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Title: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on December 22, 2010, 03:09:18 AM
For me, it will always be the eerie McCloud episode Someones Out To Get Jenny where a heiress is almost driven mad by visions of her supposedly deceased boyfriend. There is one scene in that episode that nearly drove me buggers: the whole day, she's been hearing her boyfriend whispering "Jennnnnyyyyyyyyy...." to her and she tries to find refuge from the madness in her apartment.

The voice continues calling her name even in her apartment and as she stares in horror, the lifesize, faceless portrait of her boyfriend that she has painted on the wall comes to life, calling "Jennnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyy........."  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Jack on December 22, 2010, 07:59:22 AM
The "Force of Life" episode of Space 1999.  I swear it gave me nightmares when I was a little kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk9YyX3L3MY


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on December 22, 2010, 08:09:33 AM
The "Force of Life" episode of Space 1999.  I swear it gave me nightmares when I was a little kid.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk9YyX3L3MY[/url]


I don't remember that episode but Wikipedia states that it was aired on 11 September for the first time: my birthday.  :smile:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Hammock Rider on December 22, 2010, 12:43:35 PM
When I was really young this scene from The Brady Bunch really freaked me out. Not when I was watching it but later when I was thinking about it in bed. Something about Marica's ghostly "I must get out, I must have air!" really rattled my tiny tot brain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKK6WSeILw&feature=related


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Jack on December 22, 2010, 01:12:55 PM
I don't remember that episode but Wikipedia states that it was aired on 11 September for the first time: my birthday.  :smile:

LOL, my wedding anniversary too  :teddyr:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: The Burgomaster on December 23, 2010, 11:38:26 AM
The "Green Fingers" episode of NIGHT GALLERY was pretty creepy.  Actually, the NIGHT GALLERY intro was pretty creepy, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9pToHSFdwk


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on December 23, 2010, 02:14:42 PM
The finel episode of seaone one of Lost In Space entitled, "Follow The Leader."  It was the most chilling of any of the episodes, and worth it's weight in gold on any market.

After an earthquake causes Prof. Robsinson to fall into a lower level of a cave, he finds the tomb of an ancient warrior whose been dead for millenia.  The spirit slowly takes control of prof. Robinson thru a mask that holds his spirit inside of it.

As he slowly becomes more aggressive and violent, it appears nothing can stop the evil alien spirit from it's mission to resume conquering the galaxy.

This episode was a great example of what made LIS the great show it was, and had the writers stayed on course for this sort of great writing, the show would have had a few more good seasons, guaranteed.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on December 23, 2010, 02:25:20 PM
When I was really young this scene from The Brady Bunch really freaked me out. Not when I was watching it but later when I was thinking about it in bed. Something about Marica's ghostly "I must get out, I must have air!" really rattled my tiny tot brain.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKK6WSeILw&feature=related[/url]


That was the episode where they were trying to outdo each other,  scaring each other at a slumber party or something, wasn't it? 

In that same episode, didn't Alice open the fridge and find a skull with glowing red eyes in it?  That was a good one.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on December 23, 2010, 02:29:37 PM
Another old show comes to mind here:

Do any of you 70's era guys and gals (like me) remember William Castle's Circle Of Fear TV show?  It was on in the early 70's on Channel 4.

There was an episode about a man and wife who bought or inherited a new house, with these six clear glass bottles on a shelf. Each bottle had the spirit of someone inside of them, and they would talk to each other in unintelligible tones.  That one worked it's own special fright magic on my young and fragile psyche  :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: AndyC on December 29, 2010, 11:53:01 AM
There were a few creepy Fantasy Island episodes, and one really got me. It was the episode with the young woman who has been mute since she witnessed her mother's murder, and wants to remember exactly what happened that night. On a dark and stormy night, she ends up getting startled and chased by this big, scruffy looking guy, who is reaching for her and making weird grunting sounds. It turns out to be the retarded half-brother she didn't know about, because his father, the kindly neighbour, kept him out of sight. Her mother fell down the stairs after being similarly startled by this guy's totally innocent actions.

Scared the living crap out of me.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Flangepart on December 29, 2010, 01:52:50 PM
"IT's A COOK BOOK!"


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on December 30, 2010, 10:49:46 AM
"IT's A COOK BOOK!"

"To Serve Man", lol   One of the neatest classic Twilight Zone episodes ever.

Also, the classic Outer Limits episode with William Shatner, "Cold Hands, Warm Heart."  The celery stalk creature that would haunt Shatner in his dreams would freak me out....it had all that wild, floating hair and that evil downturned grimace as it floated like some ethereal being..


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: 66Crush on December 30, 2010, 09:48:50 PM
Believe it or not it was a "Happy Days" episode. I was probably about four or five. It was the episode where Ritchie, Potsey and Ralph go to this weird beatnik club. There was this gypsy looking woman reciting poetry about death. Back then scary women really bothered me more than monsters. That Chifon margerine commercial with Mother Nature, would scare me so bad I had to jump up in my Grandma lap.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: MrMari on December 31, 2010, 08:17:33 AM
For me, nothing was as creepy or as disturbing as the episode of Diff'rent Strokes that was used to teach kids about the dangers of pedophiles. The creepy old man who owned the bicycle shop was so BELIEVABLE. That episode pushed it to the limit and I'm not sure that any show on TV today would be willing to go that far. The 80's were something else with all those "Very Special" episodes of sit-coms.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Derf on December 31, 2010, 10:57:01 AM
I think it was an episode of Night Gallery. All I really remember is that someone got a sculpture of a panther, one of those that were really popular in the '70s. One of these:

(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l367/Derf64/black-panther.jpg)

It had a demon or something inside it, and it's eye glowed red. It really creeped me out because my aunt had one of those sculptures, and every time we went to her house, I'd swear the eye was glowing. Also, since it was such a small light, I would be reminded of the image every time I saw a small, red pinpoint of light. Like, oh say, on an alarm clock in the dark. I still think about that sometimes, and it's still a little creepy.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Raffine on December 31, 2010, 11:57:50 AM
For me, nothing was as creepy or as disturbing as the episode of Diff'rent Strokes that was used to teach kids about the dangers of pedophiles. The creepy old man who owned the bicycle shop was so BELIEVABLE. That episode pushed it to the limit and I'm not sure that any show on TV today would be willing to go that far. The 80's were something else with all those "Very Special" episodes of sit-coms.

It was even more disturbing because the shop owner was played by WKRP's Gordon Jump.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: AndyC on December 31, 2010, 12:10:57 PM
When I was little, I used to get scared overhearing adults discussing TV shows and movies I was still too young to watch. Trilogy of Terror, for example. A vague mental image of a doll that comes to life and attacks people was all I needed to freak me out.

