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The Graduating Class in the Television Yearbook?

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sctvman

I was thinking about the important years of television in this TV Yearbook! Any shows or events you can think of?

FOR EXAMPLE:

Class of 1972: M*A*S*H, Maude

Class of 1976: Alice, Charlie's Angels, What's Happening

Class of 1984: The Cosby Show, Who's the Boss?, Night Court, Murder She Wrote

Can you think of more?
 
1972 would also include The Bob Newhart Show.
1978: WKRP, Taxi
1982: Cheers, Newhart
1990: Seinfeld

Those were off the top of my head. I'll probably think of more later.
 
Class of 1977: Three's Company, Soap, Lou Grant, The Love Boat, CHiPS
Class of 1982: Add: Family Ties
Class of 1972: Add: Emergency!
Class of 1981: Hill Street Blues, The Fall Guy, Gimme A Break, Dynasty, Simon and Simon, Falcon Crest
 
ADD:

1972: The (New) Price is Right (and still going with Bob Barker..for about 2 more months)

1973: Match Game w/Gene Rayburn...started as Match Game 73)

1976: Family Feud (original with Richard Dawson)

1978: Dallas, The Incredible Hulk

1981: The Greatest American Hero ;D

1989: Baywatch
 
How 'bout the Class Of '64? Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, The Munsters, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., F-Troop, Daniel Boone...That's gotta be equal to an all-time top NFL draft!
 
Mork and Mindy can be added to 1978.

1959: Twilight Zone, Rocky & Bullwinkle

In game shows:
Pyramid (Originally $10,000 at the time) can be added to 1973.

1999: Who Wants to be a Millionaire
2005: Deal or No Deal

Also, in 1964, how could you mention The Munsters and not The Addams Family? ;D
 
How about...

1990: Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Law&Order, Wings
 
Try these:

1960: The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, The Flintstones

1961: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Hazel,
The Defenders

1962: The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, The Jackie Gleason
Show (The American Scene Magazine), The Virginian,
Combat, McHale's Navy

1963: The Fugitive, Petticoat Junction, The Patty Duke Show,
The Farmer's Daughter

1964 you've mostly covered

1965: The Wild Wild West, Hogan's Heroes, Green Acres, The FBI,
Big Valley, I Spy, Run For Your Life, The Dean Martin Show,
Batman, Get Smart, I Dream Of Jeannie

1966: Star Trek, Family Affair, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,
The Monkees, Mission: Impossible

1967: The Carol Burnett Show, Mannix, Ironside, Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In

1968: Mod Squad, Julia, Hawaii Five-O, The Doris Day Show, and
one still going strong--60 Minutes. Also, Hee Haw debuted in
the summer of 1969.

1969: The Brady Bunch, Marcus Welby M.D., Love American Style,
The Courtship Of Eddie's Father, Room 222, Movie Of The Week,
Medical Center

1970: Monday Night Football, The Partridge Family, The Odd Couple,
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Flip Wilson Show, All In The Family

1971: Cannon, Sanford And Son, Emergency

1972: In addition to those you've named, throw in The Waltons, The
Streets Of San Francisco, The Rookies

1973: Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man, Happy Days, Good Times

1974: Little House On The Prairie, The Rockford Files, Chico And The Man,
The Jeffersons, Barney Miller, Rhoda, S.W.A.T., Baretta

1975: Welcome Back Kotter, Starsky & Hutch, Laverne & Shirley,
The Bionic Woman, One Day At A Time

The rest I think you've covered pretty thoroughly.

I might add a few miniseries:

1976: Rich Man Poor Man (Books I and II)

1977: Roots, Jesus Of Nazareth

1978: Holocaust

1980: Shogun

1983: The Winds Of War, The Thorn Birds

1989(?) Lonesome Dove
 
Adds:

1971: The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1970: Nanny And The Professor
1973: Barnaby Jones
1978: The White Shadow, The Incredible Hulk
1982: St. Elsewhere, Remington Steele
1969: The Bill Cosby Show (Bill as basketball coach Chet Kincaid)
1983: The A-Team, Hotel
 
1986: ALF, L.A. Law
1988: The Wonder Years, Roseanne, Murphy Brown
1989: The Simpsons
 
