Shows you weren't allowed to watch when you were a kid

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Nothing was really verboten at my house after I got my own TV, for my 11th birthday.

I'd go with Rod Serling's Night Gallery due to it's content of Horror or spookiness per se..

As a kid my mom never let me watch the original 90210. I really don't care though since it was a sappy teen drama anyway.

Grew up in late 1970's & early 80's. "MASH"-my mother thought it would upset me too much (which I didn't understand). At that age (maybe 8 or 9 yrs. old) I wasn't aware enough to even comprehend what would be upsetting about the show, I only understood that level (to the story, the tragedy of war & so on) many years later.
Generally, my mother was very controlling over my media exposure. Some reasons make sense, some never have (and she's dead so she can't explain now). Wasn't allowed to have a tv in my room, the one we had was downstairs from my room. Was allowed to watch only PBS-exception to rule was made for Saturday morning commercial network cartoons (eventually negotiated to bring it up to my room once a week).
I'd also try to sneak watching things that were on later than I was supposed to be up, such as soap operas ("Falcon Crest"). By age 13-15, family could no longer prevent my watching what & when I wanted.

My parents (particularly my mom) weren't too happy about me watching The X-Files, but that was more discourged then forbidden ("If you get nightmares about the scary mothmen, don't come running to me!")

Oh no! I been watching Monty Python since I was knee high to a grasshopper.

For a while, when I was little my mum didn't let me watch the Bill. Although for some reason we were all allowed to watch Day of the Triffids -- which when I think about it was much "worse" for adult themes and stuff like that. Strange...

By the time South Park first aired, I was no longer a "kid", so no worries there.

Basically everything. My mother has OCD and both my parents are religious fundies, so I had a pretty strange upbringing.

I was forbidden to watch South Park. My mom really didn't like for me to watch The Simpsons, but let me when I was a bit older.

When I was a kid there was nothing on TV that most parents would find objectionable.

I wasn't fobidden from watching anything. I did pretend to like Doogie Howser, M.D. because I was allowed to stay up late just to watch it for some reason.

I was allowed to watch pretty much everything, though certain things were vetted by my parents first. By the age of 7 I was watching violent action movies regularly (violent as in predator, total recall, and other films like that, though not all the films featured Arnie).
The big thing I was restricted on was never the content, it was the advertising! I was not allowed to watch any television channel that had adverts, and when I was born that meant I had 2 channels to pick from a total of 4 possibles. (and no, i'm not old, i'm from the UK and this country took a while to catch up on things like car technology and television amongst many other things).
Due to the lack of channels to watch and being from a film obsessed family with a collection of a few thousand films on hand (and a few great rental stores locally, most now defunct) I grew up watching films galore. I could fill up several threads with my knowledge and passion of films so I won't start anything here in fear of hijacking the thread and upsetting the OP.
We only had one tv in the house until i was 17 and working and I was allowed a tv in my bedroom as I paid to buy it. Now I still don't watch much tv, I mainly watch films when I get chance to watch anything.

That was a classic.

LL

My mom didn't ban me from watching any TV shows. She had no problem with me watching The Simpsons when I was 6, or South Park on home video when I was 13. Of course, I didn't have cable back then, and was more inclined to watch family-friendly programming anyway. In fact, she actually tried to urge me to watch some more adult-oriented shows like The X-Files that I wasn't particularly interested in.

On the other hand, she was very apprehensive about me seeing R-rated movies. Even after I turned 17, she was hesitant about it. But there were a few exceptions here and there.