One show that really got to me (surprising, considering I was in my early teens), was an episode of the new Twilight Zone. The one with the boy who's afraid of his grandmother, who really is scary and turns out to be a witch. Really frightening. I see now it was adapted from a Stephen King story by Harlan Ellison, which explains how it managed to be such a well-constructed little horror tale.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 01, 2011, 11:05:19 AM
When I was little, I used to get scared overhearing adults discussing TV shows and movies I was still too young to watch. Trilogy of Terror, for example. A vague mental image of a doll that comes to life and attacks people was all I needed to freak me out.

One show that really got to me (surprising, considering I was in my early teens), was an episode of the new Twilight Zone. The one with the boy who's afraid of his grandmother, who really is scary and turns out to be a witch. Really frightening. I see now it was adapted from a Stephen King story by Harlan Ellison, which explains how it managed to be such a well-constructed little horror tale.

Speaking of the Twilight Zone.....another one that creeped me out was the classic episode where a very young Billy Mumy had a toy telephone that allowed him to talk to his grandmother from beyond the grave.

That one, and the one where the lonely old spinster kept getting calls from her deceased boyfriend as a result of a downed power line that landed on his headstone in an old cemetery. 

It seemed that in the Twilight Zone, long distance was the next best thing to being there  :wink:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 02, 2011, 02:18:24 PM
I'm gonna' throw another one in here...there was an episode of Boris Karloff's Thriller called "The Incredible Dr. Markesan."

In it,  Karloff played an undead doctor who had a group of zombies in his basement, kept alive by odds-and-ends paraphernalia. The zombies were a bit disturbing to look at.

In fact, it makes me wonder if episodes like this, as well as movies like The Unearthly w\John Carradine, weren't the influence for Fulci when he made House By The Cemetery..


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: trekgeezer on January 03, 2011, 03:31:17 PM
The first episode of the original Outer Limits.  The Galaxy Being.

Cliff Robertson accidentally beams down a radioactive alien. 

I was eight and hiding behind the couch


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 03, 2011, 04:49:49 PM
The first episode of the original Outer Limits.  The Galaxy Being.

Cliff Robertson accidentally beams down a radioactive alien. 

I was eight and hiding behind the couch


Yes, sir! Some extra karma for you for mentioning this one. 

My fave part starts at around 10:17 into the episode, where they first meet and try to talk to each other.  How brilliant and scary at the same time.  It's like you're right there with them!

As a matter of fact, let's watch some TV  :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKP30gDiHX8



Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on January 03, 2011, 05:02:54 PM
Jack mentioned SPACE 1999 - that reminded me of another episode where there was this horrible creature that sucked people in and then spewed out their remains. :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 03, 2011, 05:05:43 PM
Jack mentioned SPACE 1999 - that reminded me of another episode where there was this horrible creature that sucked people in and then spewed out their remains. :buggedout: :buggedout:

I remember that one, Trevor.  The monster would shove their remains out underneath his tentacles and the people looked like a mummified skeleton. I forget the name of it though.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on January 03, 2011, 06:13:27 PM

I remember that one, Trevor.  The monster would shove their remains out underneath his tentacles and the people looked like a mummified skeleton. I forget the name of it though.

That's the one.  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

Almost every episode of THE OMEGA FACTOR scared me spitless and I remember episodes of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (1981), THRILLER and HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR scaring  me too.

The biggie though was the QUIET AS A NUN miniseries from the ARMCHAIR THRILLER series with its creepy and faceless  Black Nun appearing everytime someone was about to die.  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 03, 2011, 06:22:00 PM


I remember that one, Trevor.  The monster would shove their remains out underneath his tentacles and the people looked like a mummified skeleton. I forget the name of it though.

That's the one.  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

Almost every episode of THE OMEGA FACTOR scared me spitless and I remember episodes of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (1981), THRILLER and HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR scaring  me too.

The biggie though was the QUIET AS A NUN miniseries from the ARMCHAIR THRILLER series with its creepy and faceless  Black Nun appearing everytime someone was about to die.  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

I remember seeing commercials for The Omega Factor on some of our publicly funded  UHF TV stations here in the U.S. but never got to see it.   

Hammer House Of Horrors I remember vaguely, but never really got to see any of it.  Be that as is, the fact that it was Hammer doing the horror automatically makes it a good bet for good scare  :smile:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: AndyC on January 03, 2011, 06:36:14 PM
I could list a few Doctor Who adventures from Tom Baker's more gothic years. I was pretty young at the time.

Image of the Fendahl. That cliffhanger ending where they're in the big, creepy mansion, and suddenly the big, wormy-looking thing comes strolling around the corner. Doesn't help that those endings play up the shock and surprise, then leave you without an explanation.
(http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/images/2009/02/17/fendahl.jpg)
The monsters were awfully gooey looking back then too. Which was one reason why the Zygons gave me the creeps. Those octopoid creatures with huge heads, hissy voices and that creepy organic technology, prowling around the Scottish countryside, grabbing people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StzN9Z9lBnQ
And, of course, The Brain of Morbius, like Doctor Who meets a Hammer Frankenstein picture, with lots of animated body parts and another very monstrous monster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQp10ce_eFs

It should come as no surprise that those became three of my favourite episodes.

And on the subject of science fiction series, there was one episode of Lost in Space (well, more than one, since they reused the mask a couple of times), The Golden Man. When Mr. Keema shows Smith his true form, it scared the living snot out of me. The monster looks pretty cheesy in hindsight, but there is still something disturbing in the bulbous, wrinkled, red head, twisted features and misaligned eyes. The lack of symmetry is a big part of it. And once again, the gooey look of it.
(http://www.uncleodiescollectibles.com/img_lib/LIS%20Exsplosive%20Alien%20Gernaide%2006%202-17-5.jpg)


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 03, 2011, 06:44:43 PM
And on the subject of science fiction series, there was one episode of Lost in Space (well, more than one, since they reused the mask a couple of times), The Golden Man. When Mr. Keema shows Smith his true form, it scared the living snot out of me. The monster looks pretty cheesy in hindsight, but there is still something disturbing in the bulbous, wrinkled, red head, twisted features and misaligned eyes. The lack of symmetry is a big part of it. And once again, the gooey look of it.
([url]http://www.uncleodiescollectibles.com/img_lib/LIS%20Exsplosive%20Alien%20Gernaide%2006%202-17-5.jpg[/url])


Yep, I remember that one! Penny had to choose between The Golden Man and the giant Frog Man, who was actually a handsome prince underneath. Gee I wonder what storybook they got THAT one from?  :bouncegiggle:

Also, do you remember the Season Two LIS episode, Wreck Of The Robot?

