What tv shows were you forced to watch by your parents growing up?

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My mum loved ER

Antiques road show!!

Crown court and Take the High Road

None.
Mum only watched the news.

None
Watching anything that wasn't educational was common
Magazines also common,
TV was pretty louche in general

I don't understand why a mum would make someone watch ER. how odd

The World at War

Cricket. Thanks Dad.

There was only one TV in the house, so pretty much everything.

I wasn't forced to watch anything but the TV was on all evening every day so I saw whatever was on it. We could watch anything we liked and my parents watched whatever they wanted whether we were in the room or not.

Crossroads!

I would not say we were forced to watch it, however, there was only 1 TV at the time at home and Crossroads would take precedence at whatever time it was on. No chance of a channel change while that was on. So it was either watch that or watch nothing at that time.

Blue Bloody Peter. Because Wholesome.

Heartbeat and Antiques Roadshow. The Simpsons was strictly forbidden as it would rot my brain.

Songs of Praise, Antiques Roadshow, the London Marathon (to see if they could spot Jimmy Savile 🤮) Local BBC News.

Nothing on ITV as it was common.

Nothing but I always wanted pop on in car and sometimes they let us listen to top 40 but mum had Terry Wogan on in car in morning or Radio 4 in the house and my df listened to classical

Sons & Daughters

Tenko

Star trek 😑

Coronation Street (1970s-1980s)
Dallas
Dynasty
Nationwide
Morecambe and Wise
Black and white minstrel show
Generation Game
The golf.

The Waltons. We wanted to watch something trashy on ITV instead (Love Thy Neighbour, I think). We complained like hell but ended up loving The Waltons (‘Goodnight Jim Bob’)!

last of the summer wine. As a child I never got the point. Not sure i would now. Found the tune sad as was the end of the weekend. I didn’t mind Antiques road show. I enjoyed seeing some actually interesting things and people trying to compose their faces when they thought they had something very valuable and it was worth a few quid and they had to come out with how it was priceless because their aunt left it to them.

Coronation Street with my mum, still watch it to this day!

None.
Do you just mean that you only had one TV? As I grew older we got other ones so we could watch something in our rooms.

Those of us with only one tv are showing our age here 😁
I wasn’t forced to watch anything, but I agree with a pp that Antiques Roadshow and Last of the Summer Wine signalled the end of the weekend and back to school 😒

The theme tune to Antiques Roadshow still gives me a momentary panic that I haven't done my homework 🤣

Highway to heaven. They adored that show. It seemed to be on all the time