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One last time, I head five years further into the past to discuss the year in television. I mean, 1965 is fully in the era of three channels. Any earlier and we’d be in the earliest days of television. Hell, Batman and The Monkees didn’t even debut until 1966. So, with one last foray into TV history (in this vein), I look at 1965.
On Thanksgiving, the first ever color NFL game aired on TV. Yeah, we’re in an old-timey era of television. A lot of shows began airing, but how many of them are notable? Quite a few! Not all of them are good, but they lived long enough to air often in reruns. For example, F Troop is such a show. I watched it on Nick at Nite in the ‘90s, but it’s not “good” per se. The same is true for Gidget and certainly My Mother the Car.
However, in addition to The Big Valley and Honey West, the latter notable for being named for the lead character, a female private investigator, some other sitcoms of note debuted. I Dream of Jeannie is silly as all get out, but it’s not bad. Green Acres and Get Smart are legitimately good, though I am less high on the former than many. It’s a fine sitcom, but not a classic by any means. I don’t know if Get Smart is a “classic,” but it is quite funny and a real enjoyable watch.
Nothing notable really ended, other than The Outer Limits, which I didn’t realize only lasted for two seasons and 49 episodes. That’s the power of reruns, I guess. Television was growing, not diminishing. It was pretty new, pretty fresh, clearly evolving. It was still notable for shows to be in color, and some were still in black-and-white. Modern television couldn’t be further from this reality.
