We were never allowed to have guns, swords etc, but being girls that was never a great issue.
As far as TV we were allowed to watch whatever we really wanted, my dad was a real big sci-fi freak and i loved watching all that stuff with him.
He tried to stop me listening to some types of music, Guns'N'Roses, etc but never really worked as he had AC/DC TNT LP, bought it when I was a baby.
I remember one day i was having a shower and was really pissed at him, so I took my tape deck into the bathroom and played Guns'N'Roses up really loud, I could here him pounding on the door yelling at me to turn it off, I just pretended I could not here him. When i got out he asked me to throw it out, I told him i would when he threw his AC/DC LP's out. He said he would. He never did and nor did I. LOL.