There were these three faceless aliens who wore derby's and long cloaks and had glittering skin. They swayed back and forth and spoke in menacing tones.  They wanted the Robot to build a machine that would control all other machines.

Anyway, they were called the Zaticons, and they creeped me out badly as a kid.  They would also return in Season Three's epsiode, The Galaxy Gift with John Carradine.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: WingedSerpent on January 03, 2011, 10:09:56 PM
An episode of Tales from the Darkside called Ursa Minor.  It's a take on the old "childern's toy is actually some sort of evil spirit" story, in this case a little girl's teddy bear.

What makes the episode so scary to  me was the ending.  Granted many of these types of shows have dark endings.  Either bad guys getting their come upance or nice people suffering fates they didn't deserve.  But I can't think of many that had a sense of...brutality that this one seems to have.  The mother and little girl sreaming in terror at the end really rattled me the first time I saw it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4Rdx_zkZo&playnext=1&list=PL5702195CBFDE9740&index=21


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: InformationGeek on January 03, 2011, 10:55:17 PM
There are only 3 shows to have actually scared me:

Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Twice in two different episodes and would you believe it, they both involve clowns (Circus must be smiling at that)?

Teen Titans: The episode is called Haunted.  Slade returns, after apparently falling into a volcano, and is constantly taunting and attacking Robin throughout the episode.  I won't say much, but towards the end my heart was racing and I seriously thought Robin was going to die.

Paranoia Agent: The final episode scared me, especially when Lil' Slugger decided to do something to all of Tokyo.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: retrorussell on January 04, 2011, 12:01:57 AM
An episode of Tales from the Darkside called Ursa Minor.  It's a take on the old "childern's toy is actually some sort of evil spirit" story, in this case a little girl's teddy bear.

What makes the episode so scary to  me was the ending.  Granted many of these types of shows have dark endings.  Either bad guys getting their come upance or nice people suffering fates they didn't deserve.  But I can't think of many that had a sense of...brutality that this one seems to have.  The mother and little girl sreaming in terror at the end really rattled me the first time I saw it.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4Rdx_zkZo&playnext=1&list=PL5702195CBFDE9740&index=21[/url]

Good call.  A lot of Tales From The Darkside's episodes creeped me out.  There was one about a little kid and a Celtic demon called "The Cutty Black Sow".  That one and the episode "I Can't Help Saying Goodbye" about a girl that senses people's impending deaths and says "Goodbye" to them.  Creepy!


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 04, 2011, 01:09:05 AM
One episode of The Night Gallery called "Green Fingers" starring Elsa Lanchester, aka The Bride Of Frankenstein.

PLOT:
A land baron goes too far in his methods to dislodge a sweet old lady from her home, and finds out that he shouldn't have messed with mother nature. Good episode.


Also, the classic Twilight Zone episode where Cliff Robertson was a ventriloquist being tortured by his dummy he used for his act.  I forget the name of the episode though.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on January 04, 2011, 02:10:33 AM
Jack mentioned SPACE 1999 - that reminded me of another episode where there was this horrible creature that sucked people in and then spewed out their remains. :buggedout: :buggedout:


I remember that one, Trevor.  The monster would shove their remains out underneath his tentacles and the people looked like a mummified skeleton. I forget the name of it though.


I found out what it was called: Dragon's Domain from the first Space 1999 series. www.space1999.net/moonbase99/dragon.htm (http://www.space1999.net/moonbase99/dragon.htm)  :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 04, 2011, 02:30:35 AM

Jack mentioned SPACE 1999 - that reminded me of another episode where there was this horrible creature that sucked people in and then spewed out their remains. :buggedout: :buggedout:


I remember that one, Trevor.  The monster would shove their remains out underneath his tentacles and the people looked like a mummified skeleton. I forget the name of it though.


I found out what it was called: Dragon's Domain from the first Space 1999 series. [url=http://www.space1999.net/moonbase99/dragon.htm]www.space1999.net/moonbase99/dragon.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.space1999.net/moonbase99/dragon.htm[/url])  :buggedout: :buggedout:


Cool.  Thanks,  mate  :smile:   

Overall, Space 1999 had a very interesting look to it.  Just knowing what I did about the previous live action work of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson, such as U.F.O., I knew that Space 1999 wasn't American, it had a definite British tone to it.

Speaking of U.F.O. do you remember that one?

It was sometime in Earth's future, when an Earth Defense Force group known as SHADO silently hunted down a group of aliens who landed on Earth and infiltrated society.  That was a great show, even moreso when Commander Straker would pull up in that custom-made car with the batwing doors. I loved that car!


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 04, 2011, 02:42:15 AM
Another Night Gallery episode with Roddy MacDowall scared me too.

After deliberately killing his uncle for his inheritance, McDowall's uncle returns from the grave, as seen thru a series of changing pictures hanging on the stairway wall.

Each portrait slowly and methodically depicts his uncle rising from the grave and walking towards the house until he was at the door.  A great entry for scary TV epsiodes, AND my 100th post.  I am now a 4-star general....yeeee-ahhh!  :cheers:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on January 04, 2011, 03:06:02 AM
Speaking of U.F.O. do you remember that one?
It was sometime in Earth's future, when an Earth Defense Force group known as SHADO silently hunted down a group of aliens who landed on Earth and infiltrated society.  That was a great show, even moreso when Commander Straker would pull up in that custom-made car with the batwing doors. I loved that car!

Oh yes, how could I forget that series! I had a superbig crush on Gabrielle Drake in her purple wig and I wanted to knock Ed Nelson on the head and steal his car: I probably would have had a hard time lying on my back driving the thing though.  :teddyr:

There was one UFOepisode which chilled me: one of Straker's men lost his wife prior to joining SHADO and when an alien was killed, the autopsy revealed that some of his wife's organs were in the alien's body.  :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Bmeansgood on January 04, 2011, 09:51:39 PM
For me, nothing was as creepy or as disturbing as the episode of Diff'rent Strokes that was used to teach kids about the dangers of pedophiles. The creepy old man who owned the bicycle shop was so BELIEVABLE. That episode pushed it to the limit and I'm not sure that any show on TV today would be willing to go that far. The 80's were something else with all those "Very Special" episodes of sit-coms.

I'm with you on this one.  I was pretty young, but I remember having lots of questions for my parents.  Like, why does Arnold's friend have his shirt off and why is he rubbing his eyes?


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 05, 2011, 11:48:21 AM
Speaking of U.F.O. do you remember that one?
It was sometime in Earth's future, when an Earth Defense Force group known as SHADO silently hunted down a group of aliens who landed on Earth and infiltrated society.  That was a great show, even moreso when Commander Straker would pull up in that custom-made car with the batwing doors. I loved that car!

