What weren't you allowed to watch as a kid?

[AOIIalum]

Originally posted by carnation
And AGDee, so did you--Dad was king of the TV so I didn't watch much because how many little girls wanted to watch The Rifleman and the news?

Ditto. If I never ever saw The Rifleman, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, or an old John Wayne film again, it would be too soon. I don't remember ever really having a choice about TV viewing, there were certain shows we'd watch and that was it. No R rated movies until I was well into my teens. I've never liked horror type stuff, so not going to see Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th never mattered.

Now, I wasn't allowed to watch SNL but can remember staying up and watching with the volume almost down to zero. I wonder if it was the show or the 11:30pm starting time that really bothered my parents?

[AGDee]

I guess I'm lucky my dad wasn't into westerns! We watched 60 Minutes, MASH, All in the Family, Emergency!, Adam 12, Laugh In... I don't remember much else.

[PhiPsiRuss]

I had no restrictions, other than having to be asleep by a certain time. By the time I was in 11th grade, there was no bedtime cerfew.

I never asked my parents if I could watch Midnight Blue, so I don't know if that wasn't allowed.

[RioLambdaAlum]

For the first few seasons I wasnt allowed to watch 90210.

[AXO Alum]

I couldn't watch Children of the Corn - the first one - I was in 6th grade, and my friend Jackie had come over to watch it. Well, mom & dad said "NO" but my sister (5 years older) and her friends could watch it. So Jackie & I spent half the night watching the movie from under my bedroom door (which faces the TV in the den). The rest of the night was spent huddled together in the bed with all the lights on waiting for a crazy child-of-the-corn to jump out at us. To this day I cannot pass a cornfield without getting weirded out (and not to mention that my house I live in now was built where the cornfields used to be )

I also couldn't watch Red Dawn (where the Russians attacked us) or The Day After (the one about the bomb) -- after my parents realized that *everybody else* was watching it, they let me, but only with them in the room to filter out anything too violent.

I was not allowed to watch MTV. My dad walked in during a Madonna video and that was the end of that.

[AXOeva]

My mom didn't want me watching....

You can't do that on Television
Married with Children
90210

but she didn't seem to mind that I stayed up past 10pm to watch Silence of the Lambs with my dad when I was 13. That or she had gone to bed already. It's one of my favorite movies now!

[_Opi_]

Anything with adult content

We were definately not allowed to watch Bevery Hills 90210

We still did..just not in the presence of my mom!

[KatieKate1244]

I didn't have cable, so there really wasn't too much my parents objected to me watching. Although for a very short period (about 2 months) I couldn't watch "The Simpsons." However, when I was young, I was NEVER allowed to watch "The Smurfs." I really don't know why, either. The best excuse my mom gave me was the smurfs "annoyed" her. (However, I have since seen a few episodes and I really didn't miss much. )

[lyrica9]

i'm pretty sure i'm younger than most of yall.. and i could watch all this stuff. probably because i have a hippy mom and rockmusician dad...

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by KatieKate1244
I didn't have cable, so there really wasn't too much my parents objected to me watching. Although for a very short period (about 2 months) I couldn't watch "The Simpsons." However, when I was young, I was NEVER allowed to watch "The Smurfs." I really don't know why, either. The best excuse my mom gave me was the smurfs "annoyed" her. (However, I have since seen a few episodes and I really didn't miss much. )

I was once told that some kids weren't allowed to watch the Smurfs because they lived in mushrooms. The whole drug thing, I guess...Who knows?