Top Rookie Shows by Year

[icecream]

What do you think are the best new shows for each year?

1951
1. I Love Lucy
1952
1. Dragnet
2. Ozzie & Harriet
1955
1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1957
1. Leave it to Beaver
1960
1. The Andy Griffith Show
1961
1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
1962
1. Beverly Hillbillies
2. The Lucy Show
1963
1. Petticoat Junction
1964
1. Bewitched
2. Gilligan’s Island
3. The Addams Family
4. The Munsters
1965
1. I Dream of Jeannie
2. Green Acres
1966
1. Family Affair
2. Star Trek
1968
1. Adam-12
1969
1. The Brady Bunch
1970
1. The Odd Couple
2. Partridge Family
1972
1. M*A*S*H
2. Are You Being Served?
1974
1. Happy Days
1975
1. Wheel of Fortune (Woolery)
1979
1. Benson
2. Hart to Hart
1980
1. Yes, Minister
2. Blockbusters
1981
1. Wheel of Fortune (Sajak)
1982
1. Family Ties
2. Cheers
1984
1. Jeopardy! (Trebek)
2. Trivia Trap
3. Who’s the Boss?
4. The Cosby Show
1985
1. Growing Pains
2. $100,000 Pyramid
1987
1. Star Trek: the Next Generation
1988
1. The Wonder Years
2. Murphy Brown
1989
1. Coach
2. Seinfeld
1990
1. Law & Order
2. Keeping Up Appearances
1991
1. Home Improvement
2. Step by Step
1992
1. Mad About You
2. Diagnosis Murder
3. Tonight Show with Jay Leno
4. As Time Goes By
1993
1. Frasier
2. Boy Meets World
3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1994
1. Touched by an Angel
1995
1. Caroline in the City
2. Star Trek: Voyager
1996
1. Early Edition
2. 7th Heaven
3. Everybody Loves Raymond
4. Cosby
1997
1. Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?
2. The Practice
3. Win Ben Stein’s Money
1998
1. Becker
1999
1. Greed
2. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
3. Who Wants to be a Millionaire
2000
1. Dag
2. Welcome to New York
3. Bette
4. Yes, Dear
5. Gilmore Girls
6. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7. The District
8. Ed
9. Malcolm in the Middle
2001
1. Reba
2. Weakest Link
3. According to Jim
4. Crossing Jordan
5. The Guardian
6. Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7. Doc
2002
1. Without a Trace
2. George Lopez
3. 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter
4. Lingo (Woolery)
5. Pyramid
6. Family Feud (Karn)
7. Less Than Perfect
8. American Idol
9. Still Standing
10. Life With Bonnie
11. Boomtown
12. CSI Miami
2003
1. Hope & Faith
2. The Lyon’s Den
3. Joan of Arcadia
4. Mister Sterling
5. I’m With Her
6. My Big Fat Greek Life
7. Miss Match
8. Cold Case
2004
1. Desperate Housewives
2. Corner Gas
3. Complete Savages
4. Listen Up
5. The DA
6. Clubhouse
7. CSI New York
8. Darcy’s Wild Life
2005
1. Criminal Minds
2. Law & Order: Trial By Jury
3. Everybody Hates Chris
4. TVLand’s Top Ten
5. Suite Life of Zack & Cody
6. Blind Justice
7. Numb3rs
2006
1. Justice
2. Chain Reaction (Lane)
3. Family Feud (O’Hurley)
4. Shark
5. Runaway
6. Crumbs
7. 1 vs. 100
2007
1. Grand Slam
2. Grease: You’re the One that I Want
3. Back to You
4. Merv Griffin’s Crosswords
5. Life is Wild
6. Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
7. Aliens in America

[robyrob]

heres a list of shows by year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...sion_schedules

[robyrob]

1964 - Bewitched
1965 - Get Smart
1966 - The Monkees
1967 - The Carol Burnett Show
1968 - Hawaii Five-O
1969 - Love, American Style
1970 - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1971 -
1972 - The Bob Newhart Show
1973 - Lotsa Luck
1974 - Happy Days
1975 - Welcome Back, Kotter
1976 - Donny & Marie
1977 - Soap
1978 - WKRP in Cincinnati (& Mork & Mindy)
1979 - Benson
1980 - Bosom Buddies
1981 - Mr. Merlin
1982 - Square Pegs
1983 - We Got It Made
1984 - Three's a Crowd
1985 - Misfits of Science
1986 - My Sister Sam
1987 - Married... with Children/Women in Prison
1988 - Dear John
1989 - Quantum Leap
1990 - Get a Life
1991 - Eerie, Indiana/Herman's Head
1992 - The Jackie Thomas Show/Picket Fences
1993 - Bakersfield P.D.
1994 - NewsRadio
1995 - Partners
1996 - Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1997 - Jenny
1998 - Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place/Charmed/Jesse
1999 - Norm
2000 - The Oblongs
2001 - Crossing Jordan
2002 - Birds of Prey/8 Simple Rules/Good Morning Miami/Monk
2003 - Arrested Development
2004 - Committed/Blind Justice/Veronica Mars/Lost/Hawaii
2005 - My Name Is Earl/Out of Practice/Night Stalker/Bones/How I Met Your Mother
2006 - Psych/The Class/Andy Barker P.I./The Winner/Knights of Prosperity
2007 - The Big Bang Theory/Pushing Daisies/Chuck/Reaper

...and that was really more work than it was worth.

[Dean Winchester]

my faves might not always be the top-rated, but here goes. I'll limit to two a season max, I'm only going back to 1972 because I'm only well-versed on a handful of 60's shows
1972-1973: Maude
1973-1974: Happy Days
1974-1975: The Jeffersons
1975-1976: One Day At A Time, Laverne And Shirley
1976-1977: Alice, Three's Company
1977-1978: Soap
1978-1979: Diff'rent Strokes
1979-1980: Facts Of Life
1980-1981: can't think of any
1981-1982: Gimme A Break
1982-1983: Family Ties
1983-1984: Night Court
1984-1985: Cosby Show, Moonlighting
1985-1986: Golden Girls, 227
1986-1987: ALF, Designing Women
1987-1988: A Different World, Wonder Years
1988-1989: Roseanne, Murphy Brown
1989-1990: Seinfeld
1990-1991: Beverly Hills 90210
1991-1992: can't remember any
1992-1993: Melrose Place, Mad About You
1993-1994: Ellen, Frasier
1994-1995: Friends
1995-1996: Third Rock From The Sun
1996-1997: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Suddenly Susan
1997-1998: South Park (cable), Ally McBeal
1998-1999: Sex And The City (HBO), Charmed
1999-2000: Angel, Roswell
2000-2001: Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO), Six Feet Under (HBO)
2001-2002: Reba
2002-2003: What I Like About You
2003-2004: Arrested Development, One Tree Hill
2004-2005: Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives
2005-2006: Supernatural
2006-2007: Ugly Betty, Brothers And Sisters
2007-2008: Pushing Daisies