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* ''[[Princess Knight]]'' - One of the first [[Shoujo]] series.
* ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' - Was the first to combine the classic [[Magical Girl]] genre with sentai and superhero themes (both by the same author and in-continuity with each other, ''Sailor V'' came first, but was developed in parallel with ''Sailor Moon'', the later becoming better known).
* ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]'' - The origin of the formal [[Five-Man Band]] concept, which predates even [[Super Sentai]].
* ''Mazinger Z'', ''Gatchaman'', and ''[[Getter Robo]]'' are the three candidates for first [[Combining Mecha]]. Mazinger is the weakest of these because while it is two entities coming together to form a whole, there's only one pilot and robot.
* ''[[Raideen]]''—First [[Transforming Mecha]].
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== Film ==
* '' Sallie Gardner at a Gallop''—Depending on how exactly we choose to define "film", this might be the very first, produced in 1878. ''Roundhay Garden Scene'' from 1888 would then be the oldest '''surviving''' film.
* ''The Sneeze''—The first thing ever to be caught on actual film (as opposed to paper, like earlier experiments were).
* ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'' -- [[Circus of Fear]], [[Looks Like Cesare]], [[Cuckoos Nest]], [[Twist Ending]].
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* ''[[Bullitt]]'' -- [[Cowboy Cop]]. [[Unbuilt Trope|Unbuilt]] as his behavior royally screws up the case.
* ''[[Superman]]''—Not the first [[Superhero Movie]] by any means, but it was the first true [[Summer Blockbuster]] to feature a comic-book hero as its lead.
* ''[[Blade Runner]]''—Invented cyberpunk in film, along with [[Neuromancer|Gibson]].
* ''[[The Great Train Robbery]]''—The first Western.
* Although it is difficult to determine for sure, the first entertainment on moving film appears to have been the 1895 short ''L'Arroseur arrose'', viewable [http://www.precinemahistory.net/1895.htm here]. This is the first time in film a 'script' was used rather than simply filming everyday life like boxing matches, cock fights, or people leaving a factory after a long day of work. It's an old gag of standing on a hose to stop the water, waiting for the guy to look into the hose to find the problem, and releasing the pressure on the line to squirt the man in the face. It's film being used for the first time to tell a story.
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* ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]''. Before it there were afterschool specials populated with one-shot characters, there were ensemble dramas with teenage characters and there were teen [[sitcom]]s, but it was the first [[Teen Drama]].
* ''[[wikipedia:The French Chef|The French Chef]]'' with [[wikipedia:Julia Child|Julia Child]] was the first nationwide [[Cooking Show]] and Child was the world's first actual "celebrity chef", predating Britain's Graham Kerr by a decade.
* ''[[Good Times]]''—Wilona Woods was ''the'' [[Sassy Black Woman]] and the [[Drop
* ''[[Guiding Light]]''—The world's first [[Soap Opera]], originating in 1937 on CBS Radio and making the move to TV in 1952. It finally ceased production in 2009.
* ''[[I Love Lucy]]''—The first syndicated [[Sitcom]]. Almost every single "wacky" sitcom situation that you can think of was either born on this show or at least popularized by it.
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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''—Believe it or not, technically it was the first [[Space Western]], as that's how Gene Roddenberry pitched it. Popularized [[Space Opera]] and created [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|quite]] [[Spock Speak|a few]] [[Red Shirt|tropes]] [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|of its own.]]
* ''[[Tales Of Tomorrow]]''—This nearly forgotten series was TV's first [[Genre Anthology]].
* ''[[wikipedia:Talk Soup|Talk Soup]]''—Started the snarky pop culture daily (at the time)/weekly clip show. First aired in 1991, ended in 2002. Revived in 2004 as ''[[The Soup]]'', spun off ''The Dish'', ''Sports Soup'' and ''Web Soup''. It has imitators in ''Infomania'' and ''Tosh.0''
* ''[[Wide World of Sports]]''—Invented the Sports Anthology genre. The sports nets like ESPN wouldn't exist without it.
* ''[[Password]]'' — First game show to have a definitive [[Bonus Round]]
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** Procol Harum may also have created [[Epic Rocking]]. Some might also name [[Frank Zappa]] or [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] for creating prog.
* [[Kraftwerk]], the first band to really experiment with electronic music.
* Black Sabbath, the first band to use detuned guitar in a metal context, although they are more of the trope codifiers, because they took disparate elements (dark lyrical themes, riff and guitar-driven music, heavy distortion, drug abuse, and tough attitude) and put them together to create what's known today as "heavy metal".
* Iron Maiden and Judas Priest first blended hard rock with heavy metal.
* Pink Floyd established progressive rock as psychedelic.
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