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.

The only thing I can remember my parents not letting me watch on TV was a special documentary about the Holocaust in the mid 60s.. It showed the dead stacked up like cord wood and the ovens, etc. I can see why they did it at the age I was at the time. Everything else was OK as long as it wasn't on when he wanted to watch something.

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.

Not dad, but mom, laugh in, I was 5 and had to go to bed at 8 o'clock.

I could watch anything, as long as chores and homework were done, and it wasn't well after my bedtime.

We had no TV station in town until I was 7 or 8, then just the one for the next 5 years. I listened to all the radio adventure and detective programs. I still do on XM radio's Old Time Radio channel.

We only had 3 channels, and I was usually busy playing outside.

We could only get one channel for a long while, then our little town got a tall repeater tower and we could get a bunch of stations from Kansas City.

I DO remember Dad letting me stay up whenever they played "Zulu" on the late movie, that was one of our favorite movies. "Zulu" was the first VHS tape I ever bought, as it hadn't been on TV forever by then, and I wanted to watch it again (and again, and again). It was always a good film. Still is.

My mom made me turn off the Benny Hill show once.

My dad didn’t really care what I watched. Mom, on the other hand was a little restrictive. The one I remember her not letting me watch was “Love, American Style.” Funny thing is that when seeing it in today’s light it is pretty tame. Dave

All in the family was banned....at least for a little while......."Awww geeez".

Only intermittently had a TV while growing up. Had three regular channels and one very "snowy" UHF. Nothing banned but bed time was around 8pm. Did get up by 7 or 8 on Saturdays waiting for the station to come on air to watch cartoons.

We weren't ban from watching anything. Wasn't much to watch back then.

We had regular TV until I was about 5 or 6. Regular TV- was 3 NBC , 5 CBS, 9 ABC and then PBS can't remember the channel.

When we got cable there was around 36 channels, on the box with three rows of buttons that was connected to the TV for cable....no remotes remember those days.

Now we have 800 or so channels and I can't hardly ever find anything on worth watching!

NYH1.

You missed Barbi Benton...

Loved Benny Hill.

Mom wouldn't let us watch MASH. She didn't like Klinger dressing as a woman.

All in the familly, (commie propaganda),and all of the "black " shows,jeffersons,sanford and son,etc.anything of that sort,was propaganda and banned.the t.v. was NOT allowed on during the day,ever.

Me too Buddy! I think I was 6. It sucked to go to bed when the sun was still up!

I don't think there was much to ban on the 4 or 5 channels we had. McGiver, the A-team. Maybe Miami Vice required some adult supervision, but man was that show cool.

I'd ban my kids but all they seem to do is try to pull up dirt on opposing football teams, wrestlers and the like on youtube. They're probly watching porn too but WTF its not like in this day and age a dad has a stack of Playboys to steal.

We had ABC and WVPT until I moved Out.
Weren't allowed to watch any "black" t.v. shows ie Sanford, good times, etc... even at other people's houses. Watched Dukes of Hazzard most Friday evenings at the neighbors house. It's the [bleep] south....civil rights wasn't real popular in the 70's

Didn't even THINK about playing Rap music in the house. Always had Pepsi in the house til they used Michael Jackson in their commercials. Always Coca-Cola in the house after that.

None.

And late Sunday nights was always World At War with dad.

Funny, now, good times and the Jefferson's are two of my favorite shows to watch.

We had two , both came on at 0600 and went off at 2400. Each night they both had a picture of the flag, while playing the Star Spangled Banner! The we had a ant race tell 0600 that morning! We could watch anything they watched! Nothing banned! Dad didn't like LW show, that's bubble crap, he would say and head out for awhile!

The writing, story-lines, and characters hold up incredibly well after 40 years...

We werent supposed to watch those videos in his sock drawer.....

My parents didnt like the show "Soap" and wouldnt let us watch it. A few years ago I bought the whole series on box set DVD and I think its hilarious.

Never had a TV growing up, parents did not want one. Really liked spending night at friends house, we could watch whatever his parents watched.

I was humping the floor...with 3s company on the tube....well that got stopped...

TV was really innocent in my youth, we watched everything that was on both channels we got, The Avengers was about the raciest thing on TV that I recall. We didn't get NBC, they might have balked at Star Trek, but I didn't see it back then.

I do recall dad saying the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" was a bit to adult for me at the time.

Pop was wise.

The Jack Tripper fella had the most screen time.

Lol

Jonnie Rodgers with that walking spider slinking around , and Hodgi wrapped in a towel, evildoers !

She waas a good woman for it!!

Alfred Hitchcock......interesting. Our whole family loved it.

Don't know about banned but we had to be in bed by 8 on school nights. Then sept 13th Monday night football 1982 Pittsburgh Steelers vs the Dallas Cowboys.. I was a cowboys fan and brother was a Steelers fan. Anyhow parents let us stay up to watch the last few minutes of the game.. I gotten wiser and no longer root for the cowboys lol

Anything that used electricity.

Ha!
Reminds me of :

Give me
Your dirty love
Like some tacky little pamphlet
In your daddy's bottom drawer

Give me
Your dirty love
I don't believe you never seen
His book before

Frank Zappa----------- Dirty Love



Now, on the topic of TV shows we weren't allowed to watch? I can't remember any specific ones, mostly just ones that came on after bedtime.

And for the life of me, I cannot fathom not being allowed to watch All in the Family, The Jeffersons, or Sanford and Son's. My folks thought they were hilarious.

There may have been a "scary" movie or two they didn't want us to watch for fear of nightmares and I actually had dreams of ALIENS after watching Invaders From Mars!

