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

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My mum loved ER

We weren't allowed to watch itv either. I always did really badly in the "guess the advert by its music" quizzes at school.

byker grove was banned as well.

We all watched what my mother wanted to watch.

I don’t think we had a TV until I was five or six.

I wasn’t forced to watch anything when we did get one, but didn’t get any choice in what I watched after the Magic Roundabout.

Minder and Only Fools and Horses - they liked a cheeky cockney conman...

Grandstand. We all had to be quiet when they read out the football results as my Grandad did the pools. I got my love of football from him and used to love reading all the team names.

Not tv but,
'Sing Something Simple'
on the radio on Sunday nights.

We watched The Goodies as a family but no objection to that as it was almost the only thing we all loved. The Olympics. Maybe cricket and Rugby Special. Also my mum watched The Ring Cycle in about 1982 which seemed to last for months. In general there was approval for the news, classical music and ballet plus some sport.

My parents only watched the news, cricket (with the radio commentary as it was deemed better) and the occasional Jane Austen adaptation. It had to be the BBC.
I was certainly not forced to watch anything!

Ha ha, I've just turned over to the Proms and was thinking of that deep angry boredom as a teenager whenever my parents watched anything like it.

The News and weather. But my mother loved Neighbours so we'd all watch that with her.

Every soap and quiz show she could find. Dad and I would read.

None, but when I stay at my parents now, i Get. Forced to watch endless episodes of the repair shop. I can’t stand it!

Oh yes I'd forgotten being forbidden to speak as the results were read out.
Wasn't forced to watch anything as such,you just watched what mum and dad watched till bedtime.
Tenko
Within these walls
Crown court
Sweeney
The professionals
Love thy neighbour
Till death do us part
Step toe and son
World in action
Panorama
The news.
I preferred Pipkins etc.
Play school
Anything with Brian can't and Floella Benjamin.

You poor thing, Take the high road,you have my sympathies.

Showing my age here, The Brothers and Within these Walls with Googie Withers.

Sky. Fucking. Sports.

Its all my dad watched. He would walk into a room and turn over from a show you were watching (pre on demand tv) and put on sky sports.

Then they used to wonder why I didnt spend much time in the living room.

Whatever my mum and dad were watching. And no ITV children’s shows and definitely no Grange Hill.

World in Action, BBC News, Coronation Street.

Aaargh! I hated that, especially when my mum sang along (tunelessly but enthusiastically) to the theme song

Highway with Harry Secombe
Val Doonican

Dick Emery yuk, starsky and hutch ok, Freddie starr double yuk

Heartbeat
last of the summer wine
Coronation street
Dads army
allo allo

We absolutely weren’t allowed football (that was for hooligans), or any ‘American rubbish’… I used to watch friends secretly!

Watched Dave Allen and New Avengers with my df. He never seemed to mind me staying up past 9

DF used to make me watch David Attenborough’s wildlife TV show in the 80’s - I think it was called Our World. I became heartily sick of wildlife shows, as educational as they were of course, and its put me off for life.

Used to watch Dave Allen with my dad, I liked Dave Allen