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Title: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: Sitting Duck on July 29, 2018, 07:23:09 AM A spin-off of this topic (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,151036.0.html). Tell us about how you perceived shows aimed at adults when you were a kid. My dad was a regular viewer of M*A*S*H when I growing up. A memory that particularly sticks with me is that as a kid I was absolutely terrified of Hot Lips.
Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: ER on July 29, 2018, 09:08:33 AM For my whole life that ticking watch on 60 Minutes has has reminded me with dread of the weekend being over and school coming the next morning, so there's that, but I remember being really little and being sent to bed when Dallas came on, to spare me the, um, corrupting salaciousness, but at the time I assumed I was being sent away because the show was scary.
Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: Alex on July 29, 2018, 09:23:10 AM I got to watch Dallas. You weren't missing anything.
Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: The Burgomaster on July 29, 2018, 07:33:04 PM * PRISONER, CELL BLOCK H (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sIZNhdookrg/maxresdefault.jpg) * ALL THAT GLITTERS (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Blvpp5gzK2g/UgFL6zQLv5I/AAAAAAAAGFg/xsn6wMXClC8/s1600/AllThatGlitters001.jpg) * MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN (https://travsd.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/mhmh041.jpg) Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: RCMerchant on July 29, 2018, 09:28:32 PM For my whole life that ticking watch on 60 Minutes has has reminded me with dread of the weekend being over and school coming the next morning, so there's that, but I remember being really little and being sent to bed when Dallas came on, to spare me the, um, corrupting salaciousness, but at the time I assumed I was being sent away because the show was scary. I watched 60 Minutes with my Dad since as long as it was on. My Dad was a Walter Cronkite fan. He watched him every night. My Dad never sheilded me from anything- he wanted me to see it. In retrospect- I'm glad he did. I watched Vietnam. I watched Manson and Ohio State. I watched it all. Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: RCMerchant on July 31, 2018, 12:58:31 AM I watched GUNSMOKE with my Dad in the 60's and 70's.
I liked it. Still do. I watched HEE HAW with my Dad. I still don't understand why he liked tha s**t. Good music, like ranpa Jones- but otherwise-mindless bulls**t. My dad also watched SOUL TRAIN- which I DID like. Why he watched it-mystery to me. Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: BoyScoutKevin on July 31, 2018, 12:13:36 PM Talking about Hee Haw, when I was still a teenager and still in school, one of the smartest kids I ever knew, even smarter than myself, watched Hee Haw constantly. I couldn't understand it then, and I still can't understand it now, as Hee Haw was a show I wouldn't watch then, and I still won't watch it now.
Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: Alex on July 31, 2018, 03:55:48 PM Kristi introduced my country and western loving little sister to Hee Haw. She watches it a lot.
Thanks hon. Really. Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: Allhallowsday on August 01, 2018, 09:51:04 PM MAUDE tackled pot laws, politics, race relations, police brutality, sex abuse, alcoholism, abortion, infidelity, mortality... all that was naughty 45 years ago when it's first season was new. We'd sneak a look all those years ago, but we didn't understand it. Now, I remark on the prescience of the scripts.
http://youtu.be/lZ6VMLVLWUw (http://youtu.be/lZ6VMLVLWUw) Though I was intimidated by her all those years ago, now I am a huge BEA ARTHUR fan. http://youtu.be/wH9s_yBwRE8 (http://youtu.be/wH9s_yBwRE8) Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: RCMerchant on August 02, 2018, 10:39:39 PM Speaking of MAUDE, ALL IN THE FAMILY was pretty bold in the day.
As was, believe it or not- the SMOTHERS BROTHERS show. That show was a "variety show"- such things don't exist any more. And it talked about Vietnam, and social issues. It was ahead of it's time. Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: Allhallowsday on August 02, 2018, 11:26:41 PM Speaking of MAUDE, ALL IN THE FAMILY was pretty bold in the day. Yeh, and back during JOHN LENNON's so-called "lost" period estranged from YOKO, he and HARRY NILSSON heckled The SMOTHERS BROTHERS in an LA club... they might have gotten thrown out... As was, believe it or not- the SMOTHERS BROTHERS show. That show was a "variety show"- such things don't exist any more. And it talked about Vietnam, and social issues. It was ahead of it's time. Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: RCMerchant on August 02, 2018, 11:29:29 PM Speaking of MAUDE, ALL IN THE FAMILY was pretty bold in the day. Yeh, and back during JOHN LENNON's so-called "lost" period estranged from YOKO, he and HARRY NILSSON heckled The SMOTHERS BROTHERS in an LA club... they might have gotten thrown out... As was, believe it or not- the SMOTHERS BROTHERS show. That show was a "variety show"- such things don't exist any more. And it talked about Vietnam, and social issues. It was ahead of it's time. You know more about it than I do. I never heard it LAFF-IN was supposed to be for adults- but it was mindless garbage. I hated LAFF-IN Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: The Burgomaster on August 03, 2018, 06:00:35 AM How about LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE? Definitely aimed at adults, but very tame if you watch it now.
Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: FatFreddysCat on August 03, 2018, 10:19:59 AM For whatever reason my Mom forbade me to watch Three's Company when I was a kid in the late '70s. Maybe she thought it was too risque' for eight-year-old me, or she was afraid that seeing Suzanne Somers in short-shorts would corrupt me somehow. She would literally chase my brother and I out of the room when it came on.
So naturally we thought that meant it was the filthiest, nastiest show EVER, which only made us want to see it more!! Haha. Eventually Mom relaxed her restrictions a little (I think my Dad may have stepped in on our behalf) but when I finally did get to see an episode of Three's Company, I was like "That's it? What was the big deal?" :bouncegiggle: Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: RCMerchant on August 03, 2018, 10:26:19 PM My Dad didn't watch a lot of grown-up shows when I was a kid. Besides the news, he watched the Glenn Cambell Show ,Flip Wilson, Sony and Cher- s**t that . He loved Ed Sullivan.
Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: Allhallowsday on August 03, 2018, 11:39:01 PM I can remember my mother calling the four of us on the phone... "You're not watching that filthy movie...?"
It'd be movies like VALLEY OF THE DOLLS or ROSEMARY'S BABY ... Of course, she'd remind us to watch them filthy movies. Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: Chainsawmidget on August 13, 2018, 12:15:08 AM I feel safe in saying that Unosolved Mysteries was not a show meant for kids, however as a kid I loved it and i STILL think it holds up as one of the scariest shows that's ever been on TV.
Title: Re: Shows for grown-ups as perceived when you were a kid Post by: Trevor on August 13, 2018, 06:18:56 AM My folks let me watch Hawaii Five O as a kid and my Dad pointed out Khigh Diegh as Wo Fat, saying "that's the bad guy, Trev."
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/hawaiifiveo/images/c/ca/Wo.png/revision/latest?cb=20140829175353) No disrespect intended but I didn't find him scary at all. Then along comes this guy in the reboot series (http://cloud.honolulupulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/WoFatS1.jpg) and I got the crap scared out of me. :buggedout: |