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Heidi Dawn

05-11-2009, 01:54 PM

There were certain shows I couldn't watch because it was past bedtime, I usually went to bed around 10 when I was 7 or 8. I became a fan of 1970's and 1980's dramas through syndication because they were on past my bedtime when they originally aired: Charlie's Angels, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dallas, Dukes of Hazzard.

There were a lot of sitcoms that my parents would watch with me: Happy Days, Three's Company, Golden Girls, The Jeffersons, etc.

browneyes106

05-11-2009, 02:07 PM

My parents weren't really strict about the stuff I watched. There were some stuff on MTV that they didn't like but once I was 11 they pretty much let me watch whatever I wanted. I had a friends whose parents didn't let them watch Roseanne and Beavis&Butthead

Scoobiedoo30

05-11-2009, 02:45 PM

Not Really

factsoflife

05-11-2009, 06:43 PM

Well my parents were really odd about what i was and wasn't allowed to watch... until i was like 14 i wasn't allowed to watch "Roseanne", "The Simpsons", "Married With Children" or anything on MTV. However i was allowed to watch daytime soap operas, "Melrose Place" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" with my mother, we also watched "Knot's Landing" together. So it was strange. I also remember not being allowed to watch "In Living Color" because my parents thought it was "too mature".

But when i turned 14 my parents decided i was old enough to decide for myself what i was allowed to watch. Their only strict rule was bedtime, when i was younger i had to be in bed by 730 or 8oo, except on weekends when my bedtime was 930. But by age 14 my bedtime was moved to 10pm on weekdays and 11pm on weekends.

I was allowed to watch whatever i wanted and was told that if i didn't understand something to ask them about it... They were fair parents, if they thought something was too mature they explained things to me.

The funny thing is most of those shows that they didn't let me watch are shows that to this day i won't watch. I guess they biased me in my head. Although i did end up watching a lot of MTV shows and still enjoy "Roseanne" i never got into MWC, The Simpsons or In Living Color.

Liza

05-11-2009, 09:46 PM

My parents were very over-protective when I was a kid. I wasn't allowed to watch "Those weird yellow cartoons with foul mouths" (The Simpsons), "That twisted pervert's home" (Pee-Wee's Playhouse), or "Those spoiled teenagers" (Saved by the Bell).

:rolleyes: Of course my brother (who's 8 years younger) could watch anything he wanted :rolleyes:

Liza

05-11-2009, 09:52 PM

Well my parents were really odd about what i was and wasn't allowed to watch... until i was like 14 i wasn't allowed to watch "Roseanne", "The Simpsons", "Married With Children" or anything on MTV. However i was allowed to watch daytime soap operas, "Melrose Place" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" with my mother, we also watched "Knot's Landing" together. So it was strange.

Get out! I always thought I was the only one who wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons! Every other kid in class was talking about it, and I had nothing to contribute :( I was so left out!

But on the other hand, my mother was a huge Stephen King fan. I saw The Shining and It when I was in elementary school. And Alfred Hitchcock was a distant cousin of ours, so I saw Psycho and The Birds when I was far, far too young :lol:

That's right, my parents objected to this:
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Not this:

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steevo

05-11-2009, 09:57 PM

My parents weren't strict about my TV viewing as much as they were about my bedtime. The one exception was a movie called "Something About Amelia". My mother made it very clear she did not want me to see it because of its incest theme.

Movies were another matter, however. I didn't even see my first R-rated movie until I was 13. :lol:

Tubehead

05-11-2009, 10:49 PM

Retro4Life

05-11-2009, 10:54 PM

My dad wouldn't let us watch the simpsion or whos line is it any way?. cause he didn't like drew carry me and my brother watched it any way. we watch the simpsion for a while then theygot dirty so we couldn't watch them,.

I distinctly remember a few shows during my childhood that were supposed very "adult", but I was allowed to watch them all, God bless my folks. Oddly enough (unlike today's "mature" humor which has more to do with scatological and sexual "envelope pushing" and nothing whatsoever to do with truly "adult" themes), they were all quality shows; "All in the Family", "Hot L Baltimore", "Soap" and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."

Schmoopie

05-12-2009, 02:44 AM

I don't remember any shows that I wasn't allowed to watch, but I do remember having to go to bed at 10pm when the news came on.

comedyfreak

05-12-2009, 03:51 AM

My parents weren't stict about what I watched, then again when I grew up everything was family friendly. The only iffy shows at the time were All In The Family and Maude.

megamanj2004

05-12-2009, 12:20 PM

Get out! I always thought I was the only one who wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons! Every other kid in class was talking about it, and I had nothing to contribute :( I was so left out!

