Seeing the tv wheeled in at school then being scared to death at this, great days 🤣

For nearly half a century I thought i'd dreamt this show.

It's amazing how many british tv shows and movies were made in quarries. It could be a whole genre to itself.

He's like a cross between Freddie Kruger and Jimmy Saville.

He came towards us , he was pale thin and full of bling and some sort of alien artifiacts. He called them fix it badges and he made a strange alien like calling that said " how's about this then kids! ". We called him "The thin man who also ran for charity "

I’m 57 now and still have the nightmare of the thin man every now and then.We had to watch this at school.Absolutely terrifying at the time

I was so traumatised as a child having to watch this, l am not even sure l can watch this clip now. This gave me nightmares!!!

Sitting in a classroom in an East London school back in the mid 80’s watching this. We all said how much we’d kick his head in.

I'm nearly 42 and I remember being freaked out by this at school in the mid 80's!,even now watching it back it still scares me a bit!!,Lol,very weird educational shows in the 80's were around,

I can remember the teachers making us watch this in primary school aged about 5. Absolutely shitting ourselves, but even at that age remembering not wanting to say didn't want to watch it. Can believe we were allowed to watch it looking back now. Many a sleepless night due to this programme.

I'm going on 52 and remember this from when I was about 7 years old (1973-ish). I LOVED it! It didn't scare me like it seems to have scared the 1980s kids who have commented here. Nowadays I love horror films though. I had blonde hair (all gone now!) and a similar haircut to the alien boy. I used to like to think that I was a weird space alien too ...it feels like it still, sometimes!

I used to watch this as a kid and the Thinman gave me nightmares well into my adulthood, FOR YEARS I TELL YOU!

The Thin Man was terrifying, but credit should no doubt also go to Paddy Kingsland, who composed the music. There's something really chilling about it.

John woodnutt played The Thin Man. He died in 2006, shame

All together now, everyone, and prepare to shed a tear: 'Out there in space, shall we find friends? Is there a place where the Universe ends? When shall we find it? Never, never; space goes on forever.'

im 39 now and still freaking out lol

Found it after all these years. Glad to see I'm in good company in being scarred for life by my primary school TV educational films!

When I was very young, this programme traumatised me. The Thin Man was the bogeyman of my childhood, and thoughts of it still unnerve me.

Enough to give you nightmares 45 years on

We all seemed to watch this AT SCHOOL... Wordy used to pop up in between... probably to ease the terror for us kids. Didn't work as we're all still haunted by it. Imagine playing similar in schools nowadays - there'd be an outcry and teachers (and the BBC) would get 'cancelled'! (Still loved it and it's stuck in our heads!)

35 years on, welcome back nightmares !

Lol can you imagine if children watched this now, they'd need therapy 😂

Scared the crap out of me. This scene stayed with me for a long time. Even freaks me out as an adult!

Jesus effing Christ! Why did I decide to look this up? As a 32 year old woman, this still scares me as much as it did as a kid, watching it in junior school! What were the teachers thinking? Ah the nostalgia

I can remember pushing the TV down the halls at school then watching this with my leg's crossed starring up at the old brown sided telly.

The programme responsible for a generation of bed-wetters. Absolutely terrifying

I only ever saw the first episode of this, one day when I was off school ill as we never got to watch telly in school. It's crazy how much of an obvious impact it had on me, still remembering it all these years later!

Remember this in school in the 80z watched it on the tv 📺 on wheels those were the days my friend we thought they never end happier times before all these computer fones that take over your kids lives. We knew how to have fun just being out all day n nite until dark

as a kid in the 70s I 💩 my pants at the scary thin man 🙄 even watching him now reminds me how I felt back then 😆

Remember watching this aged about 6 and going cold - it's still quite chilling now. Oh and here's a fact - the actress in that scene also appeared (among many other things) in the Heineken 'Water in Majorca' advert.

Im twenty-three now, I have been trying to find this since i was in Year 2. I remember watching this on the wheelie tv

Finally found it after forgetting its name, I'm almost 45 now and this used to give me the creeps as a kid!

scary fucking shit, i was 5 years old when i saw this in school. 80's education fucked up lol.

Id forgotten all about this show. Scared the crap out of me. Still kinda does haha

"Now spell gag, rope, and growing up alone!" "I'm so scared!" "SPELL IT!"

Lol can't believe I've found this, would like to see more, this and chokys children freakt me out as a young boy lol

Finally found it. This used to scare the crap out of me, so much that I used to sit out of the class when it came on!!!

I loved watching this as a child. I hope it's back on tv. It used to scare the shit out of me and then i would laugh at that funny looking alien man and boy.

They made us watch this at school so it would act as a deterrent from speaking to strangers we didn't know back in the 70s/ early to mid 80s. I think that was the aim, particularly with so many real life murderers being around back then.

Just when I was trying to get over the trauma that is the Picture Box theme tune, my teacher started a weekly viewing of this freaky shit. The Thin Man haunted me for years. I'm 40 and still waiting for the 80's TV PTSD to ease off. I know Fenella disappears into the floor everytime I turn around. WTF was Evil Edna?

Utterly scared the crap out of me for years after seeing as a child. Cathartic to watch this again!

Still gets me every time that kid stumbles……😅 It’s just madness on so many levels. Was there a single school pupil in the UK who didn’t see this. We saw it in the NE of Scotland. What was the educational value of this which made it compulsory lol.

