Modern TV is so scared of scaring us.
As a kid I was traumatised on a regular basis by public information films like "Protect and Survive" (You wouldn't) or Dark and Lonely Water (you will drown in the canal) or Apaches (you will drown in a slurry pit on a farm).

For fun you could watch the creepiest kids TV show ever; "The children of the stones" or in the evening Hammer House of Horror - where you might catch a supernatural murder and some ladies bosoms.

As a snack you could eat Smiths Crisps Horror Bags and tuck yourself in with a Pan book of horror.

Kids today would be ringing the ambulance chasers suing for "emotional distress", from their own iPhones, no doubt.
(The Eightball Says Yes, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 12:04, 9 replies)

Alright, Peter Kay. Calm down.

(Go Man River everybody loves anal, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 12:13, closed)

Kids nowadays
Would be showing their mates videos of ISIS beheadings on their iPhone at break time.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 12:57, closed)

Let's assume that today's kids are smart enough not to fly their kites near power lines.
Maybe the old public information films were sufficiently effective that those kids went on to become better parents?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 13:19, closed)

More like
those kids that would normally have been eliminated by Darwinian selection survived to breed more fuckwits due to these films.......
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 13:26, closed)

YouTube will let you relive that childhood
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0GyRz_lOQA
( Batter Pudding Hurler is a figment of your imagination, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 13:31, closed)

All the kids I know love zombies, werewolves and are desperate to watch 15 and 18 rated films. I reckon they're less delicate and easily scared than my generation were
...though they seem a lot more squeamish if they have a small injury and picky about food. They can freak out if offered oxtail soup. Apparently caterers have to call it "beef soup" these days.
(Porcupine, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 13:58, closed)

Zombies and that are so overdone that their safe for inclusion in kids cartoons, now.
Not like in my day, when Spider-Man cartoons had to take great care not to mention that recurring character Morbius was a vampire.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 14:27, closed)

Didn't you see the Jimmy Saville episodes on the news?

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 14:18, closed)

Apaches
Fucking gave me the creeps, even though I watched most of it with my hands in front of my face.
(Bob the Builder killed Captain Alex, Thu 23 Jul 2015, 23:32, closed)