There was a time my parents wouldn't let my family watch The Simpsons for the 1st 4 years, b/c of me getting in trouble for saying "Eat My Shorts." :lol:

But ironically, my folks let us watch Married with Children them.

And also I too had a strict curfew w/ staying up late, even though I still sometimes stayed up late to watch Johnny Carson and a lot of other shows that aired late nights on my Fridays and early Saturdays off during my Pre-School and 2nd grade years.

robyrob

05-12-2009, 12:56 PM

I wasn't allowed to watch Murder She Wrote.

MrRetro_08

05-12-2009, 01:24 PM

I was never banned from watching anything.

catlover79

05-12-2009, 01:56 PM

Most of the shows my parents watched then I had no interest in anyway - I just wanted to stay up later!! :lol:

gidgetgrape

05-12-2009, 02:19 PM

No, my parents were really cool about TV. But, TV was a lot milder in the 80s and 90s, especially if you didn't have the movie channels (like HBO), which we didn't. I mostly watched Nick at Nite, PBS and TBS anyway. I think most of the "adult themes" went over my head.

I did have a friend in high school who wasn't allowed to watch MTV. Her father was a pastor. She went crazy wild the second she got away from him, so sometimes I think he should have just let her watch MTV.

Big C

05-12-2009, 03:52 PM

Torgo

05-12-2009, 04:14 PM

Considering I was raised on horror films and Russ Meyer movies, my parents weren't too strict on what I watched on TV.

Furienna

05-12-2009, 06:47 PM

I can't remember my parents forbidding me to watch anything either. But actually, when I watch "Dallas" today, I can't believe I watched that, when I was only ten years old. But I wouldn't have watched it, if my mother and my sister hadn't done it.

JamesG

05-12-2009, 06:59 PM

Considering I was raised on horror films and Russ Meyer movies, my parents weren't too strict on what I watched on TV.

I'm pretty much the same as you; I was raised on horror films.

My parents gave rules on bedtime but when it came to television they didn't really control much at all of what I saw.

littlebelle

05-12-2009, 07:45 PM

My mom didn't let me watch Buffy Vampire Slayer for some reason.

jimpickens

05-12-2009, 07:52 PM

I couldn't watch SNL when I was in grade school due to its drug and sex content and when we got cable it was no shows with strong sexual content or comedy acts that were real raunchy until I was 15 they were okay with everything else.

factsoflife

05-12-2009, 11:20 PM

Get out! I always thought I was the only one who wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons! Every other kid in class was talking about it, and I had nothing to contribute :( I was so left out!

But on the other hand, my mother was a huge Stephen King fan. I saw The Shining and It when I was in elementary school. And Alfred Hitchcock was a distant cousin of ours, so I saw Psycho and The Birds when I was far, far too young :lol:

That's right, my parents objected to this:
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Not this:

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That just made my day! i can totally relate. my parents had no issue with me watching sleazy soaps featuring partial nudity and talk of sex, but the simpsons, a cartoon was off-limits... it makes no sense...

I think it was more a case of they didn't want to watch the simpsons so they forbid me from watching it. But i did feel left out at school too! it was hard, everyone else was watching the simpsons but i was left having to explain why i watched "murder she, wrote"... kind of like how all the other kids were watching "Blossom" which was racy but i had to watch "full house" which well wasn't.

Stuck In The '70's

05-12-2009, 11:47 PM

I could watch anything on TV. I remember watching AITF when I was only 6 and 7. lol

70s show watcher

05-13-2009, 12:37 AM

i was never forbidden to watch anything

Cactus Jack

05-13-2009, 12:43 AM

i was never forbidden to watch anything
Me neither!

To those wh couldnt watch SIMPSONS, ya couldnt have sneak-watched it? Or taped it and watched later when everyone was asleep?

and also if they wouldnt let you watch Simpsons for awhile, i wonder what theyd think aobut Family Guy and South Park! :eek: :lol:

dawsongirl

05-13-2009, 01:19 AM

Not really - I just wanted to stay up and watch more TV but they were pretty strict about bedtime. :lol:
Me too; I hated going to bed.

