Genuinely disturbing episodes. Not least when an (unseen) Master murders a policeman and then Tegan's aunt while laughing his socks off.

It's the same creepy scariness that makes Earthshock's first couple of episodes so terrifying.

Haemovores. Didn't sleep for months.

+ 1 on the Sea Devils.

The Cybermen, because they were implacable.

The Daleks, because of their voices.

Let's be honest, Fruedians could have a field day..

Ah, thanks. I'm kind of embarrassed I got Tom and Jon mixed up to be honest

Julian Glover peeling his face off at the end of City of Death, episode 1.

For me, the end of ep 1 of Destiny Of The Daleks with Davros coming back to life. That made a big impact as also my first memory of Who at aged 4 years 9 months old. Also as stated various scenes from Logopolis, mainly ep 1.

I do have some memories of finding quite a bit of Revelation Of The Daleks scary and very dark. Even to this day I still look at Revelation as being 1 of if not the scariest or certainly the darkest stories of its time.

Android Sarah Jane rolling down and her falling off. Goes without saying the Zygons.
Always found the Sontarans a bit creepy as well.
Maybe because I saw Beneath the Planet of the Apes at a similar time.

I think Daleks were extra scary if you had lino in your house.

The first time I was scared watching Doctor Who was a repeat on BBC2 when I was a young'un.

I'm assuming it was an auton. It was walking around in a field and it creeped the hell out of me.

I didn't watch the classic series so you imagine my despair when I decided to give it a go when it returned in 2005 with none other than the Autons.

Only two really terrifying childhood memories:

The end of The Dead Planet, with Barbara screaming in terror at the sight of something evidently horrifying, but completely unidentifiable. [ When I got to see the Daleks in full in the next episode, it was such a relief that they were not whatever formless horrors had haunted my imagination for a week, that I loved them at once.]

The other is a man turning into a Varga plant in Mission to the Unknown. [Stupid as it sounds, I don't think I really noticed that none of the regulars was present, but their absence must have given the whole episode a less comfortable feel than usual. I remember it as very grim.]

Yes, me too! It terrified me then, and still makes me shiver.

The most wonderful thing about City of Death is that when I watched it, aged about 9, it scared me witless - the 'face reveal' in particular.

But watching it on DVD now I'm an old git, I must say, its absolute comedy genius. Not just the John Cleese but, but all of it.

The Sontaran reveal in the Time Warrior for me.
And then Davros in Genesis of the Daleks, pretty much throughout.
The Talons mask business was quite scary as well but I was a bit older by then.

My mum used to borrow her friends kids my VHS tapes back in the day of the VHS releases. Her friends 6 year old got very, very scared by the mummy's walking round killing people by crushing them in Pyramids Of Mars.

Nah, jimbo_bob means the Wirrrrrn () from The Ark in Space surely?

Small green and maggoty, to big green and maggoty (and humany) then finally insecty.

Scary episode - put me off bubble wrap for ages


Personally, though it was the maggots from The Green Death that really scared me as a little one,

The old woman from The Unquiet Dead freaked me out in the trailer alone

The spider coming out of the melon and biting Romana at the end of an episode of Full Circle. I still get scared of melons in Tesco :/

The Malus face coming out the crack in the wall and Peter Doctor being surrounded in smoke.

I was born in '66 and so was young when I remember these. I really was scared. The green death terrified me. The Sontaron reveal as somebody put it. That was so bad I went outside in the dark to get away from watching it! - which must have made it bad as we lived opposite a graveyard.... I was less than 7 coz We moved house when I was 7. Without being rude I also remember the Sontarons head looked like the end of a willy. The midget in Talons... The Mona Lisa one was later with Tom but I remember being scared when the baddy changed faces a number of times or something. anyway, I was scared. Another one earlier when I lived opposite the graveyard was a purple thing with tentacle type thing on its head waving around. My dad used to proper sht me up by saying, "Beetroots in the dark" for weeks afterwards when he wanted me to squirm..... These memories have made me realise Im lucky Im not in a loonybin

My scariest moment wasn't on the TV but in Blackpool where there was some sort of convention on during my childhood (it will have been either Colin or Slyvestor as the Doc at the time) and I was super excited about going. We turned around the corner to face the Tower and there at the door was a Cyberman on one side, no problem there, and then a Dalek on the other.... time to go crazy in the middle of Blackpool
It scared the living wits out of me yet they had never done so on TV but I insisted it was real and dragged my Mum kicking and screaming right outa there. Funny looking back at it now but I wish I had gone inside, always regret that.

The Watcher in Logopolis for me. Probably one of my earliest DW memories, which is probably why it sticks, but I think the fact that it looked like some kind of zombie, and just didn't DO anything but look sinister. What is it? Why is it there? For god's sake, just attack someone!

The Autons from Spearhead from Space used to, and still do, creep me out.

Tom Baker.

I reckon it's Image of the Fendahl, which I can also remember vividly. Although it's the skull being superimposed on Benedict Cumberbatch's mum I recall the most.

Season 17 had the biggest impact - the Doctor clawing at Romana's grave, Daleks bursting through a wall, Scaroth tearing his own face off to reveal that huge eye, the Countess unrolling an ancient Egyptian scroll to reveal the same alien, the wolf weeds engulfing K9...

The wolf weeds and the Marsh men

Ah yes, Wanda Ventham with those painted on BIG eyes...that was a scary moment for me too!