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.
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Type of site | Entertainment |
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| Owner | George Fergus |
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| URL | Epguides |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | October 12, 1999 |
| Current status | Active |
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.