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Post by alexa11 on Dec 19, 2018 0:26:06 GMT
I don't remember anything that I wasn't allowed to watch, but then again we only had 3 channels. I do remember having to go to bed after Lucy went off though.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Dec 19, 2018 1:08:35 GMT
Three’s Company because of the “living in sin” part. And because Dad thought the cast was too stupid to watch. All in the Family, Maude, The Jefferson, and Good Times because Mom and Dad didn’t want to talk about sensitive social issues LOL. And because they were loud. Dad didn’t like all the yelling. Soap—again, too many sensitive topics to be discussed. Batman—long story for why Dad thought it was inappropriate. You must tell the Batman story. I would think that eartha kitt rolling around in her painted on costumes would be the reason No LOL that wasn’t it. I honestly don’t think Dad would have ever thought twice about Batman but for news reports (or possibly urban myths) about kids trying to act like super heroes. Dad heard about kids getting hurt while playing super hero, and he thought these shows “warped” kids’ minds. Sort of the 1960s equivalent of video games affecting kids’ perception of reality today, I guess. Any way, there was a report on the news that a boy in a town not far from us was hospitalized after he jumped out a window wearing a cape and pretending he was Batman (stupid kid—Batman can’t fly!). That was the final straw for Dad—Batman and all super hero shows were banned in our household. My older sister was mad because she LOVED Batman! Years later, she was working and living in the town where the infamous Batman injury occurred. One day at lunchtime, she and her coworkers were discussing stupid things they did as kids. One of her coworkers told the story of how her brother ended up in the hospital when he thought he was Batman and jumped out of a window. My sister came out of her seat and yelled, “YOU!! You were the reason I couldn’t watch Batman!” Of course she thought it was funny all those years later, but what a coincidence to not only work with the kid’s sister but to have the incident come up in casual conversation.😀
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Post by RosieKat on Dec 19, 2018 1:16:03 GMT
I don't think I was ever "forbidden" to watch anything. However, I also had no input into what we watched most of the time, and I was an only child. So even though friends were all into Diff'rent Strokes or Silver Spoons, those were never on our TV because my parents just didn't want to watch them.
I've had some things I've not allowed my kids to watch. My son in particular tends to pick up habits from TV shows, so there were things I'd let my daughter watch sometimes (like if she was home sick from school) that he didn't get to watch, like Jessie or iCarly, both of which had a lot of overly sassy kids. Now they're older and don't watch a ton of TV most of the time anyway, so it's largely whatever they want (within reason).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 1:23:08 GMT
Hahah. My mom discouraged “Save by the Bell” because Zach’s morris was a “womanizer” (her words) but I could watch 3s Company because it was one her favorites 😂. I always thought that was funny and I think she secretly loved John Ritter.
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Post by mom on Dec 19, 2018 1:31:55 GMT
We could not watch:
Simpsons Roseanne Southpark MTV Nothing scary
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Dec 19, 2018 1:41:00 GMT
Nothing was forbidden. But, there was only one TV. If Dad was annoyed by something we had on, he’d have us get up and change the station. We didn’t have cable available to us until i was 12 or so. I watched more 20/20 and 60 Minutes and things like that than any other kid I knew. I didn’t allow Barney or Caillou in my house when my boys were little. They both annoyed me to the point of banning.
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Post by TXMary on Dec 19, 2018 1:52:05 GMT
I don’t remember my parents forbidding me to watch anything. I was the youngest of 5 though so maybe they were just too tired to care by then. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) . From junior high on, I had a tv in my room so I definitely watched whatever I wanted then.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Dec 19, 2018 1:55:08 GMT
The only thing we were forbidden to watch was Dark Shadows. I had a bunch of friends who watched it though, so they'd tell me waht happened and I'd fill them in about "Laugh In", which they were not allowed to watch. Tradeoffs
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Post by ntsf on Dec 19, 2018 2:39:13 GMT
we watched tv before school.. and after school and it was turned off at 6 for dinner.. and never turned on in the evening..never watched the news til we were all in high school. we read, played games, did some homework.. tv was a small part of our growing up.. we also had a black and white tv from the 1950's til about 1970. we were all big readers.. I must have read 10-20 books a week.
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Post by suzastampin on Dec 19, 2018 2:43:30 GMT
Nothing was forbidden for me. But, I grew up in the Dick VanDyke/I Love Lucy years. They all slept in twin beds. 😀. I did forbid my daughter from watching Rosanne. The disrespect those kids had toward their parents and Rosanne’s classlessness wasn’t going to happen in my house.
