The numbering system is based on how the episodes originally aired two-hour episodes originally shown together as two-hour specials share one number, two-parters that were split up as ‘to be continued’ have two numbers. The dates are all US first-aired dates, completely different from British or any other foreign airdates. Rather, consider it a companion to the series, a place to pick up an interesting fact or two about an episode, jog your memory, check on that familiar face, or just browse through.Ī few notes about format. This is not meant to be an episode synopsis guide - I figure if you haven’t actually seen the shows, there’s nothing I can tell you to take its place. Which means that everyone, whether a brand new fan or someone who’s been with it since April 30, 1975, should be able to find something of interest here. Almost a notebookful’s worth, condensed and sorted into these 60 pages. I also went through every article and magazine and book and scrap of information I could beg, borrow, or buy, in order to compile what I believe to be the most complete collection of anecdotes, trivia, and information around. As a result, every single item in these pages has been at least triple-checked, if not more. And the episodes were, of course, the final word on character names. Yes, occasionally the episodes were wrong, but I think I caught most of those, too. Then I checked my notes to the other listings I had. Some names I actually found spelled four different ways in four different listings! So in doing mine, I went back to the source - the episodes themselves. One deficit I immediately discovered in everything I came across, was a decided lack of accuracy, particularly in spelling. But there are a couple of differences between those and this collection. Why write another guide, you may ask? Isn’t that like reinventing the wheel? And indeed, I have been fortunate to find many other such works, informal guides and trivia collections and the like, to help me. Actually, what you see here is the culmination of a year’s worth of watching and reading and picking up information, but it completely dominated the last two months.