epguides

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epguides
Type of site
Entertainment
Owner George Fergus
Created by
  • George Fergus
  • Dennis Kytasaari
  • John Lavalie
URL Epguides
Commercial Yes
Registration None
Launched October 12, 1999 ; 24 years ago  ( 1999-10-12 )
Current status Active

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 ]

  1. ^ "The Episode Guides Page Episode Lists Index" . May 29, 1997. Archived from the original on July 3, 1997.
  2. ^ 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 .
  3. ^ 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 .
  4. ^ Library Currents (2000), Practical Perspectives, Inc., Vol. 17, pg. 56.
  5. ^ Peter Buckley & Duncan Clark, The Rough Guide to The Internet (2007), Rough Guides , pg. 259, ISBN   978-1843538394 .
  6. ^ Rula Razek (ed.), Internet Cool Guide: A Savvy Guide to the Hottest Web Sites (2000), teNeues Publishing, pg. 107, ISBN   978-3823854463 .
  7. ^ Sara Armstrong, Information Literacy: Navigating and Evaluating Today's Media (2008), Shell Education, 2nd ed., pg. 226, ISBN   978-1425805548 .
  8. ^ Lynn C. Spangler, Television Women from Lucy to Friends: Fifty Years of Sitcoms and Feminism (2003), Praeger Publishers , pgs. xvii, 234, 252, ISBN   0313287813 .
  9. ^ Michael Klossner, Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television (2006), McFarland & Company , pgs. 50, 128, ISBN   0786422157 .
  10. ^ Nancy San Martin, Queer TV: Framing Sexualities on US Television, Volume 2 (2002), University of California, Santa Cruz , pgs. 287, 291, 343.

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