Shows your Parents banned that your mates all watched

[TheOnlyLivingMumInNewCross]

After the thread regards our top 3 most loved Shows, I was talking to DH about mine and the ones I wanted to watch in my teens but my parents banned.

So, who else was banned from watching a show all your mates watched and why were you banned?
Mine are Heartbreak High and Hollyoaks.
Both shows I wanted to watch as everyone raved about them. Both shows which my parents decided to watch with me the first time.

It did not go well.

The episode of Heartbreak High ended with someone going into what was quite graphic labour for teatime on BBC 2. That was a huge no for the parents.
The episode of Hollyoaks which they saw was when Natasha, the posh daughter of the pub owner, died after taking pills.

I was probably about 12 for the first one and 14 for the other. I got round the Hollyoaks ban as despite their strict t.v. policy they used to leave my sis and I every Sunday for at least an hour and a half to go to Tesco so I'd watch E4 and the omnibus

What were yours?

Grange Hill. And any soap
Opera was also banned.

Magpie

I wouldn’t let my DC watch Tiswas, they had to watch Noel Edmonds Swap Shop. DC1 now 47 still mentions it

I was allowed to watch anything. The only thing my parents were annoyed at is when they caught me watching Red Shoe Diaries one night. I wasn’t even interested in the sex scenes. I just really fancied David Duchovny.

Magpie

Brookside was banned but I still watched it! I loved Heartbreak High!

Grange Hill, my mum thought the children were rude and it’d rub off on us. The Simpsons for the same reason.

Looking back I’m slightly bemused by this as she spoke to us and my dad like shit quite often, and if anything was going to influence our manners it’d be that

I was the only kid in school who didn't watch Neighbours when it was at the height of its popularity. I wasn't banned from watching it, just that my dad thought it was shite and wouldn't have it on. I loved days of school, because it meant I got to watch the afternoon showing.

Not a tv programme, but I remember my dad once taped American Werewolf in London off the telly for me and cut the bit where they shag in the shower out (bit of DIY censorship) but left all the gory horror bits in

The X Files! I’m still slightly bitter about that one as I’ve never managed to catch up on it.

My parents never banned us from watching anything. We used to watch Kenny Everett, Benny Hill et al. We used to watch the Young Ones, I would have been about 8 at the time. My df used to work shifts, so my dm liked having us around. As her English wasn’t great, we stayed up late and watched these programs.

I’m still alive, and a well rounded adult 🤷🏼‍♀️

Grange Hill. Eastenders. Tiswas. Grotbags. Catweazle. Rod Hull and Emu. Marmalade Atkins (I bloody loved that one). Actually, anything on ITV, come to think of it. It was referred to as 'The Other Side'. Deemed uneducational mind-rot.

My gran wouldn’t let me watch monty python or the goodies at her house
We didn’t have a tv at home till I was at high school so used to love going to grans house as she had a huge colour tv rented from DER

It's funny isn't it?
Grange hill wasn't banned in our house, and was probably just as bad as Hollyoaks and Heartbreak High, but I suppose it was on before my Dad got home from work and when my Mum was starting dinner in the kitchen.
We only had the one TV as well and 4 channels so it didn't help that when Dad came in he would sit in "his chair" with a cuppa and he chose what went on the TV. His favourite saying was "I pay the TV Licence so it's my choice" although my Mum always watched Eastenders and Corrie.

I allow my pair much more leniency, they love Big Bang Theory and The Goldberg's as well as Fresh Prince and The Simpsons. They're 10 and 11 though. I wonder if they're less bothered about older shows now though due to having 24/7 kids channels and YouTube though.

My mum was very liberal with what I watched on TV, I used to watch Dynasty with her when almost everyone else I knew wasnt allowed to watch it. The only things she banned me from were Benny Hill and Alf Garnet, in retrospect I think she was entirely correct in this.

Eastenders. Also, not a tv programme obviously, but 'smash hits' after my dad bought it for me when I was ill, flicked through it and saw an article about Madonna 's 'sex' book. The smash hits ban devastated me way more than not watching eastenders ever could!

They didn't ban anything. My parents had control of our television set in the evenings anyway and I think they trusted that anything on in the afternoons would be suitable for children. Once I hit about 12 or so, I was more often to be found in my room listening to music than watching TV in the living room.

Grange Hill here too. It was after an episode where one girl called another girl a bitch.

We were never banned anything. Liberal parents

Things weren’t necessarily not allowed, but if you only had one TV in the living room parents’ viewing preferences and their willingness to watch stuff they disliked (or leave the room!) could come into it!

My DF, for example, was a couch potato with zero tolerance of soaps!

Grange Hill.

My friend's parents didn't have a TV at all. She managed to get a portable radio which her Dad took away from her as the songs played on the radio were inappropriate apparently. She wasn't allowed to school disco's or anything like that. He was a giant tool!

Well I wasn't allowed to watch Gremlins in the cinema. I'm not just saying this EVERYONE else in my class saw it. I was t allowed because it was a 15.

I almost got over this until one day my toddler DS1 was at my DMs house...when I went round to collect him he was watching it on TV!!!!! 😡

I don't really have an issue with him watching it, more the unfairness.

Tiswas (also because it was common)
Grange hill
But I was allowed to stay up late to watch dynasty!

My mum didn't actively ban anything but she was the absolute pass-agg queen of making me feel guilty and ashamed about watching 'dross'.

Dross was:

Neighbours
Home and Away
Hollyoaks
Most things on ITV
Casualty
TFI Friday
Any/all American sitcoms
Gladiators
This Morning
Jeremy Kyle
Lorraine
Top of the Pops

Against her better judgement I got my grandparents' old black and white telly when they got a new one and I used to watch Eurotrash and The Girly Show with the sound down and change the channel quickly if she walked past my room.