It was one sick joke?? No it wasn't pet it was a drama, not comedy, DRAMA, there's quite a big difference. Bringing children into it?? Have you not watched The Exorcist or The Omen??
is just a joke omg is was funny my kids ,it shit my kids up good one BBC same me the bother i al way shit my kids up //the older now so i cant it was fun at the time
i watched this when i was 11 with my dad & we loved it, it was made clear it was a drama but i was at that impressionable age that i started to think "is this real" as the show went on..... still i loved it & by the end -i was scared but in an entertaining way!
"vomitted in the hallway" brilliant. I was 12 when I saw this and was scared at the time. If I'd seen it as an adult I can't say I'd of been fooled. Also I have to say if you'd seen the first 3/4 but not the end, where it all goes over the top, I'd think it would be more scary. Watching it again now - it is genius TV.
WTF??!! I was 12 at the time,scared the living shite outta me...but i luvd it,and 20 years on ive just watched it again,it was genius writing,genius programming and the writer if he/she is still alive should have more of their work if its lke this put into production...Fkin bra burning moaning tits the lot of em...Lets hope for a HD showing this halloween
I watched this episode when I was 9 and it scared me so much I wouldnt let my parents leave me upstairs for a year, but I don't go and complain about the programme, it's meant to be scary, you cant complain about a comedy for making you laugh too much, just like I cant complain about this for being too scared about it.
Holy fuck people! It was shown after 9.00 PM. It had a warning before and at the start of the broadcast about disturbing content and you're moaning that you were too scared or that your kids got scared. Here's a tip......If well written ghost programmes scare you DON'T WATCH THEM and if you let your kids watch something after the watershed you only have yourself to blame.
@BriansBannister - he said it made his son sick in the hall, i think it was the sight of his dad wearing bright red specks and having a dodgy pat sharpe mullet which made him sick
"Intelligent people felt duped" more like smart arses feeling stuiid because they got caught out. I watched it and the kids acting alone was enough to give it away. It didn't stop it being a cracking bit of entertainment for Halloween.
The phone line had a message saying it was fake and just wanted to know of experiances other people had of hauntings.Better than anything Most haunted have ever come up with.
The programme scared the living piss out of me when I was a nipper. I thought it was real and couldn't sleep for days. Well done the BBC! I do love a good ghost story. Stop being fairies and accept that you got fooled and were scared. So what!
Some people will always like to pass the buck and blame others for their own stupidity or lack of judgement. The guy at the end who says that he thought the warning made by Parky was for dramatic effect is pretty dumb . It's a given I think that it's an indicator of what the content is going to be like. Sheesh!
I have just seen this on YouTube and it's fantastic, I love the BBC to do something like this again as I enjoyed it and even though it was scary. I appreciate anything that can scare me since it is very hard do.
Is that Borat at 04:58? I actually went to a party at a mate's the night it was on. I asked my parents to tape it for me, which they did. I was 15. I knew it wasn't for real - in advance, and so did my parents! They didn't read the Radio Times. They (and I) aren't total Liberal Democrat weirdos like the guy in the Timmy Mallet glasses at 08.00 mins! It was part of 'Screen One' - BBC drama showcase. Those grumbling at the time are the type who made Cowell and forced crap TV to be the norm!
It's the type of people moaning in this show that are responsible for us now having an endless stream of reality shows during primetime viewing rather than the cutting edge drama of the past. No wonder I spend more time online than watching TV nowadays
That mum who is complaining that their kid was scared - of course a programme called GHOSTWATCH is going to be scary, drama, documentary or whatever it is! Why did she let him watch the show; she would surely be aware if he was a sensitive kidand likely to be freaked out.
I was 8 years old when I watched it and I LOVED it =)
I still do.
Personal opinions are fine, but to say that there were NO warnings that it may be inapproriate for kids to watch and that it gave NO hints at being a drama are absurd.
1. Its called 'Ghostwatch'
2. In the beginning it has a 'written by' and it says Screen One
Whatever, point is, my mum allowed my brother (who was 10 at the time) and I to watch because we were used to watchin horrors. We enjoyed it.
These people are idiots! This was one of the best things the BBC did and i can still remember it to this day. Scared me to death as a child but was amazing to watch.
Can't tell if this is a spoof as well as Ghostwatchers with all the nonsense the audience is coming out with.
I did not like Ghostwatch myself, but I have to say that it was for entertainment purposes only and was aired after the water shed, so young children should NOT BE WATCHING IT! erm, being media smart comes to mind.
This is why stupid people shouldn't be allowed to own a TV.
These are a people who have made british TV so shit that Essex girl who has a go in the next part seriously doesnt understand the concept of horror or drama, it should always revolve around the innocent and vulnerable. Why are these people blaming others for their lack of parenting skills incompetence and stupidity? If i fucked up this much with my kids I wouldnt go on tv and tell people about it and make out i was the innocent party.
Well I am amazed. A bunch of stupid parents in the audience letting their kids watch something well after the nine-o-clock water shed - then complain about it. Even to be bothered to get themselves on television only gives me the impression that they are just attention seekers.
the very things these people are complaining about are what made Ghostwatch so insanely cool!! shit, some of us *enjoy* being scared! that's the point! I live in the States, so I never saw this on television - but I've known about it for years, it's a legendary TV event for fans of the supernatural .... and I just finished watching it on YouTube for the first time, and I must say : it was awesome!! I loved every second of it!! clearly it was acted, but the premise was exceedingly well executed
I watched this 'live' and admit I was petrified (at 22 years old) but we also had the shop next door broken into (alarms going off in middle of late night deserted street-it was on a sat), a bottle of ketchup exploded all over my face and hit the glass front of fire (so I could hear hissing but see nothing) and the hob lid fell down with noone near it at all! BUT it was strangely fun too, not to complain about and children MOST definitely should have been in bed after 9 or watching summat else!
