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Anything that was playing while the sun was shining on the weekends and anything that came on Monday through Friday.

Nothing, everything was family friendly in the 1950's and 1960's.

How many channels did you have growing up?

3 for awhile. All had that rainbow colored bs screen until 8am when toons came on...good times.

6, 8 and 10.

When I was a kid there was nothing on TV worth banning. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore were married but slept in separate beds. Elvis was only shown from the waist up.

Lots of the stuff they show today is an unmitigated sh** show.

The Outer Limits
I would have some bad nightmares after watching that show.
I watch it now and think it's corny.

59, 61, 63, 65, and 67.

Nothing was banned.

We had two channels, 4 & 9.
Dad had nothing to do with determining programming, that was Mom. I was not allowed to watch boxing (neither was Dad) and Alfred Hitchcock.

Channels? First year there was only one(KCMC?) in Texarkana. Then channel 12 in Shreveport, later channel 3 in Shreveport. Lots of kids out of east Texas were bussed over to channel 12 to "be on TV" on the afternoon kids show.

Aside: remember the radio and TV had to break for station identification?

Nothing was banned as I recall but when Dad watched the Wednesday Night Fights, it was that or nothing to watch.

we had one but dad hated the 'idiot box'

Nothing banned for me, Friday late night "Baby Blue" movies were banned for my brothers.

Channel 6, channel 9, channel 57 and channel 7 Buffalo, NY.

My Dad loved channel 7 out of Buffalo, at 11pm they always broadcasted the following:



To which he would reply by yelling at the TV...."In their GD beds where they should be".

Anything after 8:00 pm. We went to bed early.

Ma and Pa wouldn't let me watch the Rockford Files, unknown to them I snuck into the hallway and watched it through the crack of their bedroom door.

Was one of my favorite shows.

Channels 3,6,10
ABC, cbs, nbc

We got 2 channel and a third one if I went up on the roof and turn the antenna with mom hollering out the window. Would never let us watch" Laugh In!"

I grew up in the 70s and they were just starting to push the boundaries about things like race and gays, etc. My old man would flip out and turn the TV off if they even mentioned gays, homosexuals, etc. He would also change the channel when they would start on the Maxi Pads or tampons commercials. I was also banned from watching Saturday Night Live when it first came out because my parents thought it was too raunchy. They also wouldn't let us watch Roots when it first premiered on TV. They didn't know it then but a year later we were required to watch it at school during History class. Guess my parents didn't want us to watch it due to the brief nudity and mentioning the word n8gger too often.

I do remember, though, that as we pre-planned it, Dad woke me up at 11PM one Saturday night so that me and my brother could watch "PT-109" about John Kennedy's adventure in the Pacific during WWII. This was at a time when my bedtime was about 8PM or so. So getting to stay up late was a huuuuge deal. Of course, back then, you could only watch movies when the networks aired them and no other time. No VCRs, no DVRs, no Netflix or movie channels.

I had zero channels, we didn't get tv until I was gone from the house.

Really enjoyed the old radio dramas: The Shadow, Lone Ranger etc. Used to run home from grade school every afternoon to catch the latest segments on KOVE, 1330, Lander Wyoming.