Which TV shows were banned in your household growing up?

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If any

I was banned from watching Scooby doo , too scary apparently

ITV was 'common' in my house too. Also Eastenders and Grange Hill. Although I did eventually insist on watching GH!

Same. No ITV , the tv wasn't even tuned in to receive it. Just 'too common'
I have been well and truly conditioned.. I can't remember when I have watched anything on ITV in recent years..

(The ultimate offender was apparently a 'dreadful' programm called Coronation Street .. I've still never seen it. Should watch an episode some time I guess but perhaps a bit too late now .

Grange Hill was banned in our house as was Magpie. Newfound and Blue Peter were the favoured programmes.

Newsround!

Kenny Everett
Grange Hill

Fairly unrestricted tv access for me growing up, but my kids have a list of banned programmes because they seems to create crazy behaviour paw patrol, Peter rabbit, are banned and a couple of others that I can’t remember. But it’s linked to the chaos and carnage afterwards

ITV and Grange Hill. My Mum thought Grange Hill would make us frightened of secondary school and she was terrified if we saw adverts we'd want stuff she couldn't afford. For years we didn't know it existed - "Would you like some children's BBC?"

EastEnders was frowned upon (still is), anything with sexual references was switched off and my parents had installed some function on my bedroom telly that shut it off at 9pm, when all the good stuff came on! . I was 15 as well, to add insult to injury.

Liberal parent here, my parents didn't forbid tv but mum did enforce 9pm bedtimes until age 12, dad didn't and let me watch MASH because mum had keep fit. I was the same with mine though I hate adverts so never watch commercial tv unless on catch up to be honest, I'm personally more of a documentary fan but kids are adults so watch whatever trash they like.

Grange Hill.

The Simpsons
Noel's House Party
The Big Breakfast

And oranges are not the only fruit.

Tiswas
Grange Hill
The Young Ones

Spitting image.
Got sweet revenge when dad gave me an Amazon voucher. Bought the box set.

DH wasn't allowed to watch Grange Hill, Blackadder or ITV. Thankfully my parents had more sense and we were allowed to watch anything. I was introduced to Monty Python at a young age and stayed up late to watch Spitting Image.

ITV.

"Common"

I used to feel so left out at school, when they all talked about Magpie.

Everything until I was 13 or 14. No telly allowed in the house.

After we finally got a telly it was no horror films or anything slightly spooky as 'it'll give you bloody nightmares'.

Needless to say, as an adult, I now have something of a horror film addiction. I love them!

Grange Hill - Terrible, bad behaviour!

Neighbours/Home and Away
Sesame Street!

DM very concerned we might pick up Australian or American accents! Hahaha!

And oranges are not the only fruit.

I somehow managed to be in the sitting room during a very graphic sex scene from that and it did pretty much traumatize me. I still get flashbacks when anyone mentions that or its author, and I want to be sick. Ironically I think the present day atmosphere of frankness about sexuality would have helped me because it reframes lesbianism as just the way some people are and therefore no threat to straight people, whereas I think I thought of it as some disgusting disease that might suddenly befall me. It wasn't really a time when young people could ask the questions that might have put their minds at rest. It's nice when my DDs casually mention that such and such female celebrity is gay because obviously it's not the same bogeyman for them as it was for me as a young teen. Ironically, Oranges and its ilk were probably necessary to get to this place of tolerance,I just wish I hadn't walked in on it.

I reckon I could have handled the Goodies though. :)

Lol at Grange Hill being scary. It was like Mallory Towers compared to actual secondary moderns at the time.

Byker Grove
Grange Hill
The Simpsons

Everything. My parents tossed out the TV when I was 8 and so only got to see it in school or at friends houses. They called TV “the stupid box” as in TV makes you stupid.
But we had a library with over 10,000 books....

EastEnders because it was full of drugs and single mothers apparently.

Grange Hill. My mother thought I would become delinquent. But my dad let me watch it.

Hart to Hart - dunno why, think they used to romp on their yacht too much for my mother's liking.

Nothing, apart from things that were obviously for adults, but I was never that interested in those anyway.

The ITV thing is a kind of class shibboleth for me; practically all the middle-class people I've known/know, who I only started meeting when I went to uni, were not allowed it as it was 'common', but it was on all day long in our house And IME anyone who goes on about how working-class they were growing up honest guv always turns out to have not been allowed it.