IF THIS PROG HADNT HAVE BEEN AIRED WE WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD MOST HAUNTED LIVE,WHICH HAS BEEN RUNNING SINCE 1992,SADLY IT HAS FINISHED BUT WAS EXCELLENT ENTERTAINMENT
i like the guy who says that parky's warnings were only included for dramatic effect - Well if you knew that why did you think the show was real you big plum
The only fitting answer to this 'controversy' is given in the YouTube clip from 'A Bit Of Fry & Laurie' entitled 'Viewers Complain To Stephen Fry'. Check it out.
I watched this live. Back then there was no Special FX on TV so it was cutting edge and terrifying. It's easy to laugh now, but at the time I was shitting myself.
So was early 90s Britain inhabited entirely by sketchshow characters? Seriously, the galoompus in the weird glasses looks just like Peter Kay's Chorley fm guy
Wow, these people are so stupid. I'm sure I would've shit myself had I watched it on the night but would've laughed about it once I knew it was a hoax. It was a fun programme all in all.
These people are utter morons. 'It was one sick joke. Why couldn't you have made a common criminal the thief, why did it have to be a child molester?'
Umm, it's horror. It's MEANT to be horrifying, idiots. This was a time when slasher movies such as Nightmare on Elm Street (which also features a child molester as the main villain, in case you've been living under a rock), so why the hell was this so upsetting? Arseholes, lighten up a little or don't let your children watch ghost programmes.
these people need to lighten up.....anyone could tell it was a prank....especially when the camera room got trashed. Seriously people....were you born yesterday?....just a bunch of people pissed off b/c their kids ended up sleeping with them for the rest of the week...lol
I remember it being broadcast when I was 11, My mum and dad wouldn't let me watch it and i remember arguing that it was a fake so quite obviousy is was billed as such. Just watched it now, and at 28 I am reluctant to admit that they were right, fake or not I would have been bobbing it. It was pure geneus television...
It was very effective as a scary show. I started off thinking it was like Most Haunted, where it was a documentary show where they fake events to make it more exciting. It wasn't until towards the middle or end (It was waaaay too long) that I realized it was complete drama. And when the wind machines stsrt up, you can be certain. These people obviously weren't horror fans.
How comfy is your life that if someone were to ask you "what was the worst thing that happened to you in childhood?" your response would be: "I threw up after watching a tv program about ghosts." Life doesn't always have to be soo serious.
I guess the problem was that the show was way ahead of its time.
But how sad to see these members of the british public who would obviously prefer to see nothing new or inventive on TV at all. No doubt they would prefer wall to wall Last of the Summer Wine.
I remember watching this and being quite scared that i switched it off. This was a time waaay before the internet became mainstream, when children only really saw things that parents allowed them too. Todays kids would find the whole thing a laugh, but this was almost 20 years ago and seemed very real.. why wouldnt it be? it was the BBC, it was Live, no one had really done this before, why wouldnt you see a ghost?
This show terrified me when iw as little and saw it on t.v. the thing was it wasnt advertised as a spoof or a play just as a live show so yeh it scared the hell out of me. But if these idots KNOW its a show about ghosts like dont let your young kids watch it.
LMAO "my two young children were disturbed just by the presentation!" WTF!
middle england strikes again, more like middle friggin earth with the monotoned morons that complained and would still complain today..its called a fricken remote control..use it!
great piece of tv made controversial by closed minded self righteous idiots
The really scary thing here is that this was essentially the first time I recall the BBC, rather than politely telling the moaners to fuck off, backing off when controversy came their way.
Before Ross and Brand, the current nonsense over RATM's swearing on Five Live etc the fact that GHOSTWATCH was unavailable for so many years, imo, pretty much boils down to the Beeb getting Channel 4 like slams from members of the viewing public.
this scared the living daylights out of me when i watched it... i was like 8... and now thinking about it.. i LOVE it no matter what anyone says.. its these kinda stunts and pranks that make tv interesting.. bring it on :D
look at these people bitchin!...i LOVE ghostwatch man!...anyway..s.pot on, 9 o clock , t.v changes everyone knows that...also, to get fear from people , the audiences gaurd needs to be down
Surely this type of show is designed to identify and weed out the morons in society. Job done. That fat version of Timmy mallett at 7:50: DICKHEAD: THE WATERSHED IS THE WATERSHED. Shouldn´t have blamed the BBC for bad perenting
you complete idiots. iwatched it today in my english lesson, and iwas shaking like a leaf , iwaas terrified iwas hiding behind my coat , half of it icould believe but other half ireally couldnt? but tbh ithought it was a really good horror/drama. forgod sakes its a twelve , people know that and its there to create tention it is the whole point it is ment to be scary..
If these peope are so damn thick that they believe that Michael Parkinson became posessed by the spirit of a cross-dressing child molester live on BBC1, then they deserve everything they get. Its because of idiots like these that we will never see the like of Ghostwatch on TV again.
These people are morons, look at that guy with red glass, what a tool. And tht women why did u bring children into it, it wasnt funny, of course not it was meant to scare you thick twat, why would it be funny, why would u let ur children watch this, it was trying to be realistic, but people are stupid it said written by in the opening credits and in the reviews it said starring instead of presented. People are idiots and these people just wanted to moan about something, why dont they grow up.
omg, it's after the 9pm watershed so these stupid people shouldn't of let their children watch it. I wouldn't of let my kids watch it if I had them at that point. So they should stop blaming the people who were just doing their job for their bad parenting ¬¬
What bothers me about these people in the audience is how they are, of course, allowed to have their opinions, but they always seem to made to overshadow the producer's answers. The producers were the actual people creating it, they know why they did certain things in a certain way. These people can not tell thém that they did things on purpose. The audience people are rubbish, hope they're still having nightmares >:(
Yes I agree with a couple of comments on this page the acting in this show was so horrible only the mentally defective could possibly be convinced of it being real. Also if something is about the supernatural and on at 9 30 PM then that should tell a parent that it's not really for very little children or those easily scared, surely?
you can tell that one woman who worked on it is so pissed off about all the people, with good reason, these people are retarded. they know the rules, be responsible parents...
