Billie Piper.

Monkey-Horses scare me.

The Myrka scared me because of it's cheap production values.

I really preferred the Cyberment. I'd never seen them before Earthshock but had read all the books. They turn up unannounced (no giveaway title), and are responsible for the death of a companion. Then it all fades to balck.

Storming way to come back.

What really scared me though was the 'time tunnel' effect at the beginning of the show in the Tom Baker years. Weird.

Both exactly the same as me! The Mummies were awful, but the Robots Of Death petrified me.

It was the Nestene monster on the front of Terror of the Autons for me. A really horrible picture of a squishy mutant octopus monster. Send me shuddery even now, thinking about it.



I can relate to that! Watching The Power of Kroll recently, the tentacles are horribly gooey and slimy and writhing. I don't like tentacly things, or things that feel a bit clammy and nasty. The monster that really creeped me out was the Vervoids. They're forever bursting out of ventilation shafts and lurching through doorways, cornering people in cramped cabins, and the rubbery costume makes sense because they're rubber plants! They seem so relentless and lethal, and are horribly clammy and slimy looking. Terror of the Vervoids is one of my very favourite DW stories!

The BBC's early 80s Triffids gave me nightmares. Watching it again recently, it still gives me the shudders. (I didn't bother with the new version. Too much CGI).



I could never watch Threads. Far too real and horrible.



I have always said that I expected the Kandyman would have scared kids to death, and you are the first person that has confirmed it! Don't feel embarrassed about it! I love The Happiness Patrol: laugh-out-loud funny with a real tinge of nastiness to it. The Kandyman is hilarious, and I am actually glad to know you were scared!

The anti matter creature in Planet Of Evil creeped me out back in 1975. That shimmering outline and the weird rattling sound it made were pretty scary to this 8 year old.
Never had nightmares over it, but it was quite weird.
The spiders in Planet Of The Spiders were also pretty creepy too.
Looking back now, neither seems especially frightening, but as a child your perceptions are greatly different.
Interesting thread - especially those who were scared by the Nimon, or the Kandyman. Just goes to show that Doctor Who has always scared kids, regardless of how crap the monsters are seen by adults.
My youngest was freaked out by the werewolf in Tooth and Claw - she was 8 at the tiime and both girls were scared by The Unquiet Dead - mind you, so was I!!

I think because they are such common objects (the shop window dummies.) I didn't like them either.

The Master in Deadly Assassin, even the video case scared me.

http://www.cultfiction.com.au/userim...1162125709.jpg

One of the first Doctor Who stories I ever saw.

I never really watched Classic Who has a kid but I do remember one moment when I was little, there was an episode on in the background, there was a telly in the kitchen. I think it was a Tom Baker episode, The Doctor and companion were in this cave. Outside some creature of some kind just appeared out of nowhere, rose from the uprising of a hill. It just freaked me out. As the episode closed that same creature blocked the exit, made all these creepy noises then the credit rolled. The scene, the monster (whatever it was) and the end music just creeped me out and I could barely watched. And that's my only prior memory of Doctor Who before the TV Movie.

I've probably dreamt of Doctor Who a few times but the one I do remember revolved around The Weeping Angels. I posted about it before but I was standing alone at a mates house when I spotted an Angel standing outside the house and I just froze. And you know what dreams are like it just doesn't occur to you that what you're seeing isn't real so, knowing what the Angels could do, I just froze. I never saw the Doctor in the dream but I could hear Ten's voice saying "Don't Turn your back, Don't look away, and Don't Blink" It was weird because even though nothing actually happened in the dream I woke up and for a few minutes I was terrified lol.

The Ghosts from Unquiet Dead, the Carrionites, The Gas Mask Zombies, The Daleks in the final scene of Army of Ghosts, The Weeping Angels all have the honour of having managed to scare me in some fashion in new Who so far.

Yes, it was The Vault of Horror, a film about 5 men who get trapped in a room and tell eachother about the nightmares they had the night before. But it turns out that those things did actually happen and that they are actually dead, and to pay for their evil-doings they have to get together and tell their stories to eachother every single night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vault_of_Horror_(film)

I think Tom Baker's story is the best one, though maybe I'm just biased.
I find it ironic that at this time out of the 5 actors he's probably the least famous, but in just a year's time he would be the most famous actor in the country, playing you-know-Who.

