Everything that has changed on FROO, newest first — franchises and episodes added or corrected, and the features that have grown up around them.
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On Star Trek, the Paramount+ badges on the first season of The Original Series opened the wrong episode: the first twenty-five each went to the episode before. Paramount+ counts The Cage as episode 1, and the links had been lined up without it. Every episode of that season now opens itself, and The Cage and Operation -- Annihilate! have a Paramount+ badge where they had none. In Canada, where the right links could not be checked, that season shows no Paramount+ badge for now.
The same fault turned up elsewhere on Star Trek, wherever Paramount+ splits a feature-length episode in two: the first seasons of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise and the fourth of Deep Space Nine, where most Paramount+ badges opened the episode before, and the second halves of What You Leave Behind and Endgame, which opened the first. Those are corrected for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and Australia, with the links read from Paramount+ in the United Kingdom. In the United States the first season of The Next Generation is corrected too, from Paramount+'s list there; the others are as they were.
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Added Fire Country, with Sheriff Country - 98 entries from October 2022, including the first three weeks of the new season, which starts on 9 October. Since October 2025 CBS has run the two back to back every Friday, and each of those nights is in the order they went out: Sheriff Country first, except on the night it began.
Added The Librarians: the three Librarian films, all forty-two episodes of The Librarians and both seasons of The Librarians: The Next Chapter - 69 entries from 2004 to 2026. The nights TNT showed two episodes together are in the order they went out.
Linking a device to your sync code now brings your settings with it. A newly linked copy takes the routes, rewatches and other settings already on your list the first time it syncs, even if you had changed a setting on it before linking. Until now whichever had been changed most recently won, so a brand new copy could replace the settings on every other device. After that first sync nothing has changed: the most recent change wins.
A page loaded in the few seconds while an update to the site was arriving could be handed the previous version of a script and, with FROO installed or saved for offline use, go on using it until the next update. Saved files are now checked against the version the page asks for before they are kept, and a wrong one already saved is replaced the next time the page is opened.
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Syncing now carries a tick made during a rewatch. Ticking an episode you had already watched the first time round was kept on the device you ticked it on and never reached your others, and the next device to sync put the old date back. It now arrives everywhere, and a tick already made that way comes across the next time that device syncs.
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Carry on watching, on the front page, now says where you have got to. The Next line under each franchise names your next unwatched episode, the one the Next unwatched button on that list takes you to, counting only the series you have switched on and, during a rewatch, only what you have ticked this time round. Once you are up to date it goes back to naming the next episode to air, with its date.
More of the autumn's new episodes are on their pages: the second episode of 9-1-1: Nashville's new season on 9-1-1, the first two episodes of Grey's Anatomy season 23 - the season opens on 15 October - the third episodes of NCIS and NCIS: Origins on NCIS, and the second episodes of Law & Order and Special Victims Unit on the Wolfverse list.
On NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles 8×18, Getaway, is now marked as having a guest from another series: Special Agent Dave Flynn, last seen in the two-part pilot for NCIS: Red in season 4, the spin-off that was never made.
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NCIS - Extended: the two-part NCIS: Los Angeles story Red and Red-2 now say what they were, a backdoor pilot for a spin-off, NCIS: Red, that was never picked up.
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Star Trek now starts with The Cage, the 1965 pilot NBC turned down, as episode 0 of The Original Series' first season. It was never broadcast as made, so it is dated 22 January 1965, the day it was completed; the notes under the table say why it is on the list. It and both parts of The Menagerie, which tell its story again as a flashback, are now marked as one story, and TrekCulture's review of The Cage is linked from its notes. That makes 984 entries, and the rewatch guide counts it too.
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The Star Trek rewatch guide now works out how long it takes from the day you read it: if you start tonight, it gives the date you would finish at one, two or three a night.
Five lists that were a smaller version of another have gone into it, now that Choose series, above every table, can switch off anything you are not watching. NCIS, the Bellisario-verse and the Lenko-verse are part of NCIS - Extended; the Arrowverse core list is part of Arrowverse - Extended; and Star Wars is now the one list, with every short in it. Nothing you ticked has moved, because an episode was always the same episode on every list. If you had a setting on one of the old lists, the bigger one opens on the series that list had, and says so once. Old links and bookmarks do the same, and the old calendars carry on at the same addresses.
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Added Cheers, with The Tortellis, Wings and both runs of Frasier - 744 entries from 1982 to 2024, ordered within the evening on the 120 nights NBC showed two of them, plus Analyzing the Laughter from the Frasier finale night.
Bing and the other search engines that use IndexNow are now told about changed pages as soon as they go live, so new episodes should turn up in their results sooner.
Added the first episodes of the new autumn seasons: 9-1-1 season 10 and 9-1-1: Nashville season 2, both on 15 October; Law & Order season 26 and Special Victims Unit season 28 on 8 October, plus the next two FBI episodes, on Wolf; NCIS 24×2 and NCIS: Origins 3×2 on 13 October, on NCIS, the Bellisario-verse and the Bellisario-Lenko-verse; and Marshals 2×3 on Yellowstone.
TrekCulture's Ups & Downs for Strange New Worlds 4×10, Tomorrow's Enterprise, is now linked from that episode's notes on Star Trek.
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When you will finish
Once you have been ticking off a list for a couple of weeks, FROO now works out the day you will finish it at the pace you have been going, and shows it under your progress in the bar above the table - "done by 15 Jul 2028". Hover over it to see the pace it is based on. On a phone, where the bar has no room for it, the same date is in the Stats box.
It only counts what you have ticked in the last four weeks, it leaves out anything you marked in bulk, and it says nothing until there are at least five episodes on two different days to go on. Watching it again? Only this time through counts. Stop for a few weeks and the date goes away until you start again.
The finish-by date, under the progress figure.
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What is on next, and sharing how far you have got
Every list with something still running now says, just above the table, what is next and when - "Next: Wayward Son (NCIS 24×1), Tue 6 Oct" - with a link to add the list's new episodes to your calendar. If you have switched a series off, the next episode is the next one on your route. When nothing new is dated yet, the calendar link is still there.
Once you have ticked something, there is a small share icon under your progress in the bar above the table. On a phone, or in any browser with a share menu, it opens that menu with a line like "Eureka: 75 of 183 (41%) watched, done by 3 Mar 2027" and a link to the list; anywhere else it copies the same line. On a phone the Stats box has the same thing, as Share your progress. Nothing is sent anywhere by FROO either way.
The next episode and its calendar link, and the share icon beside the finish date.
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Links between pages now go straight to each page's own address, such as froo.watch/f-startrek, instead of passing through a redirect on the way. Nothing about the pages themselves has changed, and bookmarks and links you already have still work.
Every franchise page's heading now says what the page is for - Star Trek in release order, Buffy and Angel in release order - and the title and summary a search result shows lead with the franchise and "in order", so the lists are easier to find by the words people search with. On the lists that cover several shows, such as the Wolfverse, the shows are named on a line under the heading.
Every franchise page now opens with the whole order in one paragraph, just above the table - what comes first, where the series run alongside each other, and what closes the list. The Star Trek one runs from The Man Trap in 1966 to Starfleet Academy; the Wolfverse one says where the Chicago and FBI shows join Law & Order.
On the Stargate list the 1994 film is now dated 28 October 1994, its American release, rather than January 1995. It was already first on the list, so nothing moves. The Buffy and Angel notes now say the two shows shared a network for their first two years together, not all four, and that the list starts in July 1992.
New: rewatching all of Star Trek in release order, a page for anyone starting from The Man Trap - the whole order in a paragraph, what the 983 entries are, how long it takes at one, two or three a night, and the nights where watching one series at a time gets the story out of order.
The Star Trek rewatch page now ends with notes from a full rewatch, from The Man Trap to the end of Enterprise - including which series is worth sticking with and which one not to miss.
The Star Trek list now points to the rewatch page from its introduction.
There is now a plain summary of the site at froo.watch/llms.txt - every list with its order in a paragraph - for AI assistants that read one. And the privacy page now lists sharing how far through a list you are among the things counted, as how you shared it and never what the line said.
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Watch a franchise again
Starting a rewatch used to mean Clear watched, which threw away your record of having seen it all. Now the Stats button on any franchise list has Watch it again. It starts the list from the top without deleting anything: everything you had ticked stays, marked with a small grey tick beside an empty box as seen before.
From then on the list counts this time round - the readout says “Rewatch 2 · 5 / 255 (2%) watched”, and Next unwatched, Hide Watched, the offer to mark earlier episodes and Carry on watching on the front page all go by this run. Clear watched during a rewatch starts the run again rather than deleting anything.
Stop rewatching, also in Stats, brings every earlier tick straight back. When you have ticked everything this time round, Stats offers Finish, and the next rewatch is numbered on from it. A rewatch is kept for each list separately, and syncs with your other settings. The Stats page still counts everything you have watched at least once.
Second time through Buffy, with the first time kept.
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New episodes in your own calendar
Franchise lists with a series still running now have a calendar you can subscribe to. Open Stats on the list and choose Add new episodes to your calendar: each new episode appears on its US air date, and the calendar app keeps it up to date by itself, so when the weekly update adds an episode to Yellowstone or Wolfverse, it turns up in your calendar too.
Each event is an all-day one, because there is no time in the data, and links back to that episode's row on the list. Where several episodes went out the same day, the event says which came first. The calendar covers the newest forty entries on the list, so it shows the last few weeks as well as what is coming.
There is a calendar for everything running as well, if you want the lot: froo.ics. Subscribing tells FROO nothing about you; the privacy page says what it does involve.
Yellowstone's calendar, from the Stats popup.
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A new icon
FROO has a new icon, in the browser tab and anywhere a bookmark shows one: an F drawn from three rows of a list, with the full stop from the FROO wordmark. On an iPhone or iPad it is also what appears if you add FROO to your home screen.
The new icon, from home-screen size down to a browser tab.
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FROO on your iPhone's home screen
If you add FROO to the home screen on an iPhone or iPad, it opens as an app of its own, and that app keeps a separate copy of everything from the one in Safari. So it starts with empty lists, which is alarming if you did not know to expect it.
It now tells you so the first time it opens, and takes your sync code there and then: paste it in and your list comes straight across, and the two copies stay in step from then on. If you have never used sync, it explains how to get a code from Safari first. Or you can choose to start with an empty list, and it will not ask again. Sync is in Preferences & Sync on any page.
The first time FROO opens from the home screen.
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Install FROO, and use it offline
FROO can now be installed as an app. In Chrome or Edge, on Android or a computer, Preferences & Sync has an Install FROO button when your browser allows it; on an iPhone or iPad it is Share, then Add to Home Screen, in Safari. Either way it opens in its own window with the new icon. The FAQ has the details.
