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     Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.240.155.122 |
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6pg9lLi_I60 When I was young I watched this show with a mixture of fascination and unease. Coming back to it years later, it seems that I wasn't far off the mark, with people getting lost inside paintings, disembodied hands writing messages begging for help on dirty windows, and children disappearing in broad daylight. Does anyone else have any favourite shows of their youth that might have set them down the path of the dark? "What does 'presumed dead' mean?" Jeepers! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.67 |
Four words: Land. Of. The. Lost. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.101.224 |
I used to get scared of Looby Loo off Andy Pandy (fuck! How old am I?!?), how she came to life when no-one was there and sang an eerie song. And Woodentops, the atmosphere of that show (an influence on Ligotti, I imagine). Those are the earliest. And it goes without saying that Doctor Who was one, too. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.22.92 |
Me 'twas books did me in. Reading adult science fiction at the age of ten, discovering some truly dark stuff by Matheson, Bradbury, Russell, Sheckley, Wyndham . . . and finally Lovecraft. I fondly recall tv shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and (especially) the German series Raumschiff Orion, which had truly scary aliens in them, called the Frogs. They looked like a shifting congeries of bubbles with a vaguely humaoid shape. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.101.224 |
Singing Ringing Tree! That also did it, big time. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.124.44 |
I've got a copy of The Singing Ringing Tree, Tony. I asked my husband to buy it for my birthday a couple of years ago - I absolutely love it. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.101.224 |
It's so eerie. That fish used to frighten me, sweet though he was, and it's death (I think) was strangley blunt and lonely and unacknowledged. And you know what also creeped me? The narrator talking over the foreign voices. For some reason that sound gives me the heebies. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.124.44 |
It is a wonderful piece of work Tony - I must get the DVD out again for Heather. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.40 |
For me, it was the Three Investigators books by Robert Arthur, in my local library. Because Alfred Hitchcock featured in them, I moved onto the numerous Alfred Hitchcock anthologies that were abundant at the time. It was there that I discovered my love of dark literature. On a television front, my parents were frankly irresponsible; they allowed me to watch absolutely anything as long as it didn't give me sleepless nights. Consequently I had to control my terrors (or repress them). Maybe that's why I love horror so much. I have great memories of watching the Salems Lot miniseries in the early 80s. The opening credits to Armchair Thriller terrified me, as did the public service adverts from that era ("I'll be back!...."), etc | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.176.196 |
I remember The Woodentops and Andy Pandy, Tony! The earliest programme I remember watching as a child was Pogles' Wood (I still remember the characters Pippin and Tog). I must've been two or three then. Others are springing to mind now: The Herbs, Trumpton, Camberwick Green, The Clangers, The Magic Roundabout, Noddy... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Of course books, too many to name, but as for TV, probably Sapphire and Steele and The Tomorrow people. But ultimately it would have to be The Twilight Zone and The Prisoner. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Shows as distinct from books - Journey into Space on the radio deeply unnerved me. Funnily enough, David Pirie reminded me of it just last week. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Unfortnately, I was born too late to even grab a hold of any passing Golden Age radio show. Shame. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Tales of the Unexpected. Twilight Zone. The Boy From Space. The Martian Chronicles. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Shadows. The Lost Islands. The Tomorrow People. Children of the Stones. Quatermass (repeats, obviously, and the John Mills one). Sapphire and Steel. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MnfZVk7sdk8 No one ever remembers it, but it made a huge impact on me... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Even just hearing the theme music from Tales of the Unexpected creeps me in that delightful way you guys know all too well. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Oh, Hammer House of Horror. Bloody loved it. Genuinely scared the pants off me. And to add to Prof's choice of The Martian Chronicles, that also frightened the crap out of me. |