Just from the bit shown on this video, I could tell that the show was faked. That "Royal Shakespearean" tones of the mother's voice was a dead giveaway that this was not cinema verite. The screams of the kids sounded rehearsed, the camera shots looked pre-planned and the general affect was "stagy" and rather drolly tongue-in-cheek>
FUNNY???? Christ, it scared the crap outta me...I was only 8. I was calling out for the bloody Ghostbusters! Plus it made me feel real sick after eating most of my sweets from trick and treating :) I believed it was all real but Ghostwatch was pure gold. Looking back now, I can tell it's obviously fake...but this was way better than some of the shit we have on tv now...Bring Ghostwatch back!!
IT'S "GHOSTWATCH" YOU CAN TELL FROM THE TITLE ALONE IT'S NOT GOING TO BE FUNNY!
these people must honestly be bad parents for letting their kids watch the show past the watershed! And there were warnings about it being disturbing, seriously people!
I mean sure, I find the show scary, even though i know it's fake, but I prepared myself for something horrific the second i heard the warnings, I didn't just assume "oh it's just for the drama!"
It was brilliant TV, i never forgot it as it scared the shit out of me and my brothers and sisters for weeks! I even knew it wasnt live as a while before sarah greene and the film crew used our school pitch to park the equiptment and sarah came into our assembley to tell us about it! Thats why we watched it but it still petrified us like nothing else before or after.
It was brilliant though, as anyone who seen it 17 years ago hasnt forgotten it and it is still been talked about.
I'm with you tidykris, and I totally get the whole curtains nightmare!! I'm one of those people who loves watching scary stuff at the time, but then as soon as I'm on my own I turn into Rain Man! The Exorcism Of Emily Rose left me scared of going in my own hallway for YEARS!! Still am a bit!! Sad or what!!
There IS such a thing as a water-shed in real life, it's called "bed-time". Allowing your young children to watch this is irresponsible parenting.
Also, who classes themself as "an intelligent adult" and believe this was real? It was a great entertainment show and if you can't take a joke then you simply aren't intelligent.
I like to think I'm quite intelligent, Colinwebb12, but I SHAT myself mate! LOL!! Still gives me the heeby jeebies watching it now!! Eeek! I agree with you about the watershed/bedtime thing. It's not up the TV companies to monitor what children watch, that's the job of parents. It's in the job description!
That was the shameful thing about it - I thought it was totally real!! Even though I know it's not now and watching it back it looks totally staged - it's still REALLY horrible! LOL!
I was a young child when I watched this on Halloween night in 1992.
My parents had gone out for the evening. I tuned into the programme about 2 minutes after it had started, so I missed the warning that it was a drama screenplay.
But I knew within a few minutes of looking at Ghostwatch that it was fiction. BUT IT WAS STILL SCARY!
* It was a brilliant programme! *
I'm glad I saw it 'live' at the time. It was a excellent spook by the BBC. I can't believe how gullible some people are.
It's interesting to see what sorts of silly people get upset by stuff like this.
As a kid this stuff would have scared me crazy even without anything happening... so really they've got no one to blame but themselves for letting their kids watch it.
bloody hell it is borat!! lol..check the dad with the timmy mallet glasses,talk about should have gone to spec savers lol.i loved ghost watch!i was 16 at the time and it scared the crap outa me...what is with all the people who complained about it.thier real gripe is that they were made to look foolish.get a sense of humour about yourself,if you cant laugh at yourself who can you laugh at!..i remember sarah greene on going live telling us all to watch it too.
Ghostwatch was hands down one of the greatest pieces of television I have ever seen and certainly one of the most interesting concepts that the BBC has ever come up with. It amazes me how many people were truly fooled by this clever spoof, yes I was fooled and terrified by it on that halloween night back in 1992 but I have a very good excuse, I was 9 years old! Conversely, the amount of people it apparently did fool only goes to show how cleverly directed and written the whole production was.
Anyone who made such a big deal out of this programme like these people is a fucking idiot. Ghostwatch scared the shit out of me. I was only 15 at the time it first shown and at the start I thought it was real but the blatant acting soon killed that idea. It was ace though. Sadly there are so many morons around that just have to ruin it for the rest of us. At the end of the day it was meant to be scary. It was Halloween after all. Idiots!!!
Not everyone thought it was real. It's not the BBC's fault that people can't tell what's real and what is fake. Even if I saw this in 1992, I would have figured out that it was a fake documentary.
Wow that show was genius, these people are the biggest sucks ever. Why don't they just suck it up and admit they were a bunch of idiots for thinking it was real. They did a great job by fooling all these idiots.
I mean listen to them, covering up their stupidity for being duped by coming out with all sorts of reasons, like denying the fact that Michael Parkinson HAD warned them. Yes the storyline with the ghost being a child molester and involving kids was disturbing but I say again, it was past the watershed, they WERE warned, and hey, the amount of gory & scary movies that come out today don't get half as much complaints if any, you wouldn't let your kids watch Hostel for instance, would you?!