And every list you have opened now keeps working without a connection - on a train, on a plane, or on Wi-Fi that drops out halfway through an episode. You can tick episodes offline as usual; if you use sync, they go to your other devices once you are back online. Open a page you have never visited while offline and FROO says so, with a list of the pages this device has saved.
Nothing changes when you are online: pages still come fresh from the site every time, and the saved copies are only used when the network is not there. The privacy page says what is kept on your device for this.
Offline, with the lists this phone has saved.
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Watch one show, and keep the cross-overs
On any franchise page you can now follow one show and still see every chapter of the cross-overs it is part of. Open Your route above the table, choose the show under Watching one show?, and every other series is switched off except for the episodes that carry a shared story. On the Arrowverse list, a Flash viewer keeps all four nights of Invasion!, the Supergirl episode whose final scene sets it up, Duet and all eight chapters of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Each of those episodes is marked with the name of its cross-over under the title, and counts towards how far through you are. If you would rather see your chosen shows and nothing else, switch Keep cross-over chapters off in the same box. The same applies to the wider Arrowverse list, and to Carry on watching on the front page. It now works on every franchise list that has cross-overs.
Watching The Flash, with Invasion! kept whole.
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How to use FROO, in one place
There is now a Help page, in the menu at the top of every page. It walks through everything the site can do: reading a list and its cross-over icons, getting around a long one, ticking off what you have watched, choosing which series a list shows, the Stats button, where to watch, the front page, the Stats page, keeping your list on more than one device, using FROO on your phone and offline, and keeping up with new episodes.
None of it is needed to use a list, which still works read from the top. The Help page is for when you want the rest, and it is where each feature is explained now, rather than spread across this page.
The Help page, from the top menu.
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Entering your sync code on the front page now brings Carry on watching up as soon as your list arrives. Before, it only appeared once you went to another page and came back, which on an iPhone home-screen app, with no reload button, made it look as if the sync had not worked.
On the Arrowverse lists, The Flash's "Duet" is now marked as part of a cross-over story arc, matching Supergirl's "Star-Crossed", the episode that leads into it.
Watching one show now keeps its cross-overs on more lists: Law & Order and One Chicago, Grey's Anatomy, and the NCIS, Bellisario-verse, Lenko-verse and Bellisario-Lenko-verse lists. Choose one show under Your route and every chapter of its cross-overs stays, as do the backdoor pilots that launched its spin-offs. On the way, several cross-overs that were not marked as such now are, among them the three Law & Order and Homicide two-parters, Private Practice's Short Cuts and Grey's Anatomy's Superfreak, and the NCIS halves of Sister City and Pandora's Box.
And now on every list with cross-overs: choose one show under Your route on any franchise page and the chapters it shares with other series stay with it - the Buffy and Angel pairs, Jack Harkness between Doctor Who and Torchwood, the Maquis across three Star Trek series, Ezra and Thrawn from Rebels to Ahsoka, the Hand from Daredevil to The Defenders, and the rest. Where a show leads straight into a film, the film stays too.
Where to watch has been brought up to date after two weeks without a refresh, and the James Bond list now has its Watch column too.
The column headings on the Stats page sat over the second row of the table instead of above the first; they are back in place, and stay pinned under the top bar as you scroll.
New in the notes under After you have watched: Charisma Carpenter's first watch of Buffy's Killed by Death, Katee Sackhoff's of Battlestar Galactica's The Captain's Hand, and the Talk Ville rewatch of Smallville's Rabid.
The Watched column on the Stats page now follows your route: a franchise where you have switched series off shows how far through the series you kept, marked as your route. And Carry on watching on the front page now counts an episode you ticked before its US air date the same way the franchise page does.
Four nights where two things went out on the same date are now in the right order: on The Walking Dead, Dead City's premiere at 9pm on 18 June 2023 comes before Fear the Walking Dead's midseason finale; on Marvel, the WHIH Newsfront videos of 26 April and 3 May 2016 come before that night's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; and on the Star Wars list with the shorts, the Forces of Destiny short of 30 October 2017 comes before that evening's Rebels.
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Episodes that have not aired yet
Lists carry the next episode or two of a running series as soon as it has a date, so some rows are for episodes that are not out yet. Those rows are now greyed out, with “not yet aired” under the date.
Next unwatched skips them. When you are caught up on everything that has aired, it tells you what is coming and when instead - “You're up to date. Next is All Hat No Cattle (Marshals 2×1), on Sun 4 Oct” - with a button that shows you the row. Carry on watching on the front page goes through the same button, so it follows the same rule.
They are also left out of how far through you are, so being up to date reads as 100% rather than 98%. You can still tick one if it reached you early, and once ticked it counts.
The dates are US first-run dates, so an episode may reach you on a different day.
Caught up on Yellowstone, with Marshals back on 4 October.
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Choose which series a list shows
Most people are not watching everything on a page. Above every franchise list there is now a Choose series button: switch off the series you are not watching, and the list becomes yours. On Wolfverse you can keep One Chicago and drop the rest; on Buffy/Angel you can watch Buffy alone.
Switched-off series leave the list, and they leave everything that counts it as well. How far through you are counts only what you kept, Next unwatched and Carry on watching take you to your next episode rather than the page's, and the offer to mark earlier episodes as watched no longer counts shows you are not watching. Clear watched only clears what you can see. Carry on watching on the front page counts the same way, so once you are caught up on the series you kept, the list drops off it.
A strip above the list says how many series you are seeing, with a button to show everything again. A link to an episode you have switched off still works: that one row is shown and marked. Your choice is kept for each list separately, and syncs with your other settings if you use sync.
Wolfverse, cut down to One Chicago.
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Copy a link to one episode
Every episode's Notes now has a Copy link to this episode button. The link opens the list on that episode, with the series, season and episode already chosen in Go to, so you can send someone straight to the one you mean - Hush, say.
A link to an episode in a series you have switched off still opens on it.
Notes for Hush, with the new button under the title.
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What's on next, on the front page
Carry on watching on the front page now says what is coming next for each franchise you are part-way through, and when: “Next: NCIS 24×1 · Tue 6 Oct”. A film is named by its title.
A franchise you have caught up on used to drop off the list. Now it stays, below the ones you are still working through, for as long as something new is dated, so you can see when it is back. Once nothing is dated, it drops off until something is.
If you have switched series off on a list, the next one shown is from a series you kept. The dates are US first-run dates, which the FAQ explains.
Caught up on Yellowstone, and it stays on the list until Marshals is back.
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How long the rest will take, at your pace
The Stats button on a franchise list now works out how long the rest of it will take you, from how fast you have been getting through it lately: “At your pace over the last four weeks (about 5 a week), the rest is about ten months away.”
It only counts what you have ticked on that list in the last four weeks, one at a time, so marking a run of earlier episodes as watched in one go is not mistaken for a binge. Until you have ticked at least five episodes on two different days there is not enough to go on, and it says nothing. It counts episodes, not hours, it leaves out anything not yet aired, and if you have switched series off it only counts the ones you kept.
Nothing leaves your device to work this out.
Buffy/Angel, about ten months from the end.
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Search for an episode by its title
The search box on the front page now finds episodes and films by title as well as franchises by name. Type Pangs and you get Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4×8, linked straight to its row on the list.
Franchises that match are still listed first, with matching titles under the A to Z. Plenty of titles are shared - there are a lot of episodes called Pilot - so each one says which list and which series and episode it is, and a search that matches more than ten says how many more there are.
An episode that appears on more than one list opens on the smallest of them, so an NCIS episode opens on NCIS rather than on the whole Bellisario-Lenko-verse. The titles are only downloaded once you start typing.
Two episodes called Hush, and where each one is.
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Your viewing, day by day
The Stats page has a new Your viewing section, under how far through the site you are. Open it and you get what you have ticked, day by day, newest first, grouped by franchise and with each episode's title: Sunday, two NCIS and a Buffy.
It shows the last sixty days, with a button for everything before that. A run of episodes marked as watched in one go - catching up on a list when you first found it, say - is one line rather than hundreds. It is built from when you last ticked each episode, so an episode ticked, unticked and ticked again only shows the last time.
There is also a summary of your year: how many episodes, across how many franchises, your busiest month, your longest run of days in a row and what you watched most, with a button to copy it. It shows on its own in December and January, and the rest of the year there is a button for your year so far. For 2026 it counts from August, when ticking episodes began. Catch-ups are left out of it, and it says how many.
All of it is worked out on your own device, from what you have ticked. Nothing is sent anywhere.
The year so far, and the last few days.
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Tremors is on the site - all seven films and the thirteen episodes of Tremors: The Series, January 1990 to October 2020.
The series is listed in the order Sci Fi showed it in 2003, which is not the order it was made: the network held back the second episode produced, Shriek and Destroy, and showed it last. A Little Paranoia Among Friends is dated 20 June 2003, not the April date some listings copy from the episode before it.
There is a new title card to go with it: FROO in hot yellow and orange, glowing in the dark, with the ground splitting right through it.
Happy Days is on the site as well, with every spin-off - Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Joanie Loves Chachi, Blansky's Beauties, Out of the Blue and the three Saturday-morning cartoons - from the 1972 pilot to the 2005 reunion special. Everything is in ABC broadcast order, so on the Tuesdays when both were new, Happy Days comes before Laverne & Shirley, which followed it at half past eight.
Its title card is FROO in red tube lettering, outlined in white and black, on a blue underline.
A link to a single episode now opens on that episode. For any series with punctuation in its name - NCIS: Los Angeles, Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy, Chicago P.D. and about a hundred more - it used to open on whichever episode of another series had the same season and episode number, so a link to NCIS: Los Angeles 2×5 showed NCIS 2×5. The two Spy Racers links on this page were among them and now go where they say. A linked episode also stays clear of the headers at the top of the list rather than landing underneath them.
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Autumn is starting. Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. all come back on 7 October and share Wednesday evening again, in that order; the first two episodes of each are now on Wolfverse.
Marshals has its second episode of the new season, on 11 October.
TrekCulture's Ups & Downs for Strange New Worlds 4.9 is in the notes on that episode over on Star Trek.
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Three more counted actions, and the privacy page says so
Three more things are counted, and the privacy page now lists them alongside everything else: whether a search in the A-Z box found anything, whether the “Carry on watching” panel appeared and whether it was expanded, and whether a page was read for half a minute with the tab in front of you.
The line the whole list is drawn along has not moved. A search sends yes or no and never what was typed — a rare enough query would identify the person asking it, and so would a count of how many things matched, which is why neither is sent. Nothing added here names a franchise, an episode or a row.
The reason for the third is duller and worth admitting. The site is running a small advertising campaign, and the action it was pointed at — ticking episodes — happens far too rarely to steer anything: nineteen times in a week, by six people. Half a minute of reading is the common version of the same question, which is whether anybody who arrives actually stays.
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Carry on watching lands on the right row in Safari
Following “Carry on watching” to a franchise put you a few hundred pixels short of the episode you were up to, on iPads and on Safari. Fixed.
