What do you most remember watching that you weren't supposed to or weren't allowed?

[Falco]

This comes in two categories, I suppose - the stuff your folks let you watch before realising you really shouldn't be watching it, and the stuff you really weren't allowed to watch, but somehow managed to anyway.

For instance, my gran let me watch Dead Head, Blackeyes, the Singing Detective, Tenko and the like, mainly because she was bored and didn't want to watch them on her own - even though I was often too young to be technically 'allowed' to watch the post-watershed stuff.

On the other hand, she expressly forbad me to watch things like the first season of Black Adder (as it was written then) or The Young Ones...so I sneaked upstairs and tuned them in on a very dodgy black and white portable instead.

Those are my memories - what are yours?

[darren]

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i pretty much watched whatever i wanted.
only things i was not allowed to watch where underage videos.

but i watched them when they came on tv.
until the parents dound out i was watching them..

[Richard1978]

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I remember getting in trouble for watching Ben Elton - The Man From Auntie when I was 12.

A few years earlier my parents didn't like me watching some of the heavier Eastenders storylines, even when I was just waiting for the next programme to come on.

[darren]

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I remember getting in trouble for watching Ben Elton - The Man From Auntie when I was 12.

A few years earlier my parents didn't like me watching some of the heavier Eastenders storylines, even when I was just waiting for the next programme to come on.

hi rich i can understand your parents feeling that way regarding eastenders.
some og the storylines where pretty heavy.
especially ones with den and angie.

for some reason the parents would never let me watch lolita.
cant understand why.
it was in vlack and white.

[stuckinthe80's]

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I was allowed to watch anything really! I saw all the so called video nasties in the early 80's when I was only about 13. never did me any harm! As far as TV was concerned I could watch anything! I remember when we first got our video player sitting down as a family to watch 'Cannibal Holocaust'. I think I was only about 11!

[Richard1978]

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hi rich i can understand your parents feeling that way regarding eastenders.
some og the storylines where pretty heavy.
especially ones with den and angie.

for some reason the parents would never let me watch lolita.
cant understand why.
it was in vlack and white.

My Mum got a bit hot under the collar about me seeing the episode where Angie tries to top herself.

[darren]

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My Mum got a bit hot under the collar about me seeing the episode where Angie tries to top herself.

i can understand that rich.

but a lot of late seventies early eighties shows where pretty rough.

the young ones was comedy but it was hardly a show where the family would sit and watch.

[Falco]

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Anyone remember "Jury"? - started off as a kind of ordinary drama showing the lives of the 12 people on a jury in a rape trial. Got a bit grim as it showed one of the jurymembers herself was raped. Anyone remember any more about it? That was another one I started watching, and my gran started tutting on about episode 3, realising she'd made a mistake letting me watch it.

And of course, there's the ultimate in late 70s/early80s unrelenting grimness - Threads, anyone?? Swear you couldn't make that these days...

[Trickyvee]

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I'm sure there were many shows I would have been steered away from, but as it was I didn't really have any interest in seeing those shows anyway. I did have a copy of The News Of The World snatched out of my hands when I was about 11 though lol.

[vanhelsing]

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I saw all the so called video nasties in the early 80's when I was only about 13. never did me any harm! As far as TV was concerned I could watch anything! I remember when we first got our video player sitting down as a family to watch 'Cannibal Holocaust'. I think I was only about 11!

Ever read:-
Seduction Of The Gullible
See No Evil

Two good books about the video culture and I agree about what you said about the 'imagined' (by the newspapers and Mary Whitehouse) effects of screeen violence. I have books on toture, execution methods and a book of cannibalism and if you read some of the books of Geoffery Abbot or some history books from Waterstones, you'd see far worse but nobody complains about books of torute and execution methods.
I use such books to get ideas for sequences in my works of fiction (the incidents in the books of torture, execution I've got were ALL real).

[ann22]

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My parents used to go out on Thursday nights, leaving my sister to mind us, she was only 3yrs older than me btw..I remember us watching BBC's 'Play For Today'...lots of times there was nudity and stuff on it. I remember seeing a fairly graphic drama called 'The History Man' and another called 'People Like Us'..No way would we've been allowed to watch these if my mam was home.

[marilynd04]

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We would be put to bed then my mum would watch tv and fall asleep. I would open the living room door and be able to watch tv from the stairs - I could make a quick retreat to my bedroom if she got up.

[branny]

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The Exorcist. My Dad always told my Mum never to let me watch it as it would scare the **** out of me. One night when I was 14 and my Dad was working nights, a neighbour had it on video and asked if me and Mum wanted to come and watch it. So i watched and didn't see what all the fuss was about (found it more disturbing than scarey). Now this was a pretty windy night and when I'd gone to bed I could hear a noise in the loft which sounded like somebody pushing a heavy box across the floor. I couldn't sleep and went and woke my Mum. She said I was imagining it and to go back to bed, then she heard the same noise and suggested that we retreat to the safety of the kitchen until Dad got home.

When my Dad came in and heard it the first thing he did was grin and reply "the exorcist". He had a look in the loft and couldn't see anything. Turns out it was the cover from a BT junction box that had blown off and was scraping against the wall. Of all the nights.....

[zofo1961]

Monty Python

I am 49 so my era, my parents would let me watch until the foot came down,which i loved, after id take my time to go to bed, i remember seeing naked laidies in the Terry G graphics, so Mon Pyth held this wonder 4 me, and when i went to sec school we all recited python

[Malc London]

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For me it was the original Avengers. For some reason I was allowed to watch the opening bit with the theme music but then had to go to bed.

Even now, I love that music. Sends shivers down my spine.