Furienna

05-13-2009, 03:59 AM

Furienna

05-13-2009, 04:03 AM

That just mad my day! i can totally relate. my parents had no issue with me watching sleazy soaps featuring partial nudity and talk of sex, but the simpsons, a cartoon was off-limits... it makes no sense...
"The Simpsons" isn't an innocent cartoon targeted towards children though. Many cartoons were orginally supposed to be "children's TV", even though I still love to watch them as an adult. But still, "The Simpsons" doesn't even fall into that cathegory, as it's clearly targeted towards a more mature audience. So I can see why some parents wouldn't let their kids watch it, even though it's "just a cartoon".

JamesG

05-13-2009, 04:04 AM

What's SNL?

Saturday Night Live

Furienna

05-13-2009, 04:05 AM

Ah, okay.

*My 1900th post! Only 100 posts left to 2000!*

catlover79

05-13-2009, 08:27 AM

Me too; I hated going to bed.
If I remember correctly, they didn't want me to watch Moonlighting. :lol:

factsoflife

05-13-2009, 11:56 AM

What's SNL?

Saturday Night Live. It's a sketch comedy series that airs here in the USA and sometimes features racy sketches and sexual innuendo.

megamanj2004

05-13-2009, 12:22 PM

"The Simpsons" isn't an innocent cartoon targeted towards children though. Many cartoons were orginally supposed to be "children's TV", even though I still love to watch them as an adult. But still, "The Simpsons" doesn't even fall into that cathegory, as it's clearly targeted towards a more mature audience. So I can see why some parents wouldn't let their kids watch it, even though it's "just a cartoon".

Same thing with Ren and Stimpy back when it 1st came out.

Yet it looks like an innocent kids cartoon just because it ared on Nickelodeon at the time, but there's quite a lot of gross humor in that show that might of turned off some adults.

Same thing w/ Beavis and Butt-head, too when it 1st came out on MTV in Spring of '93.

That show too had quite a lot of provocative talk and potty humor and what not on there that had some things on there that might actually get a person to be arrested, deported, expelled, etc. in real life, hence the disclaimer at the beginning of the show before their opening credits.

KurtfromPitts

05-13-2009, 12:28 PM

Technically not a TV show, but when I was little, my mom forbade me to watch The Three Stooges. [Why you...]

TryN2BGood

05-13-2009, 03:21 PM

None but with 7 kids and 2 parents and 1 tv you were lucky to watch what you wanted!! But then again there were only 4-5 channels:D

catlover79

05-13-2009, 04:39 PM

Technically not a TV show, but when I was little, my mom forbade me to watch The Three Stooges. [Why you...]
Bet you were a real wiseguy, huh?? :stooges: :rofl:

Yooch

05-13-2009, 05:36 PM

[quote=KurtfromPitts]Technically not a TV show, but when I was little, my mom forbade me to watch The Three Stooges. [Why you...][/quote

Same here. The Three Stooges would be on in the afternoons. My dad came home from work once, saw me watching and turned off the TV.

He never told me why, specifically. Maybe he thought I'd go around poking people in the eyes or hitting them over the head with hammers!

"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk"

Watsamattawitchoo?...

Moe, Moe!--(as Moe proceeds to grab Curley's nose and pull)

Stuck In The '70's

05-13-2009, 05:45 PM

Liza

05-13-2009, 06:03 PM

Did they allow you to watch anything?

Oh yeah. I could watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents or Pet Semetary anytime I wanted. It was The Simpsons that they objected to :crazy:

Liza

05-13-2009, 06:05 PM

Technically not a TV show, but when I was little, my mom forbade me to watch The Three Stooges. [Why you...]

My parents actually have an autographed portrait of the Three Stooges, that was made out to my grandmother (for the record, Curly couldn't spell 'sincerely'). My dad put it with the family portraits, and for years I was told they were "Uncle Larry," "Uncle Moe," and "Uncle Curly." :lol:

Yooch

05-13-2009, 06:14 PM

[quote=Yooch]
I used to watch that after school too. Then I'd go outside and pretend I was Curley. Parents. They don't know what's cool. :lol:

Exactly! :lol:

Yooch

05-13-2009, 06:15 PM

My parents actually have an autographed portrait of the Three Stooges, that was made out to my grandmother (for the record, Curly couldn't spell 'sincerely'). My dad put it with the family portraits, and for years I was told they were "Uncle Larry," "Uncle Moe," and "Uncle Curly." :lol:

Love it! :lol:

browneyes106

05-13-2009, 11:46 PM

Me neither!