The jump was landing correctly and then being moved. Where-to-watch badges are fetched after the page is drawn, and adding that column makes every row on the page a little taller — about 650 pixels of new height on Bellisario-Lenko-verse, more than half of it above wherever you had just been sent. Chrome quietly compensates for a page growing above you; Safari has never implemented that, so on an iPad the whole shift landed on the reader.
It now jumps once more after the badges are in — but only if you have not scrolled in the meantime, because being yanked back to a row you had deliberately scrolled past would be the more annoying bug of the two.
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The header now stays with you down the page
The wordmark and the links across the top of every page stay put as you scroll. On a franchise page running to four thousand rows, getting back to the franchise list, the stats or your preferences meant scrolling all the way up first.
It sits above the Go-to bar and the table headings on a franchise page, above the A-to-Z on the franchise list, and above the dates on this page, so everything you steer with is in view at once and the list is the only thing that moves.
On a phone the header takes a slimmer form - a smaller wordmark, and the links on one line you can swipe sideways - so that keeping it costs as little of the screen as possible. Turn a phone on its side, where there is no room for it at all, and the header scrolls away as it always did.
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A franchise with two title cards now wears either of them
The FROO wordmark in the corner of every page is drawn in the title card style of one of the franchises listed here, and on a franchise page it is that franchise's own. Alien/Predator has two cards - the Alien lettering and the Predator one - and it only ever showed the Alien one.
It now shows either, picked afresh on each load, the way the rest of the site already rotates through the set. The link preview when you share the page keeps the Alien card, because a page can only have one picture.
The biggest set of wordmarks added at once, and the first drawn as a set: Arrow, both Flashes, Smallville, Constantine, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Vixen, Black Lightning, Batwoman and Superman & Lois. That takes the rotation to fifty-two, and Title cards has every one of them at full size.
Arrowverse wears seven of them and Arrowverse extended all eleven, picked afresh on each load - which is what the change earlier today was for. Until now both pages carried the plain house wordmark.
They are original drawings in the spirit of each title sequence, which is true of all fifty-two: no traced letterforms, and no typeface anybody licensed. Three of the shows announce themselves with an emblem rather than with lettering, so those three take the type alone - the wide gold caps, the cut steel, the red light - and leave the emblem where it belongs.
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The franchise list now starts with what you are part-way through
Above the A-Z there is a short list of the franchises you have something on the go in - how far through each one you are, and whether anything has aired that you have not seen yet. Five of them, newest first, with the rest a click away.
Newest means whichever happened more recently: you ticking an episode, or an episode you have not watched going out. So a franchise you were in the middle of last week sits near the top, and so does one you left six months ago that has just come back with a new season.
A franchise leaves the list when you have ticked everything in it that has aired. Something announced but not yet out does not hold it there, and the franchise comes back on its own the week the next episode airs.
Where a series sits on more than one list - NCIS is on three - you get the one that covers what you are actually watching rather than the same row three times.
It is worked out in your browser from the ticks already stored there, and none of it is sent anywhere. If you have never ticked anything you will not see it at all.
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Carry on watching goes to the episode you are up to
The rows in Carry on watching, on the franchise list, no longer just open the franchise - they land on the first episode you have not ticked, and mark it for a moment so you can see which one it means.
It is the same answer the Next unwatched button on the page gives, and the address it uses is worth keeping by hand: froo.watch/f-buffy.html#next is a bookmark for wherever you have got to, and it stays right as you tick your way down.
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Three more videos worth watching afterwards, in the notes on the rows they belong to. Star Trek gets TrekCulture's Ups & Downs for Strange New Worlds 4.8, Battlestar Galactica the next of Katee Sackhoff's first watch, and Arrowverse extended the Talk Ville episode on Smallville's Metallo.
They aired over the past week and should have appeared as they went up. The check that finds them asks each channel what it has posted lately, and last Friday morning every one of those requests came back saying the channel did not exist - which was not true, and was right again a few hours later. It now asks more than once before believing that.
James Bond is on the site — the fifty-second franchise, and 28 entries from October 1954 to September 2021. All twenty-five of EON's films, both of the ones made outside it, and, opening the list eight years before Dr. No, the live television Casino Royale that CBS broadcast in 1954 with Barry Nelson as an American agent called Jimmy Bond.
Six of the films are not on the day you will find in most guides, because a premiere is not a release and has never counted here. Diamonds Are Forever had already opened in Munich, Sydney and forty-four other cities before the London screening its own studio calls the world premiere. Live and Let Die opened in America nine days before its “world premiere”. Licence to Kill went on release four weeks after its charity gala.
Dr. No needs none of that argument. At the London Pavilion on 5 October 1962 the first paying performance was at a quarter to eleven in the morning, and the gala was at ten to nine that night — so the public saw James Bond ten hours before the premiere did.
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Changing your country now updates the list straight away
Setting a country in Preferences is how you tell FROO where you actually are, rather than where your connection appears to be. Until now the list you were looking at took no notice of it. The Watch column carried on showing the country the site had guessed, and only a manual reload brought the new one in - so the setting looked as though it had done nothing at all, which is worse than it looking hard.
Change it now and the column rebuilds where it stands. The badges for the country you have left go immediately, because they are a claim about the wrong place, and the new country's arrive a moment later. Where FROO holds nothing for that country on that list, the column comes off altogether rather than sitting there empty - the same thing the page already did when it could not place you at all.
The same list open in another tab follows, and so does the Notes popup, which is where availability appears on a phone. Nothing else about the setting has changed, and there is nothing you need to do.
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Game of Thrones is on the site - 106 entries from April 2011 to August 2026. All 73 episodes of Game of Thrones, all 26 of House of the Dragon aired so far, all six of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and the animated feature that came with the season 7 disc in December 2017.
It is the rare franchise where release order needs no tie-breaking: nothing on the page shares a night with anything else on it, because the four productions barely overlap at all. What the order does do is put Conquest & Rebellion between The Dragon and the Wolf and Winterfell, which is where it was made to sit - a Targaryen history to watch in the eighteen-month wait for the final season.
Sixteen rows carry a cross-over mark. On the Game of Thrones side those are the six episodes that name Ser Duncan the Tall, Egg or Rhaenyra - the leads of the two prequels, named years before either existed. On the House of the Dragon side they are the nine that carry Aegon's dream forward towards the Long Night, one of which puts a White Walker and Daenerys on screen in 2024. The page's notes say where the line was drawn and why a shared castle is not a cross-over.
Every entry links to IMDb and to the Wiki of Westeros, and all but one links to Wikipedia as well - the animated feature has no article there.
There is a new title card with it, the thirty-fourth: cold silver on black, incised caps with splayed feet, an oversized F whose top arm carries straight on over the rest of the word, and bars standing inside both O's.
The About this order notes under every list have had a tidy as well. They are there to say what is on a list, what was left off and why, and where a date is arguable - not to explain how the site is put together, which had crept into about twenty of them. Where a source is still named it is because this list disagrees with it and you deserve to know why.
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Highlander is on the site - 187 entries from March 1986 to September 2007. All six films, all 119 episodes of Highlander: The Series, all 22 of Highlander: The Raven, and all 40 of the animated series set nine hundred years after the rest of it.
It is the page where the order is least like the order you will find elsewhere, and season one is why. Every DVD and guide numbers it in the order it was meant to go out; nine episodes did not. Family Tree is numbered second and aired eleventh, in December rather than October. The rows here are in the order they aired and the numbers stay the ones everyone uses, so they run out of sequence down the page - which is the whole argument of this site in one season.
The animated series is scrambled far worse. It opened on what is numbered as its second episode, held the origin story back to third, and showed the finale twenty-first of twenty-seven.
Both live-action series were first-run syndication, where a station bought the week and chose its own day, so the published dates are a mix of real broadcast days and week labels. Every row here is the day the episode went out. The notes under the table say where that differs from what is printed elsewhere, and name three dates that are not what Wikipedia gives.
Only three rows carry a cross-over mark, which is a finding rather than a gap - the films and the series share a rulebook rather than a story. The title card is the thirty-fifth: tall condensed caps cut from ice, corners chamfered, on deep navy.
Both of the new pages arrive with their Watch column filled in, so an entry says where you can see it in your own country. Game of Thrones is the straightforward case - 105 of its 106 entries are watchable in both the UK and the US.
Highlander is the other kind, and the two countries are barely the same page. In the US 157 of the 187 entries have somewhere to watch them, including 117 of the 119 episodes of Highlander: The Series. In the UK it is 39, and not one of them is an episode of that series: what is there is all 22 of The Raven, thirteen of the forty animated episodes, and four of the six films. Thirty entries have nothing in the column in any country. Read a blank as a gap in what the services list rather than a promise the episode is unwatchable.
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Indiana Jones is on the site - 37 entries from June 1981 to June 2023. All five films, all 28 episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and the four television films The Family Channel made from episodes ABC ordered and never shot.
Four of those episodes were never shown in America, and they are here with the dates they did go out. ABC stopped after 24 and left the rest on the shelf; Sweden carried on, showing Florence, May 1908 in October 1993, Palestine, October 1917 in November and Prague, August 1917 in December. Transylvania, January 1918 waited until February 1995 and went out in Germany, which puts it on this list between two of the television films. Read those four dates as the earliest anybody has recorded rather than as certainly the first - they come from a compilation of international schedules that stopped being updated years ago, and the notes under the table say so.
The series was made to be shown out of its own chronology - one week Indy is eight years old on his father's lecture tour, the next he is sixteen in the trenches - so the numbers in the Episode column run about as freely as they do anywhere on this site. Palestine sits above Prague because that is the order Sweden showed them, and Peking, March 1910 aired the week before the earlier half of its own story.
One row in 37 carries a cross-over mark, which is a finding rather than a gap. Harrison Ford appears in Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues, in scenes set in Wyoming in 1950 - the films' Indy, in the television series, and the only time he turns up in it. Nothing else joins the two halves in that direction: no episode mentions the Ark, the Grail or the crystal skull, and Marion, Sallah and Marcus Brody never appear.
The title card is the thirty-sixth: heavy wedge-serif caps leaning hard to the right and climbing as they go, lit hot orange at the top and cooling to almost white at the feet.
The page arrives with its Watch column filled in, and it is nearly empty on purpose. Only the five films have anywhere to watch them - in the UK and the US alike - and every one of the 32 television entries is streaming nowhere in any of the six countries FROO holds data for. That is the honest state of it rather than a gap in the data: the series survives as a DVD re-cut of itself and has never been put up anywhere as it was broadcast.
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Ice Age is on the site - 22 entries from March 2002 to February 2027. All seven features, the seven short films, both Fox television specials and all six Scrat Tales shorts.
