Epguides

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OwnerGeorge Fergus
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  • George Fergus
  • Dennis Kytasaari
  • John Lavalie
URL Epguides
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LaunchedOctober 12, 1999;24 years ago (1999-10-12)
Current statusActive

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]

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References

  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.