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

Buying tea in industrial size packs

WheresThatCatGoneNow I do tend to say, on being presented with cake "Nobody else is getting any, this is all for me", which probably strikes people as a bit rude if they don't know that I'm quoting.

We didn't have a tv at all. My df was in the military and thought children needed fresh air, books and lots of exercise. Of course the second I left for University they went out and bought one.

Nothing was banned. But l wasnt allowed to watch doctor who if my sister was awake. Very annoying in the days before catch up TV

Grange Hill - my parents didn’t want it to put me off going to secondary school. I watched it from when I was about 13, which was after Zammo and his friends had left.

EastEnders - my parents never watched any soaps and really didn’t like the violence, drugs, sexual content, basically everything about it. I probably started watching it when I was about 13.

Moonlighting - it was on at 9pm which my parents said was too late for me to stay up for when I was about 13.

You know the ones I’m talking about!

@Lordfrontpaw my mum was the same! She wouldn't let us write to "Jim'll fix it" because she found him so disgusting and she never really liked us watching it either though did not outright ban it. As ever, older and middle aged women noticing the creeps out there and acting as gatekeepers against them when no one else did.

I thought my parents were quite strict (eg didn't let me play out when it got dark). But they never stopped me watching anything on telly. I don't think any of my friends parents did either.

My mum took me to a Grange Hill book signing and I met Tucker Jenkins 😆

I didn't even know that ITV existed until I saw it at a friend's house when I was about 9.

And I still wish that my dad had allowed me to watch Monty Python when it was first on.

ITV!

Also I wasn't allowed to watch, I, Claudius as too rude so I got the book out of the library and discovered the TV had toned it down a fair bit

Boys from the Bush. A BBC comedy drama. Not even sure why

ITV here too. Much too common..

There was a programme called High Chaparral which was on BBC 2 which I couldn't watch as we didn't have BBC 2 at that point.

I used to be able to watch ITV it in my auntie's though, so everything went - including Love Thy Neighbour, Alf Garnett and On the Buses.

Coronation street. My mother was taken to live there and she hated it with a vengeance. Couldn't bear to have it on the screen

Your mum had to go and live in Granada Studios...?

ITV (aside from Corrie and The Bill). Kids programmes not educational enough apparently 🤷🏻‍♀️

Grange Hill was the only TV program my mum didn't let me watch, but she didn't like Why Don't You, and no to the Halloween film. She also didn't let me read Forever!

Benny Hill
The goodies
Monty python
Basically no slapstick

EastEnders

she didn't like Why Don't You

Nobody liked that, surely? A goody-goody TV show about how watching TV was bad for you. About as entertaining as Songs of Praise IIRC. :)

Say what, yellowallpaper? She was taken to live on a fictional street, against her will? She was right not to watch it, that is some dark shit.

Say what, yellowallpaper? She was taken to live on a fictional street, against her will? She was right not to watch it, that is some dark shit.

like The Trueman Show!

Yes, she lived in coronation street and regularly took tea with the residents 😀

Grange Hill, despite the fact that we went to a big, inner London comp

Not the Nine O'clock News was considered 'filth' in our house. I remember being allowed to watch the opening credits to The Sweeney because I loved the music but then we were packed off to bed.

I remember my grandfather ringing my parents once, when I was staying with the grandparents, to ask if I was “allowed to stay up to watch the Ronnies*”, and being very surprised that I was!

• the Two Ronnies

Clearly remember being allowed to watch Monty Python sketch show in the 70s with my stepdad , when my Mum went to her evening class.!Was about 15 .Also not allowed to watch The Sweeney either .First time I saw that I was married!