The interesting thing about this franchise is that a squirrel who never speaks carries a third of it, and three of his shorts are prologues to films that came out years later. Scrat's Continental Crack-Up split the supercontinent apart at Christmas 2010, eighteen months before Continental Drift opened on the aftermath; Part 2 finished the job a year after that; and Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe knocked the solar system out of true in November 2015, which is what sends the asteroid in Collision Course. Those three carry the only cross-over marks on the page. Watch each one before its film and the film starts at the beginning.
The shorts did not all arrive the same way, and each is dated by the day it first reached an audience rather than the day it was made. Three were made for discs and take the disc's date - Surviving Sid, oddly, on the Horton Hears a Who! release. Two played in cinemas in front of a film from the same studio that had nothing to do with Ice Age. Part 2 goes the other way round: online first, cinemas a month later.
Three of those dates might be earlier than the ones shown. Gone Nutty and Surviving Sid may have been on British discs six and seven weeks ahead of the American ones, and No Time for Nuts may have gone out on German television three days before the disc it was made for. The disc dates are solid; what is not is that these shorts were on those particular British releases, which comes from a fan wiki rather than from anything at the time. This list uses the American dates, because putting a short on a disc that may never have carried it is a worse mistake than being six weeks late. The notes under the table say so, and if better evidence turns up, three rows move.
The last day is 13 April 2022. All six Scrat Tales went up on Disney+, and on the same day a 35-second film called The End appeared, unlisted, on a YouTube channel with nothing else on it - made by a small group of Blue Sky artists after the studio had been closed, and the one where Scrat finally gets the acorn. Which came first that day is not recorded anywhere, so the six are placed first and The End last.
The seventh film, Ice Age: Boiling Point, is on the list at 5 February 2027 and has not come out yet. A row that says when something is due is more use than no row.
The title card is the thirty-seventh, and the only one on the site that is a dark mark on a light ground: fat blocky caps in sky blue with a hard shadow shoved down and to the right, on white, because that is the way round the poster has it.
The page arrives with its Watch column filled in. Everything that is out and is not a short is streaming: all six released features, both Fox specials and all six Scrat Tales, in the UK and the US alike. The shorts are the gap - six of the seven are on nothing anywhere, and the seventh, No Time for Nuts, is only there to buy, and only in some countries. That is what you would expect of things made as disc extras and cinema support, and it is the honest state of it rather than a hole in the data. Ice Age: Boiling Point has an empty cell because it does not come out until 2027, which is the correct answer rather than a miss.
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Kung Fu Panda is on the site - 156 entries from June 2008 to September 2023. All four films, six shorts and television specials, and all 146 episodes of the three series: Legends of Awesomeness on Nickelodeon, The Paws of Destiny on Amazon and The Dragon Knight on Netflix.
It is the widest spread of any list here. One column holds a Nickelodeon broadcast schedule, two whole-season streaming drops, a run of disc extras and an NBC Thanksgiving half-hour - Kung Fu Panda Holiday, at 8.30pm on 24 November 2010, straight after a repeat of Merry Madagascar.
Two of the films are dated by a foreign opening, because this site dates an entry by its first release wherever it happened: the first opened in South Korea the day before America, and the fourth in the Philippines two days before. The third could have been six days earlier still and is not. It played a single nationwide paid preview session in China on 23 January 2016 and took about $6.4 million, and Wikipedia prints that as its Chinese release date - but the trades called it previews ahead of the 29th, and a preview is not a release, which is the same line that keeps the first film's Cannes screening off this list.
One episode of Legends of Awesomeness sits three and a half months before the episode numbered ahead of it. Has-Been Hero was on the Kung Fu Panda 2 disc in December 2011 and was not broadcast until the following March, and a disc is a release - the same rule that dates half the shorts on this page.
Fourteen episodes of that series went out in Germany before America, and this list does not use those dates. Nickelodeon showed eighteen episodes of season three and then stopped for twenty months; Germany did not wait, and the finale aired there in September 2014, twenty-one months before America saw it. Those dates rest on a single German listings archive, where the American run is documented three ways, so the page says what happened rather than acting on it. That is a different call from the four Young Indiana Jones episodes, which are dated by their Swedish and German broadcasts - the difference is that those four have no American date at all.
Ten rows in 156 carry a cross-over mark. Five of them are episodes reaching back at the films and all five reach for the same thing: Tai Lung, who never actually appears. He is a flashback in one, an uncle in another, and in a third he is Po wearing a magic stone. Lord Shen is mentioned once in eighty episodes and never seen.
The title card is the thirty-eighth, and it is the PANDA half of the logo rather than the KUNG FU half: fat chamfered caps in poster yellow standing on a solid block of red, with the corners cut off every letter as though the whole word had been sawn out of one piece.
The page arrives with its Watch column filled in, and the two sides of the Atlantic are not looking at the same franchise. All four films are watchable in both, and The Dragon Knight is on Netflix essentially complete either way. Legends of Awesomeness is where they part: 65 of its 78 entries have somewhere to watch them in the UK against 35 in the US. The Paws of Destiny is thin everywhere, six of twenty-six. And the shorts are almost nowhere - two of the six in Britain and none at all in America - which is what you would expect of things that only ever existed as extras attached to a film's disc. Across the whole page it is 118 of 156 entries in the UK and 86 in the US.
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The Karate Kid is on the site - 84 entries from June 1984 to May 2025. All six films, all 65 episodes of Cobra Kai, and the thirteen Saturday mornings of the 1989 NBC cartoon.
Three of the six films opened outside America first, and one of them by a month. The Next Karate Kid went out on 12 August 1994 in thirty-two French-language cinemas in Quebec, four weeks before its American release, and every guide prints September. Daily Variety reported both dates at the time, and Box Office Mojo's own weekend charts still show the film in the 9-11 September weekend flagged as not a new release - because 'domestic' means the United States and Canada, and its domestic release had already happened.
Parts II and III keep their American dates, and that is a decision rather than an omission. Letterboxd lists earlier foreign dates for both and is wrong on every date on this franchise that could be checked: its French date for Part III is a Friday, and French films open on Wednesdays. Its British date for The Next Karate Kid is exactly the day the BBFC classified the film, which is not a release at all.
Cobra Kai never went out weekly. Every season arrived complete on one day, ten at a time for the first five and season six in three parts of five - and the two YouTube seasons were not weekly either, whatever you may remember. What was staggered there was the paywall: the first two episodes were free to everyone on day one and the rest needed a subscription, but all ten went up together.
Seven days before that, on 25 April 2018, episodes one and two played in about seven hundred American cinemas for one night, double-billed with the 1984 film. Paid tickets, real audience. They are still dated to the YouTube drop here, on the same grounds that keep a paid preview off any other list on this site.
Eighteen rows carry a cross-over mark and every one of them is Cobra Kai. The cartoon carries none, which is a finding rather than an oversight - it drops the films' continuity entirely, keeping Daniel and Miyagi and nothing that ever happened to them. What the marks are for is the moment somebody walks in from a film: Ali Mills after thirty-six years, Kumiko and Chozen in two episodes that are really a continuation of Part II, and Terry Silver, Mike Barnes and Jessica Andrews, who between them turn Part III from the film everybody skips into the load-bearing one.
The 2010 remake sat on its own for fifteen years and Karate Kid: Legends is what joined it up, by inventing a shared ancestry rather than continuing anybody's plot. It never mentions Dre Parker, the boy from that film, once. So the two halves are joined at the root and nowhere else - and if you watch in this order, the 2010 film will feel like a detour until the last entry explains itself.
The title card is the thirty-ninth and the first high-contrast one on the site: heavy Didone caps in white on black, the horizontals drawn as hairlines against stems eight times their weight, with fine flat serifs on the feet.
The page arrives with its Watch column filled in, and the two sides of the Atlantic come out level on the count and different on the detail. All 65 episodes of Cobra Kai are on Netflix in both. Five of the six films are watchable in each - but not the same five, because Part III is missing in Britain and The Next Karate Kid in America. And the 1989 cartoon is on nothing at all, in any of the six countries FROO holds data for, which is about what you would expect of thirteen episodes of Saturday-morning animation from 1989. Seventy of the 84 entries either side.
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The Muppets is on the site - 405 entries from March 1969 to February 2026. Eight films, thirty-one specials and television films, and eight series: The Muppet Show, The Jim Henson Hour, Muppets Tonight, the 2015 ABC series, Muppets Now, The Muppets Mayhem, Little Muppet Monsters and both runs of Muppet Babies.
The Muppet Show is dated by its British broadcasts, which is the biggest call on the list. It was made at Elstree for ITV and sold into American first-run syndication, so the two countries ran it in completely different orders - and there is no single American date to compare against, because every station picked its own night. What guides print as the US date is one New York station's schedule. The British run is a real sequence a real audience sat through, so that is the one here.
Almost every episode guide numbers that show by production order rather than broadcast, so the episode most of them call the first of series four is nineteen rows further down this page than you would expect.
Muppet Babies is counted by broadcast too, which moves the fence between its sixth and seventh seasons: CBS ran eighteen new half-hours across 1989-90 where the production seasons behind them were eleven and fifteen. The 2018 revival is two eleven-minute stories to a half-hour, and each broadcast gets one row with both titles on it.
Three things came out abroad first. The Muppet Movie opened in London three weeks before America, and Hey, Cinderella! and Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas both went out on the CBC in Canada more than a year before an American network showed them.
One episode of The Jim Henson Hour is not here at all. Food, paired with The Three Ravens, has never been shown in any form, and a list ordered by broadcast has no room for something that was never broadcast. The one before it is here on a technicality: only its drama half has ever aired.
Sam and Friends is missing on purpose, and the notes say why. So are Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock, which is a closer call than it sounds - the word Muppet is licensed from Disney to describe the Sesame Street characters, which is how slippery this franchise's edges are.
Every entry links out to IMDb, Wikipedia and the Muppet Wiki, and the Watch column is filled in - 225 of the 405 entries can be watched somewhere in Britain today and 231 in America. The gaps are mostly what you would guess: a syndicated half-hour from 1972 is not something a streaming catalogue is deep on.
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National Treasure is on the site - both films and all ten episodes of Edge of History, November 2004 to February 2023. It is the shortest list here, and almost all of the argument is in two dates.
Book of Secrets is dated 19 December 2007, two days before the American release every guide prints. It opened in South Korea on the 19th, and the proof is in the Korean box office: on the weekend of the 21st to the 23rd it took $2.08 million against a running total of $3.40 million, and a film cannot have taken $1.3 million before a weekend it opened on.
An earlier claim is not used. One database has it opening in Kuwait on the 18th and nothing corroborates that, so this list uses the earliest date it can stand behind rather than the earliest date anybody has printed.
Two of the twelve entries carry a cross-over mark, both for the same reason: somebody from the films is on screen. Peter Sadusky opens the first episode and Riley Poole turns up in the fourth. Everything else the series does with the films is memory.
