSpuds from Bosco!
Hmm I think thats about it!
Oh the whole Von Trapp family,but that's a different story!

Same As · 17-06-2009 7:29pm

Barney freaked the Sh1t outta me when I was a young fella! All those stories about him assaulting people and stuff really got to me!

Di-di from Dexters Lab also scared me, She reminded me of a Crystal Meth addict from Dublin City centre!

Quite a Harrowing Childhood!

kelle · 17-06-2009 8:18pm

The fox and the snake on Wanderly Wagon
The robots on Dr. Who

Bearhunter · 17-06-2009 11:05pm

SuperTyper wrote: »

Has to be the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, still find him creepy:eek:

+1
It took me years before I could watch that film all the way through. The Whirlygig Witch off Wanderly Wagon was another who scared the sh1te out of me. And there was some crap movie that was on once centuries ago called Winter of the Witch that frightened me for years after. And the faceless nun off that Armchair Thriller thing, Quiet as a Nun.

So mostly old women that scared me then...you can tell I went to the nuns at an early age.

admiralofthefleet · 17-06-2009 11:43pm

grotbags used to scare the life out me.

Aysha · 17-06-2009 11:50pm

SuperTyper wrote: »

Has to be the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, still find him creepy:eek:

Yeah, my husband says as a child, the child catcher scared the sh1t out of him.

hop2it · 18-06-2009 12:00am

all of wondere wagon and worzel gummage remeber they used to take his head off and put it on the compost heap used too frighen the **** out of me:(

admiralofthefleet · 18-06-2009 12:04am

not so much a character but the noise on family fortunes when they got a question wrong, the EEHHH EEEHHH, used to scare the crap out of me, i would run out of the room whenever i heard it. i called it the chicken noise:o

thing is i would love it as a message alert tone now, but cant find it

tk123 · 18-06-2009 2:07pm

Zelda from Terrahawks freaked me out a bit

hairymick · 18-06-2009 2:08pm

The Incredible Hulk used to scare the bejasus out of me as a child.I couldent get past the opening credits where he starts transforming and his eyes turn green.

sillyputty · 18-06-2009 3:56pm

Not a tv character but Action Man Figure with the sliding eyes scared the heck out of me, my brother used to chase me with him saying "look into my eyes MY EYES!! Hahaaha"

humberklog · 18-06-2009 8:40pm

Again not so much a character but the hands that would pop out in shadow form onto the side of the armchair in Armchair Thriller. Thursday nights on ITV.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Up8vQ0cd0

Ash-209 · 19-06-2009 2:11am

the moomins terrified me!! used to leave the room if they came on

rubadub · 19-06-2009 1:44pm

Slugworth in charlie & the chocolate factory

A mate mentioned this recently, don't remember it myself. freaky though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1QyOQDx6w

Sleipnir · 19-06-2009 1:47pm

kelle wrote: »

The fox and the snake on Wanderly Wagon
The robots on Dr. Who

"Sneaky snake" or "neaky nake" as I used to call him.
Scared the piss out of me.

Grotbags too.

Pop's Diner · 19-06-2009 2:44pm

Pob

Lizzykins · 19-06-2009 4:05pm

Definitely the Daleks and the Childcatcher from Chitty chitty bang bang.

deadhead13 · 19-06-2009 5:43pm

"Children of the Stones" the whole series freaked me out.

Firetrap · 19-06-2009 8:22pm

The Incredible Hulk freaked me out big time. The show was on the air when I was about six or seven and it not only scared the bejesus out of me but out of half my class in school as well. I watched an episode of it a few years ago and thought it was harmless stuff. :rolleyes:

Welease · 19-06-2009 8:32pm

Bagpuss

Ruu_Old · 19-06-2009 11:52pm

deadhead13 wrote: »

"Children of the Stones" the whole series freaked me out.

The intro alone was enough!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRaA3Hef9Mw

deadhead13 · 20-06-2009 12:02am

Even in the last scene of the last episode, when you taught every was OK, happy ever after here we come......camera cuts to the stones and you know the weirdness is going to start all over again. They don't make childrens programmes like that anymore..... just aswell.

senape · 20-06-2009 12:07am

moomin, and the icequeen from moomin. Around the twist freaked my out but it was good. Don't know if anyone remembers the elephant vampire short that used to be on TTC.

