I was born the same year as television in Australia. I really did grow up with television.
When we lived in Canberra we were the only people in our street with a TV. There was no television station in in Canberra then. When they started broadcasting we had dozens of people in our house to watch it. It didnt start until about 6 o'clock and wound up at about 9.30. Later one it went until 10 or 11 pm. The shows that stick in my mind from the time, remember I am probably 4 or 5, are "The outer Limits"(The Glass Hand episode with Robert Culp and Bus Stop with MM in a petticoat, very saucy in those days). Back in those days Shelbyville wasn't called Shelbyville.