It was one sick joke?? No it wasn't pet it was a drama, not comedy, DRAMA, there's quite a big difference. Bringing children into it?? Have you not watched The Exorcist or The Omen??
jazzplease 3 weeks ago
I recon most people were most annoyed by the fact they were fool and subsequently felt foolish
claragho 1 month ago
is just a joke omg is was funny my kids ,it shit my kids up good one BBC same me the bother i al way shit my kids up //the older now so i cant it was fun at the time
wigansinger 1 month ago
Somebody says that the audience couldn't tell whether the program was fact or fiction. Hello? Real ghosts? Were people in 1992 Britain that stupid?
jimtrueblue99 1 month ago
i watched this when i was 11 with my dad & we loved it, it was made clear it was a drama but i was at that impressionable age that i started to think "is this real" as the show went on..... still i loved it & by the end -i was scared but in an entertaining way!
oranbhoy67 2 months ago
I will the people in charge of the BBC would look as puzzeled as that women when they are thinking
DurhamParanormal 2 months ago
Mullet @ 7:37 LMFAO
Now that's a hair do!!! :-)
R1CH130 3 months ago
The acting was so damn terrible
obelisklarvan 4 months ago
"vomitted in the hallway" brilliant. I was 12 when I saw this and was scared at the time. If I'd seen it as an adult I can't say I'd of been fooled. Also I have to say if you'd seen the first 3/4 but not the end, where it all goes over the top, I'd think it would be more scary. Watching it again now - it is genius TV.
UpTheAnte1987 4 months ago
Intelligent people felt duped! I love that line.
superblaster2 4 months ago
Pahahahahahaaha Mr Lenger is Borats dad
Bulldog1878 4 months ago
WTF??!! I was 12 at the time,scared the living shite outta me...but i luvd it,and 20 years on ive just watched it again,it was genius writing,genius programming and the writer if he/she is still alive should have more of their work if its lke this put into production...Fkin bra burning moaning tits the lot of em...Lets hope for a HD showing this halloween
Bulldog1878 4 months ago
I watched this episode when I was 9 and it scared me so much I wouldnt let my parents leave me upstairs for a year, but I don't go and complain about the programme, it's meant to be scary, you cant complain about a comedy for making you laugh too much, just like I cant complain about this for being too scared about it.
Musicandstuff1000 4 months ago
Holy fuck people! It was shown after 9.00 PM. It had a warning before and at the start of the broadcast about disturbing content and you're moaning that you were too scared or that your kids got scared. Here's a tip......If well written ghost programmes scare you DON'T WATCH THEM and if you let your kids watch something after the watershed you only have yourself to blame.
BriansBannister 5 months ago
@BriansBannister - he said it made his son sick in the hall, i think it was the sight of his dad wearing bright red specks and having a dodgy pat sharpe mullet which made him sick
anlaff 5 months ago
@anlaff He looks like peter kays Chorley FM DJ!
BriansBannister 5 months ago
Butthurt
BriansBannister 5 months ago
The argument against Ghostwatch is this "Waaaah Waaah Waaah I gots scareded by da nasty ghost film"
supermaroilogan 5 months ago
"Intelligent people felt duped" more like smart arses feeling stuiid because they got caught out. I watched it and the kids acting alone was enough to give it away. It didn't stop it being a cracking bit of entertainment for Halloween.
The phone line had a message saying it was fake and just wanted to know of experiances other people had of hauntings.Better than anything Most haunted have ever come up with.
slyph63 5 months ago
Nothing is as scary as Martin Plumb's mullet hair and red glasses.............spine chilling.
LudwigTricorn 6 months ago
@LudwigTricorn it's timmey mallet.
MrXclio 2 months ago
All of the complainants ought to be hunted down and strung up from trees around the country as a warning to others.
felneymike 6 months ago
wait..... pregnant women went into labour? BEHOLD, THE POWER OF THE BBC.
animationdude56 6 months ago
Everybody who got fooled need to suck a bullet cuz they are some cum drunk punk ass retard faggot bitches.
bewgerman 7 months ago
OMG I did not know Chorley FM was going in 1992, he must have started coming in my eye's before my ears Check the dude at 7.40
ryanwhitehurst1983 7 months ago
0:39 "Oh shit."
eragon3131 7 months ago
The bloke at 7:40 looks like a complete cunt.
loxi59tica 8 months ago 2
The programme scared the living piss out of me when I was a nipper. I thought it was real and couldn't sleep for days. Well done the BBC! I do love a good ghost story. Stop being fairies and accept that you got fooled and were scared. So what!
xtopherslade 8 months ago
Kids were scared,Pregnant Woman gave Birth,Intelligent people felt duped.Well,Id say the BBC had a success on its hands at the time.
Pulpedtoafiction31 8 months ago
i hit me wife with an onion at the time this was on
tosh762 8 months ago
Some people will always like to pass the buck and blame others for their own stupidity or lack of judgement. The guy at the end who says that he thought the warning made by Parky was for dramatic effect is pretty dumb . It's a given I think that it's an indicator of what the content is going to be like. Sheesh!
Jarvisdoctor 8 months ago
I have just seen this on YouTube and it's fantastic, I love the BBC to do something like this again as I enjoyed it and even though it was scary. I appreciate anything that can scare me since it is very hard do.
TheMischievousbull 8 months ago
Nor did I read the comment by bumperboy! lol
gavinpow77 9 months ago
LOL, I hadn't read the comment by bensonrecon before I wrote that. LOL. But I agree with what he wrote!
gavinpow77 9 months ago
Is that Borat at 04:58? I actually went to a party at a mate's the night it was on. I asked my parents to tape it for me, which they did. I was 15. I knew it wasn't for real - in advance, and so did my parents! They didn't read the Radio Times. They (and I) aren't total Liberal Democrat weirdos like the guy in the Timmy Mallet glasses at 08.00 mins! It was part of 'Screen One' - BBC drama showcase. Those grumbling at the time are the type who made Cowell and forced crap TV to be the norm!
gavinpow77 9 months ago
It's the type of people moaning in this show that are responsible for us now having an endless stream of reality shows during primetime viewing rather than the cutting edge drama of the past. No wonder I spend more time online than watching TV nowadays
bensonrecon 9 months ago
they wouldn't put that kind of story line on t.v in this day and age
0pink0bubble0 10 months ago
That mum who is complaining that their kid was scared - of course a programme called GHOSTWATCH is going to be scary, drama, documentary or whatever it is! Why did she let him watch the show; she would surely be aware if he was a sensitive kidand likely to be freaked out.
