# What is this show that terrified me as a kid? (early 90s, puppets) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2013, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-show-that-terrified-me-as-a-kid-early-90s-puppets/650489 "2013-02-16T11:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kiyoshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kiyoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiyoshi)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-show-that-terrified-me-as-a-kid-early-90s-puppets/650489/1 "2013-02-16T11:18:10Z")
I’ve hazy memories of a TV show that really scared me as a kid. But I can’t find anything on Google, and I’m starting to wonder if I dreamed the whole thing. It would have broadcast in the UK in the early 90s, or possibly even the late 80s. I distinctly remember my grandma having a video tape of it, so it must have had a VHS release. It was about a family who had a puppet child. A wooden string puppet. There might have been more than one puppet, but I can only remember a little boy. I’m pretty sure the adults were real people, and you never saw their faces (like in Tom and Jerry, where you only ever saw the human’s legs). I can remember the whole show looking pretty “brown”, and I got the impression as a kid that it was set in “the olden days”. So, possibly a 1940s-era setting? It wasn’t a kid’s show. I remember being told that I wasn’t allowed to watch it, because it was “for grown-ups”. So, maybe it had adult humour, swearing, etc. But most of all, I remember being terrified by the puppet! Can anyone help me identify this show? ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-show-that-terrified-me-as-a-kid-early-90s-puppets/650489/2 "2013-02-16T13:41:31Z")
Candlewood Cove? ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-show-that-terrified-me-as-a-kid-early-90s-puppets/650489/3 "2013-02-16T21:44:24Z")
Not from the UK so I have no idea, but a post to [this site](http://www.kindertrauma.com/) may get you an answer…