Inspired by the Skins thread...what shows

[LaraK]

What shows on TV were you not allowed to watch when you were a kid? Was there anything banned in your house?

I wasn't allowed to watch Three's Company (sexist) or the Tarzan movies (racist). Those are the only two I really remember, although I'm sure there were more.

 

[plutotek]

I wasn't allowed to watch any horror/sci-fi movies. Mom was a 'pansy' when it came to those types of movies. I don't recall any actual TV shows that were verboten.

 

[LilyWDW]

I don't recall there being anything that I was "banned" from watching. Now, my parents wouldn't turn on something or rent a movie that they didn't want me watching... but they never said "You can not watch X movie or TV show".

They were the same way with books. I was reading Stephen King and Ann Rice when most of my grade was reading Babysitters Club (which I also read lol).

 

[Jennasis]

Heck no. I used to cozy up my mom at 8 years old and watch DYNASTY!. My parents didnt censor anything we watched. We watched Eddie Murphy: Raw and laughed at jokes we didn't understand. For scary movies, we could watch whatever we wanted and if we got scared, it was our own fault (but mom always let me crawl into bed with them anyway).

 

[Rumpus]

What shows on TV were you not allowed to watch when you were a kid? Was there anything banned in your house?

I wasn't allowed to watch Three's Company (sexist) or the Tarzan movies (racist). Those are the only two I really remember, although I'm sure there were more.

My parents never banned a thing, but then, there were basically three networks. I remember coming into the house right after we got cable tv and my 9 year old was watching MTV. I pulled the cable box out, marched it to the cable company and told them that they either remove MTV from my channels or they could keep the cable. They gave me a parental guidance box. I got one of the first ones. That was back in the mid 80's. We didn't have MTV in the house and there were a few others that I blocked.

 

[indimom]

I don't remember any restrictions.

I clearly remember watching Amityville Horror with my dad and sisters. I bet I was no more than 8 or 9 at the time. Scared the pants off of me!!! (Mom was smart and went to bed, she has never liked scary movies.)

We were completely addicted to Days of Our Lives from a very young age because soaps were the only thing on tv in the afternoons.

 

[SookieStackhouse]

I was not allowed to watch anything rated R, or horror.

However... I grew up on 3's Company!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I wasn't allowed to see R rated movies in the theatre until I was 17.

As for TV, I can't think of anything I wasn't allowed to watch. But then, i don't think TV was as bad then as it is now.

Oddly, there is plenty of stuff my kids aren't allowed to watch.

 

[katesorad]

I didn't really have too many restrictions for me. I was kind of their test child... they learned their lesson!

 

[msjprincess]

The only thing I remember not being allowed to watch was a PBS television version of the play The Steambath.

 

[VAfamily1998]

I know I watched Three's company as a kid, but I also remember my parents saying I couldn't...I think it probably mostly depended on what kind of mood they were in/how tired they were and felt like enforcing it. Also, around the age of 7 I got a television in my bedroom, so they really didn't know what I was watching when I was in my room...

My mom couldn't stand the show Small Wonder and didn't like it when I watched it...not that it was "inappropriate", she just thought it was a stupid show...

 

[rie'smom]

My parents did not censor what we watched however we grew up in the 60s and 70s when 99% of tv was family friendly. I remember being shocked when in the late 70s Connie Selleca was in a tv movie and horrors she had her back to the camera and was wearing a slip!!!! This was before Dallas and Dynasty.

 

[Ephany]

'You Can't Do That on Television', my mom thought it was stupid and gross. We quickly learned you had to turn the channel twice using the remote, otherwise she could hit the previous channel button and we were busted.

 

[goofyernmost]

I'm 62 years old...there was nothing on television that was ever forbidden. Everything was pretty clean cut in the 50's. I remember the first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV. I thought my Dad was going to die laughing. My, my how the world has changed.

Now movies...that was something else. As a small child there wasn't much that was considered bad and my father only wanted to see comedies anyway. As an early teen all James Bond Movies were off limits. I went to see them anyway showing my first signs of adolescent rebellion.

 

[Mrs. Darcy]

I wasn't allowed to watch South Park or MTV. I remember arguing with my mom "but it's a CARTOON!" Now that I look back, I can see she was right!

As long as I could watch Keenan and Kel, Boy Meets World and Sabrina the Teenage Witch I was happy. Those were my favorite shows growing up.

 

[diz8297]

I grew up in the 70's/80's and watched pretty much everything. I remember my father having a fit because I was up watching "Maude" with the rest of the fam (siblings were a lot older.) Mom said that the jokes would go over my head. She was right. I watch the shows now and I go......OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH Now I get it!!

 

[TaraPA]

I wasn't allowed to watch Dallas or Falcon Crest - they used to be on a Friday night starting at 9pm, right after Dukes of Hazzard. However, I knew full well that my mom would be asleep in the recliner by 8:30 - so I'd watch them & then pretend I was alseep if she woke up & they were on. Then one day she found my "who shot JR?" poll sheet in with my homework & the gig was up!

My mom also didn't approve of the James Bond movies because the opening sequences were silhouettes of what appeared to be naked women.

I remeber back in the early 80's, asking my mom if could stay up to watch the movie Girls of the White Orchid. I was 11 or 12 & I thought she'd faint dead away. I'm not even sure I knew what was going on in the movie, but I thought Jennifer Jason Leigh was darned cool. I never have seen that movie!

 

[TaraPA]

We watched Eddie Murphy: Raw and laughed at jokes we didn't understand.

To this day I think Eddie Murphy Raw is one of the funniest stand up routines I've ever heard!!! My brother was 9 years older than me, so I'd steal his cassette of Raw. I remember my cousins & I putting that tape in our walkmans & sharing the headphones under the covers laughing our butts off!

"You know that Amityville Horror **** man, them were some ****ed up people. Now if there were evil spirits in my house saying "GET OUT" ...I'd just tip the **** out!" Anyone remember that? (God I hope the sensoring is working on the DIS tonight)! I might just have to go You Tube that after the kids are asleep!

 

[LaraK]

To this day I think Eddie Murphy Raw is one of the funniest stand up routines I've ever heard!!! My brother was 9 years older than me, so I'd steal his cassette of Raw. I remember my cousins & I putting that tape in our walkmans & sharing the headphones under the covers laughing our butts off!

"You know that Amityville Horror **** man, them were some ****ed up people. Now if there were evil spirits in my house saying "GET OUT" ...I'd just tip the **** out!" Anyone remember that? (God I hope the sensoring is working on the DIS tonight)! I might just have to go You Tube that after the kids are asleep!

I also loved RAW. See, I could watch RAW, but not Three's Company. My parents made no sense...

 

[Buckalew11]

I also loved RAW. See, I could watch RAW, but not Three's Company. My parents made no sense...

They didn't want you to turn into a Chrissy type!


I wasn't allowed to watch "All in the Family". This was when we lived in NJ so I was under 10. I remember staying up late sometimes and snuggling up to dad on the couch and trying to sneak a few peaks at what Archie was up too.

I watched a lot of TV as a kid. I was always surprised that they let me watch The Sonny and Cher Show. I was totally fascinated by Cher. My mom was quite out of touch with anything about Hollywood ("Is that Roger Redford?" )

In 1973 we visited the MK for the first time. I was 8. We had a station wagon and we went to the drive-in movie and saw "The Way We Were" with Barbara Streisend who was my oldest sister's favorite (she was 16). It was mom, dad, both sisters and my oldest sister's BF! How uncomfortable that must have been. They stuck be all the way in the back and told me to go to sleep and I remember I kept peeking 'cause I saw them in bed during one scene.