epguies is a website dedicated to English language radio and television shows. George Fergus, the owner of epguides, began it in 1995 as a personal site at www.xnet.com/~fergus with fan-compiled episode guides and lists for several hundred shows. But after it was recommended by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh in the seventh edition of their book The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, he established it as a separate domain name on July 11, 1999 as epguides.com, and it is under this name that it was again recommended in the eighth edition published in 2003. Since 1999 it has also been the principal episode guide website referenced in the FAQ of the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.tv.