BadGirlOfAutism 10 months ago
I was 8 years old when I watched it and I LOVED it =)
I still do.
Personal opinions are fine, but to say that there were NO warnings that it may be inapproriate for kids to watch and that it gave NO hints at being a drama are absurd.
1. Its called 'Ghostwatch'
2. In the beginning it has a 'written by' and it says Screen One
Whatever, point is, my mum allowed my brother (who was 10 at the time) and I to watch because we were used to watchin horrors. We enjoyed it.
Thumbs Up GW team =)
melfaescotland 11 months ago
These people are idiots! This was one of the best things the BBC did and i can still remember it to this day. Scared me to death as a child but was amazing to watch.
angel129116 11 months ago 2
Can't tell if this is a spoof as well as Ghostwatchers with all the nonsense the audience is coming out with.
I did not like Ghostwatch myself, but I have to say that it was for entertainment purposes only and was aired after the water shed, so young children should NOT BE WATCHING IT! erm, being media smart comes to mind.
iqoness1 11 months ago
Borat is in the audience
bumperboy 11 months ago
This is why stupid people shouldn't be allowed to own a TV.
These are a people who have made british TV so shit that Essex girl who has a go in the next part seriously doesnt understand the concept of horror or drama, it should always revolve around the innocent and vulnerable. Why are these people blaming others for their lack of parenting skills incompetence and stupidity? If i fucked up this much with my kids I wouldnt go on tv and tell people about it and make out i was the innocent party.
ahdeath2007 11 months ago
I was 9 when I watched it. I didn't know it was a drama and it scared the living piss out of me!
silentbob82 11 months ago
Smart people felt duped....werent so smart were they?
pfk859 1 year ago
I was 14 and watched it out of interest not knowing it was a play and it scared the jesus out of me.
tonymontana1974 1 year ago
Oh for god's sake, OH NOES MY CHILDREN WERE SCARED! why let them watch something called Ghostwatch?
Thisismytrollingface 1 year ago
Well I am amazed. A bunch of stupid parents in the audience letting their kids watch something well after the nine-o-clock water shed - then complain about it. Even to be bothered to get themselves on television only gives me the impression that they are just attention seekers.
allrare 1 year ago
oh come on...us 20 to 30 something years old here were the guys watching it and are now looking back on it as one of the best Halloween shows ever!
darkuser999 1 year ago
the very things these people are complaining about are what made Ghostwatch so insanely cool!! shit, some of us *enjoy* being scared! that's the point! I live in the States, so I never saw this on television - but I've known about it for years, it's a legendary TV event for fans of the supernatural .... and I just finished watching it on YouTube for the first time, and I must say : it was awesome!! I loved every second of it!! clearly it was acted, but the premise was exceedingly well executed
RedUncle 1 year ago
This was the start of the NANNY CULTURE!!! Wake up you idiots it was pure ENTERTAINMENT end of.
choosykitten 1 year ago
OMG....it's Borat @5min30!
nummulite99 1 year ago 4
These people with no sense of irony, humor or appreciation of art are scarier than any scary TV show/film.
lunchboxattacks1 1 year ago
"Intelligent people felt duped"...
That should probably have been "people that THINK they are intelligent felt duped".
ProphetTenebrae 1 year ago
I watched this 'live' and admit I was petrified (at 22 years old) but we also had the shop next door broken into (alarms going off in middle of late night deserted street-it was on a sat), a bottle of ketchup exploded all over my face and hit the glass front of fire (so I could hear hissing but see nothing) and the hob lid fell down with noone near it at all! BUT it was strangely fun too, not to complain about and children MOST definitely should have been in bed after 9 or watching summat else!
Ironic268 1 year ago
Hahahaha!! That audience just stepped off the special bus.
proofOFLife 1 year ago 2
what a bunch of cockends.
wallyboy25 1 year ago
IF THIS PROG HADNT HAVE BEEN AIRED WE WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD MOST HAUNTED LIVE,WHICH HAS BEEN RUNNING SINCE 1992,SADLY IT HAS FINISHED BUT WAS EXCELLENT ENTERTAINMENT
suzcube66 1 year ago
idiots lol dumb yanks.
jimpurdie 1 year ago
Fucking idiots, never taking responsibility for themselves or their children, always looking to blame someone else.
Weak willed beings need to be purged.
Awezumi 1 year ago
LOL
ursie1986 1 year ago
Some people just can't take a joke
jacobmasta 1 year ago
Fuckin LOL 5:00
Its BORAT!!!!
DanQuinnPlayersClub 1 year ago 3
@DanQuinnPlayersClub
Exactly what I thought
Awezumi 1 year ago
Yeah I watched it, I was young, I was shit-scared, but so what? These guys are pussies.
MrGazMac 1 year ago
wow, these people are square as fuck
jovialduke 1 year ago
i like the guy who says that parky's warnings were only included for dramatic effect - Well if you knew that why did you think the show was real you big plum
JimLockey 1 year ago
I was scared at 7.40 when I saw a fat tummy mallet.
nojustus1 1 year ago
The only fitting answer to this 'controversy' is given in the YouTube clip from 'A Bit Of Fry & Laurie' entitled 'Viewers Complain To Stephen Fry'. Check it out.
troynew2006 1 year ago
I watched this live. Back then there was no Special FX on TV so it was cutting edge and terrifying. It's easy to laugh now, but at the time I was shitting myself.
eltonfan30 1 year ago
OMG! You can see Pipes in the audience at 5:51!
GeorgeCottier 1 year ago
Woman at 5:30, "my son was scared", don't let him watch then. you stupid cunt
mstipendiary28 1 year ago 3
Also, does the host remind anyone else of a British Barbara Walters?
JoeDeceiver 1 year ago
I had an immensely negative reaction to the movie 'Paranormal Activity', but that was only because that movie was shit. Absolute shit.
