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The second picture is a 13" Sharp Linytron color TV from the late '70's. This is a solid state set and I've seen some that were made for Western Auto under the Truetone name. They are good playing sets; but, I've seen a few with bad flyback transformers.
The third set is an RCA from the early '80's. Also solid state and a good performing set. In fact, many are still in use.
Fifth one looks like a Zenith B&W tube type set from the late '60's.
Sixth one is a Toshiba Blackstripe set, probably early '80's.
The seventh one looks like a 23" or 25" steel cabinet Zenith System 3 from the late '70's or early '80's. This set may also have the built in "space phone".
Number 11 is what is known as the Zenith Avanti. The one pictured looks like either a Chromacolor II or System 3 from the late '70's. This cabinet style goes back to the early '70's and was first used with a tube/transistor hybrid chassis, then with the horizontal solid state chassis that actually looks like a tube chassis, then the vertical fold down chromacolor II chassis, then with the printed circuit board based System 3 chassis.
The other sets looks like non-US models that I'm not familiar with.
If you live in the US, finding any of the sets that I identified should not be a huge problem; but, none of them are going to sprout legs and come to you. The best thing to do is hit the yard sales, estate sales, advertise on CL, look on ebay, advertise in any local papers in your area, and get the word out to everyone you know. If you are involved with a church or community organization where many senior citizens are present, get the word out to them. It's the older folks who will come near having an old TV hidden away somewhere.
In your search, you will find a lot of dead ends and you will end up with a bunch of '90's and newer sets that may not be of interest to you; but, it will all be worth it when that special set comes along. Obviously, '80's era TV's are still more common and easier to find than the older stuff; but, the older stuff is still out there. You just have to hunt for it. And, now would be a good time to start that hunt. I suspect that in 10-20 years, most the the pre-'80's stuff will be gone. Sometimes, I wish I could go back to the early-to-mid '90's, when the last round of '60's and '70's tube sets were starting to end their service life. Back then, I was all the time bringing home interesting sets; but, unfortunately, I was not in to saving old TV's back then. At that time, an old TV was nothing more than something for me to fix and make a few $ off of.
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