Having grown up in a very conservative Christian household, my mom wouldn’t let us watch “Bewitched” because witches. “I Dream of Jeannie” was fine and also held my attention much better.
What was verboten at your house?
Funny you should phrase it like that, but Hogan’s Heroes. As a Jewish family, my dad thought it trivialized the Nazis.
Nothing was forbidden as such, although my mother expressed caustic disdain for Married… With Children and I was forced to watch it on a tiny 4" screen in my bedroom (I had some TV/radio combo unit). I was 14 when it first aired though so she wasn’t going to literally forbid me from watching it but she could exile me from the family television while it was on.
I have a vivid memory of being nine years old and sitting in my basement watching the NOVA special “Miracle of Life” on the console television, sitting inches from the screen and the sound turned down so I could barely hear it, certain that my parents would be upset that I was watching these sperm cells and embryos but too fascinated not to risk it. In retrospect, I doubt my mother would have been upset but, to my young mind, this stuff was sex and thus forbidden knowledge.
Nothing was verboten. My parents realized early on that such a move would be utterly ineffective in my case (or my older brother’s).
Happy Days, believe it or not.
The vast majority of the Germans on that show were Jewish, IIRC. They apparently had no such issues. Fwiw.
The Prisoner. Not so much because it was subversive, but because, in my mom’s opinion, it was stupid.
In some episodes, I’m not sure she was wrong. 
Pretty much else, I got freedom to watch whatever, as long as it didn’t conflict with something the folks wanted. I probably watched way more than I should have at a given age, but how are you going to become desensitized if you don’t watch it?
When we first got cable TV, my family got the introductory try all the movie channels package. Within 48 hours, my father found out why Cinemax is nicknamed Skinemax by middle school boys and cancelled that immediately.
As far as individual shows, “Soap” was in syndication shown in the after school hours. My mother told us not to watch that trash.
Everything! My parents believed television was bad for children and there was no tv in the home until I turned 12. Obviously I saw some tv at friends’ homes and at my grandparents’ homes, but nothing on the regular.
The only thing I remember being sent out of the room over was the first TV airing of The Graduate. My sister and I caught it on late-night TV a few years later.
From the Internet Movie DataBase: “When he was offered the Col. Klink role, Klemperer only agreed to do it if the show’s producers promised that Klink would never succeed in any of his schemes.”
As far as I remember, I had no limits on TV other than bedtime.
Me too. I don’t recall any limits. Of course, in the 60s and 70s, there wasn’t much to complain about. My parents watched very little TV (60 Minutes and MASH is all I recall) so I doubt they even knew what we were watching or cared too much.
Bevis and Butthead. Me and my sisters watched it in our bedroom anyway, with the sound really low.
We had to convince my mom that The Simpsons was okay. She sat and watched an episode with us - I remember it was the monorail episode, because I was sure she was going to continue outlawing it for the line “That could be anyone’s ass!” Thankfully, she was okay with it.
My older sister wasn’t allowed to watch The Smurfs. My parents heard there was witchcraft in it, or something (is there? I’ve never even seen it).
No restrictions for me.
Same as above. I was the last of 5 kids, and mom and dad where kind of over the whole “parenting” thing by that time.
Explains a lot about my life, actually.
Maybe Fonzie was a bad influence?
My MIL (v.1.0) told me that with the first child, if you drop the bottle you re-sterilize it and make more formula. By the third, you pick it up, wipe it on the seat of your pants and feed the baby.
No restrictions. I guess if I had rented an R-rated video with too much violence or nudity they might have stopped that, but I knew to keep that private.
Gargamel was always after the Smurfs and was trying to eat them. IIRC he was a wizard and would do magic and potions.
Mid to late 70s - yeah, no restrictions here either. We watched Monty Python (which sometimes showed boobies*) on PBS on Sunday nights, Soap, and other “controversial” shows. The folks didn’t seem to care.
- One Sunday evening my aunt (dad’s older sister) and uncle were visiting. It’s time for Python, and my brother and sister and I settle in in front of the TV. Mom and dad are explaining to aunt and uncle “The kids just love this show. I don’t know why… we can barely understand what they are saying.” That night just happened to be the night they showed the “full frontal nudity” episode. :eek: