The only show my parents ever forbade me to watch as a child was the Dukes of Hazzard. I was allowed to watch Dallas and Falcon Crest afterwards so it wasn't because of sex. I think they were afraid it would turn me into a redneck.
Did your parents ever forbid you from watching anything?
The only show my parents ever forbade me to watch as a child was the Dukes of Hazzard. I was allowed to watch Dallas and Falcon Crest afterwards so it wasn't because of sex. I think they were afraid it would turn me into a redneck.
Also being from the South, I suspect my parents were annoyed at the depiction of Southerners as rednecks, too.
Interestingly I have been told I don't really have a Southern accent. I've been told that my accent is nondescript. It has not really been a purposeful thing, but just how it turned out. π
I don't remember being forbidden from watching any particular show. We were only limited on how much TV we could watch. No more than a half hour a day on school nights, but two hours a day on Saturday (for some reason, Saturday morning cartoons didn't count against our viewing time allotment). Also, when there's only one TV in a household with eight people, well, we usually just watched whatever my parents were watching.
Saturday nights were the best, though. We always had popcorn and chocolate ice cream for dinner and got to watch TV while we ate. Depending on the year, we saw a lot of Gunsmoke, The Lawrence Welk Show, and The Carol Burnett Show, among others.
That Saturday night tradition sounds heavenly, especially paired with The Carol Burnett Show. That was one of my favorite shows growing up and I still count it as one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I always loved watching Tim Conway make Harvey Korman crack up.
shareNothing tops Conway and Korman! π€£
And it was all clean humor!
My earliest TV memories, age 4 or 5, would have been 1964 or 1965, and there wasn't really anything objectable back then. If there was something verboten I can't recall it.
shareIf I remember correctly I was closer to somewhere between 10 and 12 when I wasn't allowed to watch The Dukes of Hazzard. It wasn't so much about my age as my parents not wanting me to watch a bunch of rednecks for fear I might turn into one. π
shareI turned 10 in 1969 and again, I don't think there was much that was objectable on TV. More genteel times. But I certainly may not be remembering something.
shareYou're probably right. Several of my favorite shows are from the late '60s like The Brady Bunch and The Munsters. Those were good days. I didn't actually live in them but they still look like they were good days. π I wasn't far behind, though.
shareNO...NEVER...I HAVE VIVID MEMORIES OF WATCHING THE TOXIC AVENGER WITH MY MOM WHEN I WAS LIKE 5 OR 6.....WE WATCHED HORROR FILMS CONSTANTLY...THAT WAS HER JAM....SO NEEDLESS TO SAY...TV SEEMED SAFE BY COMPARISON.
shareDaytime and night time soap operas must have been my mom's jam because I saw plenty of them growing up.
shareMY MOM WAS INTO GENERAL HOSPITAL TOO...LUKE & LAURA WERE TOP TIER CELEBRITIES TO HER.
shareI didn't watch General Hospital but I still knew who Luke and Laura were. I guess everyone who lived around that time did. I remember the Christopher Cross song "Think of Laura" was heavily associated with that couple. They were a big deal back then.
shareMy mom made me quit watching "Beetlejuice" after a few episodes because she didn't like the imagery in the show. To be fair, it's not for everyone, though it's not nearly as bad as some cartoons I had the misfortune to watch in the 90s. "Ren and Stimpy" and several Nickelodeon cartoons were far more disgusting by comparison. Didn't need mom to make me quit watching those.
Another time, "Rugrats" was holding a Passover special in the mid-90s, and for some reason mom didn't want me watching it. From what I saw of the commercials, it just looked like a lame recreation of the "Ten Commandments," Rugrats style. Although truth be told, I didn't watch that show much in general. The animation was ugly, the babies annoyed me, Tommy's mom looked like Bozo the clown, I wanted to murder Angelica and her mom for being so cruel and nasty, and horse-whip her wimp of a dad for ever bothering to breed.
Strangely enough, both my parents didn't want my brother or I to watch "Captain Planet" either. Something to do with an underlying message the show was telling that they didn't like.