What forbidden TV shows did you watch as a kid?

[PaulKTF]

You know; your parents refuse to let you watch a show when you were a kid because of its content; so you end up sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night to watch it (or flipping on the TV in your bedroom if you were lucky enough to have a TV in there).

For me; it was Tales From The Crypt on HBO (back when there was only one HBO channel, dangnabit!). I was about 9 or 10 and I used to love that show! My favorite episode was "Carrion Death":

http://www.tv.com/tales-from-the-crypt/carrion-death/episode/38851/summary.html

I havn't seen the series in years- I really should pick up the DVDs...

[rburly]

Since there were only 3 channels when I was a kid, I wasn't forbidden to watch anything. But when UHF came out, Playboy After Dark was on at 11 pm (or maybe midnight) and I kept the volume very low before I dared turn to the show. Of course nothing provocative happened except Hef in his bathrobe, but I turned it on several times in anticipation of what may have been on!

[Grant]

I never had that issue when I was kid. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, so there wasn't really anything too objectionable on TV. My mother didn't like me watching "Love American Style", but I watched it anyway, and she made no attempt to stop me. She saw it wasn't really bad. She just didn't like the idea of a nine-year-old kid watching women in bikinis. But, you saw the exact same thing in TV commercials from Coke, Pepsi, Polaroid, Coppertone, ect. So...

[Rael]

Benny Hill.

[johnny33]

well, my brother is 8 years older than i am sooooo.... ;)

[shokhead]

I dont remember any that was in the 50's. Remember no cable, no Sat and a lot less 2 thru 56.

[Christobal]

When I read the first post, I wondered how many posts until "Benny Hill" was mentioned. Three posts later...

I also used to sneak up when I was even YOUNGER (4th grade?) to see Charlie's Angels, but I think that was taboo just because it was past my bedtime. Oh those Angels.. especially Cheryl Ladd...

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[Chris A]

There was no TV when I was a kid, and back then there really wasn't anything on the air that could possibly alarm parents--not even in Europe.

Even when I was a kid in the U.S. (1941-44) radio was diluted reality and if parents objected to anything, it was the waste of time that radio listening more often than not represented.

[Little Starling]

It was Tales from the Crypt for me too. In first and second grade I'd always sneak downstairs to watch it. I loved the horror and gore aspect. Anything sexual flew right over my head.

[PaulKTF]

It was Tales from the Crypt for me too. In first and second grade I'd always sneak downstairs to watch it. I loved the horror and gore aspect. Anything sexual flew right over my head.

Copycat! :rolleyes: :laugh:

[Koptapad]

I was strictly forbidden to watch Gilligan's Island when I was a kid. I was allowed to watch Green Acres and Star Trek.

[PaulKTF]

I was strictly forbidden to watch Gilligan's Island when I was a kid. I was allowed to watch Green Acres and Star Trek.

Denied the bliss of seeing Mary Ann?! What cruel parents! :)

[Curiosity]

Anything shown on commercial television here was off limits to me in my early childhood. I went around to friends to watch the shows.

[jojopuppyfish]

My mom didn't like me watching Hogan's Heros because she felt it made fun/light of the holocaust.
I watched it anyways.......

[Marty Milton]

I remember that my mom wouldn't let us watch Peyton Place. She thought the show was too racy, espacially after she had read the book. My mother even wrote a letter to the editor of a local newspaper protesting the show.

[scotto]

Not forbidden really, but for some reason I felt compelled to " Hartman, Mary Hartman" on the sly.

[mr_mjb1960]

"Tales From the Darkside","Dream On" "The Benny Hill Show" and "NBC's Circle Of Fear"! Michael Boyce

[scotto]

Not forbidden really, but for some reason I felt compelled to " Hartman, Mary Hartman" on the sly.

Egads! Another early morning pre-coffee posting snafu! Allow me to correct myself:

Not forbidden really, but for some reason I felt compelled to watch "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" on the sly.

There.

[Koptapad]

Denied the bliss of seeing Mary Ann?! What cruel parents! :)

That's exactly what what my joke was! Dang, you are good! Although, Kirk's romantic escapades with hot female aliens slipped by them!:winkgrin:

[Doug Sclar]

I can't remember any shows being forbidden, but OTOH I had a ridiculously early bedtime, so that alone prevented me from watching much other than kid shows. I particularly remember being so bummed when all the kids in school were talking about watching the new show, 'The Beverly Hillbillies', and I was not able to watch it. You see, my bedtime was 8:30. :eek: I must have been the only kid in my class who didn't watch it that first year. :shake:

But don't feel too sorry for me. Bedtime just meant I laid in bed and listened to my radio much of the night, but that was also forbidden. I ultimately solved that problem by modding my radio and adding a pillow speaker. That way my parents couldn't hear what I was doing. I guess that was my first electronic project. :D

OTOH I still got caught a few times. No, they didn't hear my music, but they did feel the freshly turned off radio to see if it was still hot. Not much I could do about that. Ultimately they left me alone with my music.

Oh, one more thing. I also remember getting sick a few times and being able to wheel a TV into my room. For some reason I remember three shows more than the rest; 'The Perry Como Show', 'Abbot & Costello', and 'Queen For A Day'.

[Driver 8]

I remember watching Hill Street Blues with a sheet over the TV in my bedroom. As was the case for Doug, it came on after my ostensible school-night bedtime.

[rene smalldridge]

Peter Gunn. Long after my bedtime but I would sneak a ways back down the stairs and watch it. That theme song is deeply embedded in my brain. And the memory of Craig Stevens as private dick Peter Gunn getting beat up in every episode and crawling up to Lola Albright's pad where she would heal him with her magic touch. I was so young then but I still had a good idea about that.

[shokhead]

OMG, laying in bed and hearing the Perry Mason music in the living room where my parents were.

[Billy Budapest]

Speed Racer.

My parents thought it was too violent.

[Doug Sclar]

OMG, laying in bed and hearing the Perry Mason music in the living room where my parents were.

Used to drive me crazy. I heard this as well as a few others and wished that someday I'd be allowed to stay up late enough to watch these shows. Of course I've seen them all now many times in daytime reruns. :D

I'm a big fan of 50's TV westerns, such as Bonanza, The Rifleman, Wagon Train, Rawhide, and other's but never saw a one of them when they were in prime time. OTOH, I did get to watch Flika, Fury (Brave Stallion), Spin & Marty and a few others that were run in the daytime and were for kids.