Other creepy kids shows?

The Changes (on BBC1) and from ITV, Timeslip, The Tomorrow Children, and one about a guy (called "Sky"?) with completely blue eyes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185113/

There was a terrifying creey anthology series for kids on the BBC around 1980-82 called SHADOWS, which freaked me out as a wee one. Some of the episodes of the TWILIGHT ZONE (1985-87) also scared me numb, especially Joe Dante's "The Shadowman" and William Friedkin's "Nightcrawlers"...

Does anyone remember a short film about a haunted quarry? I remeber seeing it in the mid to late 80s, thought it could have been a 70s film. I'm pretty sure it came on BBC kids tv, the Broomcupboard or something, probably about 1987?

It turned out the 'monster'in the film was an old digger that had been abandoned on the quarry bed, then the quarry pit filled with water. I think the story was that air pockets pushed the front loader bit up above the surface occasionally and it was all covered in reeds so looked scary.

I was convinced it was a Children's Film Foundation production as I'm sure I remember those birds at the start (all those flapping birds, now that is scary), but I have been through all the information I can about these films and none of them seem to fit. I'm not even sure it was a British film now, it could have been American. I even bought some of the CFF films that looked promising but they were a no go!

If the plot rings any bells with anyone, please give me a title! I've tried every combination of google search and come up with nothing, its driving me mad!!

I remember one from the early 70's about a schoolgirl who was off school ill and convalescing..she had a drawing book and a pencil and whatever she drew came to life...she drew a house and then a boy in the house then she argued with him and drew some massive stones with big eyes so he couldnt escape..but she drew them with pen and couldn't erase them....I can't remember what it was called though

it was made into a film in the 1990's but the film was crap

I just found a Beauty on youtube. If anyone remembers Nobody's House. I was only 5 or so when this programme aired but i remember being scaredy cat whilst watching some of it.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rbIFsMALnLs

I hope this might be an appropriate thread where I might be able to lay an old ghost that keeps coming back to haunt me every so often...

I remember a show on TV in the 70s which I'm sure was on in the kids late afternoon telly spot. I think it was a serial and that it was shot on film as I remember the stark, grainy film look that set it apart from video, or at least this location shot was on film as was usual then.

All I think I can remember is that there was a scene (possibly a recurring one in the credits, which might be why it sticks in my mind) which involves entering a cave and a fire burning inside the cave. I've an idea that this scene might be integral to the climax of the serial.

I've asked loads of people about this but no one has identified it. I've done internet searches on likely key words ('fire', 'cave', etc,) I've even bought a few DVDs of shows that I have very vague recollections of (such as 'Children of the Stone', hence me writing here) in the hope that I'd find this scene and finally lay the ghost to rest, but no such luck.

I hope someone out there can help me. Can you be my ghostbuster? It drives me potty whenever it enters my head. Not that I'm thinking about it all the time, but when I do it like a gaping big hole in my memory that needs filling and it always feels weird not being able to fill the gap.

Chris.

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Some of these series were so scary, I think we should start Support groups for damaged adults who watched them as children. I for one, still feel a twinge of anxiety about sleeping with a gap in the curtain - the effect of watching Escape Into Night. The idea of the Watchers - the evil stones staring at the windows, I guess, never went away.

They wouldn't ALLOW programming like that nowadays. It seems there are a lot of adults who remember these series and will NEVER EVER forget them. And because they are not remembered by anyone other than the particular generation that watched them, talking about them can make you feel like you made it up. It's a relief to find others that remember. I feel like we went through something akin to the Manchurian Candidate, or Jacob's Ladder.

Anyway... does anyone remember a series where machines/appliances turned against humans? I vaguely remember a there was a girl who was on the run from cars and radios etc. The most menacing image that I still remember was the electricity pylons - like great sentient tripods bearing down... (they didn't actually move, but it seemed they knew she was there)