Welcome to our new video feature TV by the Decade where each Sunday evening we’ll look back at notable television premieres from the 1950s to the present. As we kick off this new feature in September 2018, we’ll take a look back at the decades of 1958, 1968, 1978, 1988, 1998 and 2008.
But that’s not all. Here’s a complete list of the series that premiered the first week of September in those decades.
–Titles in red are available for purchase through Amazon.
1958
- September 6 – Wanted: Dead or Alive
1968
- September 7 – Arabian Knights
- September 7 – The Banana Splits
1978
- September 1 – Battle of the Planets
- September 7 – Grandpa Goes to Washington
- September 7 – The Waverly Wonders
- September 8 – The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1988
- September 1 – Denver, the Last Dinosaur
- September 5 – Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
- September 6 – Count Duckula
1998
- September 1 – The Wild Thornberrys
- September 7 – The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
- September 8 – Pokémon: The Original
2008
- September 1 – Raising the Bar
- September 3 – Sons of Anarchy
- September 6 – Body Language
- September 6 – We Mean Business
- September 6 – Wolverine and the X-Men
- September 7 – Hole in the Wall
- September 7 – True Blood
- September 7 – Weird, True & Freaky
How many of these show do you remember? Do you have a favorite or memories of the series that didn’t go down in TV history? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below!