Oh and the demon headmaster!

admiralofthefleet · 20-06-2009 1:11am

did the stone king in return to oz scare the crap out of anybody else? in fact the whole film was creepy

Firetrap · 20-06-2009 1:20am

Into the Labyrinth was creepy stuff too. Even the HTV ident at the start of the show gave me the shivers (I just got a flashback..good old YouTube)

cashback · 20-06-2009 2:33am

Rafferty the dog from Bosco. 'Grrrrrrrrrrrrrruff!!!'. Used to scare the hell outta me.

WindSock · 20-06-2009 11:40am

Ruu wrote: »

The intro alone was enough!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRaA3Hef9Mw

:eek: Oh My God! What the hell is that? I'm freaked out right now.

Jaws from James Bond used to scare me a lot. I once didn't walk down a road on one of my childhood walkabouts because I saw a painter that resembled him slighly. Pobably just as well though...

I also had an irrational fear of 3 wheeled cleaning vehicles. I used to dive behind the couch whenever I heard one outside.

WindSock · 20-06-2009 11:42am

And This. couldn't sleep for weeks when the video came out.

Trafford Lad · 24-06-2009 12:33am

Chocky used to freak me out. Anyone remember this? I think it was on ITV, some kid used to have this weird oddly shaped spirit thingy appear in the corner of his/her room...weird

jane86 · 24-06-2009 6:06am

Silverthorne from The Girl From Tommorrow!!

I didn't like Mork (Robin Williams)! - Mork and Mindy

Angelo creeped me out.

He use to scare me in this and I hated this film...

WindSock · 24-06-2009 10:25am

Trafford Lad wrote: »

Chocky used to freak me out. Anyone remember this? I think it was on ITV, some kid used to have this weird oddly shaped spirit thingy appear in the corner of his/her room...weird

Yeah, I remember that from when I was about 4/5. Fairly wierd alright. I used to think it was called Chalkey, like chalk dust

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

Pingray · 25-06-2009 1:19am

Bungle off "Rainbow".... Theres always a threat of rabies. OH and Ms Trunchbull in Matilda... For years I was convinced she lived at the end of my road. She was freaky.

Whoze · 25-06-2009 1:26am

Sounds ridiculous, but Miss Hannigan from Annie sent me flying out of the room...

Also I was terrified of Free Willy...I dont know why

I hadn't seen the film Oliver till I was about 15 because I was terrified of Fagan!

Return to Oz really was the most traumatising (kids?) film of all time, the Wheelers still terrify me! And the queen that changed her head in the room full of heads?! WTF?

rednik · 25-06-2009 1:33am

Ming the merciless from the ancient Flash Gordon series which was shown on Sat mornings. He was a right ba*tard. Mind you the spacecraft weren't the best.:P

stovelid · 25-06-2009 9:39am

That camp jester on RentaGhost:

Wordy in Look and Read:

WindSock · 25-06-2009 3:49pm

Whoze wrote: »

Also I was terrified of Free Willy...I dont know why

Maybe you'd prefer to pay for it :P

Return to Oz really was the most traumatising (kids?) film of all time, the Wheelers still terrify me! And the queen that changed her head in the room full of heads?! WTF?

Yeah that's a fairly dark movie alright.

irish1967 · 03-07-2009 8:36am

Hmm.. would have to be those black gorilla soldiers in Planet of the Apes. The brown and ginger monkies were fine but them black gorilla guyz scared the bejaysus outta me !:eek:

120_Minutes · 06-07-2009 1:48am

i'd run screaming from the room when the incredible hulk started....

someone else mentioned tommy cooper, i actually witnessed his death onstage...live tv folks, you never know.......

jayteecork · 06-07-2009 1:52am

The evil Baron from Tim Tyler.

Klim · 06-07-2009 1:59am

Fecking Bosco, I swear. Always thought he/she was just too over friendly in a creepy way. Whats behind the magic door? Find out for yourself and leave me alone.

we'llallhavetea_old · 06-07-2009 2:10am

The trap door, the theme tune made me uncomfortable. And of course wurzel was terrifying. Didn't really appreciate the thunder noise at the start of count duckula or whatever he was called!

What tv character freaked you out as a kid?

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