What TV show did your parents forbid you to watch growing up, and why?

Well, I was 14 before we had a TV and I was so involved in so many other activities I never watched much except with family at night since we had just the one TV. But to answer your question more broadly, my parents never forbade me to read, listen to, or watch anything. My mother, who was a teacher, did try to keep track of what I was, so she could discuss the things with me that she felt were perhaps beyond my age level to grasp. But both she and my father encouraged me to explore as widely as I wanted to gain a broad understanding of everything that interested me to prepare me for an ever-changing and multifaceted world.

There were none that I was forbidden to watch. But as a child I had a bedtime during the school year (9 pm) and no tv in my bedroom, so there were late shows I wouldn’t be able to watch, unless it was Friday or Saturday night. I watched the Twilight Zone, The Avengers and The Prisoner with Pop.

Well my mom happened to glimpse Eric Cartman
" Milking a dog" on South Park....and my sister and I couldn't watch THAT again.

Pretty much all of them since my parents wouldn't have a TV in their house. I had one for a number of years after I moved out but I don't have one now. I haven't watched TV for over 10 years.

We didn't have a TV, my dad thought it was best, but on the week-ends we, my sisters and I would go to my grandparents house and they would let us watch SNL.

i was allowed to watch most shows
someone even bought me ghoulies 2 on VHS when i asked for it
a dark and depraved yet funny, comedy-horror.

We usually had to go to bed at around nine o'clock so my dad would watch his detective shows in peace.

Not me but my nieces were forbidden to watch powerpuff girls. My cousin has ideas on what a proper well raised girl should be like.

Twilight Zone after the Werewolf looking through the airplane window while it was in flight. I had nightmares for weeks because of that episode.

They didn’t say anything about any TV shows but my mom flipped out when I got a Nintendo Power magazine in the mail that had Pokemon on the cover. She yelled at me saying it was evil and I didn’t even play Pokémon 🙄

Get this… power rangers and teenage mutant ninja turtles! Those are the two shows I missed out in the 90s.

But I did watch big bad beetle borgs

My parents controlled the TV. There was no remote, so somebody had to get up and move the dial to change channels. We kids did as we were instructed. Of course, we had only three channels, so the choices weren't great.

Lots of stuff. But for some reason I was finally allowed to watch a scandalous Sophia Loren movie called Two Women with them (and my older sister) one evening.

I dont remember any forbidden shows, but we are talking 60s tv. But after my parents divorce in my late teens i remember dad watching a lot of Bennie Hill and Monty Python telling me " they show boobs".

My dad didn't let us watch tv but our mom did..

Parents none. Babysitter though refused to let me watch dark shadows.

I wasn't religious of course.

When I grew up there was absolutely nothing on tv that kids couldn't view. We didn't even have a tv until I was six years old.

SOOOO long ago, but when I was a little kid I think the wouldn't let me watch THE TWILIGHT ZONE when it was first on.

Nothing

Harry Potter lol
Not really forbidden but because there was a time we lived with "Christian" relatives who forbid their kids from watching anything witchcraft, my parents kind of jumped in that wagon too.

But yeah, I put the quotation marks because as it turned out, those relatives were the bad I don't even wanna talk about it kind of fakers.

The news

No restrictions. Even got to watch SNL.

Speed Racer. My dad said it was too violent, but he let me watch Looney Tunes 🤷‍♀

Benny Hill it came on late and i have no idea why its not x rated or anything in my opinion the worst you would see is someone wearing lingerie

My parents didn't let me watch much tv at all.

Anything after 8pm 😆

My mom hated Married With Children so we were never allowed to watch it.

I could pretty much watch what was ever on Television. But we only had CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS back then 4 channels was all we had

My parents let us watch whatever we wanted

Nothing.
My parents had no idea what I did or did not watch.

Spongebob because it was too inappropriate

The Blue Lagoon. No explanation why.

Funny thing. My parents let me watch all sorts of horror movies, and the video store in Oregon City had a note on our account that I was permitted to rent anything I wanted from that section, but sex? No, no nonononono! Can't watch that, kiddo. Go watch this movie where a guy gets decapitated instead.

Nothing, we only 7 channels 🤣

We could watch anything we wanted

Power rangers lol

Pretty much all of them. They were deep down the religious rabbit hole and convinced everything was too much of a bad influence.

The Day of the Triffids. People walking about in plant suits was apparently too scary.

None

Y'all don't know freedom ⛓‍💥

77 Sunset Strip

It had loose women in it!

Nothing really.