Did your parents disapprove of ITV children's programmes in the 70's/80's?

[upsidedownwalrus]

Mine didn't get a tv at all cos they said it was for 'zombies' or something, finally relented when I was about 14.

I missed most of the children's telly stuff, but every Saturday I used to go to my mate's house to watch the A Team. Which I thought was well cool. One afternoon my parents came down to watch it too and were laughing the whole time. They claimed that it was full of humour that we didn't appreciate

 

[Bakunin]

My parents were pretty good about Tv and films. I was born in 1975 and was still allowed (despite being only a nipper) to watch Kenny Everett.

 

[5t3IIa]

I came in here to post about my dad not letting me watch ToTP sometimes but tbh it's still too raw

 

[Bakunin]

I came in here to post about my dad not letting me watch ToTP sometimes but tbh it's still too raw

So Kenny Everett was off-limits then?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I came in here to post about my dad not letting me watch ToTP sometimes but tbh it's still too raw

Now that is harsh

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I came in here to post about my dad not letting me watch ToTP sometimes but tbh it's still too raw

What was on the other channel at that time then. Or did they just show a test card realising that everyone in the whole universe would be watching Top of the Pops.

 

[Griff]

Vision On was classic BBC kids telly.

 

[Belushi]

I came in here to post about my dad not letting me watch ToTP sometimes but tbh it's still too raw

My parents used to go out on Thursday nights, they'd put me to bed and then my big cousin Yvonne (who must have been about 11) used to get me up to watch it and dance with me

 

[Ground Elder]

My mother disapproved of Magpie because they asked for money for their appeals and not milk bottle tops.

 

[5t3IIa]

what was on the other channel at that time then. Or did they just show a test card realising that everyone in the whole universe would be watching top of the pops.

emmerdale farm

 

[DotCommunist]

we watched what we like, but weren't allowed to watch Terminator, Robocop or any of the other awesome 80's violence fests.

I spent most of the time flicking between Nickolodeon, MTV and Cartoon network.

Nickolodeon did some quality cartoons. Real Monsters, Ren and Stimpy. Good shows as well. Clarissa explains It All! Moesha!.....I've just realised I watched a lot of shows aimed at girls

 

[Corax]

I only found out there were more than 2 channels when I left home.

 

[Bakunin]

we watched what we like, but weren't allowed to watch Terminator, Robocop or any of the other awesome 80's violence fests.

I spent most of the time flicking between Nickolodeon, MTV and Cartoon network.

Nickolodeon did some quality cartoons. Real Monsters, Ren and Stimpy. Good shows as well. Clarissa explains It All! Moesha!.....I've just realised I watched a lot of shows aimed at girls

My parents wouldn't let me see Robocop either, but, for some reason, Enter The Dragon and Cross Of Iron were seen as acceptable viewing.

 

[Orang Utan]

no ITV, nothing after 9 apart from Fawlty Towers, and we were only allowed to watch any programme after extensive negotiations about its value to us. we couldn't just have the telly on. and it was never on at teatime.

 

[Orang Utan]

they gave up eventually though, so by the time i was about 14, we could watch pretty much anything - i remember loving the grumbleweeds to my parents' consternation

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Tizzwas was 100% out.

 

[Madusa]

o my gosh, most of you lot grew up in victorian times!

 

[5t3IIa]

I recall being left out of conversations about Moonlighting at school because I wasn't allowed to stay up late enough to watch it

Also: my parents were SHIT about making me and my little bro (18months younger!!) go to bed at the same time!!!!!!!1! I wasn't allowed even half an hour later than him! I understand now it must have been such a massive pain in the arse to make him go to bed and whine about it and let me stay up and be smug about it but ffs STILL RAW

 

[nightowl]

don't think my mum was impressed with emu in the 70s because me and my friend had both bought emu puppets and were going around pecking everyone

 

[fogbat]

o my gosh, most of you lot grew up in victorian times!

Yes, but your lot is going to have to deal with global warming.

Swings and roundabouts, innit?

 

[Strumpet]

and we all watched 'It's a Knock Out' on Sundays.

Us too

My parents used to go out on Thursday nights, they'd put me to bed and then my big cousin Yvonne (who must have been about 11) used to get me up to watch it and dance with me

I recall being left out of conversations about Moonlighting at school because I wasn't allowed to stay up late enough to watch it
Also: my parents were SHIT about making me and my little bro (18months younger!!) go to bed at the same time!!!!!!!1! I wasn't allowed even half an hour later than him! I understand now it must have been such a massive pain in the arse to make him go to bed and whine about it and let me stay up and be smug about it but ffs STILL RAW

((5t3IIa))

Yes, but your lot is going to have to deal with global warming.
Swings and roundabouts, innit?

 

[Corax]

I used to secretly watch British wrestling on ITV on the black and white portable.

 

[Iguana]

I wasn't allowed watch V. Apparently at 6 I would have been too scared.

 

[skyscraper101]

My parents were pretty cool - and I watched Childrens ITV out of choice. Rainbow was ace.

The only show my mum tried to stop me watching once was Beavis & Butthead for some odd reason.

 

[untethered]

We got rid of the television when Channel 4 started. An act of almost prescient wisdom, as it turned out.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

My parents were pretty good about Tv and films. I was born in 1975 and was still allowed (despite being only a nipper) to watch Kenny Everett.

Whenever we went on holiday to somewhere which had a telly, all my brother and I wanted to do was (in the middle of the countryside in summer) stay in and watch the television. My parents were quite liberal about what we could watch in those situations since it was such a treat, and one thing I remember watching with my dad at about 13 was American Werewolf in London although he appeared more consternated by my having seen the sex bits than the violence

 

[SpookyFrank]

Being as I left the 1980's at the tender age of four I have no idea.

 

[nicksonic]

there was some frowning upon early-ish 'grange hill'... my dad also let me watch films like 'alien' on the basis it was science-fiction and not horror

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Being as I left the 1980's at the tender age of four I have no idea.

So you're almost the same age as me. Do you drink some kind of Elixir of Youth or something?

Or are you tired of being asked that question...

 

[Idris2002]

I wasn't allowed to watch the Kenny Everett show, but ten years later it was repeated. . . and my family were sitting around bursting their hole laughing at it, and I was like 'this is shit'.