Oh yes, how could I forget that series! I had a superbig crush on Gabrielle Drake in her purple wig and I wanted to knock Ed Nelson on the head and steal his car: I probably would have had a hard time lying on my back driving the thing though.  :teddyr:

There was one UFOepisode which chilled me: one of Straker's men lost his wife prior to joining SHADO and when an alien was killed, the autopsy revealed that some of his wife's organs were in the alien's body.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

I remember that episode.  Another one I remember is where an alien had one of SHADO's men cornered in an outside area, always taunting him and making fun of him because the guy couldn't see him.

It was a big cat and mouse game, until the alien was finally killed when the guy spun around in a circle with an assault rifle and killed the alien with a lucky salvo.   


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Dan on January 12, 2011, 09:13:34 AM
There's an episode of Pingu where he has a nightmare and gets chased on his walking bed by a giant walrus. The surrealism of that episode scared the bejeezus out of me when I was young.

That, and the talking clay head on Art Attack!.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Barack Clinton on January 17, 2011, 02:17:10 PM
Star trek, The lights of Zetar.

 The scenes with the victims making those horrible, distorted sounds while their faces glowed scared the hell out of me as a kid, and the whole ep had an air of fear to it that really no ep of trek before or since has matched.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 17, 2011, 04:11:37 PM
Lost In Space, season two. The episode is called Wreck Of The Robot.

After their bowling ball rolls into a cave, Will and Dr. Smith are confronted by 3 aliens called "Zaticons."   Facelessm derby-wearing aliens whose skin glitters as they ethereally swagger back and forth, speaking in low, menacing tones that verge on whispering.

Not only their sudden appearance out of nowhere, but the chilling incidental music by John Williams, lifted from The Day The Earth Stood Still but effective nonetheless. Even more effective when you see what the Zaticons look like.





Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Couchtr26 on January 17, 2011, 11:23:56 PM
I was creeped out by the episode of Tales from the Darkside where they had the girl coming back to stay with her father and the creature in that little room.  I can't remember much as it scared me when I was younger.  I remember many of the scenes.  Something about it seemed plausible to a young person.  We think different when we aren't 7 or 10.  However, I saw it again recently and am kind of bothered by the father at the end.  His complete affection towards the creature.  As if he wanted everything to occur that did occur. 

I was also exceedingly frightened by the episode of Kolchack with the creature made of spanish moss.  Don't remember why. 


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Newt on January 18, 2011, 02:14:40 AM
I was also exceedingly frightened by the episode of Kolchack with the creature made of spanish moss.  Don't remember why. 

That one terrified my younger sister!  My dad used to wiggle his fingers at her and say, "Peremalfait is gonna GET you!" and she'd scream.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 18, 2011, 10:26:45 AM
I was creeped out by the episode of Tales from the Darkside where they had the girl coming back to stay with her father and the creature in that little room.  I can't remember much as it scared me when I was younger.  I remember many of the scenes.  Something about it seemed plausible to a young person.  We think different when we aren't 7 or 10.  However, I saw it again recently and am kind of bothered by the father at the end.  His complete affection towards the creature.  As if he wanted everything to occur that did occur. 

The name of the episode is The Closet and the creature was made by Tom Savini. And the girl who was killed by it was a very young Patricia Tallman, aka Barbara in the remake of Night Of The Living Dead from 1990, which was also directed by Tom Savini. And yeah, it was a scary little number, wasn't it?  :bouncegiggle:

I was also exceedingly frightened by the episode of Kolchack with the creature made of spanish moss.  Don't remember why. 

I can't really say any episode of The Night Stalker actually scared me, but I remember thinking how cool the headless motorcycle rider was in another episode. That one, and the one with the suit of black armor that was attacking people.  But the headless rider episode was really neat.

I remember us all talking about it at school Monday morning. We were in 4th or 5th grade at the time too. Our teacher told us to stop talking about it because she thought we were too young to be watching "that sort of thing."  Teachers... :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Couchtr26 on January 21, 2011, 11:48:23 PM
I can't really say any episode of The Night Stalker actually scared me, but I remember thinking how cool the headless motorcycle rider was in another episode. That one, and the one with the suit of black armor that was attacking people.  But the headless rider episode was really neat.

I remember us all talking about it at school Monday morning. We were in 4th or 5th grade at the time too. Our teacher told us to stop talking about it because she thought we were too young to be watching "that sort of thing."  Teachers... :bouncegiggle:

When I was about 5-10 I was easily scared.  I got past that stage in short order but it is funny as I watched so many things that it started to phase out.  Speaking of Kolchak even when I was younger I loved the ghost armor that was killing people.  I was young and born in America.  Knights were awesome to think about as were cowboys.  Something about armed people on horses.   Zorro was as well speaking of that watched that old family channel series religiously. :teddyr:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 22, 2011, 09:04:15 AM
I can't really say any episode of The Night Stalker actually scared me, but I remember thinking how cool the headless motorcycle rider was in another episode. That one, and the one with the suit of black armor that was attacking people.  But the headless rider episode was really neat.

I remember us all talking about it at school Monday morning. We were in 4th or 5th grade at the time too. Our teacher told us to stop talking about it because she thought we were too young to be watching "that sort of thing."  Teachers... :bouncegiggle:

When I was about 5-10 I was easily scared.  I got past that stage in short order but it is funny as I watched so many things that it started to phase out.  Speaking of Kolchak even when I was younger I loved the ghost armor that was killing people.  I was young and born in America.  Knights were awesome to think about as were cowboys.  Something about armed people on horses.   Zorro was as well speaking of that watched that old family channel series religiously. :teddyr:

You mean the Zorro TV show with Guy Williams, aka Professor Robinson on Lost In Space?  The episode of LIS I spoke of earlier, "Follow The Leader" had Williams show off a bit of his fencing skills, as he was possessed by the spirit of an ancient alien warrior.

Come to think of Lost In Space, another Season One episode, "War Of The Robots" had a chilling part where Robbie The Robot confronted the Robinson Robot after everyone went to bed.

Amidst the chilling music of John Williams, Robbie tells The Robot that he's obsolete, and he will be replaced, and if he persists in serving the Robinsons,, he will be destroyed.  The entire scene is absolutely fabulous, as anyone whose seen it knows  :smile:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Raffine on January 22, 2011, 09:45:06 PM
Here's the only time I remember being absolutely scared stiff by a TV episode:

When I was about 4 or 5 as the new episode of Green Acres was coming on I suddenly started screaming and crying uncontrollably that she was gonna 'git me'.

Turns out the night before I had caught a few minutes of William Castle's PICTURE MOMMY DEAD on TV featuring a ghostly Zsa Zsa Gabor. Apparently my young mind couldn't tell Zsa Zsa from Eva Gabor so I was convinced Lisa Douglas was 'git me'.

