Scariest Dr Who episode

Kieran_Burns

I've just been watching Christopher Eccleston's brief stint as Dr Who and "The Empty Child" was frankly scary as hell (WWII child with the gas mask). The part with the mask growing out of Richard Wilson's face had me crawling up the back of the chair. :shock:

So. when you were growing up, which was the scariest episode for you?

Mine was always the Green Death. I will not watch it again. Simply because I know that as an adult I will find the effects laughable; but as a small boy: they scared the hell out of me.

rolf_f

The Pyramids of Mars was the one that really scared me - Egyptian mummies in an old house...... I have seen it relatively recently and the effects were laughable but it was still ok.

PBo

John pertwee's final outing with the giant spiders.....

redvee

As a 6yr old anything with the cybermen had me watching with a cushion in front of my face, unfortunately that is still the issue as a 40yr old :oops:

daddy0

MTFU.

Dr Who is not scary!

DrLex

Terror of the Autons for me- still reluctant to smell flowers forty years on.

Kieran_Burns

Daddy0 wrote:

MTFU.

Dr Who is not scary!

You did read the bit where I said "when you were growing up..." didn't you?

Stevo_666

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Mine was always the Green Death. I will not watch it again. Simply because I know that as an adult I will find the effects laughable; but as a small boy: they scared the hell out of me.

Beat me to it. Scared the cr@p out of me when I was a kid, but I did watch it again a few years ago and it was so bad it was funny. They must have got those maggots that anglers put on their hooks as bait to use as the 'monsters'.

Kieran_Burns

DrLex wrote:

Terror of the Autons for me- still reluctant to smell flowers forty years on.

Oh God - that was one the with the chair that smothered that guy. The actor that played the master was up there with the Child Catcher for creepy!

mudcow007

most of them

i still remember now saying to my mum an dad "oh go on, let me watch them, i promise i wont get nightmares etc etc...." an yep every time i watched them i was scared witless an had nightmares

Cleat Eastwood

Stevo 666 wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Mine was always the Green Death. I will not watch it again. Simply because I know that as an adult I will find the effects laughable; but as a small boy: they scared the hell out of me.

Beat me to it. Scared the cr@p out of me when I was a kid, but I did watch it again a few years ago and it was so bad it was funny. They must have got those maggots that anglers put on their hooks as bait to use as the 'monsters'.

Thats the one i was thinking of. Watched it with my niece a few years about - like they say "never go back"

gbsahne001

One from Tennant's collection; the angels

Hoopdriver

Yes, the weeping angels. Scary.

Kieran_Burns

Hoopdriver wrote:

Yes, the weeping angels. Scary.

The first episode was very well done. The whole unknown danger aspect was proper seat of the pants stuff

Agent57

The scariest thing I remember as a child was an episode of... I can't recall what it was an episode of. But basically one of the characters looked out of a window at night, outside a group of masked druids or something looked up. That's all I can remember, but for some reason it scared me. Enough that I can recall it, some 35 years later.

Might have been "Children of the Stones", which according to Wikipedia " is frequently cited by those who remember it as one of the scariest things they saw as children".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Stones

SteppenHerring

The most terrifying Dr. Who episode surely has to be where he regenerated and it was Sylvester McCoy. Although Peter Davison is up there too (Tom Baker fell off a radio telescope IIRC).

rhext

Dr Who and the Seeds of Doom for me. I had a very sheltered upbringing, in that we didn't have a telly in the house until I was I guess about 10ish. My Gran had an old black-and-white which we were allowed to watch on the rare occasions that we went to see her. My childhood experience of telly was therefore maybe 2 or 3 times a year watching old cowboy movies in black-and-white.....and then somehow we tuned into an episode of Dr Who. I had nightmares for weeks about that one...the bit where the seed hatches and latches onto the back of someone's hand.

mudcow007

No Dr Who

but the scariest thing i seen on telly was this episode of Buffy the vampire slayer



it was called "Hush"

freaking scary man

Stevo_666

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Mine was always the Green Death. I will not watch it again. Simply because I know that as an adult I will find the effects laughable; but as a small boy: they scared the hell out of me.

Beat me to it. Scared the cr@p out of me when I was a kid, but I did watch it again a few years ago and it was so bad it was funny. They must have got those maggots that anglers put on their hooks as bait to use as the 'monsters'.

Thats the one i was thinking of. Watched it with my niece a few years about - like they say "never go back"

Go on, click

msmancunia

My boss, who is a Dr Who expert (and created a BBC competition last year for schoolchildren to write an episode) said The Deadly Assassin (Tom Baker).

rjsterry

The Bertie Bassett one - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happiness_Patrol

Found the more recent Bassetts adverts slightly sinister as a result.

dee4life2005

As a kid the scariest I can remember was when the daleks learnt to deal with stairs, in "Rememberance of the Daleks" in 1988 - I was 9 at the time.

More recently, "The time of angels" and "The empty child" were reasonably scary - though nothing compares to watching Dr Who as a kid.

CiB

I never bothered with it much as a kid so can't offer an opinion other than to flag up that Carey Muuligan in Weeping Angels was just the full 10.

Boy #2 (nearly 10 now) in our house was a full-on Who fan up till the last couple of series but nowadays the constant pushing of the gay agenda & relationships ishoooos has bored him to the point where he's not that bothered but quite happily spends some of his pocket money buying old episodes on DVD, esp Tom Baker and the b/w Patrick Troughton shows. He wants exciting thrills, not The Doctor kissing everybody in his path.

gbsahne001

A few of the Tom Baker episodes that stick in my mind;-

- The Talons Of Weng-Chiang

- The Robots Of Death

- Nightmare Of Eden

The last one for having an OHP image that you could interact with and walk into, which as an 11yo seemed really cool. The first one primarily because it was creepy and also had Leela running around in furs and not much else.

CanalRider

Hoopdriver wrote:

Yes, the weeping angels. Scary.

Got to agree with this, the one that just could be true, scare me.

wyadvd

i remember a john petwee episode with FO massive maggots that were semi- carniverous.

scared the hell out of me. Kids need the hell scared out of them its good for the soul.

heres a link goddamn it was 1974! I was eight years old!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ ... tail.shtml

Kieran_Burns

wyadvd wrote:

i remember a john petwee episode with FO massive maggots that were semi- carniverous.

scared the hell out of me. Kids need the hell scared out of them its good for the soul.

heres a link goddamn it was 1974! I was eight years old!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ ... tail.shtml

Yup - that's the same one as me. I can clearly remember a few nightmares thanks to that episode

beverick

Any episode with Peter Davidson in it....

His acting was that bad....

Bob

SimonAH

beverick wrote:

Any episode with Peter Davidson in it....

His acting was that bad....

Bob

Oh he was truly poor wasn't he?

My childhood Dr Who memories are the black and white credits and hiding behind the sofa.

The gasmask-face-child one though was proper good.

gbsahne001

and the slight issue with continuity, where a gallifreyan guard was played by an actor, who went on to become the 6th doctor

NGale

the first one with the weaping angels, I'm an adult and that scares the poop out of me more than any episode from my childhood :shock: