Which 70's show were you FORCED to watch by your parents/grandparents?

[UdoKier]

Which 70's show were you FORCED to watch by your parents/grandparents?

(This is Jot, by the way)

[Starlight]

1. All of the above.

My mother was a very strange woman. :freak:

[flamingyouth]

2. Hey, I watched Quincy by choice, damn it!

However, yes, I was forced by grandparents to watch the infernal Lawrence Welk... :(

[UdoKier]

9. My grandma was nuts for Quincy.

In the 80s, she moved on to Magnum, Murder, She Wrote, and Dallas...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. I liked Quincy, too...

But I love your lutefisk! :D

[LosinIt]

39. Me too, I LOVED Quincy

it was CSI before CSI

And Sam was a super technician, ran every instrument in the lab, an expert in every field, my hero as a former chem tech myself

[xmas74]

40. Quincy was great!

That is why I was not allowed to watch it as a child.

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. I was also subjected to them all

All of the above should be a choice

[dolo amber]

4. My very tiny fragile Hungarian gran

made me watch roller derby every single weekend. :wtf:

[WI_DEM]

5. No one forced me to watch Donny and Marie or Tony Orlando and Dawn,

Thank you!! which explains alot if you knew me.

[RagingInMiami]

6. Don't forget the Waltons

[Kire]

17. I chose to watch Quincy.

I was forced to watch The Waltons.

[xmas74]

41. That was the one that I was forced to watch.

And now Mom has my daughter watching it.

[LoZoccolo]

7. I guess it's a loose definition of "forced" for me.

We'd go over there on Sunday night for dinner and some TV and Lawrence Welk was part of the line-up.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

8. I remember Jot.

Ewwww.
I was never forced to watch anything. I was pretty happy just watching.
Except the dreaded "Lawrence Welk Show". It always seemed to be on and my mom liked it.

[JVS]

10. I watched Davey and Goliath willingly

As a kid without cable, I found that it compared very favorably to "My Little Pony" or "The Care Bears"

[UdoKier]

I'm so glad I was a teen by the time those came out.

70s cartoons were great - but the 80's ones were AWFUL.

[Bluebear]

12. God is everywhere. God is everywhere. God is everywhere.

That episode scared the hell out of at the time.

[JVS]

16. I liked the episode where Davey realized that it is wrong to poison wells

After dumping an assload of paint into a well in the woods to make it look like strawberry pop

[PassingFair]

27. There was nothing else on on Sundays!

It was either Davey and Goliath, or Kathryn Kuhlman.

[The Great Escape]

11. The Glenn Campbell Goodtime Hour...

I think it was during this show that I developed a love for reading.

[sandnsea]

13. Lawrence Welk

We'd go to my aunt and uncle's house, who were more like grandparents, and they would have Lawrence Welk on. That's when I usually went in the other room and read my first naughty novels, like Valley of the Dolls. Hehe. Just try to figure out oldsters who watched Lawrence Welk and also let a 14 year old read Valley of the Dolls!

[Piperay]

35. Same here...

always had to watch Lawrence Welk when I was at my grandparents, too bad I didn't think of reading Valley of the Dolls instead.}(

[catzies]

14. Other: Hogan's Friggin Heroes. Grandpa loved it.

n/t

[WI_DEM]

15. Just remember: "Nobody escapes from Stalag 13"

DISMISSED.

[enigmatic]

18. "Polka Varieties" and The Gene Carroll Show"..

Fellow Clevelanders from that time will feel my pain..

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. Lawrence Welk--but in the 1950s, not the 1970s

My grandparents just loved his show, and when we kids visited, they would urge us, "You watch how that violinist can play. You can play like that if you practice."

[SarahB]

20. The Waltons

I'm sorry, but :boring:

[yellowdogintexas]

21. wasn't living with my parents; husband forced me to watch Hee Haw

in the 60's i was forced to watch Lawrence Welk, actually in the late 50's too come to think of it.

[CAcyclist]

22. I liked Hee Haw!

[Dervill Crow]

48. I liked Hee Haw, too!

Wonder if it's still on somewhere in the world of syndication. I feel like my kids have missed out on a great piece of Americana, us bein' the cultural elite, and all.

[ashmanonar]

23. where's hogan's heros!??

although i wouldn't say that was "forced", more "i watched it every time i was at gram and gramps"...

i loved that show. (i'm not even sure it was 70's show...but oh well.

[Left Is Write]

24. That'd be none.

My parents never forced television on anyone.

