I watched…

What TV shows did you watch as a kid?

So many different shows as a kid, in many different genres. I was mostly an indoors tv watching kid. What i watched at any point in my childhood though, Dependency largely on where I was living and if we could affordable cable or not.

When I lived just with my birth mom and my siblings, most of what I watched was either cartoons on pbs in the mornings, or there were Disney, and cartón network type shows on the local channels on the weekend. On the weekdays, I had the CW, ABC, CBS, and NBC schedules memorized and watched a mix of teen dramas, supernatural, charmed, sitcoms, and news (yes, as a kid I watched the news).

One thing that was special at those times, though, was that we had some nickelodeon and disney dvds and vhs tapes that I would watch all the time. We also practically wore out my mom’s back street boys concert vhs tape as well as her new kids on the block cartoon vhs tapes as well.

The times we lived with my grandparents was real memorable because, not only did my grandparents have dish which had so many channels, but my grandpa and aunt both had large vhs tape collections with every type of content imaginable. The only downside for most of the family was thar when my grandpa was home from his long, overworking jobs and the times before he died that he wasn’t able to work as much, you had to watch whatever he wanted to watch, even if he was sleeping usually because he would often wake up if you changed the channel and say “I was watching that!”. 

This was never a problem for me, though, because my grandpa was my favorite adult in my birth family, and I loved watching whatever he was watching. I spent a lot of time at home in the living room with him because I wanted to spend time going on TV adventures with him. We watched many things, but the main shows I remember were Walker Texas Ranger, Charmed (he liked the women on the show), Stargate-SG1 and Altantis, and a show I had no business watching at the time called Crank Yankers.

After I was put in foster care, I started really getting into charmed and supernatural even more, as well as different anime and adult swim shows like family guy. I also watched a lot of sitcoms and reality shows with my parents because it extended bedtime. It extended electronic time, which otherwise was only a half hour and only on the weekends, and the shows were really good to me as a teen.

What were some of your favorite shows growing up? Tell me in the comments!