History HellIsThatNoise / LiveActionTv

** "'''[[{{Catchphrase}} EXTERMINATE!]]'''" If you hear a Dalek say this, there's a good chance you're not going to survive. It's no wonder the Doctor was horrified when he found out that Daleks managed to survive the Time War. Used to its most terrifying effect in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]", where it's broadcast by [[spoiler:''thousands of alien ships invading Earth'']]. Anyone having any idea what the broadcast means is terrified beyond sense, with one character declaring "There's nothing we can do. I'm sorry, we are dead."

* Much like what the ATF did in real life, they blast ear-splitting noises to the compound in''Series/{{Waco}}''

** The second season opens with a strange, rapid, frantic clicking noise that gets louder and louder until you realize what it is: the sound of [[spoiler:dozens if not hundreds of people infected with the Catalyst, [[AndIMustScream unable to move or do anything except for]] uncontrollably chattering their teeth together at [[UncannyValley inhumanly fast speeds]]]].

Examples of HellIsThatNoise from Live-Action, where a sound terrifies the characters because they know something dangerous is nearby.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': The sound of a Shadow vessel. They like to scream telepathically into the minds of their prey, to add terror to their attacks. As though their cleave beams which can split most ships in half with one shot ''need'' added terror.

*** The TARDIS going out of control at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] and the beginning of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction "The Edge of Destruction"]] - a sudden low pitched explosion, followed by a painfully slow grinding of the TARDIS's engines... then a series of repeating, high pitched tones.
** "[[AC:[[CatchPhrase EXTERMINATE!!!]]]]" If you hear a Dalek say this, there's a good chance you're not going to survive. It's no wonder the Doctor was horrified when he found out that Daleks managed to survive the Time War. Used to its most terrifying effect in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth "The Stolen Earth"]], where it's broadcast by [[spoiler:''thousands of alien ships invading Earth'']]. Anyone having any idea what the broadcast means is terrified beyond sense, with one character declaring "There's nothing we can do. I'm sorry, we are dead."

*** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace "The Underwater Menace"]] has the first primarily electronic soundtrack in the whole of ''Doctor Who'', an incredibly unsettling score made up of OminousLatinChanting, eerie church-organ-like music and sudden distorted tape samples. This was in 1967, when such things were at the cutting age and still alien to most listeners.
** Often even the ''theme music'' can apply - the 1963-80 and the 2018-onwards arrangements feature an omninous hissing loop, and the famous "electronic scream" that punctuated many a cliffhanger has been part of the show since the 1970's.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]]: The characters become terrified of a little boy asking, "Are you my mummy?", because very soon, [[AssimilationPlot they will, too!]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]: There's a pattern of beats that creeps out even the Doctor. "dat-dat-dat—DAT". The sound of the Master. [[spoiler:It gets ''really'' complicated, too. That sound is coming from inside the Master's head, from when he looked into the Vortex of Time-Space. That sound of knocking also heralds the death of the Tenth Doctor. Plus, the Master's drumbeat was in the theme tune from the very first episode of ''Doctor Who''. [[note]][[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyms9l_an-unearthly-child-1-an-unearthly-child_shortfilms Proof:]][[/note]]]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]]: The horrific screeching sound that passes for the Weeping Angels' [[EvilLaugh laughter]].
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': Parodied in "The Good, the Bad, and the Urkel": Carl punches Steve's father over a dispute about his compost heap and Steve vows revenge. Carl then slips into a {{Dream Sequence}} while watching a Western. He dreams that the dispute happens in the Old West. Inside the saloon, {{Ominous Background Music}} continuously plays after dramatic lines, causing everyone in the saloon to look around for the source. After a final toot of the brass section when Steve challenges Carl to a duel, he says that before the duel happens, they have to form a posse to "track down that dang orchestra."

** An in-universe example: Chandler flinches every time he hears, "OH. MY. GOD!" and realises he's run into Janice ''again''.
** Ross's "sound", his term for the discordant music he plays on his keyboard, which everybody except Phoebe hates, in "TOW Chandler Crosses the Line":
--->'''RACHEL''': Oh, I can't believe I ever let him touch me with those fingers.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': Dennis' DaydreamSurprise in "Mac & Dennis Move To The Suburbs." After Wally tells Dennis about the weather, Dennis [[FullFrontalAssault strips nude]] & threatens to punch Wally so hard his heart stops. The noise that comes out of his mouth following this threat is nothing short of absolutely DEMONIC.

* ''Series/{{Legion}}'':
** The appearance of the Devil with the Yellow Eyes is always accompanied by a frantic-sounding warbling trumpet noise, and sometimes by a low-pitched, repetitive staticky roar that sounds like a [[VideoGame/MassEffect Reaper]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVoU30ixHrM horn]] mixed with a helicopter rotor. Even creepier, if you listen closely to the repetitive waves of noise, it almost sounds like deep laughter.
** A [[MoodDissonance visibly terrified]] David singing [[Film/TheMuppetMovie "Rainbows are visions, but only illusions/]][[SoundtrackDissonance Rainbows have nothing to hide..."]] You'll never think of the Muppets the same way again.
** The second season opens with a strange, rapid, frantic clicking noise that gets louder and louder until you realize what it is: the sound of [[spoiler: dozens if not hundreds of people infected with the Catalyst, [[AndIMustScream unable to move or do anything except for]] uncontrollably chattering their teeth together at [[UncannyValley inhumanly fast speeds.]]]]

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': In "The Great Game", [[InsufferableGenius Sherlock]] makes a scraping racket on his violin to get his older brother, [[AloofOlderBrother Mycroft]], out of his flat. Some commenters on Website/YouTube have taken to calling this piece "Get the Hell Out of My Flat, Mycroft".

** On a very similar note, the clicking language of the extra-dimensional aliens in "Schizms," one of the more terrifying episodes of The Next Generation.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In "Equinox", the (unrelated) extra-dimensional aliens have to open portals into our universe to attack. When a portal forms, the first thing they hear is a high-pitched, whining hiss. It's pretty creepy for the characters, who are asking, "WHERE IS IT? WHERE IS IT?". If they aren't fast enough, it's the last sound they'll hear.

** Carrie Page/[[spoiler:Laura Palmer]]'s utterly bloodcurdling scream. Made even worse because it's the [[spoiler: last thing that happens in ''[[GainaxEnding the entire series.]]'']]

** ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'': Pris-Ma has a chilling cry that has to be heard to be believed: [[http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/File:Pris-ma.ogg]]
** Zetton, the final monster from ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', has a roar [[http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/File:Zetton_Roar.ogg]] that can make one extremely uneasy, due to how foreboding it sounds.

* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'': According to legend, when the slide-whistle sound effect was first added (whenever a contestant landed on Bankrupt) sometime in 1977, then-host Chuck Woolery acted startled and shouted out, "What was THAT??!!??" (to uproarious laughter, of course).
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Avatar" involves an old woman spirit-thing that visits AD Skinner in his dreams. When she appears, she makes a sound made up of garbled, distorted, agonised-sounding voices and a high-pitched shriek. He is terrified.

** On a very similar note, the clicking language of the extra-dimensional aliens in "Schizms," one of the more terrifying episodes of The Next Generation, at least before Voyager over-did that same plot, in "Scientific Method," among others.

* ''Series/{{Search}}'': he murderer's snarls and roars sound distorted and like a non-verbal VoiceOfTheLegion.