When You were a child, was there a TV show your parents wouldn't let you watch?

Not that I can think of. My parents were pretty lenient on things like this.

My brother and I weren't allowed to watch "Dennis The Menace", which was fine because by the time we got a TV set, it had been off the air for a few years. As I recall, my mother objected to the way that he talked to adults and didn't want us to be influenced to think that it was okay. To this day, I have never seen an episode. I don't recall ever having the opportunity.

I remember my cousin wasn't allowed to watch "Laugh In". Our whole family used to watch that together. I'm not sure what my aunt and uncle objected to, probably the double entendres and the bikini clad go go dancers.

One of my friends wasn't allowed to watch "The Invaders", but I think that had more to do with the fact that it was on past his bedtime.

It was infuriating because I was allowed pretty much free reign, excepting "Married With Children" and "You Can't Do That On Television". Both restrictions seemed so arbitrary to me, and still do.

The only thing they forbade was "The Day After", a made for tv movie about the aftermath of a nuclear attack.

No.

I remember that movie. It was hopelessly optimistic; I figure they wanted an ending that was something other than a total downer.

I couldn't watch crap.

Why was that?

Yes, they would never let me watch The Love Boat. I'm really not sure why, but it was the one show my mother was vehemently opposed to my viewing. Not that I wanted to watch it regularly. But I watched it over at my best friend's house if she wanted to watch it. I also watched Charlie's Angels and Battlestar Gallactica over there, although I'm not sure whether I was forbidden from watching those at home. I was only allowed one hour of non-PBS TV a day in my pre-high school years, and I usually used it to watch Little House on the Prairie. On weekend mornings I could watch as many cartoons as I wanted, though.

No. If there was something they objected to, I was unaware it existed, or wasn't interested in it anyway.

Other. There was never anything I wanted to watch that they wouldn't let me watch, but there were probably shows I didn't want to watch that they wouldn't have let me watch.

Technically it would have been my grandparents, but they were a parental figure, and it was the simpsons. I was in the fifth grade, and probably the only kid that couldn't talk about the show due to lack of viewing.

I remember that! Jason Robards was in it. I could have sworn it was from the seventies, but I just looked it up and it was 1983.

I was actually thinking more of TV shows, but that was a made for TV movie, so I guess it still counts...

Yes. When You were a child, Your mother refused to let You watch 2001: A Space Odyssey on TV on Your birthday. You simply couldn't understand why and Your spirit was crushed by her cruelty.

...well, it didn't really have anything to do with a moral stance if that is what you mean. I could watch just about anything that didn't annoy my parents. I pretty much had to watch what ever they were watching. They hated cartoons... maybe that is why I love them now!

Not really, not so much that I wasn't allowed to watch them but that my Mum wanted to watch other stuff and she controlled the channel. I was never allowed to watch 'Jim'll Fix It' and I loved that programme (the few episodes that I ever saw) - my Mum was always watching something else on the other side.

That movie was filmed in my hometown!

Many shows... I recall specifically that I couldn't watch "Mod Squad". To this day, I don't think I've ever seen the show. I saw the recent movie... it was OK. Anyway, I think it was more about my bedtime. I couldn't watch stuff past my bedtime. I recall I watched a lot of Disney, Donny and Marie and Love Boat when I was young.

Oh, I have a vague memory of watching Wild Wild West one night and knowing that I wasn't supposed to. Come to think of it, I think it was on after Disney. I recall watching the opening credits of Wild Wild West a number of times (they were really cool).

Well, my mom didn't really like the fact that my brother watched Scooby Doo because of the witches and sorcery.

That explains a lot
especially the whole Love Boat thing.......

No. I could, as far as I was aware, watch anything I wanted to, but I did not want to watch much TV at all as a kid. I would rather be outdoors. I thought TV was very boring, mostly. At the most, it was ho-hum, so-so, boring, and that was the 2 shows I ever bothered to watch at all. One was "Topper," a sitcom in B&W, and the other, which I rarely watched, was something called "Your Hit Parade," I think it was, with a bunch of easy listening pop tunes in B&W. For many years, as a young adult, I refused to get a TV. It was only in the 80s that I finally got one of my own, plus a VCR. My parents used to offer to give me one of their TVs and I'd always say no thanks.

Dang. As a young adult I didn't have or want a TV either. My dad gave me a TV and a VCR anyway.

I was allowed to watch anything. If there was a reason my parents wouldn't let me watch a certain show, it was because something they wanted to watch came on at the same time.

There was the Rocky Horror Picture Show on cable. Just months later it became a regular part of my saturday night social life out on the town.

