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Television and radio episode website
epguides
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Type of site
| Entertainment
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Owner
| George Fergus
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Created by
| - George Fergus
- Dennis Kytasaari
- John Lavalie
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URL
| Epguides
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Commercial
| Yes
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Registration
| None
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Launched
| October 12, 1999
; 24 years ago
(
1999-10-12
)
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Current status
| Active
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epguides
is a
website
dedicated to
English language
radio
and
television shows
. Established in 1995 as
The Episode Guides Page
, it originally offered fan-compiled episode guides for hundreds of United States and United Kingdom series.
[1]
In 1999, the site's name was changed to epguides and moved to a separate
domain name
.
It was recommended by television historian
Tim Brooks
and Earle Marsh in the seventh edition of their book,
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946?Present
,
[2]
and again recommended in the eighth edition published in 2003.
[3]
epguides has been cited as a source of information in publications such as
Library Currents
,
[4]
The Rough Guide to The Internet
,
[5]
Internet Cool Guide: A Savvy Guide to the Hottest Web Sites
,
[6]
Information Literacy: Navigating and Evaluating Today's Media
,
[7]
Television Women from Lucy to Friends: Fifty Years of Sitcoms and Feminism
,
[8]
Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television
,
[9]
and
Queer TV: Framing Sexualities on US Television
.
[10]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
"The Episode Guides Page Episode Lists Index"
. May 29, 1997. Archived from
the original
on July 3, 1997.
- ^
Tim Brooks
; Earle Marsh (1999).
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946?Present
(7th ed.). New York:
Ballantine Books
.
ISBN
978-0-345-42923-0
.
- ^
Tim Brooks; Earle Marsh (2003).
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946?Present
(8th ed.). New York:
Ballantine Books
.
ISBN
978-0-345-45542-0
.
- ^
Library Currents (2000), Practical Perspectives, Inc., Vol. 17, pg. 56.
- ^
Peter Buckley & Duncan Clark, The Rough Guide to The Internet (2007),
Rough Guides
, pg. 259,
ISBN
978-1843538394
.
- ^
Rula Razek (ed.), Internet Cool Guide: A Savvy Guide to the Hottest Web Sites (2000), teNeues Publishing, pg. 107,
ISBN
978-3823854463
.
- ^
Sara Armstrong, Information Literacy: Navigating and Evaluating Today's Media (2008), Shell Education, 2nd ed., pg. 226,
ISBN
978-1425805548
.
- ^
Lynn C. Spangler, Television Women from Lucy to Friends: Fifty Years of Sitcoms and Feminism (2003),
Praeger Publishers
, pgs. xvii, 234, 252,
ISBN
0313287813
.
- ^
Michael Klossner, Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television (2006),
McFarland & Company
, pgs. 50, 128,
ISBN
0786422157
.
- ^
Nancy San Martin, Queer TV: Framing Sexualities on US Television, Volume 2 (2002),
University of California, Santa Cruz
, pgs. 287, 291, 343.
External links
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