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Post by janskylar on Dec 19, 2018 2:46:57 GMT
My dad had a thing where he'd suddenly declare a show we'd been watching for years as "too sarcastic" and forbid us from watching. Of course we only honored this when he was present. The Simpsons and Mystery Science Theater 3000 were memorable casualties.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Dec 19, 2018 3:05:05 GMT
We weren't monitored. It was the 60's and 70's. Nothing was that bad, I suppose. By the time I had kids things had changed and we really had to be careful about what was on tv. The only kid show I forbade my kids to watch was Barney and that was because that stupid purple thing annoyed the crap outta me. Same here when we were growing up. I loved Three’s Company and some of the other shows listed!! I didn’t care for the Simpson’s so my kids watched that later. And I could not stand whiny Calilou, or whatever his name was!! But other then that I wasn’t very strict with my kids either. My now 29 yr old was too young to see Jurassic Park in the theatre, but I let her watch it on tv when it hit network tv.
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Post by bc2ca on Dec 19, 2018 3:07:59 GMT
The only thing we were forbidden to watch was Dark Shadows. I had a bunch of friends who watched it though, so they'd tell me waht happened and I'd fill them in about "Laugh In", which they were not allowed to watch. Tradeoffs Dark Shadows was the only show actually forbidden in our house and it was only because we started having nightmares. We were watching at the neighbor's house because tv wasn't allowed until after dinner at our house. I still remember trying to explain the vampire soap opera to my parents. I did forbid the yellow people show at our house when the kids were really young. DH thought I was being too strict so we watched an episode where Homer and Marge were turned on by having sex in public. DH was horrified and agreed to the ban until they were a bit older. By the time DS hit MS he owned all the seasons on DVD.
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Post by scrapmaven on Dec 19, 2018 3:22:29 GMT
We watched All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Mary tyler Moore, The Bob Newhart Show and Carol Burnett. Saturday night was great television back then. All in the Family made it clear that racism was stupid. We laughed at Archie and not the minorities featured on the show. Archie wasn't dangerous and if those who watch remember, Sammy Davis Jr. was the only person ever allowed to sit in Archie's chair. Someone mentioned Soap. I was older then, so my mother and I used to watch and laugh our heads off. To this day when dh asks me what I'm doing I always reply, "voting". That was a famous Soap scene. PolarGreen12 mentioned Rocky Horror. Our city had a pillow theater that featured Rocky on the weekends. You'd lay down on big comfy pillows w/your props and watch the movie. We used to go on Friday nights and if you went in drag you got in for free. I didn't go that often, but it was a fun and innocent thing to do for a high schooler.
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Post by KikiPea on Dec 19, 2018 3:27:09 GMT
The Smurfs!
I don’t really remember too many I wasn’t allowed to watch then, but i do know if my parents knew I watch Big Bang Theory, Will & Grace, Grace and Frankie and Shitt’s Creek, they’d have a conniption!
I do know my parents were VERY strict southern Baptists, and I didn’t go to the movies until I was 18, and I saw Beauty and the Beast.
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Post by moonglowe21 on Dec 19, 2018 3:31:20 GMT
My mom was very strict and super religious so I’m sure there were plenty of shows I wouldn’t have been allowed to watch if I had actually asked to watch them, but the only show that I very specifically remember wanting to watch and not being allowed to was He-Man. I was very young and since He-Man led a rebellion, I guess my mom didn’t want me getting any wild ideas lol! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 3:46:13 GMT
The Simpsons wasn't banned but it wasn't encouraged either. I watched it when my parents went bowling and they didn't make me go with them.
I don't think anything was outright banned. I do remember my Grandma tsk'ing over a show but cannot remember what show. There were shows that I didn't watch because my parents didn't want to pay for the premium channels.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 19, 2018 4:10:58 GMT
The only shows I couldn’t watch were the ones that were on after my bedtime. I was never much of a tv watcher and still don’t. I remember Dallas being one of my mom’s favorite shows and my dad loved watching All in the Family and 60 Minutes. Nothing was really forbidden, I just didn’t watch a lot of tv because it was boring to me and I would rather read or do something else. Other people in my family watched Three’s Company, Golden Girls, Maude, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, One Day at a Time. My bedtime must have been about 9:00 pm because I’d be in my room when the 10:00 pm news was on and they would watch Johnny Carson’s monologue after that before going to bed themselves.