Every entry links out to IMDb, Wikipedia and the National Treasure Wiki, and all twelve can be watched somewhere in Britain and in America today - the only list here where that is true of every row. Both films and the whole series are on Disney+.
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The privacy page now names every cookie this site can put on your device, says what each one holds and how long it lasts, and separates the ones that arrive whichever way you answer the analytics box from the two that only appear if you agree.
It named one before, and that was wrong. Accepting analytics leaves four cookies rather than one, and one of them - Cloudflare's own tag manager cookie - is set before you have answered anything at all. Declining leaves two. None of that was described here, and the page said in as many words that nothing else was stored.
What has not changed: no Google script is ever fetched, nothing goes into local storage, every one of the four is first-party to froo.watch, and your watched list, your preferences and your sync code remain out of all of it.
The site now also counts which of its features get used - link clicks out to IMDb, Wikipedia, the fan wikis, streaming services and the rewatch videos; Notes popups opened; episodes ticked, as a count; the Hide Watched and Hide Spoilers switches; and the sync controls. Only for readers who agreed to analytics, and only ever as counts and kinds.
No event names an entry. "Marked 22 episodes as watched" is sent and "marked Buffy season 2, episode 14" is not, your watched list is not sent at all, and your sync code goes nowhere near it in any form. The privacy page now lists every action that is counted, rather than a promise that none of them were.
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Smallville is now on the extended Arrowverse list - all 217 episodes from 2001 to 2011, with IMDb, Wikipedia and Smallville Wiki links on every one. It sits between The Flash of 1990 and Arrow, which is where a viewer would have met it, and it takes that page to 1,028 entries.
It is here for the same reason the 1990 Flash is: Crisis on Infinite Earths named its world Earth-167 and put Tom Welling and Erica Durance back on the Kent farm for a scene, so Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two now says so in its notes.
And every Smallville episode up to season 9's premiere carries a link to Talk Ville, the rewatch podcast Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum have been making since 2022, under "After you have watched" in the notes popup. That is 176 videos, and it is the fourth channel FROO tracks.
Buffy and Angel get one too. The B*tch is Back is Charisma Carpenter watching the two shows she was in for the first time, and it is now linked from 26 episodes of Buffy - all of season 1 and most of season 2 so far. Where YouTube has only a short version of an episode, or a follow-up conversation rather than the watch itself, the link says so.
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The corner of the page matches the list
The wordmark in the corner of a franchise page is now that franchise's own. Open Buffy / Angel and the corner is the Buffy mark; open 24 and it is the clock. Everywhere else — the front page, the FAQ, the lists that have no mark of their own — it still comes up at random from all thirty-three, which was always the point of drawing that many.
And every card on the title cards page is now a link to the list it was drawn for.
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Analytics that asks first
FROO now offers Google Analytics, and the first time you arrive it asks whether you want it. Decline and no Google script is fetched and no cookie is set; the site behaves identically either way, which is the only condition on which it was worth adding at all.
The cookieless counter that went on in August stays exactly as it was and still needs no permission. What it cannot do is tell one person reading four franchise pages from four people reading one, and that is the difference between knowing this site is clicked on and knowing it is read.
The privacy page has been rewritten to say precisely what is set, what is sent, what is still never involved - your watched list, your preferences and your sync code are none of Google's business and remain unreadable from a page - and how to change your mind later. It was updated before the switch was flipped rather than after, which is what that page promises.
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Added 24: all ten days, plus Redemption, and the ten webisodes and shorts made between them. 272 entries from November 2001 to April 2017.
The point of the page is the six Mondays in 2007 when a webisode of The Rookie went out in the morning and an episode of Day 6 went out that night, and the fortnight after the sixth season ended when Day Zero and the Day 6 Debrief were running past each other. Ordered by series they would have been three blocks at the end of the list.
Two things on it are honestly unknown and say so. Only one of 24: Conspiracy's twenty-four one-minute films has a sourced date, so all twenty-four sit on the launch day in published order. Day Zero's first episode is dated three different ways by three sources, and five of its eight episodes are not on IMDb at all.
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The Rookie is the forty-first franchise here — all 144 episodes across the eight seasons that have aired, and all 22 of The Rookie: Feds, which ran for one season in 2022 and 2023.
The two shows are on one list because for thirteen Tuesdays ABC ran them back to back, The Rookie at eight and Feds at nine. On four of those nights the story runs straight from one into the other: an episode ends on an arrest and the episode an hour later picks it up. In the order on this page they work. Watched one show through and then the other, you get the second halves of four stories before their firsts.
Simone and Enervo, the two episodes that introduced the Feds cast, are here once — as episodes of The Rookie in April and May 2022, where they went out. They are easy to find listed twice elsewhere.
The Rookie: North is not on the list yet. It has been ordered, the pilot is shot and Nathan Fillion is in it, but nothing has been broadcast and ABC has named only a month. It goes up when it has a date.
The autumn schedules have started to fill in. NCIS opens its twenty-fourth season on 6 October with Wayward Son, and NCIS: Origins its third the same night with Don't You Forget About Me — CBS is running them at eight and ten, either side of a new show. Both are on the Bellisario and Bellisario–Lenko lists too.
FBI is back on 5 October with Rendition, opening season nine, and Marshals returns the night before with All Hat No Cattle.
Grey's Anatomy comes back on 15 October, but its opener has not been given a title yet, so it is not on the list — it goes up when there is something to call it.
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The Daily Bugle — the in-world news series that runs alongside the Spider-Man films — is now almost entirely watchable from the Marvel list. Twenty-seven of its twenty-nine entries link to the official upload, up from six.
Only the first season was ever on YouTube. The second and third were made for TikTok and posted nowhere else, which is why the Watch column had nothing to say about them. Seventeen of them now link straight to the account that published them, behind a new TikTok badge — ringed like the other free ones, because they cost nothing to watch.
Four more sit on the Bugle's own YouTube channel: the TheDailyBugle.net pieces from April 2022, which link there now.
Two are still unlinked. Web of Lies and Spider-Sycophant are on neither official account, and only re-uploads carry them.
Both Jurassic shorts have gained a link too. Battle at Big Rock and the Dominion prologue are on the official Jurassic World channel in full, and are now marked free to watch.
And the three Planet of the Apes shorts — the Before the Dawn films that fill the ten years between Rise and Dawn — are free to watch too.
Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles has been taken off the Terminator list. Three shorts went out on three YouTube channels nine days before Terminator Genisys opened, and on reflection they are advertising rather than story — nothing in them happens to anybody the films are about. The list is 52 entries now.
The top navigation has been tidied. Open letter has come out of it and now sits behind a new FAQ answer — "Why are franchise (re)watches so hard?" — which is where somebody is likely to be standing when the letter becomes interesting. Preferences now reads Preferences & Sync, because syncing between devices was the half of it nobody could see, and the X link now reads X.com, because a single X in a row of links looks like a close button. The front page says in a second line what the site does besides put things in order — where to watch each entry, ticking off what you have seen, syncing that between devices, and the notes on every row.
Bourne is the fortieth franchise on the site — all five films from The Bourne Identity to Jason Bourne, and all ten episodes of Treadstone, which USA Network ran in 2019.
Two things on that page are worth knowing before you start. The Bourne Legacy looks from its date like the chapter after The Bourne Ultimatum and is really the same few weeks seen from another desk — its first quarter of an hour runs alongside Ultimatum's ending, so you get that ending twice. And Treadstone's first episode sits three weeks before its second, because the pilot went out as a preview in September and the series proper only started in October.
The Bourne page also has its Watch column filled in, so every one of the fifteen entries says where you can see it in your own country. All five films and all ten Treadstone episodes are available somewhere in both the UK and the US.
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NCIS: Tony & Ziva has been added to all three lists that carry the rest of NCIS — NCIS, the Bellisario-verse and the full block. All ten episodes, September to October 2025.
It was missing from every one of them, which is the kind of gap that stays invisible until somebody looks: it went out on Paramount+ on Thursdays while the rest of the franchise was on CBS on Tuesdays, so it never collided with anything and nothing flagged it.
Three episodes are marked for story impact. Cover Story names Tim McGee as still running the MCRT back in Washington, To Be Determined has Tony wishing aloud for a missing petty officer in Rock Creek Park and answering himself with his old cue, and Fire Sale puts ten NCIS regulars on a wedding invitation list.
Nobody from NCIS actually turns up, though — this is the first time Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo have played these two without any of their old castmates on screen.
Star Wars Galaxy of Creatures was missing an episode. "Gorgs" is the twenty-fourth and last of them, out on 21 February 2023 alongside "Ordo Moon Dragon", and it is now on the list with a link to the official upload — so all 162 shorts on this page can be watched free.
The six Young Jedi Adventures shorts were all dated 26 April 2023 and not one of them was. They went out weekly from 27 March: the first three together, then one each on 3, 17 and 24 April. They now sit where they belong in the running order.
And a Star Wars Resistance short is "Buggle's Day Out", not "Buggles' Day Out" — one buggle, not several.
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Reviews and rewatches, in an entry's notes
Some entries now carry links to things worth watching **after** them. Open an entry's notes and, below the reference links, there may be a review of it or a cast rewatch of it on YouTube.
Two kinds, listed separately, because they are not the same offer: a review is somebody's verdict on the episode, a rewatch is the people who made it watching it back. They sit in the notes rather than the Watch column on purpose — they do not tell you where to see the entry, they are what you might want next once you have.
288 links to start with. TrekCulture's Ups & Downs across every Star Trek series and all fourteen films, WhoCulture's across the revived Doctor Who and the 1996 film, and Katee Sackhoff watching Battlestar Galactica for the first time — the miniseries through to Black Market, and still going weekly.
Where one video covers two entries — a two-parter reviewed in one go — both entries carry it and both say so.
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Added Dexter — all ninety-six episodes of the original series, the twenty-four animated Early Cuts chapters, and the three continuations: New Blood, Original Sin and Resurrection. One hundred and fifty entries from 2006 to 2025.
The Early Cuts webisodes are the reason the page is worth having in release order. Their first twelve chapters went out weekly through the autumn of 2009 alongside the fourth season, and the six Dark Echo chapters all landed on one Sunday in October 2010, the night season 5 showed First Blood. Sorted by series they would sit in a lump at the end; here they are back among the episodes they went out with.
Original Sin and Resurrection are dated to the Friday they reached Paramount+ with Showtime rather than the Sunday they reached the channel two days later, which is when a contemporary audience actually saw them.
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Added Mission: Impossible — all 171 episodes of the original CBS series, all 35 of the 1988 revival, and the eight films from 1996 to The Final Reckoning. Two hundred and fourteen entries across fifty-nine years.
For once nothing on a page needs a running order: no two entries here share a date. The two series are fifteen years apart, neither ever ran a double bill, every two-parter went out a week apart, and the films are one date each.
