What TV show scared the shit out of you?

[Archae]

For me, "Night Gallery." :scared:

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. There were moments in Twin Peaks that got past the shields... Startling!

[The Straight Story]

35. Indeed. I miss twin peaks. Time to pull out the season 1 dvds

:)

[Orrex]

56. Yes!

Cooper's dream sequence, and specifically the way that The Man from Another Place was shown spasming/shuddering with his back to the camera, is about the creepiest thing I've ever seen on tv.

Yikes!

[baby_mouse]

2. Sapphire and Steel.

....wuurrr...

[philosophie_en_rose]

18. That is such a disturbing show.

:scared:

[laylah]

3. Alfred Hitchcock

and Twilight Zone (kinda dating myself, huh?)

[Mojambo]

4. Last year's Doctor Who episode, "Blink"

Those Weeping Angels were ridiculously scary.

[philosophie_en_rose]

19. Don't Blink. Blink and you're dead.

Blink was very scary, but I think the Series 1 episodes with the gas mask zombie kid was even worse.

Are you my mummy?

:scared:

[Mojambo]

31. Oh man. That one was chilling!

That scene in the hospital when they all start sitting up...

Awesome stuff.

[philosophie_en_rose]

39. Almost as scary as the dancing at the end of Series 3.

or the flamboyant acting on Torchwood. :)

[tkmorris]

5. Kolchak: The Night Stalker

I think I was just at that right age ya know?

[TorchTheWitch]

10. Scared the crap out of me but I HAD to watch every episode

I loved that show. Made me sleep with the lights on most of the time, but I was glued to the tv when it was on.

[Archae]

21. Same here.

The one that scared me the most was the monster we never saw, the invisible alien.

[Art_from_Ark]

47. I'll always remember

"Some nut thinks he's a vampire!"

[pokerfan]

6. Twilight Zone

some of them anyway.

[shawmut]

7. Only one show ever scared me - "In Search Of"

Creepiest show ever.

[MorningGlow]

17. That one gave me the willies too

Even though the show was presented in a "dry", documentary way, it was still terrifying. My imagination would launch into overdrive with thoughts of aliens or monsters--I still remember watching it in my living room as a kid--it was on at 6:30 on Saturday night, and there was nothing freakier than watching it alone as night fell--then I'd look up when the show was over and realize I was in the dark. I'd go tearing through the house till I found a parent or two. Yeesh.

Luckily it was neutralized for a while by the next show on: The Muppet Show! :hi:

[Dora]

33. Me too. n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

45. OMG, me too

Leonard Neimoy's (sp?) voice used to scare me as a child.

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. Dark Shadows and the Twilight Zone.

:scared: :) They scared the crap out of me as a kid, but I couldn't stop watching them. :P To this day, I still love them! :D

[TorchTheWitch]

9. Night Gallery and Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Now that I'm older (these shows were on when I was a kid) I'd love to see reruns of them both.

[Rosie1223]

11. The X-Files episode with the inbred family

I still get shivers from that show.

[MorningGlow]

15. Absolutely

I still remember seeing the original airing--DH (when he was BF) and I watched it in the dark. Neither one of us said a word, even after it was over. We just sat there clutching each other, frozen. Then, after the credits were long over, we went "EWWWWWWW."

I heard after that that Fox swore they'd never air it as a rerun, and it wasn't rerun for a long time. Have seen it on Sci-Fi since, though, and it still terrifies.

"Ah'm hungreh!" :scared:

[Fox Mulder]

22. That one was on the SciFi channel the other day.

It creeps me out too.

[SeattleGirl]

37. Aw, man, that was one scary show.

:scared:

[MissMillie]

12. The O'Reilly Factor

:hi:

[Mad_Dem_X]

46. LOL!

Yeah, anything on Faux News.

[Frank Cannon]

13. A single episode of Dragnet

In which Friday and his partner Gannon bust an entire apartment full of pot-smoking hippies. Two of the hippies have a baby girl, and as they're being arrested, the stoned father asks the stoned mother where their daughter is. She thinks for a minute and then remembers that she was giving her a bath. The two detectives run into the bathroom and discover the infant daughter floating face down in the tub, drowned.

That episode gave me nightmares for years. I still haven't gotten over it. It's a major reason why I never got into drugs as I grew up.

[MissMillie]

14. I saw that one

and I don't think I've seen 5 episodes of Dragnet... but I saw that one.

[MorningGlow]

16. Wow, ahead of its time

Beats that same theme in Trainspotting by decades. Impressive.

[Frank Cannon]

20. I never saw Trainspotting

But I keep hearing it's a great movie. I need to put that in the Netflix queue.

