h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

(Holds head in shame)
I used to hide behind the chair when the Daleks appeared!!

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Yeah, I required the additional protection of watching from behind the sofa.
I gather that this was quite common practise though.

So I am not alone, then?

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Just knew I'd bump into you here! But didn't you find the cybermen equally scary?

The Cybermen were even scarier! I mean, they had legs and hands and everything! They could chase after you and grab hold of you! I had more nightmares about the Cybermen than Daleks.

Hi Sho!
I agree with Top Cat.
Trousers Filling Cybermen!!!!!!!
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Daleks? Geeks on roller skates, Cybermen? Wusses with headphones.

The Ice Warriors were the scariest bad guys on Dr Who (their only problem if recall correctly is they were a little on the slow side (would lose a gunfight to a Gorn (star trek lizard guy who fights in slow motion)

anyway they were the ones that had me hiding behind the sofa, those scary hissy voices

I wasn't scared of the Daleks once I worked out that going upstairs would thwart their evil plans.
Maybe I was too cynical as a child?

I only saw Dr Who once as a child - the Daleks were on. I went behind the sofa and looked out over the top every so often. In this particular programme there were endless tunnels...NO stairs.

I thought the scariest villain in Doctor Who was that fungus creature who turned humans into fungi--the Doctor Who version of the Thing from Outer Space.

I grew up scared of "The Happiness Patrol" - but Daleks, you've gotta love to hate them.
Even now, now and then, I have dreams & nightmares with daleks in. I really was scared of them as a kid!

The happiness patrol - they weren't the showroom dummies with the plastic daffodils were they? I used to put my little brother in front of the tv when they were on. But then... I was thinking about Daleks, why was it necessary for them to say "I am a Dalek" over and over, interspersed with "Exterminate!"? As if we hadn't noticed that Daleks were around? And do you remember when they overcame their inability to go outside? Because up to then all you had to do was either run upstairs or go outside (if you could find outside down all the endless corridors). And.... who built the corridors for the Daleks? Come to think of it, who built the Daleks?

Two other creatures from Dr Who (I think!) keep creeping into my mind;

one was called a Mechanoid, the other, a Zarbi...........

Or is my memory playing tricks in my old age?
Any Dr Who experts out there able to help before I go completely MAD????????
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Cybermen, very scary and they could climb stairs and ladders too!
Am I right in thinking that they used to laser people with something on their bellies or did they have hand held lasers.

I think as a youngster I used to quite like them too though because they were humanoid in appearance and didn't actually look very scary.

A quick point, the Daleks were designed by top BBC blokey Raymond Cusick. A round of applause please. He also desigend the Mechanoids (five foot tall twenty sided dice who fought the Daleks in The Chase, a seriously poor story). The Zarbi appeared in teh Web Planet and were a reasonable attempt at having non-humanoid aliens. Unfortunately, the budget left them looking abit too much like blokes in giant ant costumes.
The original Cybermen shot from their chest units (in the days when acetone could kill them) but quickly moved onto flashing guns instead.
Oh, and Daleks have had hover ability since at least Planet with some Daleks on it (a Pertwee story with tons of toy Daleks in milk)
That is enough fan boy nonsense from me at the mo'

i think you might be referring to The Autons, they were showroom dummies with daffodils and guns in their hands.
Normally associated with The Master, primarily from The Pertwee Era.
Was anyone scared of the Spiders of metabelis 3? that one where tom baker becomes the doctor and elisabeth sladen is companion?

Yeah, found the spiders really terrifying. They were the ones that could leap up behind you and take you over, weren't they?

Also, the Green Death is my all time scariest Dr Who.

Davros scared me, although I don't know why seeing as he had all the locomotive disadvantages of a Dalek and no gun.

The one that scared me most was from around the end of the Baker era - all I remember is he was in this posh house and found a room full of masks/false heads. The bad guy's real face was like a mass of red worms with a big bulging eye (or was it two?).

To be honest though, I spent most of that episode peeking from behind the sofa so it could all have been a bad dream.

I'm pretty sure it involved some big spaceship which was going to blow up or something as well. Yes, another one.......

And before anyone bothers to ask, TOM not COLIN.......