Seven episodes of the revival carry a cross-over mark. It was made in Australia during the 1988 writers' strike, when no new scripts could be commissioned, so five of its episodes — including the premiere — are the 1960s ones remade almost line for line, and two of the original writers took their names off the results.
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The Alien / Predator shorts now say where to watch them. Twenty-one of the twenty-eight marketing films and shorts on that page are free on YouTube, on the studio's own channels, and the page links them directly — the 2012 Prometheus virals, the Covenant prologues, all six of the 2019 fortieth-anniversary shorts and the whole Alien: Isolation animated series.
These carry a new kind of badge: ringed rather than solid or outlined, meaning free to anyone rather than included with a subscription or there to rent. The guide above each table explains it on the pages that have one.
Seven of the shorts still have no link, and that is deliberate. Four have no official upload anywhere. For the other three what exists officially is the wrong thing — a pair of Blu-ray excerpts, a one-minute sneak peek, and six separate films where the list has one entry — and a badge that takes you somewhere plausible and wrong is worse than no badge. The reasons are written down under the table.
It went out as two double bills and a single finale, so 7 and 14 December each carry two entries rather than one.
Two are marked for story impact. The Doctor never appears, but Colonel Ibrahim is killed in The Deep and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart does not come out of the finale the same person, and neither is explained anywhere in Doctor Who itself.
WhoCulture reviewed all five, and those links are on the entries.
Separately, 253 entries across Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class now link their own Wikipedia article instead of a row in a long list of episodes. Rose goes to Rose, not to line 157 of a table.
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Where to watch
Every one of the lists now carries small badges saying where you can watch each entry, and they link straight to that episode or film rather than to the service's front page.
A solid badge means it is included with a subscription. An outlined one means you would have to rent or buy it. That distinction is worth making: about half of what is available in the UK is the paying-again kind, and a single badge for both would have promised rather more than it could deliver.
Which country you are in is worked out from your connection, so the answer is the one that applies where you are. If that is wrong — you are travelling, or on a VPN — there is a setting in Preferences to fix it. Six countries are covered: the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. Anywhere else the column is left off rather than shown empty.
Where a badge cannot be trusted, there isn't one. Matching an entry on this site to the right episode at the other end is harder than it sounds, and about two thousand entries could not be matched to a service with any confidence. Those rows show nothing rather than something that might send you to the wrong episode.
Films took a second pass. The first pass missed all two hundred and eighteen of them. They are the entries people most want an answer for, and they are now the most reliable ones on the site: a film is looked up directly, with none of the matching that episodes need.
It is a snapshot rather than a live check, so treat it as a strong hint rather than a promise — services add and drop things constantly. The privacy page explains what the lookup does and does not involve, which is very little: no third party, and nothing written down.
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A tip jar
There is no advertising on FROO, and it costs very little to run, which is why there has never been anything here asking for money.
There is now a small link in the footer to a Ko-fi page, for anyone who has got some use out of the lists and feels like putting something in the jar.
It is a plain link and nothing more. No widget, no embedded button, no script, and nothing that follows you anywhere. The privacy page is unchanged, because there was nothing to change.
Nothing on the site sits behind it. Everything that was free stays free, and the lists carry on the same either way.
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Three ways to help, only one of them money
The Ko-fi link added to the footer earlier today now also sits in Preferences, and at the foot of the notes popup on any entry that has one.
There is a new question in the FAQ setting out how to help, and the tip jar is the least of it. Telling somebody about the site is worth considerably more: FROO has no marketing and barely registers in search results, so it travels by one person sending a link to another. Posting how far you have got is the other one — every franchise page and the Stats page will copy a line for you with the Copy shareable stats button.
Two things were also quietly wrong and are now right. The About page still said the notes under the tables existed on ten franchises and were being written for the rest; they have been on all thirty-seven since yesterday, and it now says what is actually still unfinished instead. And the footer had been claiming 2025 for the whole of 2026.
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Sharing a FROO link now shows what it is
Posting a link to a FROO page - on X, in a message, anywhere that shows a preview - used to produce the bare address and nothing else. Every page now carries the tags a preview reads, so a shared link arrives with the name of the franchise, a sentence saying what is on the list, and the franchise's own title card.
The cards are the same drawings the title cards page shows, one for each of the twenty-eight franchises that has a wordmark - Buffy on her moon, Alien's letters running off the edge of the frame, Scream burning red. The nine franchises without a mark of their own, and the pages that are not franchises, share a plain one.
Every franchise page has been given a description of its own at the same time. They used to share one sentence with the name swapped into it. They now name the shows, give the years the list spans, and where there is one, say the thing that is true of that page and no other: Babylon 5 has Crusade in the order its creator intended rather than the order TNT showed it, Man About the House is dated against the Thames listings, and Eureka is ranked by slot on the Mondays Syfy ran all three of its shows.
The site also now publishes a sitemap, so a search engine is told about every page rather than having to find them by following links, and each page states its own address so the same list cannot be indexed twice under two spellings.
Four of the twenty-nine. Every franchise page with a wordmark shares as its own title card.
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The franchise pages now say why the order is the order
A franchise page used to open with its name and go straight into the table. Ten of them now carry an introduction above it and a longer section under it - what is on the list, what was deliberately left off, where the ordering gets interesting, and which dates were hard to settle.
Some of it is the argument for the page existing at all. Eureka explains the Syfy Monday that ran three shows back to back, and why the order flips halfway through the second season of Alphas. Babylon 5 explains why Crusade is the one place on this site where release order is deliberately not followed. Man About the House explains why every date on it is a London one, and names the six Thursdays in 1978 that are still unsettled. Fast & Furious explains what Better Luck Tomorrow is doing on a page about street racing.
Some of it is what was checked and found not to be there. Not one episode of Scream carries a cross-over mark, and the note says why that is a finding rather than an unfinished page.
There is also an About page now, linked from the foot of every page: who makes FROO, what first release means here, where the dates come from, and the rule that a credited cast list is never evidence that a character appears.
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Finding things, and following along
The front page now has a box that filters the franchise list as you type, and it knows every series on every page - not just the franchise names. So typing Legends of Tomorrow finds the two Arrowverse pages that carry it, Warehouse 13 finds Eureka, and 9-1-1 is findable as 911.
Franchise pages have gained a How to read this table line above the table. It is closed until you open it, and it explains the Verse column, the schedule order that breaks ties within a day, what the three icons in the Notes cell mean, and that ticking a box is remembered and can follow you between devices.
There is also an Atom feed if you would rather be told when something changes than come and look, and the front page now says which franchises went up most recently.
The FAQ has had an overdue tidy at the same time, and gained an answer about where the dates actually come from.
The filter matches series names, not just franchise names.Open on the Marvel page, which is one of six carrying more than one Verse.
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The Campaigns page is now an open letter
That page had been promising a petition you could sign for about a year, and no petition ever appeared. Rather than leave the promise standing, it has been rewritten as an open letter to the streaming services, making the same two arguments in public where they can be pointed at.
The asks have not changed. Where a service holds a franchise, it should offer it as a release-order playlist - a sort order, not new content, over dates that are a matter of record. And the platforms where you buy things rather than rent them should let you build a list across films and episodes and hand it to somebody else, the way music has worked since the CD burner.
It is called Open letter in the menu now rather than Campaigns. If you tried to watch a franchise on a service and could not, the feedback form reaches me, and knowing which one is worth more than a signature would be.
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Every franchise page now explains itself
The remaining twenty-seven franchises have caught up with the ten from earlier today. All thirty-seven now open with a few sentences saying what is on the list and why, and carry a longer section under the table: what was included, what was deliberately left off, where the ordering gets interesting, and which dates were hard to settle.
A few of them are arguments this site has never made out loud. NCIS explains that its own first episode refers back to a JAG episode which is not on that list, and links the wider one that has it. Jurassic Park / World explains that Camp Cretaceous happens during the film rather than after it. The X-Files has seven crossovers in three hundred entries, and says so rather than leaving you to wonder whether the research stopped early.
Where two lists cover the same franchise at different widths - the two StarWars lists, the two Arrowverse lists, the three NCIS ones - each now says what the other contains and why you might want it instead.
The site will not let a new franchise go up without this from now on.
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FROO now counts page views, and the privacy page says how
Until today this site had no idea whether anybody was reading it, which makes it hard to know whether any of the work is worth doing. It now uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views and nothing else.
It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device, so it cannot tell whether two page views came from the same person and cannot follow you anywhere. It knows nothing about your watched list, your preferences or your sync code - none of that is readable from a page. The privacy page sets out exactly what is sent and what is not, and has been updated in the same breath rather than afterwards.
If a cookieless page counter is more than you want, an ad blocker will stop it and the site works exactly the same without it.
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Running times have come off the site
Every entry on FROO used to carry a running time, and the site counted them into hours: progress in time as well as episodes, a total on the Stats page, a figure per franchise. All of that has gone.
The figures came from IMDb's published datasets, which are offered for personal and non-commercial use and which specifically forbid using them to build a database of film information - which is exactly what this site is. That was true whether or not FROO ever made any money from it, so rather than leave the feature sitting on a licence that did not cover it, it has been removed.
Everything else on the Stats page stays: the entry counts, the age and span of each franchise, the number of series and films, and how far through you are. The Stats button on each franchise list still works and still says everything it said except the hours.
If a source turns up that permits publishing runtimes, they will come back.
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Three of the corner logos had a line drawn through them
The Doctor Who, Terminator and Babylon 5 wordmarks are drawn with an outline round the letters. On those three the outline was also being drawn along the join inside the R, where the stem meets the leg - so the letter read as two or three separate pieces bolted together rather than one shape.
It is fixed on all three. The outline now goes round the outside of each letter and nowhere else. Nothing else about the marks has changed, and the newer ones were never affected.
Before, above; after, below. The R is the letter that gives it away.
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Copy how far through you are
Tick a few episodes, open Stats on any franchise list, and there is now a line saying how far through you are with a Copy shareable stats button next to it. It puts something like "Eureka: 75 of 183 (41%) watched" on your clipboard, with a link to the list, ready to paste wherever you like.
The Stats page has the same thing for the whole site.
Nothing is sent anywhere to make it work. The figure is the one already on your screen, worked out on your own device from your own list, and the button writes to your clipboard and stops there.
It sits with the whole-franchise figures rather than at the bottom, where a popup that scrolls would have hidden it.
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Added Eureka, 183 entries from July 2006 to May 2014: all seventy-seven episodes of Eureka, all sixty-four of Warehouse 13, all twenty-four of Alphas, and two runs of web material - the eight Hide and Seek webisodes that went out alongside Eureka's first season, and the ten chapters of Warehouse 13's Grand Designs.
