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WhirlGirl was a superhero web series that was animated with Flash and featured on Showtime's website in the late 1990s to early 2000s, beginning in 1997. It has the distinction of being the first web series to have a regular schedule, as well as being the first to have a national ad campaign around it. There were at least 100 episodes, and some are still accessible through archive.org, but many are lost (their pages don't seem to have been archived).
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'''''WhirlGirl''''' was a superhero web series that was animated with Flash and featured on Showtime's website in the late 1990s to early 2000s, beginning in 1997.


External Links
It had the distinction of being the first web series to have a regular schedule, as well as being the first to have a national ad campaign around it.


https://web.archive.org/web/20000815061033/http://www.sho.com/whirlgirl/ (The longest list of episodes, though possibly incomplete, is accessible if you go to this address, click "vintage," and then click along archive.org's archive dates for the page until you get to the latest one. For some reason, trying to go directly there via the Wayback Machine doesn't seem to be possible.)
There were at least 100 episodes, and some are still accessible through archive.org, but many are lost (their pages don't seem to have been archived).


https://web.archive.org/web/20010223211701/http://sho.com/whirlgirl/adventures/bmframeset_ep4.cfm (This lists a few episodes in which the series crossed over with another series.)
Chapters 6 and 7 were on an abandoned sample episodes page. A summer special was also saved in a different directory on the official website. However, both of these were removed during the site's move to Tumblr in 2016. Most of the older and newer episodes remain missing.


[[Category:Lost internet media]] [[Category:Lost animation]]
It is unknown if any of the people who worked on the show, including Visionary Media founder David B. Williams, still have copies of the shorts.
 
==Gallery==
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  |description1 =A trailer for the Halloween special.
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  |description2 =Compilation reel of various action scenes from the show.
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==External Links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20000815061033/http://www.sho.com/whirlgirl/ An archived site that has an almost complete list of episodes.] Retrieved 11 Jun '15
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20010223211701/http://sho.com/whirlgirl/adventures/bmframeset_ep4.cfm Another archived site where a few series crossed over with another.] Retrieved 11 Jun '15
*[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://whirlgirl.com/* All of the materials saved from the ''WhirlGirl'' website before its redesign.] Retrieved 11 Jun '15
 
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[[Category:Lost internet media]]
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Latest revision as of 11:44, 12 November 2021

Whirlgirl.jpg

An advertising poster.

Status: Partially Found

WhirlGirl was a superhero web series that was animated with Flash and featured on Showtime's website in the late 1990s to early 2000s, beginning in 1997.

It had the distinction of being the first web series to have a regular schedule, as well as being the first to have a national ad campaign around it.

There were at least 100 episodes, and some are still accessible through archive.org, but many are lost (their pages don't seem to have been archived).

Chapters 6 and 7 were on an abandoned sample episodes page. A summer special was also saved in a different directory on the official website. However, both of these were removed during the site's move to Tumblr in 2016. Most of the older and newer episodes remain missing.

It is unknown if any of the people who worked on the show, including Visionary Media founder David B. Williams, still have copies of the shorts.

Gallery

A trailer for the Halloween special.

Compilation reel of various action scenes from the show.

External Links