'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
certain nights were No TV Nights
We weren't allowed to watch TV on school nights, though I believe that was relaxed for Cosby Show and Different World. I remember being left out of the many conversations involving Growing Pains, but yeah... not a big deal.
I watched every TV show known to man (except we did not watch Dukes of Hazzard for some reason), and I still had nothing to talk about with people! But I can understand why you are thinking of relaxing your rules a bit.
Gud, I'd say give him more options. But I'm a firm believer in the social importance of sharing or at least being able to fake sharing various cultural touchstones with your peer group.
Not that this helps if, say, your kid just doesn't like TV, like mine.
except we did not watch Dukes of Hazzard for some reason
Ya freak!
OK, I can't explain whey I liked that show. Maybe it was the cars. (I liked Boss Hog's Eldorado convertible especially. But that car never got to do any cool jumps.)
I watched a lot of boxing.
Boxing, hockey, All in the Family, MASH, Barney Miller, Macgyver, Magnum PI, Star Trek re-runs...
(I mean, I also watched your standard assortment of Saturday Morning TeeVee, but except for Electro-Woman and Dyna Girl, they all blur.)
ION, this cracks me up: Minimalist nativity set
I had one channel, in black and white, until we moved to England when I was 12. TV didn't come on air until hours after we came home from school. There really wasn't much discussion of shows at school at all, even though I remember getting fixated on the idea of watching Man From Atlantis when we finally got it. But that was just all about me and a burgeoning crush on Duffy.
The thing I remember the most are the after-school Godzilla movies.
It's so totally different for them, they sit down and can watch any episode of several versions of Scooby-Doo, any episode ever aired of Fetch! (Great show), any WordGirl, any of over a hundred Authors, any of about 80 Spongebobs, any DragonFly TV, and a few other shows. There's a big PBS bias in available media.
It is DARK outside. And RAINING. Why the hell am I not in bed?
I do not know. You totally should be.
I watched a lot of tv when I was growing up (still do!). My favorite was the Bionic Woman.
It's so totally different for them, they sit down and can watch any episode of several versions of Scooby-Doo, any episode ever aired on Fetch! (Great show), any WordGirl, any of over a hundred Author's, any of about 80 Spongebobs, any DragonFly TV, and a few other shows. There's a big PBS bias in available media.
When I was a kid, we only got the Green Bay stations. Three channels, plus PBS. Once when I was five or so I dreamed that we had 40 channels of TV. I was so excited! and so bitterly disappointed when I woke up....