JoeDeceiver 1 year ago
I was 6 when this aired and I loved every minute of it.
When I was a child I loved being scared which is why I watched things like Halloween, Nightmare On Elm Street etc.
It being on Halloween & after the watershed should have been a dead giveaway.
Morons
cropsy13 1 year ago 2
So was early 90s Britain inhabited entirely by sketchshow characters? Seriously, the galoompus in the weird glasses looks just like Peter Kay's Chorley fm guy
Blusko 1 year ago
Wow, these people are so stupid. I'm sure I would've shit myself had I watched it on the night but would've laughed about it once I knew it was a hoax. It was a fun programme all in all.
britbeetle 1 year ago
These people are utter morons. 'It was one sick joke. Why couldn't you have made a common criminal the thief, why did it have to be a child molester?'
Umm, it's horror. It's MEANT to be horrifying, idiots. This was a time when slasher movies such as Nightmare on Elm Street (which also features a child molester as the main villain, in case you've been living under a rock), so why the hell was this so upsetting? Arseholes, lighten up a little or don't let your children watch ghost programmes.
Doctorsmashy 1 year ago
People forget the telly has an off button
antonyhamill 1 year ago
these people need to lighten up.....anyone could tell it was a prank....especially when the camera room got trashed. Seriously people....were you born yesterday?....just a bunch of people pissed off b/c their kids ended up sleeping with them for the rest of the week...lol
Trueghostgirl 1 year ago
The guy at 5:06 looks like Sacha Baron Cohen/Borat. Is this also a hoax? :P
inphanta 1 year ago 3
I remember it being broadcast when I was 11, My mum and dad wouldn't let me watch it and i remember arguing that it was a fake so quite obviousy is was billed as such. Just watched it now, and at 28 I am reluctant to admit that they were right, fake or not I would have been bobbing it. It was pure geneus television...
171liz 1 year ago
It was very effective as a scary show. I started off thinking it was like Most Haunted, where it was a documentary show where they fake events to make it more exciting. It wasn't until towards the middle or end (It was waaaay too long) that I realized it was complete drama. And when the wind machines stsrt up, you can be certain. These people obviously weren't horror fans.
Scardy 1 year ago
How comfy is your life that if someone were to ask you "what was the worst thing that happened to you in childhood?" your response would be: "I threw up after watching a tv program about ghosts." Life doesn't always have to be soo serious.
agentk1986 2 years ago 3
I guess the problem was that the show was way ahead of its time.
But how sad to see these members of the british public who would obviously prefer to see nothing new or inventive on TV at all. No doubt they would prefer wall to wall Last of the Summer Wine.
baker000202 2 years ago
I remember watching this and being quite scared that i switched it off. This was a time waaay before the internet became mainstream, when children only really saw things that parents allowed them too. Todays kids would find the whole thing a laugh, but this was almost 20 years ago and seemed very real.. why wouldnt it be? it was the BBC, it was Live, no one had really done this before, why wouldnt you see a ghost?
Alubobz 2 years ago 2
@Alubobz exactly right. it was way ahead of its time. i think this makes blair witch 1 look laughably bad with even worse acting.
firekind1980 2 years ago
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tristessa56079 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
This is why you Brits are becoming a Joke. You cant even handle a Scary Movie or guns
marksiwel 2 years ago
said what? An american?
bulked 1 year ago
I just saw this, and I'm fucking freaked out
marksiwel 2 years ago
This show terrified me when iw as little and saw it on t.v. the thing was it wasnt advertised as a spoof or a play just as a live show so yeh it scared the hell out of me. But if these idots KNOW its a show about ghosts like dont let your young kids watch it.
tonymontana1974 2 years ago
LMAO "my two young children were disturbed just by the presentation!" WTF!
middle england strikes again, more like middle friggin earth with the monotoned morons that complained and would still complain today..its called a fricken remote control..use it!
great piece of tv made controversial by closed minded self righteous idiots
britredneck 2 years ago
The really scary thing here is that this was essentially the first time I recall the BBC, rather than politely telling the moaners to fuck off, backing off when controversy came their way.
Before Ross and Brand, the current nonsense over RATM's swearing on Five Live etc the fact that GHOSTWATCH was unavailable for so many years, imo, pretty much boils down to the Beeb getting Channel 4 like slams from members of the viewing public.
932sd 2 years ago
this scared the living daylights out of me when i watched it... i was like 8... and now thinking about it.. i LOVE it no matter what anyone says.. its these kinda stunts and pranks that make tv interesting.. bring it on :D
starchild9000 2 years ago
mullet! what are these idiots on? it was supposed to be scary, it was about ghosts!
thisissick22 2 years ago
Where the hell did they find these people? Its almost comical.
titaniumx3 2 years ago
4:59 BORAT!
I loved Ghost-watch, why was everyone so annoyed, it was a brilliant piece of television that should have been applauded instead of hated!
DanthemanCTU24 2 years ago 2
IT IS BORAT!!!
starchild9000 2 years ago
i would have spewed in the hallway if my dad was wearing thos glasses also.
TheDevilsGuard 2 years ago
look at these people bitchin!...i LOVE ghostwatch man!...anyway..s.pot on, 9 o clock , t.v changes everyone knows that...also, to get fear from people , the audiences gaurd needs to be down
samedge89 2 years ago
u BUNCH of Toffs!!! i was only upset that it didnt turn out to be Real!!!
dave00dance 2 years ago
Surely this type of show is designed to identify and weed out the morons in society. Job done. That fat version of Timmy mallett at 7:50: DICKHEAD: THE WATERSHED IS THE WATERSHED. Shouldn´t have blamed the BBC for bad perenting
AJPDILLON 2 years ago
If only the Beeb still did things like Ghost watch! I was 11 when I saw it and didn't sleep for ages. Friggin genius, love it.
barneynotfred 2 years ago 2
you complete idiots. iwatched it today in my english lesson, and iwas shaking like a leaf , iwaas terrified iwas hiding behind my coat , half of it icould believe but other half ireally couldnt? but tbh ithought it was a really good horror/drama. forgod sakes its a twelve , people know that and its there to create tention it is the whole point it is ment to be scary..