To those wh couldnt watch SIMPSONS, ya couldnt have sneak-watched it? Or taped it and watched later when everyone was asleep?

and also if they wouldnt let you watch Simpsons for awhile, i wonder what theyd think aobut Family Guy and South Park! :eek: :lol:

The Simpsons is a lot more milder than Family Guy or South Park. Even back in the early 90's when there were a lot of controversies about The Simpsons the episodes people complained about back then are mild compared to Family Guy and South Park today. I know a lot of people who don't allow their kids to watch Family Guy or South Park.

Cactus Jack

05-14-2009, 01:42 AM

The Simpsons is a lot more milder than Family Guy or South Park. Even back in the early 90's when there were a lot of controversies about The Simpsons the episodes people complained about back then are mild compared to Family Guy and South Park today. I know a lot of people who don't allow their kids to watch Family Guy or South Park.
Ah ok, well I dont fit that category, I just wondered :lol:

dawsongirl

05-14-2009, 02:19 AM

"The Simpsons" isn't an innocent cartoon targeted towards children though. Many cartoons were orginally supposed to be "children's TV", even though I still love to watch them as an adult. But still, "The Simpsons" doesn't even fall into that cathegory, as it's clearly targeted towards a more mature audience. So I can see why some parents wouldn't let their kids watch it, even though it's "just a cartoon".
I don't know...I'm not sure a lot of the toons that were being produced in the 30s or 40s were only aimed at children...they were shown with movies that probably were not considered kid friendly. Kids probably wouldn't understood some of the Tex Avery stuff, etc. Seems adult to me.

But then Saturday morning came along and gave animation the vibe that it was a children's genre.

treky

05-14-2009, 02:38 AM

I don't remember them ever being strict about my TV watching; but I remember when "ALL IN THE FAMILY" first started some parents in our neighborhood wouldn't let their kids watch it.

Furienna

05-14-2009, 10:29 AM

I don't know...I'm not sure a lot of the toons that were being produced in the 30s or 40s were only aimed at children...they were shown with movies that probably were not considered kid friendly. Kids probably wouldn't understood some of the Tex Avery stuff, etc. Seems adult to me.

But then Saturday morning came along and gave animation the vibe that it was a children's genre.
I know. And I wasn't talking about 30s and 40s animation either. I was talking about cartoons from later decades.

Classicshowsgurl15

05-14-2009, 02:11 PM

My parents were super strict on what I could and couldn't see. My mom didn't really want me to see Three's Company though until I was older. I would pretty much watch the shows they watched with them in reruns. I never really watched The Simpsons though cause they never liked it and so I wasn't really told about it. I didn't see it until I was like in high school, but I still don't watch it all that much. I don't like Family Guy or South Park though. Those are worse. I usually went to be pretty earlier when I was young so I didn't always get to see shows that I wanted to, but i've seen a lot more now.

Rosslover

05-16-2009, 11:15 PM

I was not allowed to watch any of the early Norman Lear shows . I was allowed to watch Threes Company but I had to sneak to watch SOAP because of the controversy around it. I also had to sneak to watch those early years of SNL.

jimpickens

05-17-2009, 12:31 AM

Outside of the early years Saturday Night Live Big Time Wrestling I was pretty much allowed to watch what I wanted as long as it weren't too raunchy which was ironic since I was allowed to watch Monty Pythons Flying Circus and Benny Hill.

Cactus Jack

10-14-2009, 12:51 AM

BUMP

*Pleasant Tomorrow*

10-14-2009, 04:08 PM

Nope, never...and I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. I don't think kids should be sheltered too much from the reality of life. Things are what they are, and they can't be protected forever. In fact, I think it's dangerous to shelter children too much.

That being said, I don't think I'd go too far and ever let a young child watch anything that's extremely sexual or violent. But God...I have a friend who wasn't allowed to watch the Rugrats as a kid. THE RUGRATS! I try to ask her so I can understand why in the hell not, but she doesn't have a very clear answer. Things like that I'll never understand.

Furienna

10-14-2009, 09:10 PM

Yeah, now I too really want to know why she wasn't allowed to watch "Rugrats". I mean, what was wrong with her parents?

*Pleasant Tomorrow*

10-14-2009, 10:26 PM

Yeah, now I too really want to know why she wasn't allowed to watch "Rugrats". I mean, what was wrong with her parents?
Love her parents to death, but they can be a bit strange lol. And she agrees with them about it. I have this secret plan to force her to watch the Rugrats someday haha.