This is a list where the running order does real work, because for one summer Syfy put all three shows on the same night. From 11 July 2011 it was Eureka at eight, Warehouse 13 at nine and Alphas at ten, and that is the order they sit in here. On 20 August 2012 Alphas moved to eight o'clock, in front of Warehouse 13 rather than behind it, and the list turns over with it. The two Christmas nights work the same way: Eureka went first on both.
The crossover is a two-parter across two shows and three days. Fargo goes from Eureka to the Warehouse in Warehouse 13's 13.1 on the Tuesday, and Claudia comes the other way in Eureka's Crossing Over on the Friday. Three more entries are marked, including the one thread that ties Alphas to the other two - Doctor Calder, the Warehouse physician, turning up in her CDC role.
A Town Called Eureka is on the list, in the sense that it is the same programme: that was the UK title, chosen to avoid a clash with a BBC children's series, and the episodes and their order are identical.
A corner logo for it as well, which takes the rotation to twenty-six. Rounded sky-blue caps lit from the top like cloud, cut out in white and thrown forward off a deep blue extrude. It is full size on the title cards page.
Added Scream, 37 entries from December 1996 to February 2026: all seven films, from the original through to Scream 7, and all thirty episodes of the television series - two seasons on MTV, a two-hour Halloween special, and the six of Scream: Resurrection that VH1 burned off over three nights in July 2019.
Watch it in this order and the two halves of the franchise never meet, which is the honest answer rather than a gap in the research. Every episode was checked against the films and there is not one crossover: no character appears in both, the Woodsboro murders are never mentioned, and the Stab films do not exist on television. Seasons one and two do not even use the Ghostface mask. Season three picks it up, moves to a new town and a new cast, and still says nothing about the films.
Two dates on the list are worth knowing about. Halloween and Halloween II went out back to back on one night in October 2016, two months after the season had finished, and they are two entries here rather than one because they are two separately titled hours with two separate stories. And every television date comes from Wikipedia rather than IMDb, which stamps the whole of the first season a month late and the whole of the second a day late.
A corner logo for it as well, which takes the rotation to twenty-seven. Pale caps on black with red light burning out from behind them - the first of these to glow. It is full size on the title cards page.
Added Fast & Furious, 66 entries from June 2001 to May 2023: all eleven films including Hobbs & Shaw, both of the bridging shorts, all fifty-two episodes of the Netflix series Spy Racers, and Better Luck Tomorrow.
Two of those need a word. The Turbo-Charged Prelude went out on a DVD three days before the film it sets up opened, so it sits one row ahead of 2 Fast 2 Furious rather than in the extras where most lists leave it. And Better Luck Tomorrow is on the page in a series of its own, because it is not a Fast film - it is Justin Lin's 2002 film, where he wrote Han three years before taking the character into Tokyo Drift. In release order that is where Han starts, which is the sort of thing this site exists to show.
Spy Racers meets the films four times and no more. Dom Toretto turns up in person in the first episode and the last of the first season, then comes back for the two-part finale two years later. Everything else people cite - the plane drop, a car pinned from four sides - is the series restaging a shot, not referring to one.
A corner logo for it as well, which takes the rotation to twenty-eight. Heavy white caps leaning hard right, with the F drawn half again as big as the rest. It is full size on the title cards page.
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Corrected the running order on Stargate. From 15 July 2005 the Sci Fi Channel ran Stargate SG-1 at eight, Stargate Atlantis at nine and Battlestar Galactica at ten - the block it called SCI FI Friday. This list had Atlantis ahead of SG-1 on every night the two shared, which was wrong for the 38 nights from that date onwards. They are now in the order they went out.
It is the sort of mistake that hides well: both episodes were on the right date, and only their order within the evening was out. It survived because the published schedules that settle these nights cover the broadcast networks and no cable channel at all, so a Friday night on Sci Fi had nothing to check it against.
The eighteen shared nights before that, from July 2004 to March 2005, have been left alone. That is Atlantis' first season against SG-1's eighth, before Battlestar joined the block, and no source for the 2004 running order has been found. Rather than assume it matched the following year, the note under the table now says so.
The note on The Walking Dead has been corrected in the same pass. It claimed its shared nights were ranked by slot; almost all of them are a broadcast episode sharing a date with a webisode, which is a different question, and one this site has not settled consistently.
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Filled in the missing IMDb links on Star Wars + Shorts. A hundred and five entries across eight of the short-form strands - Galaxy of Creatures, Roll Out, Galactic Pals, Fun with Nubs, Blips, and the shorts that go with Resistance, Rebels and Young Jedi Adventures - now link out where they did not before.
Thirty-four entries on the same list also got better Wikipedia links. Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi and a handful of Clone Wars and Rebels episodes were pointing at a row inside a long list article; they now point at the episode's own article.
Two shorts still have no IMDb link and never will: Resistance's G-LN and Rebels' Property of Ezra Bridger are not in IMDb at all, and are now recorded as such rather than looking unfinished.
The Wikipedia column on the short-form strands stays empty on purpose. Those are two-minute pieces, and Wikipedia does not cover them episode by episode - the gap is the source's, not this site's.
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Added Alan Partridge, from his first appearance as the sports reporter on On the Hour in August 1991 through to How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) in 2025. Ninety-two entries: both Radio 4 runs of On the Hour, the radio Knowing Me Knowing You and its spoof making-of documentary, The Day Today, both the television Knowing Me Knowing You and the Yule special, I'm Alan Partridge, Mid Morning Matters on the web and on Sky, the one-off specials from Anglian Lives to Scissored Isle, Alpha Papa and Stratagem, both series of This Time, and the 2025 BBC One series.
Two things sit where you might not expect. The six Mini News trailers come a day ahead of the episodes of The Day Today they advertised, because that is when BBC Two showed them. And all six episodes of the 2025 series share 3 October, the day the whole run went onto iPlayer - the weekly broadcasts ran on to 7 November, long after anyone who wanted to had watched.
Every cross-over on Buffy/Angel now says what it is, where several of them used only to name the guest actor. Four more have been marked: the silent phone call split between the two 1999 premieres, Buffy's five minutes line in Something Blue, Wesley turning up in Los Angeles in Parting Gifts, and Spike materialising out of the amulet at the start of Angel's fifth season. Pangs and I Will Remember You are now marked as the two-hour event they were billed as.
Added Man About the House, 127 entries from August 1973 to March 1981: the Thames run, both spin-offs - George and Mildred and Robin's Nest - and both films. The American remakes are not on it; Three's Company, The Ropers and Three's a Crowd are separate ABC productions with no episodes in common.
Every date on that page is a London one. In the 1970s ITV was not a network in the modern sense - each region scheduled its own evening, so a Thames sitcom could go out on a different day, and in a different week, in the Midlands or the North. A fair number of the dates in circulation are a week out, including Wikipedia's for the whole of George and Mildred's third series, and they have been checked here against what Thames actually billed on the night.
Two more corner logos, which takes the rotation to twenty-four. Alan Partridge is heavy brass caps under a thin dark outline. Man About the House is the fat yellow of a 1970s comic, outlined in red, with a black extrude below it and a flat turquoise offset sitting behind the lot, and its letters lean their own separate ways. Both are full size on the title cards page.
Added How to Train Your Dragon, 233 entries from March 2010 to June 2025. The four films, the six shorts and specials from Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon to the Snoggletog Log, all forty episodes of Riders of Berk and Defenders of Berk, the seventy-eight of Race to the Edge, the fifty of Rescue Riders with its three feature-length specials, and the fifty-two of The Nine Realms.
Three shows on that list count their own seasons in ways that do not agree with each other. Race to the Edge is six seasons on Netflix and seasons three to eight of DreamWorks Dragons on Wikipedia; Rescue Riders ran two seasons on Netflix and then four more on Peacock under a different name, where the count started again at one. The list uses the numbering each show was released under, so an episode is where you would look for it.
Twenty-nine entries are marked as cross-overs. Most of them are on The Nine Realms, which is set thirteen hundred years after the films and spends eight seasons working out what happened in them - the Strike Class mark on a Viking helmet, the Book of Dragons in its buried capsule, and the moment Tom finally gets a name for his ancestor. Race to the Edge carries the rest, quietly fitting Stoick, Gobber and Hiccup out with the dragons, the sword and the flightsuit they already have when How to Train Your Dragon 2 opens.
A corner logo for it too, which takes the rotation to twenty-five. Heavy red slab caps under a black keyline and a dark extrude, and the R's right leg carried on into a dragon's tail that sweeps away under the two O's with its fins standing up along the way, before flicking up to a point past the last letter. It is full size on the title cards page.
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Every logo now matches its title card
The rotating logos in the top left corner have been redrawn to match the title treatments they are based on. Star Wars is the yellow outline with the hollow letters. Jurassic Park is white, with a thin red line riding inside every stroke. Star Trek leans, in heavy gold. The Terminator is the wide chrome of 1984, edged in silver. Supernatural is a pale classical serif with the red haunting it from behind, and The X-Files carries its red circle around one letter on a night sky.
Battlestar Galactica is the 1978 mark: yellow rounded letters with a line through them and double rules above and below. Stargate is pale green over a long underline, with the small ring hovering over the first O. Doctor Who is the blue and gold of the current diamond. MonsterVerse burns from orange down to red. Marvel is the two-panel studios lockup - FR cut out of a silver panel, OO between the rules. The Boys is black on white: colliding letters, a slash through the middle, edges eaten away. Planet of the Apes interlocks, the F dropping below the line while the R stretches above it. Babylon 5 rides an orange beam, The Vampire Diaries has a red swash sweeping over the word, Predator dissolves from the waist down, The Walking Dead is paler and further decayed, Buffy carries the swooping loop of the original B, and NCIS is plain heavy capitals over its spelled-out line - which is what the real one is.
The logo is also bigger. The header gave most of its vertical padding to it, so the corner mark grew by nearly two-thirds without the header getting any taller. On a narrow screen the subtitle still steps aside so the menu has somewhere to go. And it shows its true colours all the time now, dimming slightly under the mouse to show it is a link, rather than the other way round.
All twenty-two are full size on the title cards page.
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How much of it you have watched, and how long the rest of it is
Every entry on every franchise list now has a running time behind it, and the site can do arithmetic with them. The readout at the top of a list has always said how many episodes you have ticked; it now says what fraction that is, and it will say the same thing in hours instead.
"25 / 250 (10%) watched" is the count. Click the readout and it becomes "9h 12m / 84h 30m (11%) watched" - the same list, measured in time. The two percentages are rarely the same number, which is the reason for having both: a franchise with films in it, or with a run of five-minute shorts, is not 250 equal things, and being half way through by episode is not being half way through by evening. The choice sticks across every franchise, and if you sync your list between devices it travels with it. It can also be set in Preferences, under Show progress as.
Next to the readout there is a Stats button. It opens the whole franchise at a glance: how many entries there are, how long they run to in total, how old the franchise is, and how long a stretch of years it covers - then the same four figures for each series in it, films aside. Doctor Who is 1,025 entries and 531 hours, 62 years and 9 months old, spanning 61 years and 6 months of them. Buffy is 200 hours over 11 years and 9 months, and 34 years old.
