Childhood likes

    

I was having a conversation with a friend today about cartoons, tv programmes and movies that I liked when I was a kid. Here are just a few that I found myself mentioning:

"Ulysses" and "Mysterious Cities of Gold" were two japanese anime cartoons that I always loved watching, and were screened on the BBC when I was a kid:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold

"Century Falls" was a very creepy fantasy story on the BBC in the early 1990s from Russell T Davies, later involved with Doctor Who. Details about it are here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Falls

I was really frightened by an American TV movie called "Crowhaven Farm", about witches/witchcraft and reincarnation, I found it very disturbing:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065594/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF_wtrJyJBc
http://www.lastdriveinontheleft.com/crow-secret.html
http://ilovescarystuff.blogspot.com/2010/03/crowhaven-farm.html

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