KatyBrown95 2 years ago
If these peope are so damn thick that they believe that Michael Parkinson became posessed by the spirit of a cross-dressing child molester live on BBC1, then they deserve everything they get. Its because of idiots like these that we will never see the like of Ghostwatch on TV again.
rlough1980 2 years ago 8
I agree with the comment below. Ghostwatch was on the front cover at the Radio Times at the time as well. Well done BBC for exposing morons
radiodarkhorse 2 years ago
These people are morons, look at that guy with red glass, what a tool. And tht women why did u bring children into it, it wasnt funny, of course not it was meant to scare you thick twat, why would it be funny, why would u let ur children watch this, it was trying to be realistic, but people are stupid it said written by in the opening credits and in the reviews it said starring instead of presented. People are idiots and these people just wanted to moan about something, why dont they grow up.
1234legend1234 2 years ago 3
omg, it's after the 9pm watershed so these stupid people shouldn't of let their children watch it. I wouldn't of let my kids watch it if I had them at that point. So they should stop blaming the people who were just doing their job for their bad parenting ¬¬
Demitryx 2 years ago
Boraaaaaat!
MrYubbo 2 years ago
HA HA i was gona point out BORAT too!
Looneytube 2 years ago
4:59 Borat lol
Atominist 2 years ago
Damn I was just about to post the same thing!
ska2808 2 years ago
I remember watching Ghostwatch when I was 11 and I thought it was real and LOVED IT! A great piece of drama. These people probably want a good moan.
dewberrydave 2 years ago
omg its a ghost story, kids are meant to get scared
lapse19 2 years ago
They set a precedent in broadcasting, that's for sure.
furQ 2 years ago
They went to far. . .
kmp3000 2 years ago
"Children were terrified, pregnant women went into labor, and intelligent people felt they had been duped."
ROFL. Way to go, intelligent people!
Jasonbobdude 2 years ago 2
Lol they Obvs were not as intelligant as first thought
1234legend1234 2 years ago
haha, I hope the British have grown a pair since 1992.
Dudeamis 2 years ago
What bothers me about these people in the audience is how they are, of course, allowed to have their opinions, but they always seem to made to overshadow the producer's answers. The producers were the actual people creating it, they know why they did certain things in a certain way. These people can not tell thém that they did things on purpose. The audience people are rubbish, hope they're still having nightmares >:(
LackOfTolerance 2 years ago
The audience should be put down.
1234legend1234 2 years ago 31
RUTH BUMGARDEN?
stevepiers 2 years ago
Treegarden, actually.
Applemask 2 years ago
Clearly these people didn't notice the subtle sub themes of this show, which all things considered, really WERE scary.
Abandonment, divorce, sexual assault and mistrust of authority --- all much more scary than ghosts.
tvargan 2 years ago
stupid woman who complains her kid cried like a big sissy because there was a sinister presenting style???.......die old bag....die!!!!
CADAVERHUSK 2 years ago
Oh these people are pathetic!
Ghostwatch was clearly too smart for these idiots!
xglp 2 years ago 33
The guy at 4:59 - BORAT!
madackers84 2 years ago 3
NAICE!
xglp 2 years ago
Every member of this audience needs to grow up.
deathfornoreason 2 years ago 2
Yes I agree with a couple of comments on this page the acting in this show was so horrible only the mentally defective could possibly be convinced of it being real. Also if something is about the supernatural and on at 9 30 PM then that should tell a parent that it's not really for very little children or those easily scared, surely?
5346278 2 years ago
It was a good piece of TV in its day - what are these people on about??
winstonlegthigh99 2 years ago
lol ghostwatch scared me to death when i was 10
666rocko 2 years ago
you can tell that one woman who worked on it is so pissed off about all the people, with good reason, these people are retarded. they know the rules, be responsible parents...
FlutterbyA 2 years ago
its embarassing that all these people are making all this fuss over it lol
dont let your little kids watch scary things then haha
they want scary they got it
simrie 2 years ago
Just from the bit shown on this video, I could tell that the show was faked. That "Royal Shakespearean" tones of the mother's voice was a dead giveaway that this was not cinema verite. The screams of the kids sounded rehearsed, the camera shots looked pre-planned and the general affect was "stagy" and rather drolly tongue-in-cheek>
mmedefarge 2 years ago
FUNNY???? Christ, it scared the crap outta me...I was only 8. I was calling out for the bloody Ghostbusters! Plus it made me feel real sick after eating most of my sweets from trick and treating :) I believed it was all real but Ghostwatch was pure gold. Looking back now, I can tell it's obviously fake...but this was way better than some of the shit we have on tv now...Bring Ghostwatch back!!
dave46563 2 years ago
"it wasn't even funny"
IT'S "GHOSTWATCH" YOU CAN TELL FROM THE TITLE ALONE IT'S NOT GOING TO BE FUNNY!
these people must honestly be bad parents for letting their kids watch the show past the watershed! And there were warnings about it being disturbing, seriously people!
I mean sure, I find the show scary, even though i know it's fake, but I prepared myself for something horrific the second i heard the warnings, I didn't just assume "oh it's just for the drama!"
randomandproudqueen 2 years ago
Haha. A brilliant piece of drama, but honestly if you thought it was real you should be ashamed to admit it.
sausagedogmcgee 2 years ago
I'M ASHAMED sausagedogmcgee!! :-)
teejaymk1 2 years ago
It was brilliant TV, i never forgot it as it scared the shit out of me and my brothers and sisters for weeks! I even knew it wasnt live as a while before sarah greene and the film crew used our school pitch to park the equiptment and sarah came into our assembley to tell us about it! Thats why we watched it but it still petrified us like nothing else before or after.
