Searching for TV Shows by Year

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I would like to be able to search for TV Shows by the Year they began but I am unable to work out how to do it. The Year option in Advance Search only seems to come up with films. Any ideas please? Surely it is possible to search on this field as well as all other fields of information such as genre, season count, by actor/actress, Network etc. it seems like something that would be simple logic when building a database...
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The second section for including/excluding types of titles is;

Title Type

Feature Film TV Movie TV Series TV Episode TV Special Mini-Series Documentary Video Game Short Film Video Unknown Work

If you choose TV Series, TV Episode, it should not be showing you films. Did you use this to indicate the area you're searching?

Yes, this is what you'd build into such a database, for sure (so they did).

Edit: It's easier to read the list if you leave out episodes and just use Series.

you can also leave out those you've seen (or to IMDb, those you've rated) with choosing to exclude as seen in one of the last options on the page.
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