Not a monster for me, but endless threads about Sally bloody Sparrow!!!

no, really there is a hideous green slime creature I think in Ark of Space (anyone can correct me if I'm wrong) that kept me awake and Miss Evangelista in Forest of the Dead.

None. They're not real.

The Crying Child paintings.

I wonder if Dr Who could do a show about them?

http://ghoststudy.com/monthly/jun03/tears.html

I think it would make a great story in a similar vain to 'Blink'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTvrDdR2pds

LOL!!! I knew you would say that!!! You are a classic!

My Old Headmaster.

No. Wait. He wasn't in DW.

The original Cybermen nearly got me banned from watching by my Mum after a screaming fit in the early hours!

The Yeti in Web of Fear. Had been up to London and went on the tube a few weeks before which made it even scarier...

Coleen Nolan!

I'll raise you Nolan and go 'Mel B'

I remember reading the WH Allen Novelisation of
"The Awakening" when I was five years old, and
the Malus on the cover looked so terrifying that I
had to turn the book face down before I could
sleep.

Can I add Mel? Always expected her to Skweem and skweem until she made ME sick!

Ark in Space is an amazing story and it's interesting to know that they had to cut a suicide scene from it for one of the slime creatures you mention... which was in fact a bloke called Noah who mutated into a Wirrn... Dr Who at it's classic best.

The green slime creature was the larval form of the space going insect species "The Wirrn". Not too scary in itself, but if any human got the slime on them then they rapidly transformed into a slime creature themselves

I recall being very scared of the Autons - not sure about keeping me awake, but trips to the Croydon Whitgift centre took on a new aspect once I thought the shop dummies could come to life and start shooting!

Looking back a t when I was young and dodgy special effects and split screen technology were unknown to me, I was utterly scared to bits by Kroll in The Power Of Kroll, remember watching that through my fingers. And Scaroth ripping his human mask off to reveal some horrid creature with one eye wasn't too healthy either..........

I have to confess that 'Who' has never scared me. Even as a 5 year old I was able to take it for what it was.

However some of the Hammer Horror films used to frighten the life out of me. I remember one with (ironically) Tom Baker where he had to stop a self portrait painting getting trashed or it meant he would die in the same way as the paining did.

It was really unnerving. Anyone remember this?

The first time Bonnie Langford appeared on screen as Mel I ran screaming from the room, didn't sleep for a week after that....

I know I will regret this, but for me it was the Daleks

Jon Pertwee Day of the Daleks

My nan had a hard time convincing me that there was a man sat inside!

The Autons - scared the crap out of me as a child.

Also the sea devils.

The mummies in Pyramids of Mars freaked me out (I was only 5 at the time).

And I seem to recall having nightmares about being chased through a sandminer by some murderous robots...

If you mean literal Nightmares, as in going to bed and having scary dreams.....well that only happend once as far as I can remember, and from something I wasn't even scared of when watching that story. It was the Dalek...in well Dalek

The episode hadn't scared me or anything, but I remember having the dream, either on the same night or a few days later, where the Dalek was chasing me, and I made the stupid decision of running upstairs....so you can probably guess what happend in the end! So yes strangely enough, and episode that I enjoyed very much so, didn't scare, gave me nightmares!!!


If we talk about the fear while watching the stories, the fun scares, well then it hasn't happend that often, but The empty Child appearing in its room after the tape ran out, the end of Blink, with the normal statues, the scarecrows in FOB, Toby in the Satan two parter, the man turning into the warewolf in Tooth and Claw.
The scares that actually sent a proper chill down my back have been, most of Midnight!, The end of Waters of Mars, the holocaust/labour camp references in both POTO and Turn Left, the scene where the Daleks kill the whole family in Stolen Earth, the end of Family of Blood, and the Cabinet scene with the Master.

I'm really ashamed to admit this, especially as I've seen them as a grown up and they are probably the least convincing monster EVER with their paper mache heads, but.... The Nimon!!

I remember that in the same run of episodes there had been daleks, and that bloke Scaroth that ripped his face off to reveal a green hairy face with one eye underneath, neither of which I flinched at, but I couldn't even look at the screen when the nimon were on, I had to turn away and ask my dad to tell me when they'd gone!

None actually gave me nightmares, but I do remember as a child being scared by the Sontaran in The Time Warrior (the cliffhanger at the end of Part 1) and by the Krynoid in The Seeds of Doom.

O those Cybermen gave me nightmares, even now I can't go near tinfoil.

(To stop a mass attack, its called a joke)

In this case I'm 100% with you.

Though I have been seriously creeped out by being in an old overgrown graveyard and having creepy statues there. My OH found it hilarious and says that we have to go back there. I counter by pointing out that he has a problem with the Cybermen that dates back a lot longer than my problem with statues in graveyards.

The only TV show that has ever given me nightmares was Threads. There was a programme on C4 not that long ago about just how close we came at that time. It was a matter of hours.

The sea devils gave me nightmare when i was a kid, it's was their eyes that scared me lol........

i think i've only seen the episodes once..... would love to see it again

I know i will get slated for this but please remember i was only little it was the kandyman that did it for me! i couldnt go near allsorts for years after :S