| Contents | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifying Things in Media | Watching TV Online | TV Guides and Schedules | |||
| General TV Show Info | Specific Topics in TV | Specific TV Shows | |||
These are websites for identifying objects in TV and film.
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| Internet Movie Cars Database | Cars, motorcycles, etc. |
| Internet Game Cars Database | Cars (in video games) |
| Imperial Club | Chrysler Imperial cars |
| Buses on Screen | Buses |
| Internet Movie Plane Database | Planes and aircraft |
| Internet Movie Firearms Database | Guns and weaponry |
| Starring The Computer | Computers |
| Bricks In Movies | Lego sets |
| Cinema Cats | Cats |
| Ex Astris Scientia | Toys and misc. items used as Star Trek props |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| TV Archive Collection | List of TV based collections, start here especially if you're looking for specific channels. |
| Community Media Archive | List of community and public access channel collections. |
| Television Collection | Similar to the TV Archive Collection, but features a lot more of the topic based collections. |
| Moving Image Archive | Despite the name, includes a lot of television and VHS content as well as movies. |
| News and Public Affairs | List of news-related TV collections. |
| Unsorted Television | You don't know what you'll get here! |
| The VHS Vault | Full of other collections, this includes instructional VHS tapes, VHS releases of films or TV, VHS tapes people recorded off TV, etc. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| Game Shows Archive | Has sub collections for specific game shows. |
| Sports and Sporting Television | Sport related collections and videos, including wrestling. |
| Television Movies | Made for TV films. |
| Misc. Japanese Television Shows | Mix of subbed and raw Japanese TV show uploads. |
| Children's Television Programs | Mix of new and old kids TV. |
| British Sign Language TV | Various shows with British Sign Language captions. |
| Soap Opera Segments | Short clips of soap opera character interactions. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| TV commercials and TV ephemera | |
| Classic TV commercials | |
| TV Ads | |
| Split Screen Credits Archive | Collection TV show/movie credits shown on the side of the screen to make room for ads on the rest of the screen. Incidentally a good resource for figuring out schedules since they're typically ads for other shows. |
These are a few noteworthy collections that belonged to folks who spent a massive amount of time filming and preserving TV shows on VHS, that later got digitized into huge IA collections. Some are still in the process of preservation, so check back for new uploads.
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| The Don Gorelick Television Collection | Tapes recorded almost nonstop of US TV from 1986 to 2014. |
| The FlemishDog Collection | Tapes recorded of Australian and Japanese TV from the 70s to the 90s. |
| Smoke's VHS/DVR Collection | Over 6000 VHS tapes found throughout Minnesota. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| FMHY | Website with a lot of links to media sources. Use at your own risk and be sure to have adblock enabled when following links there. |
| Vintage Soap Operas | Gigantic Youtube playlist of old soaps, lots of clips but some full episodes are in there. |
| Lost TV Pilots | Youtube channel with only a few unaired TV pilots, but they're all wild. |
| Failed and Unaired Pilots TV | Another channel with unaired TV pilots. |
| girlsngear | Youtube channel with several clips of just the gay storylines from old soaps, good for researching LGBT TV history without having to skim entire soaps. |
| Spyder Games | It's my website and I can link to every episode of MTV's Spyder Games if I want to. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| TV Guide Collection | The Internet Archive's collection of TV Guide scans. Some are in larger bundles within this collection if you don't find the one you want by searching the date. |
| Video Magazine Collection | The Internet Archive's collection of various TV and video magazines. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| episodeguides.com | (Wayback) TV episode lists and airdates. |
| epguides.com | Schedules and episode guides for TV shows in multiple countries. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| The Daytime TV Schedule Archive | A compilation of ABC, CBS and NBC daytime schedules from the late 40s to 2025. |
| Classic-TV.com | (Wayback) Various classic TV info including primetime schedules and ratings. |
| TV Guide Edition History | Historical look at the different regional variants of TV Guide. |
| United States Television Schedules | Wikipedia lists of various network TV schedules. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| Tim's TV Showcase | (Wayback) A big site just absolutely full of TV show information. Also has a lot of TV Guide cover scans. |
| Morty's TV | (Wayback) Site with a lot of TV info and also a large amount of TV show forum posts. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| Game Shows '75 | (Wayback) Info about a lot of old game shows |
| Game Show Central | (Wayback) Blog with dedicated pages of info for some game shows. |
| The Bill Cullen Home Page | (Wayback) Tribute page to game show host Bill Cullen with a lot of info. |
| TVGameShows.net | (Wayback) Massive game show information page. |
| The Game Show Forum | It's exactly what you think it is. |
| Xanfan's SuperShow 8000 | (Wayback) Classic game show site. |
| The Game Show Compendium | (Wayback) It's a compendium of game show info. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| Bone The Fish | A website created in response to Jump The Shark being bought out and subsequently gutted by TV Guide. |
| Hi Honey I'm Homo by Matt Baume | (Book) A book on the queer history of classic TV. Check out Matt Baume's Youtube as well. |
| Sitcoms Online | (Wayback) Large site full of sitcom information. |
| Reality TV Fans | (Wayback) Reality TV Blog. |
| Classic TV Hits | (Wayback) Various info about classic TV shows. |
| TVArk | Online TV graphics museum. |
| TV Obscurities | (Wayback) Blog covering a variety of obscure TV shows. |
| TVDads.com | (Wayback) "Comprehensive guide to the history of single dads on television." |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| DallasTVShow.com | Dallas fansite with info and interviews. |
| Dallas Decoder | Dallas fansite with interviews and blog posts. |
| Destination Dallas | (Book) A guide book for Dallas. |
| Dallas Fanzine | Dallas Fansite with a lot of interviews and info, may need to use Ruffle since it is a flash site. |
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| Classic Squares | (Wayback) Info on classic Hollywood Squares |
| Maggiore.net's Green Acres Page | (Wayback) Green Acres fansite. |
| Longstreet Fan | (Wayback) Longstreet fansite. |
| TV Links USA | Collection of links to various websites about specific TV shows. |