To sometimes wonder what my mum was thinking?

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I was born in '91 to give you an idea of just how young I was.

She used to let me stay up and watch murder shows with her like Jonathan Creek and Midsomer Murders I'd actually go into my primary school the next day and discuss the previous nights episode with the dinner lady who also watched MM! I have an 11yr old and I wouldn't dream of letting her watch either of those shows! She'd also record stuff like South Park and Stressed Eric etc (she watched them herself so she knew full well what they were like!) so we could watch them in the mornings.

There is a particular episode of JC that gave me nightmares for years, I man had (I think) been trapped in a cellar which flooded and he drowned. I still remember the moment they opened the door and he was at the top of the stairs with his arm outstretched, and he was all yellow and waxy looking 🤢

It's only recently that I've begun to wonder what on earth she was thinking! I'm not sure if there's even any point asking her because she'd probably get all defensive and tell me I was attacking her parenting 🙄

@slashlover Oh god, these were haunting. Also the 'Charlie says' adverts, bloody scary!

I used to love watching murder mystery and horrors as a young kid. I let mine watch the same as long as there's not any sex,sexual violence or a crazy amount of gore. My 7 year old loves watching the new scream movie, she thinks its hilarious 😂 see as long as they know it isn't real , and they don't have nightmares ,it's fine 🤷‍♀️

I was a seventies child and I can vividly remember a series under the banner "murder mystery and suspense ". Probably ITV.

I've googled it and it definitely existed although it seems to have been on a Saturday and I remember it being during the week. Saturday was family telly from the generation game through to all creatures great and small and Parkie

I still remember a couple of scary ones. One about a kidnapped girl who was buried underground with just an air tube and one about a group of beauty queens hijacked by terrorists. Spooky music on the intro. .

I don't think those shows are terrible. Children's fairy tales are a lot more violent as are some cartoons.

This thread has made me go onto now to watch tales of the unexpected. It starts in 4 mins!

My parents used to let me watch all sorts of gore. I regularly used to watch things like Robocop and The Terminator. My mum and I even sat together and watched Twin Peaks, Hillstreet Blues and St Elsewhere.

Weirdly though they drew the line at watching The Krays and I remember crying my eyes out in the video shop because I wasn’t allowed to rent it. They let my brother rent some film about a dude who goes around cutting heads off but I couldn’t watch The Krays. I think they got out The Land Before Time and I was so upset about it.

Honestly I don’t know what my parents were thinking. Needless to say I’m a lot stricter with my 8 year old.

How has it affected you as an adult? That’s my question.

Jonathan Creek and Midsomer Murders are about as gentle and cosy as it gets with crime shows. Really can't see the issue with letting an 11-year-old watch them. I used to watch lots and lots of murder mysteries at that age, and I started reading Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Ruth Rendell etc at that age too. Most of my friends did. My best friend had a murder mystery party for his 10th birthday.

One of my friends now, who is an ultra-sensible, middle-class mum, watches stuff like Midsomer Murders, Death In Paradise etc with her kids; they're 11 and 14. And she has just finished watching Magpie Murders with them on Britbox.

I thought you were going to say your mum let you watch Driller Killer or something!

South Park and Stressed Eric are a bit sweary and crude, yes. But pretty harmless overall.

I watched Heartbeat a LOT growing up, and casualty. From like the age of 6 😆

My son came down when I was watching heartbeat the other night (throwback from series 2) and he snuggled up and I thought 'ahh, this is just like what I used to do' , all full of rose tinted spectacles and all. Then they shot all the animals and the farmer killer himself 😳. I mean, watching the episodes didn't do me any damage I guess, but it will be a while until I let him watch again (he's 8)

My dad used to make us watch poltergeist and those sorts of films.
I was about 7/8.

It messed me up for years and my now 30 year old brother who is a couple years younger than me still has to have a light on in the hallway.
He says it’s incase he needs to get up in the night but I used to have to have a light on too until pretty recently.

What really annoys me is my brother would ‘go to sleep’ straight away and my dad and his gf used to taunt him about pretending to be asleep and I’d then not want to show that I was afraid my going to sleep myself.

It makes me really angry to think about it.

We had to sleep in front of the TV so even when we closed our eyes we could still hear everything.

Jonathan Creek 😂😂😂 you’d have a coniption fit at the stuff I watched as a kid if you think that’s bad.

Yabu. I watched Hammer House of horror, tales of the unexpected , I'm fine. My kids watched Midsomer murders, murder she wrote, Jonathan creek, death in paradise etc and they're fine.

People did lots of things back then that wouldn’t happen now you would be hard pushed to get a child of 5 to watch some of those now they watch Netflix or YouTube. I used to let my friends daughter watch South Park she was way too young (8ish) as was I (18) she’s survived and now a fully functioning adult says some of her favourite memories were with us! Now I have my own kids I feel a bit bad she was very convincing when she said she was aloud to stay up and watch it!

Ask her.....I think because she loved these shows she was so involved in them she got lost in the moment so to speak.....but yes....I used to watch lovely black and white films with my mum ( Betty Davis etc) ...I don't put gory shows on for my 10 year old.....there's too much violence in the real world let alone TV shows.....

I saw that film really early as well. Think I was about 9.

"You said there was only one woman for you!"
"I was talking about Claire!"

Lol 😂 * *

My dd LOVES death in paradise now. She is 12 😄😄😄 She loves any mystery and reads them too. I watched Miss Marple and Poirot as a kid and found them a bit creepy (especially MM) but I enjoyed solving a mystery too.

Loved Jonathan Creek, I've seen every episodea ridiculous number of times! Born early 80's and remember watching London's Burning and being terrified for years afterwards at bedtime that the house was going to burn down while we were asleep. It didn't help that we had 3 adults that smoked like chimneys adding fuel to that fear!

@MugginsOverEre
it was great, ‘don’t worry Marty, Jeannie Can’t see or hear me’
I also loved the persuaders had a massive schoolgirl crush on Tony Curtis ❤️

Does anyone remember ‘Thriller’ that was very creepy I watched it as a child, so many actors in in that went on to really successful careers, like Helen Mirren and Robert Powell.

I used to watch a touch of frost and midsummer murders with my nan. On fact we always watched grown up films with her. I remember being excited all week to watch Psycho with her.

I think South Park is probably the worst one to be honest. I wasn't allowed to watch that until I moved out so I used to pretend to understand the jokes in class 🙃

kids are morbid, I loved that stuff and if it gave you a shock all the better!

Brilliant wasn’t it! All the kids at primary had South Park pencil cases, was seen as very cool 😎 my parents let us watch Jaws when my little brother was about 6 or 7 (that’s going too far in my opinion). Midsomer murders is fine though, it’s hardly Saw is it! I also watched Hostel at a sleepover when I was about 11

My kids have watched bones, various murder mysteries, I don't care about swearing particularly either. I don't allow them to watch soaps or reality TV, I think they're far more dangerous to the developing mind

My mum was IN Bad Girls … she was the Midwife who delivered Shell Dockley’s baby 😂

They had to use a real midwife because the actress was actually pregnant 🤰

When my mum babysits our 8yr old they watch MMs-Son loves it and asks Grandma whenever she is the one babysitting if they can watch.