It was brilliant though, as anyone who seen it 17 years ago hasnt forgotten it and it is still been talked about.
munchie1627 2 years ago
whats that girl on about "it wasnt even funny"....IT WASNT MEANT TO BE FUCKING FUNNY!!! lol
I was 9 when i watched it and i scared the living shit out of me and left me scared of my curtains for a very long time.....it was brilliant TV!!
These people need to get a life!!
tidykris 2 years ago
I'm with you tidykris, and I totally get the whole curtains nightmare!! I'm one of those people who loves watching scary stuff at the time, but then as soon as I'm on my own I turn into Rain Man! The Exorcism Of Emily Rose left me scared of going in my own hallway for YEARS!! Still am a bit!! Sad or what!!
teejaymk1 2 years ago
There IS such a thing as a water-shed in real life, it's called "bed-time". Allowing your young children to watch this is irresponsible parenting.
Also, who classes themself as "an intelligent adult" and believe this was real? It was a great entertainment show and if you can't take a joke then you simply aren't intelligent.
colinwebb12 2 years ago 2
I like to think I'm quite intelligent, Colinwebb12, but I SHAT myself mate! LOL!! Still gives me the heeby jeebies watching it now!! Eeek! I agree with you about the watershed/bedtime thing. It's not up the TV companies to monitor what children watch, that's the job of parents. It's in the job description!
teejaymk1 2 years ago
haha, well I was half right then! I think it's people trying to blame the bbc for being gullible but unable to take a joke.
colinwebb12 2 years ago
You probably didn't believe it was real. It was scary, but clearly fake.
QueenAnime99 2 years ago
That was the shameful thing about it - I thought it was totally real!! Even though I know it's not now and watching it back it looks totally staged - it's still REALLY horrible! LOL!
teejaymk1 2 years ago
frightened the crap out of me at the time. I look back on it and smile!
ajt5332 2 years ago 3
I was a young child when I watched this on Halloween night in 1992.
My parents had gone out for the evening. I tuned into the programme about 2 minutes after it had started, so I missed the warning that it was a drama screenplay.
But I knew within a few minutes of looking at Ghostwatch that it was fiction. BUT IT WAS STILL SCARY!
* It was a brilliant programme! *
I'm glad I saw it 'live' at the time. It was a excellent spook by the BBC. I can't believe how gullible some people are.
endofthelinejoel 2 years ago
It's interesting to see what sorts of silly people get upset by stuff like this.
As a kid this stuff would have scared me crazy even without anything happening... so really they've got no one to blame but themselves for letting their kids watch it.
venusboys3 2 years ago
"Pregnant Women had gone into Labour?" LOL Hows that a Bad Thing? It can't stay in there forever can it?
Cashback13 2 years ago 3
I always thought that this was a great program at the time, tho i could still tell that it wasnt real by the sometimes bad acting on it
TheRealSanity1 2 years ago
it was shit scary at the time
stronglish 2 years ago
bloody hell it is borat!! lol..check the dad with the timmy mallet glasses,talk about should have gone to spec savers lol.i loved ghost watch!i was 16 at the time and it scared the crap outa me...what is with all the people who complained about it.thier real gripe is that they were made to look foolish.get a sense of humour about yourself,if you cant laugh at yourself who can you laugh at!..i remember sarah greene on going live telling us all to watch it too.
scootboy08 2 years ago
Can't blame the BBC
parents let their kids see this
axelsteel21 3 years ago
5:06 Is that Borat?!
martinharder 3 years ago
I was about to post the same comment lol!
fergaloreilly 2 years ago
Ghostwatch was hands down one of the greatest pieces of television I have ever seen and certainly one of the most interesting concepts that the BBC has ever come up with. It amazes me how many people were truly fooled by this clever spoof, yes I was fooled and terrified by it on that halloween night back in 1992 but I have a very good excuse, I was 9 years old! Conversely, the amount of people it apparently did fool only goes to show how cleverly directed and written the whole production was.
Bowlsey25 3 years ago 5
love
bakhtn 3 years ago
Anyone who made such a big deal out of this programme like these people is a fucking idiot. Ghostwatch scared the shit out of me. I was only 15 at the time it first shown and at the start I thought it was real but the blatant acting soon killed that idea. It was ace though. Sadly there are so many morons around that just have to ruin it for the rest of us. At the end of the day it was meant to be scary. It was Halloween after all. Idiots!!!
ste5f 3 years ago 2
But at the time people thought it was real.Think about it this was done in 1992 and nothing like this was done at the time.
suckyamomma30 3 years ago
Not everyone thought it was real. It's not the BBC's fault that people can't tell what's real and what is fake. Even if I saw this in 1992, I would have figured out that it was a fake documentary.
QueenAnime99 2 years ago
Wow that show was genius, these people are the biggest sucks ever. Why don't they just suck it up and admit they were a bunch of idiots for thinking it was real. They did a great job by fooling all these idiots.
Chuck123abc 3 years ago
I mean listen to them, covering up their stupidity for being duped by coming out with all sorts of reasons, like denying the fact that Michael Parkinson HAD warned them. Yes the storyline with the ghost being a child molester and involving kids was disturbing but I say again, it was past the watershed, they WERE warned, and hey, the amount of gory & scary movies that come out today don't get half as much complaints if any, you wouldn't let your kids watch Hostel for instance, would you?!
PuffyAmiYumi 3 years ago
Might do.... LOL!
teejaymk1 2 years ago
suckers?, im still shitting a brick!
xxxKINGFROGxxx 3 years ago
Thousands of people believe in ghosts?
Fucking idiots.
RebelVoDKa 3 years ago
Sorry had to post this---check out 7.44 wowie! cool cat! nice hair and glasses
ndgreenaway 3 years ago
haha borat i noticed that! this programme really was ahead of its time
ndgreenaway 3 years ago