That was always one of my mom's favorite stories about my weird childhood.   :smile:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: El Misfit on January 22, 2011, 11:22:42 PM
The Harvest Moon episode of Courage, The Cowardly Dog
http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/Courage-The-Cowardly-Dog-Curaj-Cainele-Fricos-House-Of-Discontent/sznbBM6edY/ (http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/Courage-The-Cowardly-Dog-Curaj-Cainele-Fricos-House-Of-Discontent/sznbBM6edY/)
(http://local-static1.forum-files.fobby.net/forum_attachments/0020/6641/Omg.png)
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTWWLxutCvyDy6rh2aBj5O1P9X5xVzWrXv-hkXG72zkCnttwOE&t=1)
plus that creepy voice


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 24, 2011, 10:28:30 AM
Here's the only time I remember being absolutely scared stiff by a TV episode:

When I was about 4 or 5 as the new episode of Green Acres was coming on I suddenly started screaming and crying uncontrollably that she was gonna 'git me'.

Turns out the night before I had caught a few minutes of William Castle's PICTURE MOMMY DEAD on TV featuring a ghostly Zsa Zsa Gabor. Apparently my young mind couldn't tell Zsa Zsa from Eva Gabor so I was convinced Lisa Douglas was 'git me'.

That was always one of my mom's favorite stories about my weird childhood.   :smile:

I had the same problem with Juliet Mills after seeing Beyond The Door. I previously remember her from Nanny And The Professor as a sweet and loving lady.

Then I see her as this posessed, raving, animalistic beast spewing black vomit and obscenities and it totally blew my mind.  The change in character and the shattered notions of innocence lost.

To this day, that movie still manages to rattle my cage, badly.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Couchtr26 on January 25, 2011, 12:36:21 PM
You mean the Zorro TV show with Guy Williams, aka Professor Robinson on Lost In Space?  The episode of LIS I spoke of earlier, "Follow The Leader" had Williams show off a bit of his fencing skills, as he was possessed by the spirit of an ancient alien warrior.

Nah, the New World Zorro series with Duncan Regehr.  I never really watched the old disney not that I had anything against it but as I was growing up never really on in the areas I was living in at the time.  I mean it was on Disney I think but that was a premium and I had the influence with my grandparents of a flea. 


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 25, 2011, 04:55:33 PM
You mean the Zorro TV show with Guy Williams, aka Professor Robinson on Lost In Space?  The episode of LIS I spoke of earlier, "Follow The Leader" had Williams show off a bit of his fencing skills, as he was possessed by the spirit of an ancient alien warrior.

Nah, the New World Zorro series with Duncan Regehr.  I never really watched the old disney not that I had anything against it but as I was growing up never really on in the areas I was living in at the time.  I mean it was on Disney I think but that was a premium and I had the influence with my grandparents of a flea. 

Duncan Regehr! He played Dracula in The Monster Squad and he was also a villain by the name of Dirk Blackpoole in the old 1980's CBS fantasy series Wizards And Warriors.  I remember him well.  If I remember right, the guy hwo played the hero, Eric Greystone, Jeff Conaway, was also a regular on Taxi.

As for the original Zorro with Guy Williams, Jonathan Harris (the evil Dr. Smith on Lost In Space played a fairly regular character, and so did J. Carroll Naish, who you may remember playing the last of the Fankensteins in Al Adamson's Dracula vs. Frankenstein.  All this off the top of my head from my memory, too!  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Couchtr26 on January 27, 2011, 12:04:36 AM
All this off the top of my head from my memory, too!  :bouncegiggle:

I must say I am impressed. 


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: InformationGeek on January 27, 2011, 09:07:43 AM
The Harvest Moon episode of Courage, The Cowardly Dog
[url]http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/Courage-The-Cowardly-Dog-Curaj-Cainele-Fricos-House-Of-Discontent/sznbBM6edY/[/url] ([url]http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/Courage-The-Cowardly-Dog-Curaj-Cainele-Fricos-House-Of-Discontent/sznbBM6edY/[/url])
([url]http://local-static1.forum-files.fobby.net/forum_attachments/0020/6641/Omg.png[/url])
([url]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTWWLxutCvyDy6rh2aBj5O1P9X5xVzWrXv-hkXG72zkCnttwOE&t=1[/url])
plus that creepy voice



Ah yes, Courage the Cowardly Dog.  What a freaky show that was.  Here's a personal favorite.  It freaked me out the first time I saw it and nowadays all I can do is say WTF when I see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksDJDpfrjM


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: JaseSF on January 29, 2011, 02:48:48 PM
The Real Ghostbsuters had some decidedly creepy villainous ghosts (The Boogieman, Mr. Sandman, Samhain, The Grundel, The Ghostmaster, Boogaloo and Cathulhu) who definitely frightened me a bit in my younger days.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 30, 2011, 10:27:15 PM
All this off the top of my head from my memory, too!  :bouncegiggle:

I must say I am impressed. 

Thanks fer' that one  :smile: 

I guess there are some people who forget names, places and things, and those who somehow have a mind like a steel trap.  I dunna' where I got it from..

For years both friends and family alike have labelled me 'the professor of useless information' and in my own way, I guess I am. I guess it also shows me as being passionate about what I enjoy, even though the days of classic TV are history.



Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Nightowl on January 30, 2011, 11:53:24 PM
The Harvest Moon episode of Courage, The Cowardly Dog
[url]http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/Courage-The-Cowardly-Dog-Curaj-Cainele-Fricos-House-Of-Discontent/sznbBM6edY/[/url] ([url]http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/Courage-The-Cowardly-Dog-Curaj-Cainele-Fricos-House-Of-Discontent/sznbBM6edY/[/url])
([url]http://local-static1.forum-files.fobby.net/forum_attachments/0020/6641/Omg.png[/url])
([url]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTWWLxutCvyDy6rh2aBj5O1P9X5xVzWrXv-hkXG72zkCnttwOE&t=1[/url])
plus that creepy voice



Is that Death from The Seventh Seal


I've always felt that The X-Files has been the scariest show ever allowed on tv.

Example A:

"The Host"
(http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com/season2/the-host/zx-files082.jpg)



Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: vukxfiles on January 31, 2011, 03:29:44 AM
Did someone call me?? LOL

The Flukeman is the best :thumbup:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on January 31, 2011, 06:54:58 AM
Beyond The Sea from The X Files was immensely disturbing as was the episode Pusher with Robert Wisden as the cheerful murderer. Yes, cheerful.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: vukxfiles on January 31, 2011, 02:09:15 PM
Beyond The Sea from The X Files was immensely disturbing as was the episode Pusher with Robert Wisden as the cheerful murderer. Yes, cheerful.

