timeware wrote: ↑August 15th, 2022, 9:08 pm It's the eighties so rules were pretty lax back then. I'm sure there were re runs of the Tom and Jerry show around that time.
This is not true at all. If anything it’s the opposite. If a show aired on ABC that means they went through the S&P department and they would suck the life out of anything. The internet is full of insane BS&P requests for changes for the most minute things. And even some where you have to wonder how twisted the mind of the censor was. I think JMS has specifically posted about some of these problems.
1980s kids tv was sanitary, safe & not at all even remotely controversial. This started to change a bit in the 1990s when Cartoon Network started airing their own shows and & since cable isn’t censored like broadcast networks.
You want to hear BS&P war stories? The guys from the 1990s Batman show went through hell with them. It’s amazing that show was able to get away with all that it did. Batman was one of the few shows to have villains using actual bullets & real looking guns. Other shows couldn’t have that which is why most cartoons from the 80s and early 90s have laser weapons.
Chances are if something remotely controversial aired then it was probably pared down from an original that was much worse. Sometimes producers would purposefully take things pretty far that they knew BS&P would demand changed just so that that even if it appeared grotesque or scary, the original design might’ve been even worse.