Xena

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I was eight or nine when I regularly watched Xena: Warrior Princess on TV.  This was, of course, back when Saturday meant watching TV all day long, even if it was nice out and I wasn't particularly interested in anything that was on air.  That's probably how I started watching this show in the first place; I watched what was then called kidsWB! from whenever I woke up until about noon or 1pm, which was when they stopped running cartoons and kids shows.  Then I switched to what was then UPN to watch this show.

And I can't believe that I watched this when I was eight or nine! This show had some hard PG-13 stuff going on-- no bad language but a lot of violence and adult situations.  And I can't believe that my dad (Happy Father's day!) was okay with the fact that I watched this show. Three theories:
1) He didn't realize what kind of show I was watching and assumed it was a very battle-oriented cartoon
2) He realized what kind of show it was but didn't care that it had a lot of, uh...action
3) He realized what kind of show it was but thought that it was okay for me to see someone involved in that much action because it was done by a princess

I haven't seen an entire episode since I was a kid, but I remember how I felt and reacted to certain scenes; I'm sure I'd find them much less scary and much more campy in nature, just as present-day me can handle the scene in Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back where Luke gets his hand cut off.  If I have time and remember to do so I'd like to go back and see a few of those special episodes.