Anything after the watershed unless my mum knew that it didn't have anything too bad in (like Quantum Leap) but that wasn't a problem because we went to bed at 7 and had lights out in our rooms (we never had our own tvs) by 9-9:30pm. We were allowed to stop up once a week to watch Quantum Leap though. The only pre-watershed thing I remember my mum specifically not wanting us to watch was Sesame Street - I'm not sure why, I think that style of programme just really irritated her. She used to liek to sit and watch Playdays/Playbus with us.

When I was a small child, the only adult shows I remember ever watching are "Allo, Allo", "Quantum Leap", occasional "Star Trek: Next Gen" and "Fawlty Towers". I didn't spend much time watching tv - I always had plenty of stuff to be doing.

No. I could watch anything that was on except when it was past my bed time.

my parents didn't want me to watch Sesame Street or its ilk (Zoom, Electric Company?) because the shows were racially integrated...

Nothing really, most things after 11:00, because they were late not because of the content.

I wasn't allowed to watch the Invaders after the first couple of episodes. My grandmother thought it looked far too violent.

You mean because not everyone on the show was a single race?

yep! my parents were... dumb.

I subscribed to cable as soon as it came to my area back then, but it kept getting more and more expensive and the novelty soon wore off. I didn't like the programming enough to continue after several years of it because I didn't watch enough of the channels to make it worth what I paid. I want to choose my OWN channels and pay for only THEM. And if I want just four channels, then I should be able to pay for only these -- and not a "package" that the cable company gives me whether I want it or not. And I'm not inclined to go with any kind of cable anyway, but probably a "Dish" if ever I can afford it. I do like PBS sometimes and certain educational channels. Recently my neighbor has been kind enuff to tape for me the series "THE BLUES" and I have been so enjoying these!

Yes, I'm sure there was, but I can't remember names. I do remember that my favorite show was called Zoobalee Zoo. I absolutely loved it, I'd pretend to play with the characters in my room and everything. Then it got moved to 6am, so I would get up and wake up my mom to watch it. (I was two or three at the time). Eventually, she told me it got cancelled. I found out years later that that was a lie. Apparently, she was concerned about my obsession with it.

I watched half a Sesame Street after classic arts showcase to see what sort of subliminal programming our kids were getting these days (plenty more blatant ads). The guest star was Kofee Annan telling monsters to solve things the UN way, sing in harmony.

oh wow!!

No, not that I can remember. I do remember when cable first came out and I could watch gilligan's Island 3 times in a row right after school.

I have some vague recollection of seeing it, but as I said, I think it was on late and probably past my bedtime...

...and yet you grew a planet sized brain and a respect of diversity without the aid of colourful and sassy counting puppets....sing song science and tie dye clad dancing Asian and African American actors and actresses....
hmmmmmm
I don't think "most" American parents believe this is possible

but I never learned to count!!

I was a teenager by the time it originally aired. As is, we only got 2 channels (ABC & NBC), so we didn't have a huge choice of shows to watch anyway.

Quantum Leap? I thought I was the only one who liked that show. I wish it was on in reruns. No, scratch that, I wish it was still in production. It really was one of the best shows ever on TV. It was such a neat way to learn about history. I really grew to like Scott Bakula too. He's a good looking man, and from St. Louis too.

We had three periods of television in my childhood:

pre 1967 - no television
1967 to 1975 - 12" black and white, four channels
1975 to 1981 - 24" colour, 13 channel cablevision

We didn't have color television until I was pregnant with my son (1979-1980) and that was only because the black and white set went bye-bye. I finally got to see Star Trek in color after all those years watching it in b & w.

"The Day After" has an uplifting ending? I have to see how they pulled that off.

My mother thought it would be too upsetting. It still bemuses me how arbitrary the decision was.

I thought that at the end they tried to inject hope where, in the event of an actual all-out nuclear exchange, there would be no such hope. I assumed they did it because a more accurate ending would just be too depressing.

yeah, it was laugh in- the show that launched Goldie Hawn's career .....ok now I am just dating myself...

OIC.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1620&e=1&u=/sv/googlesponsoringcodercontest

Hare Krishna!

My parents actually put an electronic lock on the TV, and the shows we could watch were quite limited (the Waltons, The Wonderful World of Disney, PBS shows, stuff like that).

Did they succeed in raising Stepford children?

...and then you understood about the "red shirts"?

Yep!

Yes, it was "Three's Company".

No, my parents were always okay with me watching anything.

Outer Limits and Twilight Zone

I didn't even see a PG-13 movie until I actually was 13!
I wasn't allowed to see Saturday Night Live or any of those off-color comedy shows, cop shows and other shows with violence or sex, etc.

There were many things I couldnt watch - when I was young even soap operas. I remember bein excited when I was old enough to stay up and watch Coronation Street but then I had to go straight to bed.

My mum would never let me watch a kids programme called Rentaghost, cos she said it was silly. looking back i can now see she was right. lol