“Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man and the Roadrunner cartoon were some of the shows rated in the study as very violent. Now psychologists from the University of Michigan have re-interviewed 329 of the original respondents. They studied their criminal records and traffic infringements and questioned their spouses and friends……………………………..

boys who most liked to identify with violent characters were much more likely to grow up to be criminals. They had been convicted of crimes at more than three times the rate of the other men. They were also 88 per cent more likely to have beaten their wives. Women who watched the most violence as girls reported having punched, beaten or choked another adult at more than four times the rate of their contemporaries. They were also more likely to have thrown objects at their spouses.”

TV drives kids to violence

By Michael Bradley

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/10/1047144923791.html

I watched those very three programs as a kid. I also watched the Viet Nam war and monks committing suicide, burning themselves to death on the news. Obviously I should be locked up for the good of everyone!