ER, 1995, ‘Hell or High Water’, a stand alone episode where George Clooney rescued a kid caught in a drain. Forgot how it ended, even if it was George Clooney, there were no guarantees, ER could be brutal. Noah Wiley and Lucy getting stabbed in the hospital. Much later he was held at gunpoint by bandits in a refugee camp in Darfur. ‘Loves Labor Lost’ episode, traumatized me for life. Dr. Mark Green’s cancer and death to the tune of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
Both of my viewings were on WTTW in Chicago.
Recently they re-aired “The Jewel in the Crown”. In an early episode, Harry Kumar has been stripped naked and is about to be interrogated and caned by Ronald Merrick. His entire body is shown from the back. In the original airing they showed his ass, but in the recent showing it was blurred out. It’s not that I’m that eager to see that part of his anatomy (NTTAWWT 
), but I just thought, “Seriously? What’s the big deal?”
I always thought his scream was narmy. I haven’t seen ESB since I was 6, but considering Luke is a source for narm I’m making that guess.
Oh, that reminds me; I was really disturbed when they chopped of Kunta Kinte’s foot. By the time *Roots *was aired I had seen all kinds of gruesome things on horror movies and whatnot but this was not some monster, this was a real man and it was so sad. I remember the next day at school wanting to talk to other kids about it but no one else I knew had watched it and I didn’t want to let my mom know it bothered me, lest she not let me watch grown up movies anymore.
That also reminds me of Swayzak. Goddamn it, now me and my sister’s friend think he’s sexy.
That was Mary Tyler Moore on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Season four, episode 27. I was not scarred, but it did have an impact.
The lines “I was playing with a drip!” and “Don’t toy with me, you saucy wench!” remain with me to this day! 
I think you’re confusing ***Combat! ***with the motion picture The Secret Invasion, which came out in 1964:
Henry Silva was the guy who suffocated the baby. They were hiding from the Germans in a graveyard.
I saw the movie when I was nine years old, and that scene really upset me too! 
If you read the book, you know they offered him a choice: His foot or his genitals.
I saw the series when it was first aired in 1977, and so far as I remember this wasn’t mentioned at all. (Or if it was, it was greatly underplayed.)
Welcome to the Nanny State!
Ignorance fought!
Thanks. 
ETA in re: post 288
For your edification and enlightenment:
I remember squirming in disbelief as I watched this. One of TV’s great moments! :eek:
He was seven-year-old Clint Howard’s alter ego!
… And now he’s President of the United States!* Yaaaaaaay!!!
“I need a hacksaw!”
*Well, the actor, anyway. :o
Does the Jack Sack have the nuclear football?
The Gilligans Island episode with the ghost. I remember as a kid I got so scared to look out a window because I knew I would see a ghost. The sound still scares me.
But then it also had some funny scenes in that episode.
I know, weird.
We watched Emergency regularly when I was a young kid and that episode is the first (and only) one that comes to mind when I hear mention of the show. The only other thing I can recall is when they would use the defibrillators on people. “Two thousand volts. . . .COUNTER SHOCK!”, and, of course the siren.
When I was a little kid, there was a TV film about a horde of tarantulas arriving on a ship or plane and terrorizing a town. The part that stuck with me was an airplane maintenance guy opening the hatch on the underside of the plane and a hundred tarantulas landing on his face like eight-legged tribbles. Scared the shit out of me. I’m another kid who was disturbed by the Space:1999 monster that dragged you in and then spit your burned/melted corpse back out.
For me, it was the Twilight Zone episode in which a character discovers that he’s a robot when he tears open his wrist and finds wires and machinery. I wouldn’t say that it “scarred” me, but it gave me a permanent sense that reality is very tenuous.
The Wizard of Oz was broadcast regularly on network television when I was a kid, and that movie scarred me in dozens of ways. I still think it’s a very disturbing movie. Hell, it starts with Dorothy’s aunt and uncle meekly surrendering her beloved dog, and then locking her out of the fucking tornado shelter.