Pioneers

A collection of shows that helped to start the whole kit-n-kaboodle and shebang (mainly series that appeared in the 90s). Many of these may be gone, but are not totally forgotten. Please let me know if you know of other early shows and/or info on the ones listed.

Check out the More Info Page for further details and information on the series.

Eon-4 www.eon4.com/ - no longer valid this "companion site" still exists - http://userpages.umbc.edu/~frizzell/tep.html	The story, created by Rockne S. O'Bannon	from wikipedia: perhaps the first Science fiction webisodic), was based around the mysterious Groom Lake or Area 51 site as the point of contact with an alien race. Three explorers from earth, U.S. Navy Captain David M. Crocker, Russian Alona Renee Kalinova, and John Eric Lange were allowed visitation (as EXPLRR TM I) with these aliens known as the Sentients, but were soon involved in a political intrigue on the alien world. Crocker dies on the trip to the Sentients contact point on Mars.	category - science fiction

Homicide: Second Shift www.imaginarystudio.com/low/p_nbc01.html www.crimescene.com/press/nydailynews/ www.nbc.com/homicide/ - no longer valid	Edmond Sanctis, who developed the site developed in a unique collaboration between NBC Digital Productions and "Homicide," as "Second Shift" Producer Ayelet Sela and "Homicide: Life on the Street" Co-Producer Sara Charnotogether conceived the episode. Charno wrote the "Homicide.com" teleplay and Sela created the online script.	From Wikipedia - Homicide: Second Shift was a pioneering Internet web series that tied into the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street. The web-show started 21 February 1997. The show featured detectives of the homicide squad that worked the second shift, after the television detectives went home for the day. Several of the characters from Homicide: Second Shift had cameos on Homicide: Life on the Street, and the show had one story crossover with the television show. The on-air/online crossover—the first such crossover for NBC —was a three-part story-line. “Homicide.com”, a season 7 episode Homicide:Life on the Street, was the middle part of the crossover with Homicide: Second Shift. Though the television episode was self-contained, parts one and three which were online only provided expanded context for the story.	category- drama
Muscle Beach		In 1999, Santa Monica based Television Internet premiered the eight-minute weekly series Muscle Beach. It was sitcom, news and fitness program in one, viewable for free with the then brand new Microsoft Windows Media Player. The series lasted three seasons.	category- comedy

The Spot thespot.com no longer exists but through the way back machine you can find some pages - here	created by Scott Zakarin (and Fattal and Collin)	The Spot, or thespot.com, was the first episodic fiction website (1995-1997) The characters, called Spotmates, would keep near-daily online diaries (similar to what later came to be called blogs), respond to emails, and post images of their current activities. In addition the site boasted short videos, as well as photos relating to the diary entries. The fanbase on the site, which called themselves 'Spotfans', interacted on a daily basis with the Spotmates and each other, discussing the newsworthy events. see wapedia.mobi/en/The_Spot and sideroad.com/gethooked/column10.html	category - drama