Cactus Jack

10-14-2009, 10:34 PM

Love her parents to death, but they can be a bit strange lol. And she agrees with them about it. I have this secret plan to force her to watch the Rugrats someday haha.
Isi t cause of Angelica?

Furienna

10-15-2009, 04:08 AM

Ha ha! Yeah, Angelica can be too much. But I still don't think, that she, or anything else about the show, is bad enough to make parents forbid their children to watch it. Except maybe that it was a bit gross, that Phil and Lil used to eat bugs.

sara

10-15-2009, 05:02 AM

After my brothers at ages 5 and 6 were trying to piledrive each other, we couldn't watch wrestling anymore.

DebbieDeb

10-17-2009, 10:56 PM

i was born in the 50's, so we really didnt have much tv back then. But, back then, i was more interested in playing outside.

Chocoholic

10-17-2009, 11:13 PM

i was born in the 50's, so we really didnt have much tv back then. But, back then, i was more interested in playing outside.
Hey, we still played outside in the 80's and early 90's too :D

Vito

10-18-2009, 09:38 AM

My mom didn't want me and my younger brothers to watch "Maude", for some reason. That got me interested, so I made sure to visit my friend's house one evening when "Maude" was on, and watched it there. I really couldn't figure out why my mom didn't want me to see it, but after watching it I decided it was a really lousy show and that I wasn't missing anything.

yankeesfan82

10-18-2009, 09:54 PM

My mom wouldn't let me watch the violent cartoons - He-Man, Transformers, and the like. And I wasn't allowed to watch the Simpsons until I was a little older. Oh yeah my parents cancelled the subscription to The Disney Channel because I used to jump around and pretned I was TIGGER.

Furienna

10-18-2009, 11:57 PM

Wow.... What did your parents let you watch?

charlie_voy

10-21-2009, 02:37 AM

There was a time my parents wouldn't let my family watch The Simpsons for the 1st 4 years, b/c of me getting in trouble for saying "Eat My Shorts." :lol:

But ironically, my folks let us watch Married with Children them.

Isn't it strange how parents can be? My mom had a problem with "We Got It Made" because of the sexual innuendo, but let me watch "Three's Company", "Dallas" and not too many years later, "Saturday Night Live".

Schmoopie

10-21-2009, 05:39 AM

Oh yeah my parents cancelled the subscription to The Disney Channel because I used to jump around and pretned I was TIGGER.

:eek: That's horrible!!! Tigger's a sweetheart!!!:p Geez, these days it's hard to even FIND Tigger on the Disney Channel!!!

McGillicuddy

10-21-2009, 06:06 AM

Most of the shows my parents watched then I had no interest in anyway - I just wanted to stay up later!! :lol:

I was going to say the same thing, except I do remember when I was told it was my bedtime, when my last show went into commercial, but before the closing credits rolled, I would pitch a fit. (I used to say, "But I wanna see the over) I called the closing credits "the over"!:o

scarlet0906

10-22-2009, 11:35 AM

Not at all! But sometimes when I am watching movies that are for adults or too violent, She's there watching it with me. She is explaining everything like why did they do that? I shouldn't do that and etc.

catlover79

10-22-2009, 12:10 PM

I was going to say the same thing, except I do remember when I was told it was my bedtime, when my last show went into commercial, but before the closing credits rolled, I would pitch a fit. (I used to say, "But I wanna see the over) I called the closing credits "the over"!:o
:lol:

Zebra 3

10-22-2009, 06:57 PM

I had no TV show restrictions.

treky

10-23-2009, 05:01 AM

I had no restrictions, but once when an episode of "MAUDE" was on that dealt with her decision to have an abortion and her husbands to have a vasectomy; I remember it was causing some controversy, people were sending all these letters and phone calls to CBS and things, and I remember my father said to me "I hope you're not planning to watch MAUDE tonight".

I watched it anyway, out of curiosity. I figured it couldn't be bad since it was on at 9:00 at night. And I was right, it wasn't.
I remember that was also the first time I had ever heard of abortion, also the word abortion. Also, vasectomy.

CharissaGerke

10-23-2009, 10:05 PM

We didn't watch any TV growing up -- pretty sheltered! I'm glad I learned to entertain myself without depending on TV, but it makes it a little awkward now when people launch into memories of shows they used to watch growing up and then express their horror that I've never seen it! :)

Will and Grace Fanatic

10-24-2009, 07:41 PM

For a while when i was a kid my parents wouldn't let me watch the simpsons but that only lasted for a few months.

