Saddest moments in children's television shows

[ros vulgaris]

Is there anything that beats the death of Badger from Animals of Farthing Wood?

From about 10:30

"A fox, worried about kindness? I must be in heaven."

[dontpaintyourteeth]

[Glebe]

[jamiefairlie]

His best acting ever "aaahhhh"

[PowerButchi]

AC Slater got pinned.

[holyzombiejesus]

Didn't Roland Browning try to kill himself in Grange Hill? His plight at the hands of Gripper really upset me.

[iamcoop]

The classic 'Why don't he want me?' REJECTED BY DAD Fresh Prince scene

[dissolute ocelot]

Didn't Roland Browning try to kill himself in Grange Hill? His plight at the hands of Gripper really upset me.

The Roland storylines on Fandom.com only cover the first three years of his time on the show, and no mention of a suicide attempt, but fuck it's depressing

Gripper's attention to Roland was slightly taken away as Gripper focused on carrying out a hate campaign against non-white pupils at the school. During this race war Gripper made Roland swear allegiance to his own race, and also taunted Roland claiming that he wasn't white.

Presumably an influence on South Park.

[Alternative Carpark]

Didn't Roland Browning try to kill himself in Grange Hill? His plight at the hands of Gripper really upset me.

He does walk out into the road and gets run over (knocked unconscious) at the end of his first series, which might be what you're thinking of, though he's recovered and back at school again by the start of his second.

[Astronaut Omens]

He does walk out into the road and gets run over (knocked unconscious) at the end of his first series, which might be what you're thinking of, though he's recovered and back at school again by the start of his second.

Thanks! I've been wondering about this for years. Because I watched it when I was very young and couldn't sleep that night because I was so worried about it, but then later, I started to wonder if he had been run over at all because the recurring visual memory I had of it could equally have been nothing more than the bus obscuring the camera's view of Roland by driving between him and the camera.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The classic 'Why don't he want me?' REJECTED BY DAD Fresh Prince scene

Also Carlton being too privileged/naive to understand they were on the receiving end of institutional police racism.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Geoff's death was pretty sad too.

[Kankurette]

Wasn't there a girl in Byker Grove who had a brain tumour and died of it? Angel?

The classic 'Why don't he want me?' REJECTED BY DAD Fresh Prince scene

Will Smith was amazing in that scene.

I don't remember Badger's death, but the poor little hedgehogs being run over always got me. Or the rodents finding their babies' bodies impaled on thorns by the butcher bird. Animals of Farthing Wood was pretty fucking dark for a kids' series and that's before you find out that they couldn't adapt The Siege of White Deer Park because it was too dark. (It's the one with the serial killer wildcat.)

[touchingcloth]

Is there anything that beats the death of Badger from Animals of Farthing Wood?

From about 10:30

"A fox, worried about kindness? I must be in heaven."

When I first saw the thread title, I thought of Farthing Wood, but not because of Badger. The whole thing was mainly heartbreak, in my memory, and I particularly remembered the hedgehogs being smushed by a truck.

The section headings in this article are just as bleak as I remember it - https://screenrant.com/animals-of-farthing-wood-most-traumatic-deaths/


The Badger Dies Of Old Age
Mr. & Mrs. Hedgehog Are Run Over By A Truck
The Pheasants Are Killed & Eaten By A Farmer
The Baby Mice Are Impaled By The Shrike fucking hell
Dreamer Fox, Mrs. Rabbit, Mrs. Hare, & Mrs. Vole Are Mauled By Scarface
Mrs. Fieldmouse Is Mistakenly Killed By Kestrel
Sinuous Is Strangled By A Rat
Bold Is Shot & Attacked By Dogs & Dies From His Wounds
Scarface & Bounder Are Bitten By Adder And Die From Her Poison

[holyzombiejesus]

Thanks! I've been wondering about this for years. Because I watched it when I was very young and couldn't sleep that night because I was so worried about it

Me too! I actually made some posters saying 'down with Gripper' or something like that as I was so worried about Roland. Obviously, my sister and mum found them and mocked me relentlessly for weeks.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Down with Gripper

[Video Game Fan 2000]

the first angelo in mike and angelo died writhing in pain before it turned into a dr who reference and id never seen fucking dr who at that point

[Mr_Simnock]

that epsiode of 'the littlest hobo' where he ends up a thai restaurant didn't end well did it

[ros vulgaris]

Wasn't there a girl in Byker Grove who had a brain tumour and died of it? Angel?Will Smith was amazing in that scene.

I don't remember Badger's death, but the poor little hedgehogs being run over always got me. Or the rodents finding their babies' bodies impaled on thorns by the butcher bird. Animals of Farthing Wood was pretty fucking dark for a kids' series and that's before you find out that they couldn't adapt The Siege of White Deer Park because it was too dark. (It's the one with the serial killer wildcat.)

Yeah I remember the hedgehogs too. Badger's death was affecting as he'd gone through a period of dementia beforehand, with getting lost and living in memories, and thinking Mossy the mole was his dead father who used to travel on his back. Which as a seven year old I remember thinking was all very strange.

And then I didn't like series three, they changed the animation style to make it more Hanna-Barbera and the rats were stupid.

[Brundle-Fly]

This killed me one afternoon after school.

[touchingcloth]

Neither children's nor a television show, but it includes children and animals so it's not totally off topic

YOU WANT PURRIN IN' BIN

[touchingcloth]

And I'll tell you what I've never cried at even though I knew the makers were trying to make me: the fucking Snowman.

[Norton Canes]

This caught me totally off guard one summer holiday and by the time it had finished no kidding, I was an absolute wreck

28 years old I was &etc.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Neither children's nor a television show, but it includes children and animals so it's not totally off topic

YOU WANT PURRIN IN' BIN

Verging off-topic even further I have a very early memory of bawling my eyes out at the now-alone robots watering the plants at the end of Silent Running.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Wasn't there a girl in Byker Grove who had a brain tumour and died of it? Angel?Will Smith was amazing in that scene.

There was also the storyline about Nikki the UFO spotter's dad returning and it transpiring he abused her.

[curiousoranges]

When two children on TFI Friday had a staring contest and the loser cried.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

When Bodger got done in with a hammer

[Kankurette]

There was also the storyline about Nikki the UFO spotter's dad returning and it transpiring he abused her.

I remember Nikki's abusive dad, yeah. That was grim.

[Catalogue Trousers]

Verging off-topic even further I have a very early memory of bawling my eyes out at the now-alone robots watering the plants at the end of Silent Running.

It's even more tear-jerking than that. It's robot, singular.

[Mortimer]

Don't remember the program but it was decades ago and during the usual early evening children's TV hours. A woman presenter interviewing the Blue Peter stalwart John Noakes.

Interviewer: "And how's Shep these days?"

John Noakes: "He...he...he...died last week".

John Noakes precedes to have a breakdown on live TV.