Scarred For Life - Unplanned Thursday 22nd May 2025

THURSDAY 22ND MAY 2025

SCARRED FOR LIFE - UNPLANNED

Do you need to talk to someone about the residual trauma of watching Children of the Stones on a Monday afternoon in 1977?

Are you still having nightmares about the poltergeist story you saw on your local ITV news programme when you were six?

Or have you spent the last forty years trying to identify the series you saw sometime between 1971 and 1979, and you can’t remember what it was, but it definitely had the bloke from that other show, and he was fighting an alien with an egg whisk on its head, or it might have been a ghost with a sieve on its head, and you’re at least 75% sure it was him?

If you have memories of terrifying childhood telly that you want to discuss in front of a roomful of complete strangers, come to our support group!

Hosted by authors of the acclaimed Scarred for Life books, Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence, alongside Fortean Times writer Bob Fischer, the first-ever Scarred for Life Unplanned show is a two-hour unscripted conversation sparked by your memories of your 1970s and 80s childhoods – all in a beautifully intimate venue. 

Together, we can finally identify the programme with the egg whisk alien. Or the sieve-headed ghost (because it absolutely did star the bloke from that other thing, didn’t it? Oh, hang on – was it him after all? Come to think of it, it might have been 1989 rather than 1979...).

Since 2018, Stephen, Dave, and Bob have been discussing the scariest telly of the 1970s and 80s to sold-out theatre audiences all over the country.

Every show wraps up with an audience-led Q&A session that always seems to end too soon (usually with Ste, Dave, and Bob being thrown out of the theatre at 11pm, still babbling about inappropriate trouser lengths on Parkinson, and trying to list all the different heads from Worzel Gummidge!). So, to compensate, here’s a brand new Scarred for Life concept – a show that’s all Q&A!

REVIEWS FOR THE SCARRED FOR LIFE BOOKS

“A charming look back at a time when pop culture was used to scare the living daylights out of every child and adult across the land.” - Louder Than War

“It just might stop the nightmares.” - We Are Cult

“Such an engaging and fascinating read.” - Horrified Magezine

“Their enthusiastic expertise for the subject is enlightening and infectious.” - Fortean Times