If you wanna see the most disturbing episode of TXF see Home from season 4, you can find its description in my "controversial tv shows" thread. Also, many people find badlaa from season 8 disturbing, but personally, the second disturbing one from me is Roadrunners, also from season 8.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Doggett on January 31, 2011, 04:05:47 PM
Beyond The Sea from The X Files was immensely disturbing as was the episode Pusher with Robert Wisden as the cheerful murderer. Yes, cheerful.

If you wanna see the most disturbing episode of TXF see Home from season 4, you can find its description in my "controversial tv shows" thread. Also, many people find badlaa from season 8 disturbing, but personally, the second disturbing one from me is Roadrunners, also from season 8.


Roadrunners one of my fave episodes !

Sanguinarium from S4 is also a really dark episode.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Raffine on January 31, 2011, 04:13:08 PM
I always found 'Home' to ba a particularly disturbing X-Files episode.

Some really bizarre Wiki trivia about the episode:

"Home" was inspired by a tale in Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, about the time he stayed at a tenement home while touring in a British musical theatre. After dinner, the family took him upstairs to meet their son - and pulled him out from under a bed. The son had no arms and legs and flopped around while they sang and danced.

Geesh!


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Doggett on January 31, 2011, 04:16:38 PM
I always found 'Home' to ba a particularly disturbing X-Files episode.

Some really bizarre Wiki trivia about the episode:

"Home" was inspired by a tale in Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, about the time he stayed at a tenement home while touring in a British musical theatre. After dinner, the family took him upstairs to meet their son - and pulled him out from under a bed. The son had no arms and legs and flopped around while they sang and danced.

Geesh!

Us Brits are always doing crazy stuff like that !

We're funny people with funny ways.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on February 01, 2011, 01:21:57 AM
The episode of Homicide: Life On The Street where a seriously ill and hallucinating Frank Pembleton wakes up in his coffin screaming.  :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Couchtr26 on February 01, 2011, 06:41:24 PM
All this off the top of my head from my memory, too!  :bouncegiggle:

I must say I am impressed. 

Thanks fer' that one  :smile: 

I guess there are some people who forget names, places and things, and those who somehow have a mind like a steel trap.  I dunna' where I got it from..

For years both friends and family alike have labelled me 'the professor of useless information' and in my own way, I guess I am. I guess it also shows me as being passionate about what I enjoy, even though the days of classic TV are history.



Always welcome.  There is few things I can do that with to be honest.  I used to be like that with Star Wars information.  However, I find my interests going from one thing to another I lose focus to retain much information.  I'm always impressed with memory recall or someone who has a skill I lack or am incapable of doing myself.  In this we all have talents and abilities that we deserve to be recognized for at times. 


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Warp Ninja X on February 02, 2011, 04:01:54 AM
The New Twilight Zone episode Teacher's Aide and Tales From The Darkside episode Trick Or Treat.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on February 02, 2011, 04:16:23 AM
We're funny people with funny ways.  :teddyr:

That may be so but you gave us one of the world's most beautiful people, Princess Diana. Beautiful inside and outside.  :smile:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on February 11, 2011, 01:43:41 AM
We're funny people with funny ways.  :teddyr:


That may be so but you gave us one of the world's most beautiful people, Princess Diana. Beautiful inside and outside.  :smile:


Agreed, my mom and grandmother cried like babies when Elton John played Candle In The Wind for Lady Diana at her funeral. Lady Di was very attractive to be sure.

As for other things Britian gave we Yanks (aside from North America  :wink:)  was one thing I still love to this day, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, or NWOBHM. The music is still as good today as it was then, and then some!

I still love listening to Raven, Jaguar, White Spirit, Gaskin, and many others from that very short but extremely prolific period that gave a lot of inspiration to the American metal scene.

One band that really knew who to work it was Tank.  Here's a clip of an old favorite of mine, "Heavy Artillery." Enjoy this rare piece of work, this is classic stuff! 

EDIT: This is the actual song, combined with old original and remastered clips of Tank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOci3KmgIU&nofeather=True


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on February 11, 2011, 02:08:44 AM
Agreed, my mom and grandmother cried like babies when Elton John played Candle In The Wind for Lady Diana at her funeral. Lady Di was very attractive to be sure.

She also gave a damn about people less fortunate than herself and highlighted the plight of people living with HIV, the handicapped, the elderly, landmines etc, so for that, I go  :cheers: to her. Pity she had such a $#@%^&* for a husband. 



Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on February 12, 2011, 12:57:54 PM
Agreed, my mom and grandmother cried like babies when Elton John played Candle In The Wind for Lady Diana at her funeral. Lady Di was very attractive to be sure.

She also gave a damn about people less fortunate than herself and highlighted the plight of people living with HIV, the handicapped, the elderly, landmines etc, so for that, I go  :cheers: to her. Pity she had such a $#@%^&* for a husband. 

Yeah, Prince Charles, what can you NOT say about him?

Of course, in terms of Lady Di's sons, Harry showed great intelligence when he dressed up as an SS officer at a Halloween party years ago, not realizing that his grand-mum and great-grams witnessed firsthand, the destruction that symbol caused to the world, and to their own backyard... :lookingup:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Nightowl on February 24, 2011, 12:25:31 AM
I Survived is pretty frightening. It just scares me what people are capable of. The show made me very untrusting of others.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on March 03, 2011, 05:01:29 AM
The Scottish TV series Taggart had a series of episodes dealing with voodoo and the supernatural entitled Funeral Rites which was pretty spooky. It did have a funny wrap-up though when the killer's car lands up in a flooded quarry with the killer inside but his intended victim ~ a mute young man named Tommy ~ gets safely out, until one of the cops grabs him and he almost goes into the quarry himself.  :buggedout:

Taggart: "You trying to make his day?" [sees car disappearing under water].
Taggart: "Well, that's the easy part of it."
Jardine [shocked]: "Easy?"
Taggart: [smiles] "Now I have to go home and tell Jean she needs a new hairdresser."

 :teddyr: :teddyr:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: bob on March 03, 2011, 01:54:39 PM
A goodchunk of Are You Afraid of the Dark episodes from when I was a kid.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: El Misfit on January 02, 2012, 11:24:01 PM
I should say that there isn't one episode for this entry.
Cell for Dragon Ball Z (DBZ) scared me because of what he can do- suck the life out of people.
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100801151152/dragonball/images/thumb/d/dd/CellImperfectFormTheReunionk.png/371px-CellImperfectFormTheReunionk.png)
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100429065845/dragonball/images/2/2f/CellImperfectAbsorbingAndroid17.png)
Jeez man! :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: RCMerchant on January 08, 2012, 10:18:56 AM
Another Night Gallery episode with Roddy MacDowall scared me too.