Also from 1986: Perfect Strangers, Head of the Class, Designing Women
1987: Married...with Children
(I didn't forget Full House (87), I just can't bear to put it down)
 
If you want to go 'way back:

1947: Kraft Television Theater, Meet The Press,
Howdy Doody, Ted Mack's Original Amateur
Hour, Texaco Star Theater (Milton Berle),
Toast Of The Town (Ed Sullivan) (the last
two debuted in the summer of 1948)

1948: Candid Camera, Break The Bank, Winner
Take All, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts,
Arthur Godfrey And His Friends, The Goldbergs,
Studio One, Philco Television Playhouse

1949: Mama, Admiral Broadway Revue (became Your
Show Of Shows), Life Of Riley (Gleason version),
Stop The Music

1950: The Colgate Comedy Hour, You Bet Your Life,
What's My Line?, Beat The Clock, Burns And
Allen, The Jack Benny Program, Your Hit Parade

1951: I Love Lucy, The Red Skelton Show (Hour), Goodyear
Television Playhouse, Dragnet

1952: Ozzie And Harriet, Our Miss Brooks, Life Of Riley
(William Bendix version), I've Got A Secret, Today,
The Jackie Gleason Show

1953: Make Room For Daddy (Danny Thomas), The U.S.
Steel Hour, Person To Person, Name That Tune

1954: Disneyland, Father Knows Best, The Millionaire,
The $64,000 Question (June 1955), The Tonight Show,
The Lawrence Welk Show (July 1955), Lassie, Rin Tin Tin

1955: Gunsmoke, Cheyenne, Wyatt Earp, The Phil Silvers Show,
The Honeymooners

1956: Playhouse 90, To Tell The Truth, The Price Is Right (Bill
Cullen version), Twenty One

1957: Perry Mason, Wagon Train, Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel,
Sugarfoot, Leave It To Beaver, The Real McCoys, Bachelor
Father

1958: 77 Sunset Strip, The Rifleman, Lawman, The Donna Reed
Show, Naked City, The Garry Moore Show (after eight years
in daytime it moves to prime time)

1959: Bonanza, Dobie Gillis, Hawaiian Eye, Dennis The Menace

I might also throw in some daytime shows:

1950: The Garry Moore Show

1951: Search For Tomorrow, Love Of Life

1952: Guiding Light, Art Linkletter's House Party,
Arthur Godfrey Time

1954: The Secret Storm

1955: Captain Kangaroo, The Mickey Mouse Club

1956: As The World Turns, The Edge Of Night,
Queen For A Day, Tic Tac Dough, The
Price Is Right, Truth Or Consequences
(Bob Barker version)

1957: American Bandstand, Who Do You Trust?

1958: Concentration

1960: Video Village

1961: Password

1962: Match Game (the original)

1963: General Hospital, The Doctors, You Don't Say!,
Let's Make A Deal

1964: Another World, Jeopardy!

1965: Days Of Our Lives, Supermarket Sweep,
The Dating Game

1966: Dark Shadows, Hollywood Squares, The
Newlywed Game

You've hit most of the rest.
 
anotherguy said:
Also, in 1964, how could you mention The Munsters and not The Addams Family? ;D
Click to expand...
Maybe because Addams Family premeired in '63! ;D Add Petticoat Junction for that year.
Also, add 1974:
Happy Days, Little House on the Prairie, Good Times, Chico and the Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Rockford Files, Name That Tune (Tom Kennedy version), and the first season of CBS's coverage of NBA games(though they probably started their coverage in Novermber or December of '73 before doing weekly games in early '74...but they first did the Finals in '74.)
 
Here's some that were not listed............
1962-Sabado Gigante(began US production in 1985)
1966-That Girl
1967-Gentle Ben
1969-Scooby Doo, Sesame Street
1972-The Midnight Special
1973-The Young & The Restless
1974-Saturday Night Live (Jan. '75)
1975-Good Morning America
1976-Family, Eight Is Enough, Austin City Limits
1978-Dukes of Hazzard, Fantasy Island, ESPN Sportscenter
1979-Knots Landing
1985-MacGyver
 
Saturday Night Live premiered October 11, 1975, not in January. That would make it Class of 1975.
 
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