Geno

As I've written recently, Mom only banned me from watching Mister Rogers. However, we were traveling at the time and staying with Grandma in Miami Beach. Rogers was on the PBS affiliate down there. He wasn't on in Cincinnati. I was 4 1/2 at the time.

Other than that, I can't remember ever being banned from watching a show-- not by Dad or anyone. Dad had been drinking buddies with most of the local TV personalities, and my Grandfather played golf with a bunch more. The network shows were mostly benign in those days, at least before my bedtime.

Overall in the family, I didn't see many cowboy shows in the sixties. Grandpa and Grandma watched The Virginian and Bonanza, so I'd watch those when I stayed over, but mom and dad were more into the variety, crime, and doctor shows. It was more of an everything-but-westerns policy. I've had to make up for that as an adult. My dogs and I watched the whole Rawhide canon a few years ago, and my collie loved it.

Three's Company re-runs would always get the TV turned off by my mom. She said three people living in sin and pretending to be a homosexual was disgusting. Susan Sommers was worth the ass chewing's and so was the original Mr. Roper. Dude was hilarious.

When The Simpsons came out everyone thought it was an abomination. The Boomers really have/had a poor sense of good entertainment.

Channels were 2, 5, 7, 9 (WGN), 11 (PBS) and later 32 (FOX.)

I don't remember being banned from watching anything, as long as it was on before bedtime. I distinctly remember Mom and Dad getting all dressed up to go see Patton when it first came out. Dates for Mom and Dad were few and far between. Money was always tight, and they just never splurged on something like that. I kind of knew this was a big deal, as Mom went out and bought a new dress and got her hair done. They came out to leave and it was the only time I ever saw my dad in his full dress uniform. The fit was a little tight, but he was very proud. He had his full set of military awards pinned on, including one of his Purple Hearts. Mom had beautiful, long hair. They made a very handsome couple. I wish we'd have gotten a picture.

Smothers Brothers and Laugh In because of their anti-war slant. Once he saw Goldie Hawn dancing in her bikini, he loosened up a bit, as long as mama wasn’t in the room to catch him.

He didn’t care for MASH either for the same reasons.

Nothing banned.

My dad didn't like MASH either. Having been in one he thought the show trivialized war. Which it did, but it was funny.

Dad liked MASH, because he'd been vaguely a part of it. He was the real life "Sparky" back at Division HQ in Seoul.

The one show that alllllllll. . . most got turned off was the very first episode of NOVA. Mom and Dad wanted me to watch it. They'd heard really good things about it. We all sat down to watch. The first episode was all about pheromones and how smells and scents and stuff affected animals and humans. Everything was going well until they showed the lab technicians doing the artificial insemination of the sow hog and the tech had to mount the pig and dry hump her. Mom almost had us turn the channel, but she stuck it out. It was science, you know.

The only other show that almost got banned was Turn-on. It was ABC's answer to Laugh-in. We all settled in to watch and it was absolutely the worst crap we'd ever seen on network TV. Granted it was a lot of risque jokes delivered by Tim Conway and a cast of nobodies, but around our house risque was okay as long as it was done well. We were about to turn it off when the network killed it midway through the show. The writing was atrocious and Tim Conway is not the kind of guy to get to do straight-up off-color humor.

2,4,5,and 9. But going to bed before the sun went down stinks as a kid in the early sixties. DST was voted in at some point. That's when I was not allowed to watch. Not negotiable. Nothing on TV was that bad. Probably shouldn't have watched the news with the Vietnam war shown. Had a good chance of seeing it in person but wasn't drafted in '70.

Forgot to mention I still have good memories of Laugh In.

Dad despised pro-wrestling and didn't care for MTV off the bat either. I was in 3rd or 4th grade before we had cable. Pretty sure our 1st cable package had 12-13 channels.

About once a year, "The Birds" would come on and I think I was over 10 years old before my parents would let me watch it.

The same with me. Mom wouldn't let us watch it and she was right. Bob

When I was 3, I used to have to seek the "Playboy Channel" on my TV. I got caught because my mom examined our cable bill &snitched me off. I tried to finger my sister, but they didn't buy it.

My dad didn't take it well when he caught me watching, "Girls Gone Wild", especially after the ninth time. I was 3 & a half & couldn't count, but my dad said my math skills were no excuse for watching debauchery. I thought it was an Olympic sport.

Thats too funny!

Our son is now 30 years old. When he was in first grade the wifey would stop by the public library and check out educational videos for him to see. A favorite of his was the National Geographic video series because they showed all the unedited lion kills, elephant fights, tigers eating goats, crocs eating wildebeests etc...it contained all the blood and gore a kid could want! His favorite one was "the one with all the lions in it Mama!". Wifey would put it in the VCR and go on about her business of cooking supper, etc. He watched that movie for over a year until she passed through the room one time and saw all the natives dancing, nekkid of course, around the campfire celebrating a big kill or something...

Wifey told me that he was definitely mesmerized by her estimate, "25 or 30 big tittied women dancing and bouncing around the fire for about five minutes". I've never laughed so hard in my life....Wifey was beating herself up because she'd been checking out that vid for him for over a year, corrupting our son....then she just shook her head and laughed as well......and never checked that video out for him again.

Our broken hearted son had to go back to watching baboons and crocodiles....

Never banned from anything. There wasn't anything on back then to worry about. But my dad never understood Laugh-In. He wasn't offended by it, it was just that he saw no humor in it. But he never missed Hee-Haw. Same show just from a rural slant rather than urban.