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When did IMDB launch the episode guide?

When did IMDB launch the episode guide? I can't find any reference to this in histories about the site but I remember it was a hailed as a significant upgrade when it launched. 

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"Full episode support" was launched in 2006. You can see it mentioned in the archived end-of-year letter.

Before that, there were lists of guest appearances by episode. I don't know when those were launched.

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Before that, there were lists of guest appearances by episode. I don't know when those were launched.


TV guest appearances were added in 1994 at the latest.  From memory, I thought it might have been as “late” as 1995, but then I found the old “What’s New” page which covers January 1995 to November 1996 -> https://web.archive.org/web/19961219232911/http://us.imdb.com/what_is_new and we do not mention guest appearances being added in this time window so they were already included by the end of 1994.

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Shardede: Do you mean when IMDb launched "Full Episode Support", so that every TV episode would have a title page of its own? If so, that was in January 2006. 

If you mean something else, please provide further details.

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