What! Shot in the face??

"Television standards decreed that people could only be hit by arrows in the back or in the front, never in the face."

Who'd show someone getting shot in the face with an arrow on broadcast television, for heaven's sake? Especially in the '80s; it's only in the past few years things have gotten so hyper-violent.

Raised on Richard Greene's (imported English) TV Robin Hood in the '50s, I was so aghast to see an old episode recently and watch Robin and/or his men shoot people in the back! I mean, it's 50 years later and my reaction was still pure shock! Big conflict with my U.S. childhood of TV cowboys where only cowards and bad guys shot anyone in the back...

Of course, when you think of it, shooting someone in the back makes perfect sense if you're sure they're going to shoot you if they get the chance. I wonder how many good people have died because they hesitated for a second because they wanted to be "fair."