I really can't see how kids could find the new series scary. The doctor seems so capable of defeating the enemies within 45 minutes. The latest series just seems too tame to find genuinely scary. Not having kids myself, i was wondering do your kids find it scary and hurry behind the sofa?

It did not scary me when it was on when I was a kid.

Scared the crap out of me, when I was little. Especially Tom Baker's early years (when it was really dark and gothic). I think some kids will be scared by it now.

The Doctor has always won. Doesn't stop a monster being frightening.

The Cybermen used to frighten me as a child.

My nephew and neice were both terrified of the werewolf in Tooth and Claw.

The only times mine have been uneasy (but not too scared to watch) have been the scabby sick people in the one with the cat nurses, and the gas mask children in the last series.

However, that was short lived. They've been doing WWII at school in history and the teacher was trying to show them a gas mask. She kept being interrupted by mournful cries of "Mummy...are you my mummy?"

oh how did thart go down

I think it would be interesting if they made it so the Doctor didn't win all of the time, maybe that would put the scare factor up a notch or two...

My 6-year-old godson was really scared by the ghosts in The Unquiet Dead last year - so much so that when I took him to the exhibition on Brighton pier and we reached their display he totally freaked out and I had to run carrying him through the rest of the exhibition (past an elevated, screaming dalek which didn't help) and straight out the other side!

He also was rather scared by the werewolf in Tooth and Claw - but he did say it was "wicked" afterwards...

That reminds me - the bit with the reel-to-reel tape recorder in The Empty Child. I'm 36 and I have to admit that bit made me jump.

I think it was funny for a minute and then the teacher got fed up of it...!!!

So he/she likes Dr Who

My 6 year old nephew explained to me at the weekend that 'it doesn't scare me when I'm watching it on the tv, but it does scare me when I go to bed' - apparently the wolf and the scabby people were responsible for several nightmares. Don't know how he felt about the Cybermen as yet.

The Empty Child scared the living daylights out of me (I'm 39 ), I was alone in the house and it didn't help the phone rang straight afterwards with one of my 'friends' thinking it was hysterical to start going 'Mummy, are you my mummy' down the phone at me

I was always scared of the TARDIS sound.

When I was little (around 6) my Mum + Dad took me to Brighton, there was a Dalek in the street, I screamed my head off and ran over the road, almost getting hit by a few cars! lol
I was hysterical,
"It... It... It's gonna exterminate us" *sniff*
I remember my Mum trying to explain that it wasn't a real Dalek, but she couldn't get me back over that road to look at it, i'm sure the passers by found it amusing! hehe

I remember reacting like that years ago at the DW exhibition in Blackpool - there was a Dalek right at the end that I really wasn't comfortable walking past, and had to be shielded by my Dad!!!

I always thought the Cybermen were a bit rubbish though; they looked like they'd been made on Blue Peter!

My son is 7 and has happily watched Harry Potter, Spiderman 2 with Doc Ock (who scared the living bejeessers out of me) War of the Worlds, etc. But the advert for the werewolf one shown as "next week on Dr Who" had him declaring he was not watching anymore. As a previous fm says - it doesn't matter who wins when you're that age. Its the sight of the monster not its potential to overcome the hero Dr. He has been true to his word and not watched since. Even the Dr Who Confidential on BBC3 which he did love.

LOL

Wipes coffee off monitor


My niece (5) and nephew (8) have still not watched T&C as they decided it was too scary just from the preview.

They have got scared and upset* over other things as well and I believe there has been the odd nightmare.




*My niece has been in tears twice over it but still loves the show

I am 33 and I still find it scary.

My 6 year-old niece still talks about the killer christmas tree - and she can't usually remember what happened last week.

My daughter was 6 when she started watching Dr Who last year. The first episode she saw was The Unquiet Dead, which I must admit i was slightly worried about. Apart from a couple of "cuddle up to Daddy" moments for reassurance she was fine and has since become a huge Dr Who fan, taking all the various aliens/monsters in her stride.

The hardest part, for me, is having to explain to her why I find some elements of the scripts funny... "Your so gay"... "I'm a chav!" etc... But I digress.

and so they should! I thought they scared everyone. They were fear factor 10 for me

No kids ta say if they find it frightening..............but the cybermen still have the power to make me poo me pants!

My nephew who is only 8 enjoyed the Cybermen episode but thought the Krillitanes and the Werewolf scared him more.

I've not asked the nephews and nieces this year but I know that there was some hiding behind the sofa last year (literally!). It gave me a warm glow hearing that.

Guess that's answered the OP's question!

My little 'un loves Doctor Who - (she hasn't got much choice, she's been watching the old ones with me since she was 2) - but some parts have been too scary for her - the gasmask change in The Empty Child and the Wolf transformation in Tooth and Claw.

And she wasn't allowed to watch The Unquiet Dead for a long time after it went out!