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Episodes

Used in: TV show

All seasons or episodes of a TV show are added in the Episodes field. To do so, you must first create the episodes before adding them (Structure → Add content → Episode).

For a season, three values can be entered:

  1. Season number
  2. Season title (optional)
  3. Episodes (multiple entries allowed)

For an episode, also three values can be entered (all mandatory):

  1. Season number
  2. Episode number
  3. Episode title

After adding all seasons and episodes, you can drag and drop the entries by clicking and holding the cross-hair icon at on the left. We want the oldest season/episode first (top), and the last/newest season/episode last (bottom).

The default situation would be to add a season first and then add the episodes to the season accordingly. You can also add seasons without adding episodes to it (for example, if the episodes haven't been created yet, or you don't have a source for the episodes that allows you to add them to the OFDb).

There are only two cases where you add episodes on the “top level” without adding them to a season:

  1. If the TV show is what sometimes is called “limited series” or “mini series”, meaning if the TV show is set up to be made out of a single season only. Note: this isn't the case for cancelled TV shows. There you should add the season, even if it's just a one.
  2. Specials that are not part of any season can be added on the top level as well.

If you're saving a TV show, and the system complains that the episode field is empty, you must remove the empty form before saving. You can do so by clicking the three dots next to the empty episode form, and then click “Remove”.

Specials

Only specials that are considered as “inside” the show's setting and, hence, add to the plot are added to the OFDb. So no Making ofs, actor interviews, and so on, must be added. Specials are all considered as season 0 (zero), and the episode number increases as part of the “specials season”: The very first episode is episode no 1, the second one episode 2, and so on—even if there are other, “normal” episodes in between.

Specials are not grouped together before season 1, but must be in the correct order regarding the whole TV show. If a special takes place between episode 3 and 4 of season 2, for example, place the episode exactly there.

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