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?
My mom didn't want me watching this show called BJ and the Bear. I'm not sure what she thought was so inappropriate about it. The show didn't run that long, and I don't think I was missing much.
Maybe I should track down an episode just to see what it was about.
I never watched that show but Mr fourlemons did so I asked him. He said it was in the same vein as Dukes of Hazzard but set out in California with a truck driver and his chimpanzee. Apparently he interacted with several women truck drivers who may have been a bit rough around the edges. Perhaps your mother feared you would become a truck driving primate owner. Understandable. π
shareMom would switch off The Untouchables the instant it came on. She said it was too violent. Otherwise we were allowed to watch almost anything.
shareIt's funny how parents will sometimes pick just one show to say no to, like our parents did, although there's plenty else out there that might raise eyebrows. At least we were not too limited.π
shareWhen Dark Shadows was rerun when we were adults, Mom couldn't believe she let us watch it as kids.
share"The only show my parents ever forbade me to watch as a child was the Dukes of Hazzard."
That's bizarre. That show was about as innocuous as it gets, although the first episode had a couple of mildly racy lines of dialog, such as:
Bo: "If you weren't my cousin I'd marry you."
Daisy: "That never stopped anyone in this family before."
I don't remember anything racy after the first episode, and there definitely were no sex scenes of any kind in any episode, so yeah, it couldn't have been "because of sex" because there wasn't any to begin with.
The Dukes of Hazzard was the first show that I was a huge fan of (I was four years old during its first season), and it's one of only two one-hour shows from the 1980s that I still like today (the other being Magnum, PI). Other ones I liked as a kid, such as Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf, MacGyver, and TJ Hooker; I find those boring today. But the comedy from the Sorrell Booke / James Best duo (much of which was ad-libbed by both of them), that awesome car and its ground-breaking stunts, Waylon Jennings' narration and theme song, and Catherine Bach's beauty are all timeless IMO.
I suspect they just weren't crazy about it perpetuating Southern stereotypes and potentially ingraining them in me. That, or my mom just didn't want me begging to wear Daisy Dukes.
shareIt's unfortunate that you missed out on one of the most iconic TV shows of the 1980s when it originally aired, though you might not have even cared much for it anyway, since it appealed to boys more than it did to girls.
Both of my sisters (one 6 years older and the other 4 years younger than me) liked that show, but nowhere near as much as I did/do. For example, neither of them have ever made any effort to watch that show after its original run, but in the mid 1990s when I found out from a co-worker that reruns had just started airing on a cable channel (TNN or CMT; I can't remember which), I immediately ordered cable TV just so I could watch it again (at that time I hadn't seen it since it went off the air in 1985). I also taped every episode and kept the tapes. Then of course I bought the entire series when it became available on DVD, and I "binge watch" it once every couple years.
My husband watched it and even met the actor who played Boss Hogg. He has a picture of his mom standing with him.
shareI grew up in the 60's and one of my favorite shows was The Fugitive. I did something I shouldn't and as punishment I wasn't allowed to watch the show one week. Little did they know that I could pull the station up on my radio,(no idea why), and I listened to it in bed.
Good thing they didn't find out because I probably wouldn't have been able to watch it for the rest of the year.
That's interesting that you were able to listen to it on the radio. I can't remember ever being barred from watching a TV show as punishment but it sounds like you found a clever way to circumvent it.
shareThe Smurfs.
shareAre you pulling my leg?
sharenaw, I am serious. my mom wouldnt let me watch it because of all the spells they would cast. grew up in a super conservative home.
shareI'd like to say you didn't miss much but it was possibly my favorite cartoon of my childhood. Glad you can watch it now. I still watch certain shows from my childhood when I get in the mood.
sharei dated a girl who wasn't allowed to watch the simpsons
shareWhen I see your username I think of the character Bobby from the TV show "Dallas". (I figured it made sense to bring that up in this particular thread.) You didn't by chance show up in your wife's shower after she dreamed one night that you had been dead for a year?
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