What have you found frightening on TV?

Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Lost Hearts still gives me nightmares.

Jo Brand..........I'm hiding in the airing cupboard as I type!

The quality of the programmes and the ignorance of news presenters.

He he Absent. But actually nothing has ever frightened me as much as Journey Into Space on the wireless in the 1950s

Quatermass, watched through the gap in the kitchen door where we were sent to play whilst it was on.

Crimewatch.
I have simply given up most television.

I go around making doors and windows are shut properly whenever Crimewatch shows some poor old lady being attacked in her own home.
Love scary movies, not slasher movies, even when I watch them with a cushion over my eyes I still enjoy them.
I'm with absent on her remarks

Was it the thought of Jo Brand once being a nurse that frightened you pentillie?
Last night I watched Michael Burke on Ch 4 dispatches, trying to frighten everyone about their pension provision.
Then there was a programme where members of the public suggested home remedies for things like acne and baldness, and a panel of 3 doctors decided whether their ideas should be scientifically tested.
I found the idea that these three people were actually qualified medical practitioners truly frightening, even more than their ideas of what constituted clinical research.

Anything with Shirley Bassey - I fear that one day she will actually chew her own ear off right on camera

Dr Who
When I was about 6 I was 'babysat' by my big boy cousins and they watched Quatermass and the Pit. That was the start of my fear of all things spooky.
Is Jo Brand for real? Can't stand her. I wonder if she f....s and b.....s in front of her children who I believe are quite young?

Quateermass did it for me, Gally, but oddly enough only because I wasn't allowed to watch it. My parents said it would be too scary for me and my 14-year-old brain wove horror tales enough to put me off horror films and series for ever. Six years later Psycho almost finished me off!

Anything medical- but especially a cornea operation on 'Your Life in their Hands' watched from behind the sofa when I was young.

Bruce Forsyth reading the auto cue

Nothing on television has ever frightened me as much reading 'Witchwood' by John Buchan.

My DM had warned me not to read it at night because she too had found it quite frightening. But I was 13 and I knew better than her that it wouldn't scare me. The book was rivetting and I was reading it into the small hours, under the blankets, with a torch so that I wouldn't be found out. it was a windy night. The sound of leaves blown across the patio sounded like people and the trees in front of the street lights of the road behind us were making funny shadows on the unlined curtains and through them onto the dressing table mirror. I frightened myself witless.

Fortunately my parent's bedroom door was directly opposite mine across a very narrow corridor and once I pulled together the courage to get out of bed I erupted out of my bedroom and into theirs. It was only the fact that I really was absolutely terrified that saved me from punishment for disobeying. they felt my terror was punishment enough.

All my other most frightening experiences are associated with books. the mad woman in Jane Eyre when I was 11 and Dancing Floor, also by John Buchan, a year or two after I read Witchwood.

If television is scary, and I scare easily I just do not watch it.

What I found frightening was on last night, whilst dipping into the latest I'm a Celebrity tosh, just to see how Matthew Wright was getting on, a young male TOWIE nobody, aged about 23, apparently can't tell the time, in spite of having a watch that cost squillions!

I agree with others here who say there is more tension in books, I find ghostly themes quite scary and although not strictly tv, I did jump out of my skin in Fatal Attraction when Glen Close comes up out of the bath with a knife.

I am frightened for us all when I see the c**p that is broadcast - what does this say about the future of the human race if we are descending into this mire of pap? Signed: Grumpy Old Git.

PS There are some good programmes - these are the ones that I watch of course!!!!

Can't stand Jo Brand - unfunny, offensive ( in an unimaginative,unoriginal way) - just wonder how she ever got on TV. I'm sure she is a lovely person in private, but just seeing her on the box makes my eyes ache!

Quatermass scared the life out of me too, Annodomini and Whenim64 - watched it from behind the sofa, eyes half closed, and then to bed and nightmares!

Cilla Black, there is always the danger she might sing.

I was petrified of the Daleks, particularly when the boss one crept out of his metal body and was all jelly-like on the floor.

When it gets too scary I turn the sound off - never seems so bad when it is "muted" . Come to think of it, that might work for Strictly as well ??

I found the Cybermen more scary than the Daleks. And as for those angels...

The probllem is that, once something is in your head it will never go away. The Charlton Heston flm The Omega Man stopped me going in the garden after dark for years.

same as janeainsworth got to be crimewatch

also!! dod anyone watch the Dissapeared it was about 2 weeks ago but I only watched it on Sunday..it was very sad, it focussed on the IRA taking people from their homes and "disposing of them" they took one lady who had 10 children, they came for her took her away and the children never saw their mother again..her body was found I think in 2003 and they were able to give her a decent burial.. it was very sad listening to her now grown son.