Rod Hull and Emu
The programs we weren't allowed to watch had less to do with which ones were common, but more to do with what my mother enjoyed watching. So the list was baffling.

Yes to:
Grange Hill;
Eastenders;
The Twilight Zone;
Crimewatch;
Marmalade Atkins;
Anything with Floella Benjamin

No to:
Rod Hull and Emu (pink windmill edition);
Tizwaz;
Mini pops;
Wizbit;
Paul Daniels magic show;
Anything with Christopher Biggins in.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 13:24, 6 replies)

Paul Daniels and the lovely Debbie?
Common as muck.

I can prove it. Write a letter to your local paper (or convince a journo friend to write an article) slagging off either of them and their marriage.

They respond to defend themselves every. single. time, no matter how obscure the publication.

Have any of you ever heard of the Andersonstown News? Paul and Debbie have, and they'd like to set the record straight.

Also, Wizbit was a cunt.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 13:40, closed)

Yes to Grange Hill?
Rough children being disrespectful to teachers? It was a programme greatly frowned upon by my (teacher) mother. I was allowed to watch it under sufference only, and then probably only because it was on the BBC. If it had been on ITV it would have been strictly verboten, obviously.
(richardm, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 14:35, closed)

Fuck me!
I forgot about Marmalade Atkins - I fancied the arse off her!

Edit - Just googled and found she died in 2001. Oh well, baqck to Salma Hayek then.
(Tugnut I got them all..., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 16:43, closed)

Floella Benjamin
*rubs self*
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:28, closed)

Tiswas FTW,
Sally James

Mmmmm...

*fwaps*
( loonybean giving as good as he gets since, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 22:06, closed)

'Pink windmill'
always sounded vaguely suggestive to me.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 6:38, closed)