Which TV shows were banned in your household growing up?

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I was banned from watching Scooby doo , too scary apparently

ITV was for the idiots apparently

ITV was regarded as 'common' in our house when I was little although my mum watched Emmerdale religiously.

Coronation Street and Z Cars

My kids were young in the 80s to mid 90s. I didn't ban anything but I favoured Blue Peter over Magpie - so they were used to it by the time they were deciding.

The only thing I really didn't like on was Jim'll Fix It. He really gave me the creeps and always had. I remembered the Top of the Pops episode where he goosed a young teenager stood next to him and being disgusted.

I didn't refuse to let them watch it but tried to make sure that I 'wanted' to watch something on the other side or we were otherwise busy. Probably saw it twice all the time they were growing up then they decided (probably partly due to subtle comments from me) that he was creepy)

For some reason, we were never allowed to watch Casualty. Then one Christmas when I was about 8 we went to an Aunty's house and they had it on, and I was so so so smug that I was watching it, and my dad couldn't tell her to turn it off because it's one of those awkward family relationships where everyone is a bit on edge.

From then on I watched it every single week for years. Thanks Aunty!

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Nothing was banned. Not wven Love Thy Neighbour and Bouquet of Barbed Wire. My parents were happy to discuss right, wrong and foolish and were knowledgeable rather than judgemental. It's interesting how much of what was screened wouldn't be now and how much more judgemental parts of society have become along with religious fundamentalism in which I include Alpha and the evangelical end of the Anglican church.

If you are exposed to the dubious elements of society intellectually you are far better at avoiding dangerpus situations as a young adult imo. My DC had friends whose parents banned Harry Potter!

Not at home but boarding school in the '80's. Only thing we were allowed to watch was the 6 o'clock news, TOTP's and (bizarrely) Dallas.
I grew up a strange teenager.

Network Seven after Ben Whatisname from Curiosity Killed the Cat was asked how old he was when he started masturbating.

I was allowed to watch most things. DH did not watch ITV in his house.

Grange Hill.

Obviously I was going to morph into Tucker Jenkins if I so much as watched five minutes of it!

We only had one TV in the front room and growing up my dad was quite strict about what we watched. MTV - no. Grange Hill/Byker Grove - also no.

Tiswas. Though to be fair it wasnt much of a hardship. I much preferred Swap Shop anyway

All children's ITV.

The news. That was for good reason, someone asked my brother what he wanted to be when he grew up (he was about 5) and he said, "An IRA sniper".

We were allowed to watch newsround.

The Simpsons, my dad said it was crude 😂 he let me watch Terminator when I was about 6 though so a bit of rude but clean humour not OK. Violent action film OK though.

Crossroads, all soaps except coronation street actually.

Mind your language - even back then my Mum was disgusted at how racist it was and stomped to the TV to switch over immediately.

The News. Not banned but off limits to children before bedtime because of the potential to cause bad dreams.
Coronation Street. Not the sort of thing children should watch.
Anything American (or from the Yanks as my mum would say).

Only ones that had ‘bad men’ on them - not so much of a ban but mum (who had a radar for them) would switch the TV over or off of they came on ‘not him, he gives me the creeps’.

You know the ones I’m talking about!

Itv
Eastenders
Home and away
Roland rat
Most Disney films due to the lack of multiculturalism & diversity

Graham Norton
Eurotash
The golden girls
Rosanne

All too heathen!

My mum didn’t allow me to watch horror films (she said about Scream: That film is so bloody, I have to put the tv on a bucket). But my dad let me watch them.

Apart from that, obvious adult shows were forbidden.

DarlingNikita that's an interesting thought about the class thing. I think people from the lower middle classes are more likely to be anxious about such lower-class indicators as ITV (and calling your sofa a settee) but I have known "respectable" working class people (i.e. the ones who have jobs and express horror at the idea of claiming benefits) try to distance themselves from "common" things as well.

We were somewhere on the cusp because my parents were from working class backgrounds but both had solid middle-class jobs, so my mum was constantly jumping on me and my brother for using the wrong words - such as nan/nanna, mam - and for wanting to watch CITV. The special refained voice she used for answering the phone at work was hilarious as well

I actually stopped myself from watching Brookside!

I had just turned 13 when it started in 1982, and it frightened the hell out of me! I had no idea people could be so shouty and devious and horrible to each other.

I didn't have an especially sheltered childhood (I'm Northern, born and bred here in Lancashire) but all these Scousers who seemingly had no morals really scared me.

I think it was all the criminal/illegal activity, just passed off as normal everyday behaviour that shocked me.

Grange Hill and all soaps.

Thought we are the only kids banned from Grange Hill!

EoinMcLove - your username is fabulous! I love Father Ted.

That Eoin McLove superfan woman on castors in the supermarket with Mrs Doyle is just perfect comedy.