1974: Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council begins production of Austin City Limits, a 13-week music program taped in front of a live audience.
1976: Austin City Limits premieres its first season nationally on PBS, featuring Asleep at the Wheel and Bob Wills Original Texas Playboys.
1977: With its second broadcast season, Austin City Limits becomes the award-winning primetime series on PBS. Gary P. Nunn's "London Homesick Blues" becomes the show's theme song.
1978: Season three of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS.
1979: Season four of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS, and Terry Lickona joins the show as producer.
1980: Season five of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS, and Scott Newton joins the show as still photographer and Allan Muir as director.
1981: Austin City Limits sixth broadcast season kicks off on PBS.
1982: Season seven of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS, and Austin City Limits introduces a new opening theme song composed by John Mills, it was Allan Muir's final season as director.
1983: Season eight of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS, and Gary Menotti joins the show as director, who succeeds Allan Muir.
1984: Season nine of Austin City Limits kicks off on PBS, and Budweiser begins sponsorship.
1985: ACL's tenth broadcast season kicks off on PBS.
1986: Season eleven of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS.
1987: ACL's twelfth broadcast season kicks off on PBS, this was the final season where Austin City Limits was produced by the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council.
1988: Season thirteen of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS, and The Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council takes over production.
1989: ACL's fourteenth broadcast season kicks off on PBS.
1990: ACL's fifteenth anniversary season kicks off on PBS, and Budweiser stops underwriting the show.
1991: Season sixteen of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS.
1992: ACL's seventeenth broadcast season kicks off on PBS.
1993: Season eighteen of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS.
1994: ACL's nineteenth broadcast season kicks off on PBS.
1995: ACL's twentieth anniversary season kicks off on PBS.
1996: Season twenty-one of Austin City Limits premieres on PBS.
1997: ACL's twenty-second broadcast season kicks off on PBS.
Live at Austin City Limits was created in 2003.
Austin City Limits - 1975 Spoon was released on: USA: 9 October 2010
kate moss
Austin City Limits - 1975 Beck - 28.10 was released on: USA: 4 January 2003
Austin City Limits - 1975 Wynonna 22-1 was released on: USA: 1997
Augie Kymmel, she's the set designer for Austin City Limits.
Does anyone know on YouTube where i can find the Austin City Limits intro from 1982, it has that dirty Austin city limits sign with dirty plants and weeds behind the sign, as the camera moves down and we see an armadillo walking towards Austin, I'd even try YouTube with no result.
Austin City Limits - 1975 Nickel Creek Ralph Stanley 28-9 was released on: USA: 28 December 2002
Austin City Limits - 1975 Radiohead 38-1 was released on: USA: 6 October 2012
Austin City Limits - 1975 Willie Nelson 1-0 was released on: USA: 1975
Austin City Limits - 1975 Phoenix 39-2 was released on: USA: 12 October 2013
Austin City Limits - 1975 1979-02-19 was released on: USA: 19 February 1979