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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Nov 24, 2014 2:45:07 GMT -5
FOR BRIEF MILD LANGUAGE
For" The Homecoming".
The actuall show is rated G right? Was the series ever PG ?
I am watching The Sinner on the John Boy Special Marathon that I got dvr'ed.
They edit out the scene where Grandpa comes in to The Kitchen in the Bathing Suit.
WAS The Waltons a PG show back then ?
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Post by twinkle on Nov 24, 2014 6:40:15 GMT -5
They edit that bit out...? are you serious!!!
Since when is a bit of bare chest and shoulder unsuitable viewing - how could anything from the Waltons need censoring? talk about over-kill!
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Post by JeriJet on Nov 24, 2014 6:59:44 GMT -5
FOR BRIEF MILD LANGUAGE For" The Homecoming". The actuall show is rated G right? Was the series ever PG ? I am watching The Sinner on the John Boy Special Marathon that I got dvr'ed. They edit out the scene where Grandpa comes in to The Kitchen in the Bathing Suit. WAS The Waltons a PG show back then ?
The Parental Guidelines "system" wasn't started until circa 1997.... Today, however, they frequently go back and rate some of the older tv shows.... So, for The Homecoming, The Sinner, etc., there would have been no such ratings at the time they were produced.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 10:21:37 GMT -5
This raises the question of parental guidance while watching tv.
Have you as a kid ever had you parents guide you through a show or movie?
Have you as a parent ever guide a kid through a show or movie?
I have not to either question. R or X rating were off limits as a kid, but PG was not...ever
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Post by JeriJet on Nov 24, 2014 10:29:30 GMT -5
This raises the question of parental guidance while watching tv. Have you as a kid ever had you parents guide you through a show or movie? Have you as a parent ever guide a kid through a show or movie? I have not to either question. R or X rating were off limits as a kid, but PG was not...ever You were a kid in 1997 ??!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 10:39:54 GMT -5
This raises the question of parental guidance while watching tv. Have you as a kid ever had you parents guide you through a show or movie? Have you as a parent ever guide a kid through a show or movie? I have not to either question. R or X rating were off limits as a kid, but PG was not...ever You were a kid in 1997 ??!! There were ratings before the 90's but they were the simple G R and X. I don't think they were broke down into the other's until the 90's. So they never had the PG (like little houses's rape episode should have). I think that the G and R ratings were not enough and that started the PG 13 which is inbetween the G and the R. I am not sure if there is a different system for rating TV versus Movies and if so, does a movie get a new rating when it goes from Movie to TV? I remember going to the movies in the 70's with the church group and the trailer for Jaws was shown. My mom got "upset" and complained and it did make sense to not show a trailer that was R rated during a show that was G rated. My question should have been (for those of us older "kids") did your parents ever watch tv with you to guide you?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 10:47:59 GMT -5
Yep, movies were rated first
The ratings used from 1968 to 1970 were:[2]
Rated G: General audiences – suggested for general audiences (all ages admitted) Rated M: Mature audiences – suggested for mature audiences (parental discretion advised) Rated R: Restricted – persons under 16 not admitted unless accompanied by parent or adult guardian. Rated X: Persons under 18 will not be admitted
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Post by JeriJet on Nov 24, 2014 10:48:26 GMT -5
Although there were no actual "viewer discretion" ratings in early tv, some shows put up warnings on occasion.... I remember one "warning" before a segment about nuclear war on The Ed Sullivan Show" -- my folks had me go to my room for a while, even though I was not very young at the time.... similar alerts caused me to spend some time out of the room, but this mostly happened to my younger sister, mostly when there was concentration camp footage.... I also remember that there were a couple of books, best sellers, that my older sister was allowed to read but I wasn't yet -- of course, they were the first ones I ran to a couple of years later !!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 10:58:04 GMT -5
Although there were no actual "viewer discretion" ratings in early tv, some shows put up warnings on occasion.... I remember one "warning" before a segment about nuclear war on The Ed Sullivan Show" -- my folks had me go to my room for a while, even though I was not very young at the time.... similar alerts caused me to spend some time out of the room, but this mostly happened to my younger sister, mostly when there was concentration camp footage.... I also remember that there were a couple of books, best sellers, that my older sister was allowed to read but I wasn't yet -- of course, they were the first ones I ran to a couple of years later !!! Charles Manson got the "viewer discretion" and my parents made me leave the room. I watched from the hallway instead. I was six.
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Post by JeriJet on Nov 24, 2014 11:09:10 GMT -5
With movies in the 40's and 50's, maybe later, I remember postings at the theatre might say that children under 12 would not be permitted without a parent.... an older sibling wouldn't work !! .... I believe the newspaper listings also included such notification.... I'm wondering now if it was at the theatre's discretion, and whether they may have barred kids under, say, 16.
It may also be that different locales had looser or stricter "rules" ... town councils may well have been involved.
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Post by clyde on Nov 24, 2014 11:50:32 GMT -5
My parents wouldn't have worried about ratings if they had existed when I was growing up. Watching TV was a rare privilege. Further, we only got one TV channel anyway, and even that was pretty blurry! We had some kind of thing that turned the roof antenna toward the strongest signal, but the results were most unsatisfactory.
INSP even beeps out mild curse words, so the Grandpa edit doesn't surprise me. I wonder how much INSP pays its censor?!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 12:33:52 GMT -5
In Quebec during the 1970s there was a rating for some films, you had to be 14 or above. "Saturday night fever" was one of them. The movie came out around the time I turned 14 and I was able to see the film, but my 13-year-old friends (and younger) could not. I haven't seen a "14 and above" rating since the late 1970s.
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Post by daniela on Nov 24, 2014 13:40:08 GMT -5
My parents never really cared what we watched. I don't think they knew half of the stuff. I was watching 22 Jumpstreet just on Friday, and my mom said, " geez! Every word is the f word. Do they have to swear so much?"
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Post by carol on Nov 24, 2014 13:57:39 GMT -5
When most of us here were kids our parents didn't have to worry about what we watched on TV. There wasn't really anything inappropriate on. Like Jeri said a few shows put up a "Mature Themes" warning before it came on. The first show with that warning that I remember being able to see was the Little House episode "Sylvia" about Albert's girlfriend who was raped. I was 16 so I was deemed old enough to watch it.
Even so what was considered Mature Themes then is mild compared to what is shown on TV now especially now that we have cable
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 14:27:03 GMT -5
When most of us here were kids our parents didn't have to worry about what we watched on TV. There wasn't really anything inappropriate on. Like Jeri said a few shows put up a "Mature Themes" warning before it came on. The first show with that warning that I remember being able to see was the Little House episode "Sylvia" about Albert's girlfriend who was raped. I was 16 so I was deemed old enough to watch it. Even so what was considered Mature Themes then is mild compared to what is shown on TV now especially now that we have cable Did you watch Sylvia the first time it aired? I don't remember a warning. But I do know that I warned the parents of a girl that I would be watching that nite it first aired what the theme was about and they did not want their girl watching it. It was such an odd thing to have little house with such a topic.
I'd much rather watch Laura and Nellie have their cat fight in the muddy field. Now that was a good episode.
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