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

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My mum loved ER

I wasn’t forced to watch anything - but we only had one rented telly and dad and mum’s choices came first. The news and University Challenge were compulsory viewing for them and I was frequently told to be quiet while they were on.

Glenroe. Hearing the music on a Sunday night meant play was over, we had school in the morning 😐

"Nothing on ITV as it was common"

Same here. Just what was the 'problem' with ITV in those days?

Blind Date

Cilla Blacks Christmas Eve but on that particular CE DB and i were upstairs watching Steptoe and Son on a black and white telly

Tales of the Unexpected
Anything with Cilla Black in, well Blind Date and Surprise Surprise
The Generation Game
Roseanne
The Golden Girls

Oh yes, One TV 3 channels.
tho we did have a 2nd TV years later but it was in the hardly ever used dining room which was cold and uncomfortable.

Wimbledon - all day every day. Came home from school one day to discover we now had a colour TV ! in time for Wimbledon.

and the News - at 9 pm and 10 pm !!!
and despite watching the evening news twice every day, he knew nothing about the Stock Market crash in the 1980's and was very badly hurt by the one in the 1990's - denied there had ever been one before and was a school child in 1929 and denied it ever happened either.

I can think of even more...

Terry and June
Duty Free
George and Mildred
The Good Life

The Billy Cotton Bandshow, Sunday Night at the London Palladium and bloody Morecambe and Wise.

One Man and his Dog.🙄

That and Coronation Street, plus DF loved the wrestling on a Saturday afternoon, followed by the most important event of the week which was checking pools! I remember DM watching Peyton Place when I was very young. As I got older, she only tended to watch tv after everyone else had gone to bed. That was her time to unwind.

We were the other way round. I think the only thing I got to watch on BBC1 was Blue Peter.

Roseanne and The Golden Girls were great, though! Well, at first.

Come by

The wrestling on world of sport with Dickie Davis.
My Gran would get really involved whilst watching.😀

EastEnders and Casualty

Lots of the ones mentioned here. Soaps, news, Only Fools and Horses, other sitcoms, Last of the Summer Wine. Weekend lots of games shows. The Generation Game, Big Break and The Price is Right on a Saturday. Bullseye on a Sunday!

Don't forget The Golden Shot!

Soaps. All of them. Haven’t watched one since I left home!

I wasn’t really forced to watch anything. There were things that my parents always watched that I wasn’t interested in but I would have just done something else while they were on. At no point did anyone ever say ‘Right, sit down and watch this’. From the age of about 13 I had a portable TV in my room.

@Gladysknightgottogetaholdofmyself who indeed could forget Jimmy Spankie - think he'd have to change that name nowadays!

We also were subjected to Round at Calum's featuring Calum Kennedy, his wife and 5 daughters in some singing show supposedly meant to feel like we were guests in his own home, The girls were around my age and I really wanted to be one of them and sing on the telly!

Corrie and Eastenders. And the news.

Edit. Obviously not forced to watch, but we’d up up watching whatever was on mostly of the time.

The sports results reminds of something I actively listened to - the results on radio with James Alexander Gordon. I liked his voice. I was a football fan, but didn’t know what the pools were so confused by the results made up by postponed games.

I remember being mortified when World in Action came on because the man in the opening sequence didn't have his pants on. It was excruciating sitting beside my mother at the age of 10.
She loved The Sweeny too

Anything remotely sexual was mortifying, cheek's burning red hot.