I`m going on 44 years old, and for some reason this "programme' popped in to my head 36 years after watching it....god bless you tube for allowing me to look it up.I would have much preferred the Flumps, Pob, Chorlton & the Wheelies, the Wombles,, or anything else to enter my brain at 10 pm on a Saturday night, but this insane, warped and unremarkable piece of TV entered my head, and I felt compelled to look it up.Suffice to say its as bad as it was 36 years ago..... hopefully I will forget about it for another 36 years.

This was first shown around 1971/2 and then repeated many times on the daytime schools programme 'Look and Read'.

Why am I even looking at this. It scared me when I was six.

Our family moved from the centre of town to the edge of town next to a forest (which you had to drive between two halves of to get home) in 1981... just as our teacher started showing us this... Needless to say it totally f**cked me up as it seems to have done to all who watched it... the Thin Man was my stuff of nightmares... I used to try to persuade my mother to drive to town so we could go to the supermarket and be surrounded by lights and people rather than the darkness of our new house... At the age of 7 I thought the Thin Man was in that forest and was coming for me... In 2014 I bought the BFI DVD for my young nieces who didn't seem to bat an eyelid about him.. how times change!

Sends shivers down my spine to this day

I had to watch this in Primary School. I was about 7 or 8 years old. I was traumatised by this and I still don't like watching it now! It was so scary to watch as a young child :( I thought the creepy man was going to get me.

I watched this as a kid that music scared the shit out of me even just watching this gave me a chill and a flashback of being so scared lol

Old geeza in a flasher mac chasing kids in a secluded area... they got off lightly.

I actually loved it I couldent wait to see what happens next

I left school in 1980 (at 16) - This was something I saw when I was just 7 years old (1971)

I remember watching this in school as a kid. The boy from space and also the fairground. Dark Towers and wordy also.

If this is the programme I'm thinking of it scared me as a child.

It would have been around 1983 when I was 6 and at infact school, the teacher would wheel out this big TV and put Look and Read on once a week. I remember this clip, and a scene where a shadow was cast as someone was walking slowly up a staircase, thinking it was the Thin Man. I was traumatised watching it; should never have been subjected to it at that age, it had nothing to do with learning!

He looks like Jimmy Saville and we’re not surprised it was a BBC drama 😟

This freaked me out at school!!!

I remember faking illness so that I could stay home from school and watch this, having first watched it in earlier years in class. I remember the 'big' black and white school TV, that was on a tall trolley, that used to get wheeled into the class room! It never freaked me out at all, I just loved the story.

This still scares me now

"I wont sleep tonight" ..written by me, a 45 Yr old.🤣 I shit myself when I saw this as a kid

Still have nightmares of the thin man.im 54 years old now and he still pops up in my dreams 😳

Originally shown in the 70s. I watched this before I left primary school which was 1975. But yeah man, this was scary shit.

They done a great job sharing the crap out of us kids in the 70s with stuff like this. Always in quarries too. The cyber men from tom bakers dr who springs to mind lol

I was 7 when I first saw this in primary school. I shit myself with this scene!

Look and read classic made us watch all of them in first school

This scared the crap out of me when I was young it was on Words and Pictures back in the early seventies, stuff of bloody nightmares.

we watched boy from from space at school,and it really scared me,just watched clip and it still has a real spookiness to it!!

No wonder I couldn't sleep as a kid after watching this. In still 5hit scared now!!!

It was the close-ups (combined with the scary music) that made us shit our pants :(

I remember this... Look and read... We watched it at school...

nightmares for years because of this....

70's british television will never be equaled.

Never heard of this show until today in 2019

Im 43 now remember watching at 7 at primary school give me nightmares.

This scared the life out of me at school. Oh god!!!

Jimmy savil

I remember watching this at junior school. Utterly terrifying. They knew how to scar fragile minds in the 80s

Strange man, in mac coming towards us. Is it only now I see what the BBC was highlighting

How come kids are more screwed up today, yet I had to endure this terrifying shit at junior school in the 80s and I’m fine 🤔

This man actually inspired the villain from Phantasm.

Bought it today......Great stuff! Yes, The Thin Man still scares me too!

If you remember watching this at school you're really, really old 😂

I had nightmares about him for years

Great Love this TV series as kid :-)

I remember watching this at school. Scared the shit out of me and gave me nightmares!

I watched this is the academic year 1971/72. By the look of the comments it got repeated a lot in subsequent years. It was the dramatic component of the schools TV programme ‘Look and Read’ - we were all taken to a special room which had a ... television 😆. Those TV rooms still existed when I started teaching in 1987! Watch this with the colour turned off to get the original effect, and minimise the effect of the tacky costumes. I should add that my 7 year old self was utterly spellbound.

Paddy kingsland’s music is absolutely terrifying and spooky aswell.

Flash Backs.... it's true you never forget a trauma memory.... never! Nonce Ahhoooy!

if you wonder why we are fu@ked up it's because we had to watch this in school.

It’s the kind of show you’d watch at your friend’s house through the winter and then realise you had to walk home in the dark…. That and Chocky

Top three scary things from my childhood; 3). This. 2). The Tall Knight of Dark Towers. 1). The Robot Woman from Superman III.

The thin man, god he freaked me out!!!

scared the hell out of me when we watched it in school,think I was 5. we watched an episode once a week God only knows why I chose to look it up on you tube....

Nightmares to this day.....

Love it and miss it

Great Scott 😂😂

Bloody terrifing back then and even now. I don't think they understand what it did to us!

I think this was the original thin man before little nightmares 2 Thin Man

Was always weird this was made for kids and was on BBC kids TV back in the early 80s yet it was incredible creepy.

First thing that got me into Sci - Fi. :)