I remember hiding behind the settee at shop dummies coming life. I would have been 8. I've re watched it and although I didn't end up hiding this time it still seems pretty creepy even by today's standards.
I'm disappointed you didnt hide again this time. It's a pleasing image.
The other thing that spooked me was the opening titles with that vortex of swirly patterns. The original murky arrangement of the theme tune remains a classic piece of opening music, atmospheric and slightly menacing. The different arrangements since the 80s and currently are too shiny and glitzy.
Did you or any child really hide behind settees? (Excellent use of a very 70s word there by the way). Ours was pushed almost to the wall so even allowing for the smallness of a young child it would have been a squeeze. Did everyone else apart from us have their settees in the middle of the room?!