[PassingFair]

26. My nasty grandparents had a big effing color-Tv

and everytime we went over there, I was forced to watch Mr. "Ah-One and Ah-Two". I didn't mind Lawrence, but those sappy singers! Errrgghh! The other show I hated was Gunsmoke (my grandfather was a freeper before freepers were freepy). He blew up at me when I pointed out that Miss Kitty was a WHORE.

Actually, I believe these recollections were from the 60's and not the 70's. At Christmas, we did get to watch Rudolf over there, and we got our own color tv in '71. It was an exciting day for us, because our parents had sent us off the the local movie house at the end of the street (that had NEVER happened before) and when we got home, there was the TV! And my parents NEVER watched Lawrence Welk (or Gunsmoke). So, very happy ending.

[Strawman]

28. The Benny Hill Show

Which I subsequently began to like

[LyndaG]

29. YUK!!!!

On Saturday nights, my parents always had a "Date Night," so they would drop me off at my Grandma's house. She'd always watch the dreaded ABC lineup of "Lawrence Welk," "The Love Boat," and "Fantasy Island." She only had one tv, too. Torture! The only fun part was when those elderly ladies would push and shove to try to get a chance to dance with Welk. That was amusing!!!

[tcfrogs]

30. Honestly, I DID have to watch Lawrence Welk as a kid

Get dumped off at the grandparents house on Saturday nights, get forced to listen to/watch Lawrence Welk. Pretty much a routine.

[Hardrada]

31. Lawrence Welk from 1955 almost to the Present

Started with my grandparents who adopted us so we more or less grew up with Welk and Co. And then my wife's parents. I discovered, liked Welk so again every Sat. night. And this did not end when Lawrence W. made his final ah-one and ah-two since we live in Iowa and the old Welk shows are on tape and appear every Sat. night here on PBS so when we visited my mother-in-law (who lived to be 97) we watched Welk in reruns. And he is still on. I mentioned this to a Chicago friend and he got the idea that Welk was not touring anymore but was still doing a live show someplace in Iowa. Also, Welk, here is preceded on PBS still, I believe, by the Guy Lombardo show also on tape.


"An now the luffly champagne lady. Norma Simmer..."

Welk trivia: At one time he had a second regular YV show called :Top Tunes and New Talents

[Piperay]

36. Lawrence Welk on here too

on PBS EVERY Saturday night in Los Angeles area on KOCE.

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[Dervill Crow]

33. I must really be a dork.

With the exception of Lawrence Welk, which no sane person under retirement age would watch, I watched all those shows by choice.

[Hardrada]

34. Some of them were actually

entertaining and a few are now cult classics!

[Richard Steele]

37. Hee Haw....but I wasn't 'forced' so much...

It was more that their antenna behind the house only got ONE channel, and Hee Haw was on it.

All jokes aside, Roy Clarke was an amazingly gifted musician.

[Rhiannon12866]

38. Lawrence Welk, by my grandmother. Ick.

What is Jot, BTW?:shrug:

[HamstersFromHell]

42. Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour

I know I'm dating myself now with that one.

Mom's only claim to fame was: "I voted for Pat Boone when he appeared on it, and he won!" :puke:

At least I lived through all the Geritol and Serutan ("It's natures spelled backwards!") commercials.

[Freebird12004]

43. "The Lawrence Welk Show"

I still remember "The Champaign Dancers" ~ does that make me "old"?

[peekaloo]

44. Saturday night Wrasslin'

My dad ALWAYS had that on. In retrospect, 'Hee Haw' wasn't that bad. Corny but it had its moments.

[Dervill Crow]

47. Wrasslin'

Oh my, does that bring back memories. My mom and dad would go to the Portland Sports Arena and watch the wrasslin, and a few times they made me and my boyfriend go with them.

Gloom, despair, and agony on me . . .

[calico1]

45. I wasn't "forced" to watch anything.

My parents did watch the Lawrence Welk show and we knew that we either watched or did something else. But they didn't make us. My sister and I would sometimes walk around blowing bubbles with one of thos soap bubble makers to add some ambiance to the viewing experience. :silly: You also have to keep in mind that in those days there was no cable TV. So many of us watched Lawrence Welk (or some other show) because the alternative was worse. You only had 3 choices!

[LynneSin]

46. Hell I watched the Lawrence Welk show with my grandpa up until he died

which I was in my 30's when it happened (sometime in 2000 he passed away).


To this day I have fond memories of Polka - I love the music!