| Question: | I can't find a particular show on TV any more. Is it coming back, or is it cancelled? |
| Answer: | If it is a U.S. show that was running new episodes, it may currently be on hiatus. Go to our current schedule grid page at epguides.com/grid and scroll down past the current weekly grid to the alphabetical list of shows on hiatus, which will indicate a return date in red, if we know it. Following this is a list of those shows from the current season that have definitely been cancelled, followed by a list of those shows from last season that have been cancelled. |
| Question: | What's up with TV Tome and TV.com and how does it affect you? |
| Answer: | The webmaster at TV Tome has taken the contents of his site and moved it over to a new site called TV.com, which is owned by CNET, the same folks that give you gamespot.com, gamefaqs.com and mp3.com. Our own site contained numerous links to TV Tome and so we are reassigning those links to TV.com. We expect to continue to build our future episode guides at TV.com and to maintain epguides.com as a simplified means of accessing the data there. Sorry, we can't do anything about the purchase of TV Tome by TV.com, but we have made some progress in getting the people at TV.com to provide a "printer friendly" guide for us to link to, and all our links to their standard pages are being revised so that they point more to the specific information desired, rather than to a more general page that you have to navigate through to find what you're looking for. We are modifying our pages slightly so that all our basic title & airdates guides will have a "Printable Episode Guide" link available for the show like the following one for Gilmore Girls: http://www.tv.com/show/44/episode_guide.html&printable=1 For many current shows, you can also go directly to the episode guide by typing "/guide" in your browser's address bar after the name of the show, such as: http://epguides.com/GilmoreGirls/guide If we haven't got the link to the printable guide set up yet, you can find it by going to the main page for the show at TV.com and looking on the right side for a button labeled "Print Ep Guide". It is right above the pie chart. To see the episodes numbered by season, you must be a registered member of TV.com and click on "preferences" after your user name in the upper right corner of a page. This will allow you to change your "Browsing Preferences" from the default "Flat count (ie. 28.)" to either "Season - Episode number ( ie. 2-6 )" or to "Both", where the season-episode number is displayed AFTER each episode title. |
| Question: | Why did you move your guides to TV Tome (now TV.com)? |
| Answer: | Originally, we had only a few authors who created all our episode lists and guides, but we were adding new shows all the time, and many new people volunteered to turn our Titles and Air Dates listings into more complete guides. Unfortunately this created a bottleneck, which delayed the updating of guides on the site. Because of the way our site is presently set up, we only have a couple of editors who can actually upload new information to the site. We never had time to develop a capability for our contributors to directly update their shows on our site. So when the opportunity to partner with TV Tome (now TV.com) appeared, we worked with its Webmaster to make the display of information in the fully editable guides at that site look similar to what people were used to seeing at our site, and simply created links to them. Over time that turned out pretty well. The recent change to TV.com has created some problems, but unless we get the ability to create something like a TV Tome on our own, the differences are just something we'll have to get used to. If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact us via this link. |
| Question: | Can you sell me copies of the show? |
| Answer: | No, that would be illegal even if we had copies. Your best bet is to see if it is commercially available on our list of DVDs or through the search tools located at the bottom of this page. If that doesn't lead to anything, you might also try the various merchants listed on our TV Related Merchants page. Otherwise there are always traders, video collectors and other readers of these newsgroups might be able to help you out: alt.video.tape-trading, rec.arts.tv or rec.arts.tv.uk for UK series. Some series also have a newsgroup(s) dedicated to discussion about that particular series, check your news reader for availability; typically the show will be found under the header of alt.tv.(series name). If you don't have access to the newsgroups from your ISP (Internet Service Provider), try the Google Usenet Archive. They offer access to the newsgroups through their site. Suzanne Lanoue's TV MegaSite has a list of numerous individuals with something to trade and/or something to trade for. Or try Eldon Russell's Classic TV Trading Post. If you're looking for old black & white television series, Barbara Douglass of Ozark Media has episodes on DVD from a number of these shows. She doesn't have a web site, but can be contacted via e-mail. |
| Question: | Why isn't there a guide for my favorite series? |
