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My mum phoned me up to say she thought this episode would be too scary for me (I'm 45)

She'll also tell anyone who will listen how I used to hide behind the sofa during numerous programmes including Dr Who, Scooby Doo and most bizarrely during the verdict of Crown Court

No, as far as I can remember (it's a long way back to Jon Pertwee), I didn't. I was more a 'hide behind hands and peer through a tiny gap' girl.

But I do have memories of my mum yelling 'QUICK' to my brother and him stuffing my head in a cushion when the theme music came on (and of me screaming and crying like a..a.. kid scared out of her wits, if he didn't time it properly).

My 2yr old son is a huge DW fan (he watches the dvds every day, takes 2 DW figures, a dalek, a cyberman a K9 and a tardis to bed with him and one of his 1st words was Dr Whooooooooooo lol) but the only thing thats ever scared him is The Controller in Bad Wolf!!!

He laughed when he saw the statues in Blink, he might have been laughing at me tho cos I jumped so high I almost put a hole in the ceiling

I can remember a saturday night as a kid, watching a Tom Baker Dr who episode, at the end of the episode thise guy took his mask off to reveal his true face, he was a one eyed monster'y dude thing. Scared the cr*p out of me at the time.

Come bed time i wouldn't go, which was a shame because my brother and his girlfriend was looking after me that night, my parents having gone out for the evening, my bro and his gf wern't too pleased I can tell you!

Yes it's scary, but it is fun too! And let's be honest it's no more scary than all those computer games they endlessly play these day's.

My friend is a teacher (Y6) and had to do a WWII history lesson not long after The Empty Child, with - you've guessed it - a gas mask demonstration. Cue most kids refusing to try it and lots of "Are you my Mummy?" chanting...

Another time, after The Devil Pit, she inadvertently walked in front of the interactive whiteboard (For those of you used to blackboards & chalk, it projects a PC screen onto a large screen so the class can see it!) resulting in the type being projected onto her face and prompting the class to call out "Look, Miss is the devil!" She couldn't work out why at first!

I expect there's been a lot of sniffing since The Family of Blood. (The little sods will claim it's hay fever...)

we record then i have a look before our 6 year old watches or not. i remeber watching doctor who when i was little and sometimes it was very scary, this is by far the best episode bar none in my opinion.

Er...Why?

Just a quick point for those of you with young kids, next weeks episode Utopia has in it Derek Jacobi who is the narrator of In The Night Garden. I am going to ensure that my 2 year old does not hear any of it because I do not want her to relate it to her bedtime programme. (Although Jacobi could be good guy and it might not matter??)

I mainly do not want it to spoil it as it sends her to sleep no bother, so easy for me

my 6yr old daughter is scared of the angels, but my 8yr old daughter and 5yr old son were fine.

I gave my daughter a little teddy dog, and told her if the dog sleeps on her pillow it will eat the crying angels and anything else that scares her. Shes slept just fine since, as long as she has the dog with her.

Mary Whitehouse would turn in her grave.

Finally got round to watching the episode last night - both me and my husband found it pretty creepy, and actually commented that we should have been watching it on a dark winter's night with rain lashing at the windows.

My mum said when I was little I always used to cry when I heard the Dr Who music, even if it was just on the radio. It was a Tom Baker episode which scared me, but unfortunately she can't remember which one!

My 13 year old daughter watches Dr.Who first, while we record it, and lets me know if she thinks it will be too scary for me! (I'm 42!)

She was most unnerved by the little girl in Family of Blood being trapped in the mirrors!

My 19 year old daughter has slept in a friend's room every night sonce she saw the episode (she is at uni). She didn't like statues, especially living statues before this but I suspect we'll never get her back to Covent Garden again after this.

Thank god my son doesn't watch In The Night Garden, i've only just read your post.

Blink is the scariest thing I think I have ever actually seen

It was a really good episode but I couldnt sleep at all

I was like Oh my god I am 17 and Im scared by something that isnt even real but it got to my head

And the girl in the mirror bit on family of blood was awful as well I hate looking in mirrors

I shouldnt watch doctor who really I just scare myself into a frenzy

But its just so darn good

Steven Moffat is very clever ... with classic doctor who we could all hide behind the sofa/pillow/hand when it all got too scary, and the nasty monsters would go away ... the weaping angels are at their most scary when you can't see them, so that sofa's not much use now!

I'm really loving all the Steven Moffat episodes, he certainly knows how to write a good tale! (Was interested to see we wrote Jekyll as well, quite surprised they didn't make a bigger thing about this considering how much the DW fans are loving him at the mo.)

When i was a kid, the daleks made me scared and I always hid behind the sofa. Statues have now been added to my list of ebilness, which includes daleks, clowns and now, statues LOL

Finally - an episode that scared on a level that Tom Baker episodes did. I love Dr Who and I think that the main reason is that I was so scared. I did hide behind the sofa - I was convinced that the Daleks would come out of the screen and get me. Laws of physics be damned - if they could scare the Doctor then they could scare me.

There is nothing wrong with kids being scared of this stuff - we should be thankful that life is so good that they are scared of this.

The fondest moments of my childhood? Tom Baker pulling a face off a person to reveal an android and Sapphire and Steel fighting a man made from photographs with no face ("When I went up the stairs, I met a man who wasn't there").

I'm 37 years old, and when the light started flickering I was looking to see if there was room behind the sofa!

Stephen Moffat - I salute you.

My brother's girlfriend made comment of the scariness of "Blink". She thought it was very scary.

When we were children, my sister and I couldn't hide behind the sofa; it was up against the wall. We used to keek around the door, or through the gap at the hinge.

Things that scared us were the giant maggots, sea devils, giant spiders and the daleks (Jon Pertwee's era). We loved it.

Now, my eldest nieces (ages 8 and 5) have been captivated by the programme. It seems to capture their imagination.

Well I never thought the makers of Doctor Who were actively trying to terrify children… until this series with the "every statue is a monster" and "every mirror has an alien girl trapped in it" messages. That montage of statue photos was just ridiculous!

No doubt at all that they are trying to terrify children, rather than entertain a general audience.