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Template:TV Guide show displays an external link to a page for a television show at the TV Guide website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Usage[edit source]

Unnamed parameters:

{{TV Guide show | ID }}
{{TV Guide show | ID | TITLE }}

Named parameters:

{{TV Guide show | id= ID }}
{{TV Guide show | id= ID | title= TITLE }}

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{{TV Guide show}}
{{TV Guide show | title= TITLE }}

Instructions[edit source]

  1. Go to TVGuide.com and search for the show you want.
  2. Click on the correct link to go to the show's page. Be sure you're getting the right show.
  3. The page URL should look like:

    https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/show-title/#######

    where "#######" indicates a number.
  4. Add this text to the External links section:
{{TV Guide | ####### | Title }}
where

"#######" is the number you've copied, and
"Title" is the television show's title (default is article name.)

Examples[edit source]

ID in template[edit source]

Usage in the article NCIS (TV series), with article name as link text:

* {{TV Guide show | 100320 }}
* {{TV Guide show | id= 100320 }}

Usage with name parameter as link text:

* {{TV Guide show | 100320 | NCIS }}
* {{TV Guide show | id= 100320 | name= NCIS }}

Output:

URLs:

http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=100320
https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/100320/
https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/ncis/100320/

ID in Wikidata[edit source]

Usage in the article Ugly Betty:

* {{TV Guide show}}
* {{TV Guide show | name= Ugly Betty }}

Output:

URLs:

http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=281127
https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/281127/
https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/ugly-betty/281127/

No ID in template or Wikidata[edit source]

Usage:

* {{TV Guide show}}

Output:

See also[edit source]

External links[edit source]