The running times come from IMDb. Where IMDb records none - which happens most often with long-running network dramas - the median of that series and season is used instead, so a Chicago Med episode with no recorded length is counted as the 42 minutes the rest of its season runs to. A few hundred short-form webisodes have neither, and those are left out of the totals rather than counted as nothing; the Stats popup says so where it applies.
The running time of a single entry is in its Notes popup too, above the cross-over icons and the links.
The Stats popup on Doctor Who, with the readout behind it switched to time.
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A Stats page for the whole site
Each franchise list can already tell you how big it is. Stats, new in the top menu, does it for all of FROO at once: 14,117 entries, 10,022 hours, 214 series and 175 films across 31 franchises, going back to 23 November 1963.
The figures at the top count each entry once. That matters more than it sounds: 3,094 of those entries are listed on more than one franchise — all 1,110 NCIS episodes are on three of them — so adding the franchises together would give a total nobody could ever actually watch. The table underneath does the opposite and counts an entry against every franchise it appears on, because that is what each franchise's own Stats popup says. The two numbers are both on the page so neither is a surprise.
Click any heading to sort the table. Running time sorts by the actual minutes rather than by the text, so 9h does not come out above 1,000h.
If you tick episodes as you watch, the page adds your own progress: how far through the whole site you are, and how far through each franchise, as a count or in hours — the same switch as on a franchise list. Nothing is sent anywhere to work that out; it is your list, read on your device, as it always is.
Three hundred and seven entries still have no running time recorded — short-form webisodes that no index carries — and the page says so rather than counting them as nothing.
The franchise table sorted by how far through each one you are. The watched figures here are an example.
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This page
Every change to the site now gets written down here, newest first. Content entries say what was added or corrected and link to the lists it happened on; feature entries explain how a new bit of the site works, with a picture of it.
One entry per day for content, so a busy day reads as one item rather than twenty.
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Unticking an episode now survives a backup
Loading a saved copy of your watched list used to put back episodes you had since unticked. The file remembered them as watched and had no way to record that you had changed your mind, so importing quietly handed them back.
It records that now, and importing merges in both directions: episodes you have ticked since saving stay ticked, and episodes you have unticked stay unticked. Old export files still load exactly as they always did, and there is nothing you need to do.
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A privacy page
There is now a privacy page, linked from the foot of every page. It sets out what FROO stores, where the site is hosted, and which pages involve anybody other than us.
The short version: no accounts, no cookies of our own, no analytics and no tracking. Your watched list is kept by your browser and is not sent to us or to anyone else.
The site's ads.txt went with it. Adverts came off FROO back in March; that file was the last thing still claiming otherwise.
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Keep your list on more than one device
Your watched list has always lived in the browser you ticked it in, which is fine until you want to carry on watching in another room. Open Preferences and there is now a Sync section: press Start syncing and FROO gives you a code. Put that code into Preferences on your phone, your laptop or anywhere else and both ends end up with everything either of them had.
You do not have to type it. Press Show QR code and point the other device's camera at it — that opens FROO with the code already filled in, and nothing has to travel through a message or an email to get there. The code sits in the part of the web address that browsers never send to a server, so scanning it does not put it in anybody's logs, ours included.
There is still no account, no email address and nothing to sign up for. The code is the whole of it, and it is the only way back to your list - nobody at FROO can look it up or issue you another one, so keep a copy. It is written into your exported file as well. Anyone who has it can read and change your list, so treat it the way you would a password.
Syncing is off until you turn it on, and "Delete synced copy" removes the stored copy for good whenever you want. The privacy page sets out exactly what is kept.
Your code, and the QR that saves you typing it.
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Syncing now happens on its own
Syncing no longer waits for you to press anything. Once it is switched on, FROO sends your changes a few seconds after you stop ticking, and checks for changes from your other devices whenever you open a page or come back to the tab. Tick something on the sofa, pick your phone up, and it is already there.
It stays out of the way: a whole page of episodes ticked at once counts as one update rather than two thousand, a sync that fails because you are offline says nothing and simply tries again later, and the only time it speaks up is to tell you something arrived from another device. The Sync now button is still in Preferences if you want to force it.
One related fix, for anyone who has ever wondered why a change to the site did not seem to reach them: a change to the site could take up to four hours to reach a browser that had been here recently. It now arrives straight away.
The only thing an automatic sync ever says out loud.
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Long lists open properly now
The big lists were taking their time. The Go-to bar and the Watched column appear a moment after the rest of the page, and on the Wolfverse — 2,906 rows — that was taking more than thirty seconds, with nothing on screen to say anything was happening. Doctor Who took eleven seconds and the Star Wars shorts were worse than either.
The same pages now open in well under a second and a half. Everything else about them is unchanged.
The controls also arrive with the page now rather than dropping in afterwards, so nothing shifts under your cursor. On a long list they turn up greyed out and say Loading while the list is read, then come to life.
A long list, still being read.
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The logo is twenty-two logos
The FROO in the top left corner has been redrawn - twenty-two times. Each version is done in the title card style of something the site lists: the spiky brush script of Buffy, the wide-tracked capitals of Alien, the slab serif of CSI, that exact Star Wars yellow, Jurassic Park's amber, Marvel's white on red, and so on down the list. One of them is picked at random every time you load a page, so the corner of the site is rarely the same twice.
There is a new page, Title cards, linked from the footer of every page, where all of them are shown full size with the moon, the starfield and the data screen they belong on. It is there for no reason other than that they look better big.
Each one now carries its own subtitle, in the manner of the thing it is imitating - the Buffy version calls itself The Franchise Slayer, and the Alien one points out that in space no one can hear you stream. The logo also sits in a small coloured card of its own now, which is what lets a bright yellow or a deep red wordmark hold its own against the page rather than fading into it. On a narrow screen the subtitle steps aside so the menu still has somewhere to go.
Some of these took more than a change of typeface. Set four letters in heavy capitals and Battlestar, Terminator, NCIS and Predator all come out looking like each other, so each one keeps the thing that actually makes it recognisable: the band across Battlestar, the cut through NCIS, the red edge on Terminator, the stripes down Predator, the ring around a letter for The X-Files.
Nothing about the site got heavier. The letters are drawn rather than set in a typeface, so there is no font to download and no risk of the logo looking wrong on a machine that does not have it - the whole set weighs less than one small photograph, and they stay sharp on any screen. If your browser has JavaScript switched off you will see the plain FROO you have always seen, and every link still works.
The Buffy card, and up in the corner the CSI one that happened to load.
Yellowstone also picked up Lawmen: Bass Reeves and The Madison shortly after going up.
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Filled in missing IMDb, Wikipedia and fan wiki links on Buffy/Angel and the Wolfverse, where Homicide, New York Undercover and a stretch of Angel had been left short.
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Watch tracking
Every row now has a Watched box. Tick episodes as you go: the list keeps a count, dims what you have seen, and will hide it entirely if you turn on Hide Watched. "Next unwatched" jumps you to where you got to, which on a 2,900-row list is the only sane way back in.
Because a lot of episodes appear on more than one list — all 1,110 NCIS episodes are on three of them — ticking an episode marks it everywhere it appears. Ticking one with unwatched episodes above it offers to mark those too.
None of it leaves your browser. That does mean clearing your browsing data wipes it, so the new Preferences link in the header will export your watched list to a file, and import it back on another device.
Ticked episodes dim, and the counter keeps score.Preferences: export it, import it, or wipe it.
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Notes hidden behind a spoiler cover
A cross-over note explains what the cross-over is, which on an episode you haven't seen yet is exactly the thing you don't want to read. Notes now come covered: the text is there, blurred, and one click reveals it.
There is a Hide Spoilers switch at the top of every list if you would rather not bother, and it is remembered separately for each franchise — so you can be careful on the one you're part-way through and relaxed on the one you know by heart.
The site was redesigned end to end: a quieter, more readable theme, tables that hold together on a phone instead of falling off the side, and a dark mode that follows whatever your device is already set to.
The Go to bar is now pinned to the top of the window, so it stays reachable however far down a list you have scrolled.
The home page after the refresh.
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A big day of filling in. The X-Files, Babylon 5, Jurassic Park / World and 9-1-1 all got IMDb, Wikipedia and fan wiki links on every episode, plus researched cross-over flags and notes. The Walking Dead got links on all 426 rows and cross-overs on 86; Stargate 392 rows and 32 cross-overs; Star Trek the same treatment. The Wolfverse's fourteen series were done in one go, including the three Law & Order titles that turned out to be two titles each.
New arrivals too: 9-1-1: Nashville joined the 9-1-1 list, and Marvel, Jurassic and Star Wars picked up Daredevil: Born Again season 2, Chaos Theory season 4 and Young Jedi Adventures season 3.
Also fixed some same-night ordering on Arrowverse extended and Star Trek, where two episodes of the same franchise aired on one evening and were listed in the wrong order.
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Cross-over notes, behind a popup
The whole point of watching a franchise in release order is the cross-overs, so the lists now mark them. Rows that cross over carry icons in the Notes column: one for an episode that directly references another series, one for an episode that is part of a story arc running across several, and one for a character turning up from another show.
Clicking "Notes …" on any row opens a popup with the cross-over type, a note explaining what it actually is, and links straight out to IMDb, Wikipedia and the franchise's own fan wiki. Every row also picked up its own address, so you can send somebody a link that lands on one episode.
Buffy's "Fool for Love" and Angel's "Darla" went out the same night, and share their flashbacks.The popup: what the cross-over is, and where to read more.
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Cross-over notes written up for Buffy/Angel, the first list to get them.
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Ads and analytics gone
Google Ads and Google Analytics came off every page on the site. No adverts, no tracking scripts, nothing following you from one list to the next.
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The "Go to" bar
Franchise lists run to hundreds of rows, and scrolling to find where you were is miserable. Every list now has a Go to bar above it: pick a series, then a season, then an episode, and the page jumps straight to that row and highlights it.
The three menus narrow each other down, so picking Angel only offers you Angel's seasons.
Started the Wolfverse — Law & Order, One Chicago, the FBI shows and everything else Dick Wolf has had a hand in. It is the biggest list on the site by some distance.
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Grey's Anatomy and The Walking Dead added, along with two pages that aren't lists: Campaigns, for the things we'd like the studios to sort out, and Feedback, for telling us where we're wrong.
Split the Bellisario shows out into narrower lists so you can take the franchise as wide or as tight as you like: Bellisario-verse, Lenko-verse and NCIS on its own. Also wrote the FAQ, which is where the arguing lives.
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FROO went live with one list on it: the Bellisario-Lenko-verse — JAG, NCIS, Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver and Magnum P.I., all in one running order.