| Answer: | We try to add new shows as we have time. If you have any suggestions for shows you would like to see included, please send them here. |
| Question: | When I click on the "Theme Tune" button, why do I sometimes get sent to another site instead of hearing the tune? |
| Answer: | If this happens, just re-visit our main page. This sets a cookie that allows you access to the tunes. |
| Question: | When is the show on? Where can I find it? |
| Answer: | If your local newspaper is online, they might have a link to an online TV listing. Otherwise, try Titan TV or Yahoo! TV. Also, a site called RErun'd lists all the shows that are currently being rerun on the major television networks in the U.S. and Canada, although we don't know how regularly it is updated. |
| Question: | Is "actor" going to do another show? Will "show" or this "episode" ever get repeated? |
| Answer: | Sorry, generally we have no advance knowledge of people's plans, network's schedules, syndication plans, etc. |
| Question: | What is the best place to find Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Television Series episode guides? |
| Answer: | Our friend and fellow contributing editor, Alan Morton, has taken all his information for those types of series and placed it into one comprehensive self-published volume. Check here for availability of a new edition. |
| Question: | Where did you get all your information? |
| Answer: | From various locations: newspapers, magazines, Radio Times, TV Guide, TV Magazine, TV Times, Variety, other TV listings, copyright records, and of course the episodes themselves. |
| Question: | How often do you update your pages? |
| Answer: | We update them when we can. Since it is not practical for us to readily notify anybody of an update, there may still be some free services out there that will send you an e-mail advising you when a page has been updated. Firefox users can get an extension to do precisely this; it can be downloaded at this link. |
| Question: | Why don't you list the episodes in the right order? |
| Answer: | We always list the episodes in the order they were originally shown in the country of origin. This may be different from the order in which they were originally filmed, which is given by the production number. For people trying to label their tapes, the order in which they aired is usually more useful, particularly if no titles are given on-screen on the episodes themselves. When they are repeated in syndication or shown in other countries, the production number is often the only information available about what order the episodes should be in, so it is the order in which they are generally shown. This may or may not be the order in which they are best viewed, but we give the numbers so that people can use the production order if they want to. |
| Question: | What does it mean when an episode says UNAIRED? |
| Answer: | It means that the episode was not broadcast during the original run of the series, so we have no broadcast date for it. There are 4 possible reasons for this:
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| Question: | What are Spoilers? |
| Answer: | Spoilers are things often found in Internet newsgroups (or perhaps this web site) where you read about plot details or twists in an episode that you would rather have been surprised about. Such as, if you read about the ending of Seinfeld, before you saw the ending of Seinfeld, then it would have been "spoiled" for you. |
| Question: | Do you work for any of the shows listed on your site? Or the networks upon which they run? |
| Answer: | No, we're just fans of television. Occasionally, producers and actors have contacted us with additional information. |
| Question: | Why did you cancel my favorite show? |
| Answer: | We didn't. As mentioned above, we're just fans of television. Depending on the show, we may be just as disappointed as you are. |
| Question: | How do I contact a show's producer? |
| Answer: | The International Television & Video Almanac has a list of all production companies currently producing shows in the US. Call your local library. You might also find them through the networks' home pages. British shows can be contacted through the networks' web pages. A list of British TV web sites can be found at Kaleidoscope. Be advised that most production companies will throw out or return unsolicited scripts unopened. |
| Question: | How do I contact a show's star? |
| Answer: | We do not have any information in this regard, but this web site offers ways to get celebrity addresses: Contact a Celebrity. |
| Question: | Where can I find scripts, etc? |
| Answer: | Try some of the script merchants listed on our TV Merchants page. |
| Question: | I have a home page with an episode guide(s). Would you link your page to mine? |
| Answer: | No. There are thousands of home pages on the web. You'd never get to our episode guides, as you'd still be waiting for a page full of links to be loaded. However ... |
| Question: | whay hope no all the men hope you taki my friend you stop choice then the all coming on demand you |
| Answer: | Certainly! Not the most frequent question we've ever gotten, but certainly the most bizarre! |
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