Talking of which, if anybody has the Series Blackpool in which David Tennant has a major role, towards the end of the series, over his shoulder, you can see the signs "Dr Who exhibition" ...

Did they know way back then that he would be Dr Who?

My 6 year old son has lapped up all the new Whos and never admitted to being scared until we re-watched The Girl In The Fireplace. At the moment where the Clockwork Droid is under the bed and takes a swipe at The Doctor my son was sitting with his hands over his eyes!
A classic scary moment and a classic child's reaction. It really took me back to my childhood - except back then (pre-videos) you could only watch an episode once.

I have a 9 year old daughter who loves Dr Who. She also watches it from behind the chair and peeking round the living room door!
After The Girl In The Fireplace she had us upstairs hunting for the ticking noise as she was too scared to go to sleep whilst she could hear it.

I find it laughable.

My niece and nephew both had nightmares after watching TGitF (they only saw it a couple of days ago) and have decided that watching DW just before going to bed is a bad idea

Any future viewings will be in broad daylight I've been told.

It will be interesting to see the difference the next episode generates. Apparently scores a "5" for the kiddlies!

K

My 7 year old son loves Dr Who - don't think it scares him one bit

You either you love it, hate it, or love to hate it, if you get my drift

EXCRETE! EXCRETE!

I have never, ever, ever been scared of Dr. Who, thank you very much.

My three year old son loves Doctor Who. No I have not brainwashed him. I didn't even tell him about it. He just found my videos of the old series and asked for them to be played. I saw no harm as I can remember "Day of the Daleks" from when I was 18 months old.
He hasn't seen the new series except for "Dalek". I don't think it would be as accessible to him. He absolutely loves "Revelation of the Daleks". It does not remotely frighten him.
I can remember Christmas 1975, aged 4 years old, I was given a battery powered Dalek with Sparking light under the dome. I was overjoyed when I opened the wrapping and saw it. When my Dad put the Battery in and switched it on I remember that I ran away in tears because I thought I would be exterminated.
I never thought that I was frightened of the programme, but I must have been to some extent. I also remember being creeped out by the Pod in "The Seeds of Doom". Until recently I had not seen that since it was first broadcast, but the "Pod" scenes were fresh in my mind detail for detail.

My son (11) freaked out over the kids with gas mask faces episode. Hasn't watched it since - it gives him the creeps now as he doesn't know what to expect from it. He prefers the predictability of US progs. Only the earlier episodes with William Hartnell and the Master did it for me as a kid (gave me age away then!).

You find what laughable? What is this thread's title?


And was that the question? What's your point?

Tele addict -- question... do not be insulted, but are you older or younger? Neither is bad, only I ask because I think that there are different kinds of scary ... and it depends on your age, I expect.

Dunno, I think a few have managed to creep me out a bit. Empty Child, absolutely creeped me out, I'm rather older and creeping me out over a programme is not the easiest thing to do. I canna remember the last time a show creeped me out -- but TEC managed to do it, as well as my dad and my sister.

I don't have kids myself, but I will say that the original Daleks managed to get me, the Master, as well as the early Tom Baker years. I think people today have a different scale of scary: When I was young, Alfred Hitchcock was really scary. The Avengers episode House that Jack built was scary -- mental mind play. Peter Lore could freak you out during a radio play, you didn't even need to see his mad eyes bugging out, his voice alone made you shiver. You didn't need to cut off a whole bunch of fingers to make someone creeped out.

I prefer the mind games -- I think they can be much more scary, and while the Doctor is capable of usually figuring things out, one thing they do well on this show is allowing someone else to be the hero occasionally -- the Doctor doesn't always do everything right. Especially with CE which I just loved.

But I think today, because gore and blood is so prominant in everything "scary" people about 30ish and younger seem to think that the only thing that's scary is blood, which I disagree with. I think the new Who might be tame by that standard -- there's not a lot of blood or gore, but sometimes it's a different old-fashioned sort of scary, like when the Dalek play mind games with Doctor. No blood, but you know he's rattled.




..........Am I making any sense?

I did that when I was younger, watching the old programmes! The Daleks managed to get me -- Davros, and the Master was rather creepy as well, I loved the William Hartnell episodes but my favourite was always Tom Baker, always wished I'd had a grandfather or an uncle like Tom, he was just wonderful. But his early episodes managed to creep me out as well, I'd watch from behind the sofa, and my dad would have to put me to bed every night, deal with me running in the middle of the night screaming about the master in my room!

My poor dad would tell me I wasn't allowed to watch Who if it scared me that badly, and I would sob until he told me I was allowed to again, this was sort of a running cycle in my house.... but I was never too scared to not watch it the next week. I had (still have) the best dad in the world -- he'd just sit with me and put up with me, he'd put me to bed and sit with me until I fell asleep, and then deal with me half way through the night crying over the Who episode, he's so great!

my 6 year old son loves it, but is definitely not scared.

i hid behind the sofa when i was young, but nowadays kids see a lot more violence and sci-fi on the television that they are used to it.