I saw this episode of Dragnet when it originally aired, back in 1967 or 1968. It was pretty shocking television, for back then.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. Fuck, it's shocking television NOW. There are things you don't do, not even in fiction. -nt

[MorningGlow]

25. It's quite disturbing

One of those movies you can respect but not love, if you know what I mean. Very visceral and quite ugly most of the time. It sure sticks with you (:scared:). And it has a similar event in it, only due to heroin use.

I'm very surprised that Dragnet tackled that topic in the '60s. That was daring.

[mitchum]

44. That one, the Blueboy episode, and the episode where the shooter was...

inspired by Flaubert's "Saint Julian" are my all time favorite Dragnet episodes.
It stands to reason that Jack Webb would be anti-drug takin' hippies, but I guess he also hated French Lit. Who knew?

[Lyric]

24. Unsolved Mysteries

The theme music from that show can *still* give me the creeps. I loved the show, but it scared me quite often. Robert Stack has a creepy voice, too. :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Me too.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. Me, too.

:hi:

Mainly b/c of Robert Stack's voice.

[MrScorpio]

26. The ONLY soap opera I ever loved: DARK SHADOWS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8b5HIGM-h8

[Dr. Strange]

29. Night Gallery and Dark Shadows were awesome!

I wouldn't say they scared me, though. The only show to give me a serious case of the willies was Lidsville:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOyG9WN9udI

(I love the cowbell in that Dark Shadows tribute video!)

[Broken_Hero]

30. Wife Swap

:hide:

[BurtWorm]

32. When I was a wee lad, Fireball XL5 scared the shit out of me

I couldn't figure out where the border between what those creatures were and what we were was. They looked like people but moved like no people I had ever seen.

:scared:

[mitchum]

34. "Mama's Family"

[BurtWorm]

36. Family Affair, now that you mention it.

[mitchum]

40. That one used to confuse me when I was a wee lad...

"If he's English, why is his name Mr French?"

[BurtWorm]

41. And why was the doll named Miss Beasley?

Didn't the kid know her own doll's first name?

:wtf:

[Art_from_Ark]

48. And which one was "Buffy", and which one was "Jody"?

I've never figured it out :crazy:

[BurtWorm]

51. Yeah!

:wtf:

[MrScorpio]

42. The "Orge" Episode

Oh da horrah

[BurtWorm]

43. Was that when they were lost in Spain?

Or Mexico?

Dumb kids...

[Parche]

38. Scared

:scared: :scared:

[Art_from_Ark]

49. "Circle of Fear", "Ghost Story", and "Night Gallery"

[krispos42]

50. "Incredible Hulk", "Six Million Dollar Man"

In one, the guy turns into a green superstrong monster. Freaked me out.

In the other, it was the sound effect when the guy did something super-human, than made me flee the room.

[VenusRising]

52. "Ghost Story"

There was a rerun of it on when I was about 6, and all the adults in the house were excited it was on. They should have sent me outside to play. The episode was about a little boy that lived with his grandmother, and he had an evil doppleganger that would show up when he was alone. The evil boy threatened to kill the grandmother. I don't remember the ending, but I was afraid to be alone in case my evil self showed up.

:scared:

[jobycom]

53. One Step Beyond--the original twilight zone. It was on afternoon syndicate when I was a kid.

The show ran from 59-61 (thanks, Wiki), before I was born, but during the 70s my local tv station showed it in the afternoons, just as I got home from school. Terrified the Hell out of my poor little timid soul.

Kolchak scared me, but in the good that's-why-we-watch-scary-shit way.

[Orrex]

57. If you're interested

You can actually find random DVD's of that series at "Dollar Stores."

No idea how much of the series is available, though.

[LibDemAlways]

54. When I was a kid I saw the episode of the Twilight Zone

in which an ugly woman has had surgery to make her beautiful and her head is wrapped in bandages. The doctors and nurses attending her are seen only in shadows. At the end the bandages are removed and the woman is, indeed, beautiful, but the operation is termed a failure. Only then are the pig faces of the doctors and nurses revealed. Those faces scared the living crap out of me. I had nightmares.

[alcibiades_mystery]

55. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

OK, I know it's weird. I was a little kid, maybe 7 years old (this was 1980 or thereabouts), and the silly TV show Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was on. Erin Grey's character was blinded by some space ray or other, and she turned around and her eyes were all white, and she was blind. I remember that this terrified the piss out of me. I don't know why, but the idea of losing my vision just hit me right in the gut, maybe for the first time as a child. And I remember being fucked up scared for weeks after that.

[otherlander]

58. KakuRenBo.

I was up late one night watching Adult Swim, and this show came on, and I didn't know what the fuck it was, had never seen it before. That's because it's not a series. There's only one episode, and they were showing it like a movie, but it's only a half hour long.

Creepy.

[Strawman]

59. Mr. Dressup. Casey freaked me out

So did that puppet Madame.