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[eye_of_a_cat]

Why oh why oh why, BBC, must you insist on showing scary potentially unsuitable material before the watershed? Tonight's episode of Doctor Who was REALLY CREEPY contained scenes that I some viewers shrieked at in a completely wimpish way could have found disturbing. ESPECIALLY, I might add, since this is FAMILY entertainment, and such material is clearly unsuitable for 25-year-old PhD students young children.

I am a decent, law-abiding viewer who's only just got over the trauma of seeing the first Cybermen fifteen years ago, and I demand to know why my license fee is being spent on this kind of thing. What sort of example are we setting to young people when grown adults are tempted to dive behind the sofa when the creepy thing starts talking?

Yrs,

Mrs Trellis of North Wales.

p.s.: if this gives me nightmares, it's ALL YOUR FAULT.

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My uncle still hasn't quite got over being scared of the Daleks when he was young (possibly because his family won't let him forget), but running scared from the theme music is a whole new level of Who-induced terror.

I remember being unbothered by the Daleks, because, ha, everyone knew what a Dalek was, and I was young and brave and obviously they weren't scary. But nobody warned me about Cybermen.