Definitely the creepiest children’s TV show theme ever made in the history of children’s TV. Even recognizing the effects used of the time frame, it still has a chilling darkness to it, a hollow emptiness pointing to something darker than you can currently imagine experiencing.
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Oh yes. This painting was shown at the beginning of “Children of the Stones”. This wasn’t dialed back, “safe fear 4 kids”. If you’ve seen “Blink” on Doctor Who, it’s like that but exponentially more fearful even than that. I think kids’ TV is returning somewhat to “not being afraid to make kids afraid” (Gravity Falls had a respectable fear factor) so maybe the dumbing down of kids’ TV is improving. [although I have to say Goosebumps did its fair share in its day)
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