Timeline of Slashed Sources
| Fandom: | Slash |
| Dates: | 1964 – present |
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The table features the source shows, movies, video games and books with large slash followings; the list below bring the smaller sources from the '60s until now.
Graphical Timeline
Smaller Slash Fandom Sources from 1965 to now
Smaller, of course, is arbitrary
'60s - '70s
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea '64-'68
- I Spy '65 to '68
- The Wild Wild West '65 to '69
- Alias Smith and Jones '71 to '73
- Battlestar Galactica '78 to '79
- M*A*S*H '72 to '83
'80s
- Led Zeppelin breakup to LiveAid '80 to '85
- Simon & Simon '81 to '89
- Hardcastle and McCormick '83 to 86
- 21 Jump Street '87 to 91
- The Lost Boys '87
- Alien Nation '89 to '90
'90s
- Led Zeppelin Page-Coverdale to Page-Plant '93 to '97
- seaQuest DSV '93 to '96
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine '93 to '96
- Kung Fu: The Legend Continues '93 to '97
- American Gothic '95 to '96
- Space: Above and Beyond '95 to '96
- The Pretender '96 to 2000
- Profiler '96 to 2000
- Oz '97 to '03
- Brimstone '98 to '99
- The Crow: Stairway to Heaven '98 to '99
- Horatio Hornblower '98 to '03
- Half-Life '98 (didn't get slash fandom until '04)
- Velvet Goldmine '98
- The 13th Warrior '99
- Now and Again '99 to '00
- Queer as Folk UK '99
- Roswell '99 to '02
- The West Wing '99 to '06
'00s
- Andromeda '00 to '05
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation '00
- Dark Angel '00 to '02
- Gilmore Girls '00 to '07
- The Invisible Man '00 to '02
- X-Men '00
- ER Kim appears, leading to canonical Kim/Kerry '00
- Alias '01 to '06
- Scrubs '01
- Star Trek: Enterprise '01 to '05
- The Fast and the Furious '01
- Everwood '02 to '06
- The Dead Zone '02 to '06
- Battlestar Galactica '03
- NCIS '03
- The O.C. '03 to '07
- Boston Legal '04
- Deadwood '04
- The L Word '04
- Lost '04
- Veronica Mars '04
- Danny Phantom '04 - '07
- Brokeback Mountain '05
- Charlie Jade '05
- Doctor Who '05
- Numb3rs '05
- Rome '05
- Prison Break '05
- Dexter '06
- Eureka '06
- Friday Night Lights '06
- Heroes '06
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip '06
- Life on Mars (UK) '06
- Psych '06
- The Dresden Files '07
- Total Drama '07 - '15, '23 - '24
- Moonlight (TV) '07 to '08
- Primeval '07
- Die Hard IV '07
- The Middleman '08
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles '08
- Being Human '08
- True Blood '08
- The Vampire Diaries (TV) '09
'10s
- Golden Kamuy '14 - '22
'20s
- The Old Guard '20 (film, comic released in '17)
- KinnPorsche: The Series '22
Was there really a Golden Age of slash?
After compiling the timeline above, Sandy Herrold posted her observations in her journal about the rise and fall of slashable source:
"So, I was making a Timeline of Slashed Shows/Sources for Fanlore, and I couldn't help noticing that 1995 - 2004-5 was a Golden Age of sorts, a time when slashy shows and movies were widely available.When I got into fandom in the '80s, all the big slash fandoms were "closed canon" -- Star Trek, The Professionals, Blake's 7, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Starsky & Hutch. There were a few smaller shows/fandoms -- Miami Vice, Wiseguy, Quantum Leap, Forever Knight, Highlander (until Methos showed up) -- that gained a few slash fans while they were on the air, but almost by definition, the big fandoms (the "real" fandoms?) were the closed ones -- the open ones were transient, and not likely to grow to the same size as the closed ones.
Then, about 1995, it all changed. Every year, a new slashy show, or two! And they got big, bigger, HUGE! They rivaled and then surpassed the old fandoms! This...this was new. I have Virgule-L posts in 1992, fan after fan saying that they didn't really watch TV, just rewatched fannish source on VHS. By 1995, everyone is watching current TV avidly. (And it now occurs to me that 1995 was as fandom was first starting to colonize the Internet...)
Maybe pictures will make it clearer. Click on my table below to look at the Golden Age -- or go straight to the fanlore page that shows the entire last 25 years of fannish source:
ETA: I'm not saying there were more FANS during the (so-called) Golden Age, just that there were so many more fannish options. Right now, if you've already spurned SPN, and you're getting tired of SGA (I'm waving at you, R), there aren't so many large fandoms waiting for you to check them out." [1]
References
- ^ Post in Sandy's blog, dated Oct. 28th, 2008.