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Posted by michael on from the nanoo-nanoo dept.

dncsky1530 writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports: It babysat generations, distracted countless teenagers from homework and, as Homer Simpson sagely observed about television, became our 'teacher, mother, secret lover'. Sure, the shows may have been ludicrous - think Webster, The A-Team, Charles In Charge - but they became part of our lives nonetheless. So what do you do when they end? Immortalise them online. At least, you do if you're a diehard fan - and there are plenty of them out there. Look up a show, any show, and the odds are there'll be at least one fan site, possibly with a tinny version of the soundtrack playing in the background and certainly with photos galore, plot lines, trivia as well as 'where are they now?' information on the actors."

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  1. Jump The Shark: Chronicling The Moments When TV Sh by myownkidney · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jump the shark site has info about hundreds and hundreds of TV shows, and the point at which they started going south.

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  2. Re:Jump The Shark: Chronicling The Moments When TV by quantax · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who don't know, 'Jumping the Shark' is a reference to an episode in 'Happy Days' in which at the end of the show, the fonze is shown trying to water-ski a jump over a pool of sharks, in order to get more people to watch the following weeks episode which will show if he makes it. A reference to a show 'jumping the shark' means that whatever made that show unique and watchable is gone/going and thus the show must resort to gimmicks to keep it interesting.

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  3. Re:ITVDB? by doormat · · Score: 4, Informative

    Epguides.com
    TV Tome

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  4. Another good site for cancelled comedies/toons by wynterwynd · · Score: 5, Informative

    One site they forgot to mention was Digital Archive Project. They use a P2P community for the legal trading of cancelled shows. They're very good about removing things that go to video or are otherwise re-sold. It's kinda nice to see someone using P2P for something legal and worthwhile. Lots of animated series, comedy shows, and sci-fi/fantasy series. (the. Worth a click.

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    1. Re:Another good site for cancelled comedies/toons by Milkyman · · Score: 2, Informative

      another site worth looking at for nostalgia is X-Entertainment.com. When I first discovered this site I spent hours reading the articles about all the crap i had/watched when I was a kid.

    2. Re:Another good site for cancelled comedies/toons by SPK · · Score: 5, Informative

      Nice site and such, but I would hesitate to call it "legal trading" (of cancelled shows or whatever). Somebody *still* owns the copyrights on those shows, and just because they're not selling DVDs on Amazon.com does not mean it is legal to trade them online or elsewhere -- it's just that, to a certain extent, the owners of the copyright (and/or distribution rights) don't care enough to go after folks.

      There's a difference between 'legal' and 'low probability of legal difficulties'.

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  5. Retro UK TV site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    here ...

  6. Re:Obligatory quote. by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 4, Informative

    It took me a second to realize why The Simpsons would reference such a short lived and forgettable sitcom. Then I remembered that both Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria were on it. It made more sense.

    -B