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Parents and Grange Hill

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dottypotter · 24/01/2023 20:36

For those who were growing up when Grange Hill started in 1978.
Did you parents try to stop you watching it?

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pigsinoodies · 26/01/2023 10:56

The same theme tune was used for 'Give Us A Clue' which ran around the the same period. Much disappointment every time it was heard and turned out to be Lionel Blair coming on TV rather than Tucker Jenkins.

pigsinoodies · 26/01/2023 11:01

Hmm, maybe I'm confusing that with something else.

ReneBumsWombats · 26/01/2023 11:03

No, you're right.

potniatheron · 26/01/2023 11:08

I was allowed to watch it but I wasn't allowed to read Sweet Valley High books, which were really fashionable at the time. (I used to borrow them in secret out of the library. They made 9 year old me feel very swarthy, ugly and uncool!)

WiddlinDiddlin · 26/01/2023 11:09

Yeah, some of them - Lord of the Flies certainly did, the ideas of murderers lurking, mm... being trapped beneath the earth was a recurrent theme too.

They didn't when I re-read at a few years older, but I was definitely one of the 'has an over-active imagination' kids so I probably didn't need much help at times.

I read The Hobbit, Owl Service, Lord of the Flies, loads of Agatha Christies loads of the classic stuff like Journey to the Centre of the Earth from the ages of 7 to 10, and that was all reading alone, in my somewhat spooky attic room which also didn't help!

lifeturnsonadime · 26/01/2023 11:14

dottypotter · 24/01/2023 20:36

For those who were growing up when Grange Hill started in 1978.
Did you parents try to stop you watching it?

Yes. It was banned in our house, along with Eastenders!

We joke about it now.

SausageinaBun · 26/01/2023 11:18

My mum tried to ban us from watching Grange Hill. At the time she said it was because she didn't want us to catch the accent. I've no idea if that was the real reason, but she is a bit like that.

We were later banned from watching more than one Australian soap each day, so had to choose between Neighbours and Home and Away.

My parents did let us watch any comedy we wanted, some of which probably wasn't particularly appropriate.

ReneBumsWombats · 26/01/2023 11:19

"Catch the accent" 😂

HollaHolla · 26/01/2023 11:20

We weren’t allowed to watch it either.

our mother was a teacher, and friends who had teacher parents weren’t allowed to watch it either. Coincidence?

Fraine · 26/01/2023 12:00

There was nothing more depressing then putting the TV on after school and coming across Grange Hill or Byker Grove.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 26/01/2023 12:06

No

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