If you've decided you're sick of coughing up over 100 dollars a month for satellite or cable service when you are perfectly able to watch the same TV shows a month later on Netflix, and visit a bar to watch realtime sports in a much more exciting environment. Wonderful, you're one of an increasing number of people getting rid of satellite TV to watch your favorite series online for $7.99/month because you don't mind if you watch it right when it comes out - the characters in the story are still waiting for you when you get a chance to watch. So you sit down with your favorite beer (a reward you gave yourself from the money you're saving), and decide to watch The Women of Brewster Place.‚ You finish the first part and turn on the second when something starts to happen.

Nothing makes sense. The people are all in different places than they should be, references are made to things taking place that you have no idea of. You see important spoilers before you realize that what was shown as the second part is actually the third. You have just been innocent victim of Netflix out of order TV shows.

Netflix uploads thousands of individual episodes each month, so they might be forgiven for making mistakes in their system. Unfortunately, this sort of thing seems to happen quite often. Below are‚ just some of the most recent shows with episodes out of order on Netflix:

Shows recently on Netflix with out of order or missing episodes:

• Whale Wars


• The Tudors


• Justified


• Firefly


• Burn Notice


• Desperate Housewives


• Eureka


• Coach


• 90210


• MI-5


• Miami Vice


• Mythbusters


• Reno 911!


• Sliders


• Women of Brewster Place

Many more are reported as shows are uploaded. Often, when fans of these TV series complain about the missing episodes or spoilers Netflix takes the‚ season down - making the show only available on DVD. This is a really bad solution after they separated Netflix's streaming and physical disc plans recently. Sometimes they simply take away the problematic episode, so only that episode cannot be watched for streaming. So what is a smart, post-cable citizen to do? Are we forced to go back to cable or satellite until streaming TV is developed further?

Fortunately that's not the case. As this is the Internet‚ Age, numerous sources of this information have been created to aid you with correcting show orders. When shows have been removed or are just missing, these same sites will link to legal places to see it online. This was the case with the show Eureka, which the guys over at Netflix Fixer found that you can watch Seasons 1-4 in order on Netflix, and Season 4 and 5 are both available for free on Hulu (you only need to be a Hulu Plus member to view Seasons 1-3). On a similar note, with the show "MI-5" the NetflixFixer team found the missing Season 1, Episode 2 is on a public TV station legally. So you can make your way over to that site for the episode and then see the rest via Netflix. Sites like this are a lifesaver when you are trying to avoid accidentally stumbling onto a spoiler, and a simple search for "Netflix episodes out of order" will get you to the right sites to check. Also on Netflix Fixer, all previous "Netflix Fixes (episodes that they have posted the right order for) are listed on the right-hand side of the site alphabetically. Open the site and browse the right column before you start your show and you'll be spoiler-free and still able to dump your cable provider.