My auntie who has downsyndrome used to absoloutly love DW all the classic series and up to this episode new who she now refuses to watch since the gas mask child. This is also the only episode that has given me the hebjebes. i had teh dream i was on a operating table and my wife (gf at the time) was around the table with two work collueges and the gas mask zombies where trying to get in and then one of my colluges went funny and turned but i was straped down and couldnt get away and they grabbed my hand with there thumb and fore finger and i woke up screaming and could feel the pain in my hand when i had awoke. turns out my better half had fallen asleep on me and my arm had gone dead freaked me out at the time though!

Yup - apparently I freaked out because of the dummies in the window of a department store in Glasgow (Goldberg's I think) shortly after seeing the autons on Doctor Who.

I was very young with an overactive imagination!

None did

Doctor who isn't a scary show. It's clever and entertaining. Scary, hell no.

You don't have to young to freak about about these things. Thanks to Doctor Who I have never looked at Shop dummies and Statues the same way again.

Most nightmares tend to be about things that 'aren't real'

For me I would have to say the gas mask zombies or the transformation scene done by Richard Wilson actually made me have a nightmare. Then again I would also say the giant Spiders featured in Planet of the Spiders also gave me nightmares, but thats because I suffer from Arachnophobia.

I confess to being another person freaked out by the Kandyman, and the autons.

But the one that scared me above all others was Mr Sin from Talons

I used to walk up my stairs sideways with my back against the wall as i was convinced he was going to jump from the landing upstairs and land on my back

My earliest memory of Doctor Who is Planet of the Spiders. something about those huge spiders on peoples backs burned itself into my 3 year old brain... and scared the life out of me.

I think that must have been the year that The Green Death was repeated because I also remember being really freaked out by the giant maggots, but i can't imagine I was aware enough to have "watched" it when it was originally broadcast.

Mr Sin is very, very scary!

The new series has done scares very well: Zombiegran in The Unquiet Dead and Richard Wilson's transformation scene are both quite extreme for a kids/family show, i think.

Let's not forget the scare power in an immobile statue either!

Dont laugh but I had a nightmare before the last specials were due to be screened that the master was going to kill everyone and I had to find the dr (the recennt master-Jon Simms and the last dr Tennant ) and then I saw him with a lady who was his mum (didnt look far off the woman that was in the specials) I had two dr who dream and I havent been watching any dr who for ages , weird , that but the master wasnt as scary as he was in series 3 , more funny , I found the master though evil and he took over the human race and killed some people and ate like a pig and hurt the dr , less scary then when he was Harold Saxon and he was horrid even more to the dr , I was more worried about the dr and how he would change then myself being scared , also iI found the dr being dead in "Turn left" more scary than any monster as you sort of feel reassured he is around whatever form , also him dying was scary as you dont want him to go even though he turns into someone else , I actually was relieved whne he turned into Matt smith , I didnt like that regenration , made me feel he was dying axhe doesnt

Ahhhh the Kandyman.....yes.


I cannot remember how old I was (but very young that is for sure), and whether I watched a whole episode, or just a bit with him in it, or even saw him on some clip show....no idea....but one thing is for sure that i did see him....and he put me off my favourite sweets......seriously to this day I have not touched those sweets that remind me of the Kandy man!!!

Thanks for this info Meglos... I can see me hunting it down for another watch as the story premise it brilliant and I remember it spooking the life out of me. Again ta

Two that gave me nightmares were The Night of the Demon and The Quatermass Experiment.
As you can guess from their age I am in my 50's.
They are of their time and kids would scoff at them now, but as a 9 year old they scared the bejesus out of me.
In NOTD it was the Demon itself and the chase through the woods, but in TQE it was the special effect on the faces of the victims. Comical now maybe but quite shocking at the time.

When I was a young lad in the 1960's, the Daleks gave me terrible nightmares! I still watched every episode they were in.

While they didn't actually scare me, I did just happen to have a dream where a Silent was trying to kill me...

I've had dreams where I've been a Silent. But only Reapers have actually been in a dream as an enemy.