Someone on the Classic Television Facebook page put together photo montages of TV shows that premiered in particular years, such as my birth year, 1965:

What’s amusing to me about this montage is that I did indeed watch several of these shows, in order as shown on the graphic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ChKPEKMw74

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFkqCEYON8

This list is in addition to shows that were already on the air in 1965. (Reruns of “The Big Valley” replaced my first favorite show, “Circus 3” on WISC-TV in Madison, so I refuse to list it, whether or not Linda Evans was on it.) I didn’t see all of these in their original runs; the various retro TV channels were my first viewing of some of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAMka4X91u0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTw2_mb9WOg

This is what was on TV at the beginning of the 1965–66 TV season:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB_xjNhc3n0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdX6fwfrULI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qbim6I51G4