Ohio8

07-12-2012, 09:27 PM

Rowan& Martin's Laugh-In

Regulus

07-12-2012, 09:36 PM

My Parents "discouraged" me from watching The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits among others when I was young. Today I have both on DVD! :D

catsrule

07-12-2012, 11:16 PM

Oh yeah. I could watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents or Pet Semetary anytime I wanted. It was The Simpsons that they objected to :crazy:Maybe because Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a hundred times better than The Simpsons. :D

hawkeye123

07-12-2012, 11:49 PM

I was forbidden from watching Jerry Springer. But I can't blame my Mom for that one. I wouldn't let my kids watch it either.

duckie

07-13-2012, 12:23 AM

My brothers and sisters and i basically watched anything we wanted to.

Stuck In The '70's

07-13-2012, 08:47 AM

Rowan& Martin's Laugh-In
I remember watching it and my parents made fun of me for liking it. They thought it was junk. lol

robyrob

07-13-2012, 09:45 AM

i could pretty much always watch whatever I wanted, although I often got yelled at for watching Saturday morning cartoons all day instead of doing chores.

I did try to forbid my mom from watching Matlock because I hated it as a kid.

TKMetal

07-14-2012, 12:44 PM

Any Pro Wrestling. My mother hated it, but it didn't help that I would imitate it including trying to rip my shirts like Hulk Hogan.

Coffeecup

07-14-2012, 01:13 PM

No. In my day there wasn't a show that was considered inappropriate. Shows that were on after 9, I probably didn't see only because I had school the next day. I remember the days when 7pm to 8pm were geared to children.

factsoflife

07-14-2012, 07:59 PM

Although not forbidden, my parents strongly preferred that I didn't watch The Ricki Lake Show, Jerry Springer or Sally Jesse Raphael Show. Although I did watch Ricki and Sally a lot.

Zoneboy

07-14-2012, 10:27 PM

My Parents "discouraged" me from watching The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits

Why? :confused: That was 2 shows my parents and I always watched. :)

Regulus

07-14-2012, 10:31 PM

Why? :confused: That was 2 shows my parents and I always watched. :)

They thought these were too "Spooky" for me to watch (I was but five years of age at the time), later, when I was in my Teenage years I watched them on late-night TV and liked them. As I mentioned before, I now have both on DVD.

Zoneboy

07-14-2012, 10:39 PM

They thought these were too "Spooky" for me to watch (I was but five years of age at the time)

That makes sense.

Furienna

07-15-2012, 07:52 AM

Although not forbidden, my parents strongly preferred that I didn't watch The Ricki Lake Show, Jerry Springer or Sally Jesse Raphael Show. Although I did watch Ricki and Sally a lot.
When I was like fourteen, fifteen years old, I used to watch "Ricki Lake" and "Jenny Jones" a lot. But I grew tired of both of them.

Regulus

07-15-2012, 08:18 AM

Peyton Place was another show I was forbidden to watch, but it came on after my bedtime, so I didn't get to see it too much. One evening, I noticed my parents had left the door open while I watched it, so I sneaked up and peeked in to see what they were watching. what I saw was a couple of ladies yammering about something I couldn't understand at the time, I found it boring, so I went back to bed and let them carry on.

Ironically, many of the shows that us kids watched are now on many peoples "Forbidden" lists because they are :angryfire"Politically Incorrect":angryfire. Which is why you don't see them on anymore or in some cases not even available on DVD. Fortunately, for the latter there's "Other Sources" you can get these from! :D

Tubehead

07-15-2012, 10:07 AM

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Coffeecup

07-15-2012, 02:19 PM

Peyton Place. That's a show I wish I could see again. I didn't see when it was first on for I was too young but I did see some of it about 25 years ago and thought it was pretty good. Yeah I do think for a little child it may have been a bit too much to understand

UMFaninMD

07-15-2012, 04:35 PM

I wasn't restricted from watching anything, probably because when I was little I was in bed when the "adult" shows were on. :D

Regulus

07-15-2012, 07:16 PM

I probably wouldn't be forbidden from seeing this Show, except when I was four to six years of age this one came on at 1:00 AM, and I believe it was my Father's SECOND Favorite TV Western after Bonanza (Which I watched with him every Sunday evening).

Anyhow, at 1:00 AM on weeknights I'd get BLASTED out of my bed with this little Jingle: :eek:

Da Daa, Da Da Da Dah Daaa, LAWMAN!Da Da Da Dah dada Dah!

I have manage to procure this gem of a series on DVD, albiet from an illicit source. :D