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Shows your Parents banned that your mates all watched

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TheOnlyLivingMumInNewCross · 25/03/2018 21:15

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 Wink

What were yours?

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essietopcoat · 27/03/2018 22:29

The Young Ones - not really banned per se, but i knew they would completely disapprove so didn't watch it. Had to put up with schoolmates doing endless impressions of Neil, Rick etc and not getting it.

Longdistance · 27/03/2018 23:25

My dh was banned from watching Kenny Evert show, and Benny Hill, also as above the Young Ones, this information made me giggle.

My mum let us watch them all as my df would be on night shifts, and my mum didn’t understand half of what was being said.

I think I turned out fairly normal 🤪

Longdistance · 27/03/2018 23:26

I’ve just realised, I’ve repeated myself, yeah well rounded me 🙄

Callmegeoff · 28/03/2018 07:54

All my mates watched not the 9 o'clock news. I was made to go to bed just before it came on. where I secretly read

FutureFairyCrayon · 28/03/2018 14:34

ITV, I do the same to my poor daughter now with Nick Jr, I can't stand the bloody adverts.

Grange Hill, Dallas, Dynasty, The Young Ones, The Tube.

Shannaratiger · 28/03/2018 14:38

My Dad hated anything American or on ITV!
Luckily we had an old black and white TV in my parents room so occasionally got to watch the A-Team!

onemouseplace · 28/03/2018 14:44

I remember not being allowed to watch Grease 2 with my cousins (1 and 3 years older than me) because my Aunt thought my Mum wouldn't like it.

Other than that, my parents were pretty liberal and I was definitely allowed to watch some fairly adult programmes/ films when I was relatively young. And oddly enough, the only film that I can ever remember properly spooking me out and affecting me was a children's film The Watcher in the Woods.

I was only allowed Sindy and not Barbie though.

WhirlwindHugs · 28/03/2018 14:55

The Simpsons. Because Bart was a bad influence.

He let us watch 18 rated violent action films all through primary though...

SinisterBumFacedCat · 29/03/2018 11:54

My mum didn't like me watching Eastenders or Neighbours, or any soap opera because she thought it was low brow and common.

Conversely she didn't mind me watching the Young Ones, Black Adder, Alas Smith and Jones, Saturday Night Live when I was about 9-10. Surprising as there was quite a bit of swearing and sexual themes but probably nothing by today's standards.

Ubercornsdiscoball · 29/03/2018 12:03

Brookside and Neighbours werebanned in our house. Only 1 TV and Dad’s Viewing took preference anyway so we probably missed out on quite a lot!

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TheOnlyLivingMumInNewCross · 29/03/2018 14:44

The Only thing I ban now (or try to) is YouTube gamers. It's not that I think they're unsuitable, it's that they all shout so bloody loud.
Obviously when my 10 year old DD asked to watch South park and Family Guy as she wrongly thought they were just cartoons I told her hell no but I explained why

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NambiBambi · 29/03/2018 14:56

I was allowed to watch Grange Hill through all the Zammo heroin addiction and overdose stuff, Danny's brain tumour and so on even though I was really very little when that happened but then my Dad came home early and saw an episode with Tiggy and Robbie when someone got bottled in a bar and had blood pouring down their face. To be honest, it was quite graphic. Anyway, it was banned after that which was really annoying.

Thunder Cats was banned because my mum didn't like Mum-Rah coming back from the dead. Eastenders was banned and we were only allowed one Australian soap.

There was a really scary programme on ITV with 'strange but true' stuff on it and I wish it had been banned because I saw something about spontaneous human combustion and was terrified for months!

SadieHH · 29/03/2018 14:57

I was never stopped from watching anything at all. I remember my dad pulling me out of bed quite late one night because the Life of Brian was on and he said it was essential that I watched it and I wouldn’t regret it. I didn’t! DH was banned from watching loads of stuff, including Grange Hill and Blackadder. For the life of me I can’t see what that achieved.

Frith1975 · 29/03/2018 17:00

All of ITV.
Grange Hill.
Monty Python films.

Frith1975 · 29/03/2018 17:02

Oh, and the Young Ones and Benny Hill.

HappyEverIftar · 30/03/2018 06:16

Grange Hill
Gladiators

The latter as it 'promoted violence'. A few years later DB joined the army, so yes that reasoning didn't pan out too well Hmm Grin

Roomba · 30/03/2018 13:03

The Young Ones - I remember being about 10 and pretending that I'd watched it, as my classmates all talked about it and repeated the jokes next day. I was too embarrassed to admit that a) It was on at 9pm and I had to go to bed by 8.45pm and b) whatever time it was on, my parents would never in a million years let me watch something so 'crude' and 'disgraceful'.

Now, I think WTF were my classmates parents allowing them to watch that at that age?! Actually, mot of them were probably pretending they'd seen it like me...

Roomba · 30/03/2018 13:05

Thunder Cats was banned because my mum didn't like Mum-Rah coming back from the dead

Sorry, I don't know why, but this just made me guffaw loudly! Who could take offence at Thundercats? Grin

Petalflowers · 30/03/2018 16:53

Can’t remember anything being banned as such, but we had to close our eyes or look away when people were kissing, forty years on, I still feel mildly uncomfortable watching initiate scenes on tv.

BBC was considered ‘classier’ then ITV.

StripySocksAndDocs · 30/03/2018 17:07

So much it's too much to list.

My mum didnt think things appropriate. She did ease off a bit wheb i was 11 but I've an aunt who's been just a couple of years older than me. I recall sneaking round to my grandparents to watch dirty dancing with her when I was 15.

Also if you turned the tv on and couldn't immediately name whatf the programme was my dad told us we should turn it off!

IHaveBrilloHair · 30/03/2018 17:10

Neighbours, my Dad said it might interrupt family meal time, my Mum overruled him and got a TV in the dining room!

Talisin · 30/03/2018 17:10

Alien, the first time it was on TV. My mother said absolutely not - everyone else at school the next day had seen it and went around describing it in graphic detail. I’ve watched it pretty much every time it’s been on terrestrial ever since in protest Grin

Only other thing I can remember being banned was V the series (as opposed to the original mini series which I had watched) but that was because it was on too late on a school night. Caught it years later and it was pants.

Womble75 · 30/03/2018 18:31

Showing my age now but Grange Hill and Marmalade Atkins.. Mother adamant they would promote bad behaviour 😒

jmh740 · 04/04/2018 20:41

I wasn't allowed to watch much. No soaps and no top of the pops, then I had to write an essay on totp for english my dad complained non stop while I watched 1 episode.

saveyourkissesforme · 04/04/2018 20:44

Bouquet of Barbed Wire was frowned upon.

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