I never saw the Ghostwatch broadcast (I was at an Oktoberfest in Battersea park getting drunk!

) But I remember waking up the next morning and watching the news and reading the papers regarding the panic it caused.
It was like the Orson Wells War of the Worlds broadcast all over again!
Apparently someone tried to commit suicide after watching it believing like a lot of the viewers that it was a real broadcast

The BBC have never re-shown it because of the amount of flack they received over it the first time around.
A couple of years ago I saw that the DVD has been released (As a BFI disc) and I had to get a copy to see what all the fuss was all about.
Well after viewing I couldn't believe how any adult could have gotten taken in by it. The acting by the professionals is wooden let alone Sarah Greene (Still gives me the horn

) and her then husband Mike Smith. Parky is hilarious in it, especially at the end when the studio has been taken over by the poltergeist and he starts singing a nursery rhyme directly into the camera lens

.
Classic stuff and I don't think this sort of programme could be made today because no one would ever believe it is real.
The psychic consultant on this show was Guy Lyon Playfair who not only has one of the most ridiculous names in history but was also one of the key investigator on the famous Enfield poltergeist case (1977-1979) and he wrote the genuinely scary book "This House is Haunted" about the case.