After deliberately killing his uncle for his inheritance, McDowall's uncle returns from the grave, as seen thru a series of changing pictures hanging on the stairway wall.

Each portrait slowly and methodically depicts his uncle rising from the grave and walking towards the house until he was at the door.  A great entry for scary TV epsiodes, AND my 100th post.  I am now a 4-star general....yeeee-ahhh!  :cheers:


I saw that episode when I lived at the orphanage. A nun named Sister Nina usta wake me up and sneak me into her room so I could watch NIGHT GALLERY.

The other episode that creeped me out was called the CATAPILLAR-about an earwig eatting it's way threw some poor shmucks brain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxs5vBd1h98&feature=related



Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: The Gravekeeper on January 08, 2012, 03:30:51 PM
The final episode of Candle Cove. If you know what I'm talking about, you've spent too much time on the internet

Also, one episode of Goosebumps. It think it was called "It Came from Beneath the Sink." I don't know why that freaked out my 6 year-old self, but it did. I stumbled on the episode more recently and it's just...wow. How was that scary?


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: alandhopewell on January 30, 2012, 02:51:00 PM
Another old show comes to mind here:

Do any of you 70's era guys and gals (like me) remember William Castle's Circle Of Fear TV show?  It was on in the early 70's on Channel 4.

There was an episode about a man and wife who bought or inherited a new house, with these six clear glass bottles on a shelf. Each bottle had the spirit of someone inside of them, and they would talk to each other in unintelligible tones.  That one worked it's own special fright magic on my young and fragile psyche  :buggedout:

     I remember it; prior to it, there was a show called GHOST STORY, hosted by Sebastian Cabot.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: alandhopewell on January 30, 2012, 02:52:14 PM
When I was little, I used to get scared overhearing adults discussing TV shows and movies I was still too young to watch. Trilogy of Terror, for example. A vague mental image of a doll that comes to life and attacks people was all I needed to freak me out.

One show that really got to me (surprising, considering I was in my early teens), was an episode of the new Twilight Zone. The one with the boy who's afraid of his grandmother, who really is scary and turns out to be a witch. Really frightening. I see now it was adapted from a Stephen King story by Harlan Ellison, which explains how it managed to be such a well-constructed little horror tale.

Speaking of the Twilight Zone.....another one that creeped me out was the classic episode where a very young Billy Mumy had a toy telephone that allowed him to talk to his grandmother from beyond the grave.

That one, and the one where the lonely old spinster kept getting calls from her deceased boyfriend as a result of a downed power line that landed on his headstone in an old cemetery. 

It seemed that in the Twilight Zone, long distance was the next best thing to being there  :wink:

     It was YEARS before I'd answer the phone, if it rang at night.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: alandhopewell on January 30, 2012, 02:53:58 PM
     This episode of NIGHT GALLERY (in fact, it aired with "green Fingers"....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG1bYPvRvnI


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: alandhopewell on January 30, 2012, 02:58:17 PM
Speaking of U.F.O. do you remember that one?
It was sometime in Earth's future, when an Earth Defense Force group known as SHADO silently hunted down a group of aliens who landed on Earth and infiltrated society.  That was a great show, even moreso when Commander Straker would pull up in that custom-made car with the batwing doors. I loved that car!

Oh yes, how could I forget that series! I had a superbig crush on Gabrielle Drake in her purple wig and I wanted to knock Ed Nelson on the head and steal his car: I probably would have had a hard time lying on my back driving the thing though.  :teddyr:

There was one UFOepisode which chilled me: one of Straker's men lost his wife prior to joining SHADO and when an alien was killed, the autopsy revealed that some of his wife's organs were in the alien's body.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

I remember that episode.  Another one I remember is where an alien had one of SHADO's men cornered in an outside area, always taunting him and making fun of him because the guy couldn't see him.

It was a big cat and mouse game, until the alien was finally killed when the guy spun around in a circle with an assault rifle and killed the alien with a lucky salvo.   

     The alien was slightly out of sync with time. UFO was a show I never missed.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: AndyC on January 30, 2012, 03:48:57 PM
Ran across this episode of The Muppet Show again recently. I found this bit creepy and disturbing as a kid, and growing up seems to have only made it more so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkDshJNIdSM


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on April 20, 2012, 07:42:40 AM
The Doctor Who series Spearhead From Space with its' mannikin killers.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: alandhopewell on April 21, 2012, 12:50:15 PM
     The show "FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES" had some creepy episodes, as did the first season of WAR OF THE WORLDS.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on July 12, 2012, 02:29:24 AM
I'd forgotten how scary the final episode of Twin Peaks was ~ I can still hear Kyle MacLachlan saying "How's Annie? How's Annie?"  :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: alandhopewell on July 12, 2012, 01:45:44 PM
     "The Tune In Dan's Cafe" episode of NIGHT GALLERY; it was on the same night as  "Green Fingers", about the haunted jukebox that played the same song, and got stuck on the line, "Till death...."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oX1w5kxvs   


 True story. My younger brother and I were home by ourselves one night; I was sixteen, he was ten. We didn't know that the song from TTIDC was a real song until it came on the radio....

     We ran out of the house so fast, we didn't even lock the door.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: ChaosTheory on July 15, 2012, 02:30:28 PM
"The Doll" episode of NIGHT GALLERY.  there was another NG, I can't remember the title but it involves a Nazi who's hiding out in South America and becomes obsessed with escaping into a painting, that one creeped me out pretty good.

"The Masks", "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" and "He's Alive" episodes of TWILIGHT ZONE.

A lot of the monsters from THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS were pretty scary: The Boogeyman, Mrs.  Rogers, The Sandman to name a few...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXg3nqrYXs


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: AndyC on July 15, 2012, 03:32:01 PM
I can't remember the title but it involves a Nazi who's hiding out in South America and becomes obsessed with escaping into a painting, that one creeped me out pretty good.

I remember that one. It had Sam Jaffe as a former prisoner who recognized him. And I remember a woman mocking his desire for a simple, peaceful life.

Looked up the title, and it's The Escape Route. Must try to find that one and watch it again.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: alandhopewell on July 17, 2012, 01:50:09 PM
     My wife turned me on to BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, and this was one of the really creepy episodes....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUObsrV8R4E


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on August 02, 2012, 07:09:07 AM
The Professionals episode Discovered In A Graveyard is very creepy in parts ~ one of the main characters is shot down and left for dead by an assassin and the character is shown at his front door, his white T shirt riddled with bloody holes waiting for the hearse to come and collect him.  :buggedout: :buggedout:*

*SPOILER:


He does survive the shooting. 


