Parents and Grange Hill

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

No. But I wasn't allowed Jackie magazine. I used to read my friend's in school

I watched it from the first episode. My parents didn't have a problem with me watching it and were very open minded about anything I wanted to watch. Always a bit shocked to read, all these decades later, that some people had parents who were worried. It seems 1950s attitudes in the 1980s to me.

No

Allowed to watch because it was BBC.

Mine did (mid eighties!). We would have been around seven or eight at the time. We watched it when we were older.

Yes, because it was on the BBC. Apparently our TV couldn’t ‘get’ ITV.

Apologies I am dyslexic. I doubt Lenny Henry would give a shit I mis-spelled it 😂

Today is Saturday Watch and Smile was lost on me, yes, and a great many more I think.

Take a look at the logo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiswas I'm not surprised I remembered a Z. Well that and being 6 😂

No, not until I was about 10 maybe (it wasn't deemed 'suitable'). I did have a younger brother though, which probably didn't help (even less suitable for him). I started watching in the zammo / jackie era and carried on!
We were a BBC household so perhaps it was still seen as better than whatever was on ITV!!

No I was 14 and they would have been at work when it was on
We watched all sorts of after the watershed stuff as didn’t go to bed at 9!

No and school was pretty much the same anyway.

Its really bizarre that some of your DPs only watched the BBC and, by extension, its all you could watch as well.

Not a dig at all, just an observation.
In our House we watched all the 3 Channels until Channel 4 and later Channel 5 came along.

No, but my Dad tried to stop me watching Neighbours.
He said it would interfere with family meals.

I watched it when I was in primary school in the 90s. I wish my parents had stopped me, it made me terrified of going to high school!

I don't think they were aware it even existed, I don't think they were back from work when it aired. It was on about 5pm wasn't it?

I wasn’t allowed. But had very controlling parents so don’t think this was particularly about Grange Hill, just part of a bigger picture!

@Trinity65 ITV was seen as common. Also some parents lessened pester power as ITV had toy adverts whilst BBC had none.

In the 80s but yes

Same here.

Yes. My mother freaked out when Clare got pregnant by Stu pot and stopped me from watching it.

I watched it. I was in 2nd year (in old money) when it started. It wasn’t as rough as my secondary school, though I did think some of the bullying stories might have given people ideas. We were a BBC house. ITV wasn’t banned as such, but we always watched BBC. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I suppose there's no reason why you'd wonder what it meant. And I suppose I might not have done except for the 'funny kids' at school calling it 'This Is Shit Watch Another Station' or 'This Is Shit Watch And Suffer'.

Just watching it all again with my DS - it's on Britbox. Some episodes seem suspiciously short, I think they've done a bit of pruning. Though I suppose that could be actors' contracts issues as much as content.

That's True re the Adverts

I used to just watch a mixture of those types of programmes but was definitely a Magpie girl , though I watched Blue Peter on occasion.

Nope, the only time we couldn't watch what we wanted was when the tennis was on.

I wasn't allowed to watch it until after I had started High School, in case it put me off going! 😂