We try to avoid having shows on that have a lot of graphic violence, scary stuff and other adult themes when DD is up and around mostly because if she has a bad dream she ends up in our bed and then none of us get any decent sleep.
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Post by kels99 on Dec 19, 2018 4:11:46 GMT
My parents were very 'free range' type, but we weren't allowed to watch The Newlywed Game. ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) Anything else was ok though.
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Post by candygurl on Dec 19, 2018 4:21:09 GMT
Dawson’s Creek - show sbout teens having sex Lizzie McGuire - not sure why I couldn’t watch this one MTV channel- so nothing on this Also The Simpson’s, South Park and any other stupid or raunchy shows. I actually agree with my mom on these shows but I do really remember wanting to watch Dawson’s Creek because everyone else was lol.
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Post by padresfan619 on Dec 19, 2018 4:24:19 GMT
Married With Children because my mom hated it. Otherwise everything was fair game.
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Post by teddyw on Dec 19, 2018 4:28:23 GMT
Soap operas. My grandfather even came over after school because my mom worked to make sure we didn’t watch them. I’m pretty sure he just wanted to eat. We had to have dinner made before my parents got home.
Little did he know my grandma on my mom's taught me how to iron while watching Days of Our Lives. She called them “stories”.
We weren’t allowed to watch the show Soap or anything on HBO.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Dec 19, 2018 7:23:46 GMT
Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
When I was in High School, someone told my mother that it was unsuitable, and she told us we couldn't see it. Which was rare, since she never really cared what we did.
I saw it anyways. Took the bus across town and watched it at the movie theater there.
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Post by tuesdaysgone on Dec 19, 2018 11:10:07 GMT
My parents monitored our viewing very carefully. I had the mom that was always pushing us out the door to go play in the street.
The two shows that were off limits were SNL (too raunchy) and the original Star Trek. My mom heard an radio interview with Gene Roddenberry and he (supposedly) said he got some of his ideas during a seance. Of course I became obsessed with both of these shows and always found a way to watch them. Forbidden fruit!
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Post by lisacharlotte on Dec 19, 2018 12:23:01 GMT
Another free range kid here. Nothing was forbidden on tv, movies, books. I saw The Godfather in the theater when it came out in 1972. I was seven. My grandma took me to see Saturday Night Fever at the theater when I was 12. I grew up in Los Angeles so we had quite a few broadcast channels pre-cable. I loved watching old horror movies on Saturday nights. While I was too young to understand a lot things in more adult entertainment nothing I watched scarred me except Trilogy of Terror. To this day I still think about that doll attacking my feet from under the bed.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Dec 19, 2018 12:41:54 GMT
Benny Hill comes to mind but we never wanted to watch it so not an issue. I am also feeling old because a lot of these shows (South Park, Simpsons) were on when I was older. I couldn’t watch Moonlighting, not due to content but the fact it was on at 10pm and I needed to be in bed.
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 19, 2018 14:32:38 GMT
My parents were very 'free range' type, but we weren't allowed to watch The Newlywed Game. ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) Anything else was ok though. Now that show could get raunchy!! LOL
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Post by msladibug on Dec 19, 2018 15:35:09 GMT
Dark Shadows, Three Stooges, Honeymooners (I don't like Honeymooners to this day, I thought he treated his wife disrespectfully.)
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Post by peano on Dec 19, 2018 16:17:03 GMT
Laugh In All in the Family Evening news...Vietnam violenceThis thread is kind of boggling my mind because we had no restrictions whatsoever. In fact, I had no interest in and have never seen many of the shows listed here, since I didn't really enjoy sitcoms. But I do wish we had been kept from the Vietnam death tolls every night during the evening news, which was front and center at the dinner table every night. I remember being really stressed out by it as a kid.
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Post by lbp on Dec 19, 2018 17:50:51 GMT
There was only 2 shows I was told I couldn't watch. The first one is Twilight Zone. Apparently I had nightmares about some of the episodes. However I wanted to watch it so badly that I would climb the pile of quilts on a chair by my bedroom door and heave myself upon the top of the wardrobe and watch the show through the transom window! My parents never knew!! (I was about 5)
The other show I didn't really want to watch anyway until I was told I couldn't and it was Peyton Place. Sort of a night time soap opera that Mama loved! I sneaked and watched it a couple of times but thought it was boring.
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