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Kaseykockroach on August 31, 2012, 02:24:04 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUUP0tAiziE
I think the last ten seconds of this thing speak for itself.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on October 12, 2012, 07:31:34 AM
Re my first post about the McCloud episode Someone's Out To Get Jenny  :buggedout: :buggedout:

I ordered a McCloud set last month that has this episode on it and received it two hours ago. I watched it and got a panic attack from years gone by. It is still creepy and yes, it still scares me.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

But having said that: thank you Dennis Weaver, thank you Cameron Mitchell and thank you, Julie Sommars!  :cheers:




Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on October 31, 2012, 05:24:04 AM
The Department S episode The Ghost of Mary Burnham is a vague memory I have of being really scared where a man's wife is shot dead in front of him and the next night he returns home, only to find her standing on the doorstep smiling at him.  :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on December 19, 2012, 06:04:49 AM
The British TV series The Omega Factor had some chilling episodes, especially the episodes Visitations and Powers Of Darkness.  :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Umaril Has Returned on December 20, 2012, 01:21:07 PM
The final episode of Lost In Space form Season One, "Follow The Leader."

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT

In this one, Prof. Robinson falls off the ledge of a cave during a quake.

When he awakes, he finds the crypt of a centuries-dead warrior who possesses his mind and body, and slowly tranforms him from a father and family man to a raving, power mad psycho who threatens the whole family. Great story and the set pieces for the warrior's tomb make some great atmosphere.

END SPOILER ALERT

This is a great example of what made the series shine, and hadmore attention to detail been present in the following seasons, we'd have seen more of the Robinsons for sure!


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: El Misfit on December 22, 2012, 02:17:29 AM
The Harvest Moon episode of Courage, The Cowardly Dog
[url]http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/Courage-The-Cowardly-Dog-Curaj-Cainele-Fricos-House-Of-Discontent/sznbBM6edY/[/url] ([url]http://www.220.ro/desene-animate/Courage-The-Cowardly-Dog-Curaj-Cainele-Fricos-House-Of-Discontent/sznbBM6edY/[/url])
([url]http://local-static1.forum-files.fobby.net/forum_attachments/0020/6641/Omg.png[/url])
([url]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTWWLxutCvyDy6rh2aBj5O1P9X5xVzWrXv-hkXG72zkCnttwOE&t=1[/url])
plus that creepy voice



Ah yes, Courage the Cowardly Dog.  What a freaky show that was.  Here's a personal favorite.  It freaked me out the first time I saw it and nowadays all I can do is say WTF when I see it.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksDJDpfrjM[/url]


King Ramses, Schwick, The "You're not Perfect" fetus thing didn't scare me, The Harvest Moon did. :tongueout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on January 07, 2013, 01:43:55 AM
The "Force of Life" episode of Space 1999.  I swear it gave me nightmares when I was a little kid.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk9YyX3L3MY[/url]


I had never seen this until last Friday when FoxRetro screened it: I can see why it scared you, Jack. All those weird angles, eerie lighting, creepy music. I admit that it raised a few of my back of the neck hairs too.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: retrorussell on January 21, 2016, 06:38:38 PM
Ugh.. the FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES had an episode called "Quilt Of Hathor" that was a 3-parter.  Micki and Ryan visit an Amish community to try to retrieve a cursed item, the titular quilt.  Whoever has the quilt can make people die in their sleep.  One particular death was rather nauseating-- a woman makes another rip out her eyes in her sleep!  EWWW!!!


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: sprite75 on January 31, 2016, 09:56:31 PM
I thought I had mentioned it before but I couldn't find it in this thread, but the Star Trek: Voyager episode Macrocosm always creeped me out.  Just something about giant viruses attacking the crew just got to me.  I still can't look up info on the TV without feeling the creepiness of those creatures.



Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: alandhopewell on February 12, 2016, 01:21:29 PM
The TWILIGHT ZONE episode where the old lady was getting phone calls from her dead husband....for years, if the phone rang at night, I'd let someone else answer it.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMnXoMpgKnU#)


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on February 07, 2018, 07:35:27 AM
The Bones episode The Nightmare In The Nightmare is very creepy: especially in the deserted lab with the lights off and the warning lights flashing.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Pacman000 on February 08, 2018, 05:54:42 PM
http://youtu.be/RNEhCnoFoXI?t=158 (http://youtu.be/RNEhCnoFoXI?t=158)

But in a good way.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Pacman000 on February 08, 2018, 05:59:11 PM
And not in a good way. I only watched half of this, then I had to leave. Scared me to my core.

Boy Meets World 5x17 And Then There Was Shawn - Video Dailymotion (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28rs86)


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: 316zombie on February 11, 2018, 04:27:31 PM
last year's season of american horror story, called cult. WAY too close to home, i actually couldn't watch the last half.


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on May 15, 2023, 01:42:57 AM
The Clocks episode from The Dick Powell Show.

That thing in the mirror  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2NXS03VY0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2NXS03VY0)



Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Jim H on August 14, 2023, 12:37:02 AM
Something Is Out There's villain scared me as a kid.  Never forgot the scenes where it shapeshifts and where it is tunelling underground.  I was 5 years old, still remember it.

A taste of one scene is here.

https://youtu.be/XvvVei00Weg?t=1120 (https://youtu.be/XvvVei00Weg?t=1120)


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: ER on August 14, 2023, 10:34:42 AM
When I was little I was scared for days after seeing a Twilight Zone about underwater tapping leading to the discovery of a lost submarine. When they got into the sub they found one of the long-dead sailors leaning against the hull still holding a hammer. That had me spooked like crazy and my dad kept teasing me by going, "Tap-tap-tap...."


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: Trevor on August 14, 2023, 12:46:41 PM
When I was little I was scared for days after seeing a Twilight Zone about underwater tapping leading to the discovery of a lost submarine. When they got into the sub they found one of the long-dead sailors leaning against the hull still holding a hammer. That had me spooked like crazy and my dad kept teasing me by going, "Tap-tap-tap...."

Is it this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Fathom_Grave (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Fathom_Grave)


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: ER on August 14, 2023, 04:31:18 PM
When I was little I was scared for days after seeing a Twilight Zone about underwater tapping leading to the discovery of a lost submarine. When they got into the sub they found one of the long-dead sailors leaning against the hull still holding a hammer. That had me spooked like crazy and my dad kept teasing me by going, "Tap-tap-tap...."

Is it this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Fathom_Grave (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Fathom_Grave)

Yassir, dat be da one!


Title: Re: TV episodes that scared you?
Post by: wositelec on August 19, 2023, 12:41:20 PM
When I was a child, I scared some episodes "Goosebumps" and "Are you afraid od dark?".

And I was scared definitely prison episode from unknown Tv series, when a prison guard released a prisoner, but he killed him by shot in his back.