Epguides

{{Short description|Television and radio episode website}}

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{{Infobox website

| name = epguides

| logo = Epguides_logo.gif

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| commercial = Yes

| type = Entertainment

| registration = None

| owner = George Fergus

| author = {{ubl|George Fergus|Dennis Kytasaari|John Lavalie}}

| launch_date = {{Start date and age|1999|10|12}}

| current_status = Active

| revenue =

| website = {{URL|epguides.com|Epguides}}

}}

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.{{cite web|title=The Episode Guides Page Episode Lists Index|url=http://www.xnet.com/~fergus/titles.shtml|date=May 29, 1997|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970703135432/http://www.xnet.com/~fergus/titles.shtml|archive-date=July 3, 1997}} 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,{{cite book|author1=Tim Brooks|author-link1=Tim Brooks (television historian)|author2=Earle Marsh|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present |url=https://archive.org/details/completedirector1999broo|url-access=registration|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|edition=7th|year=1999|isbn=978-0-345-42923-0}} and again recommended in the eighth edition published in 2003.{{cite book|author1=Tim Brooks|author2=Earle Marsh|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York |edition=8th|year=2003|isbn=978-0-345-45542-0}}

epguides has been cited as a source of information in publications such as Library Currents,Library Currents (2000), Practical Perspectives, Inc., Vol. 17, pg. 56. The Rough Guide to The Internet,Peter Buckley & Duncan Clark, The Rough Guide to The Internet (2007), Rough Guides, pg. 259, {{ISBN|978-1843538394}}. Internet Cool Guide: A Savvy Guide to the Hottest Web Sites,Rula Razek (ed.), Internet Cool Guide: A Savvy Guide to the Hottest Web Sites (2000), teNeues Publishing, pg. 107, {{ISBN|978-3823854463}}. Information Literacy: Navigating and Evaluating Today's Media,Sara Armstrong, Information Literacy: Navigating and Evaluating Today's Media (2008), Shell Education, 2nd ed., pg. 226, {{ISBN|978-1425805548}}. Television Women from Lucy to Friends: Fifty Years of Sitcoms and Feminism,Lynn C. Spangler, Television Women from Lucy to Friends: Fifty Years of Sitcoms and Feminism (2003), Praeger Publishers, pgs. xvii, 234, 252, {{ISBN|0313287813}}. Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television,Michael Klossner, Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television (2006), McFarland & Company, pgs. 50, 128, {{ISBN|0786422157}}. and Queer TV: Framing Sexualities on US Television.Nancy San Martin, Queer TV: Framing Sexualities on US Television, Volume 2 (2002), University of California, Santa Cruz, pgs. 287, 291, 343.