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Cleaning up the Doctor Who title
The current version of Doctor Who has runs of episodes put together as "seasons", but then drops in numberless "specials" regularly. What this means is that the Doctor Who title - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/reference/ - is starting to build up an excess of episodes listed under "unknown", and multiple runs that are out of order.
The IMDb is following the "season numbers" given by the BBC, but I put it that this is untenable for the IMDb listings to work properly?
Here's an example of what I mean:
Season Four - 13 episodes running during 2007/2008 with David Tennant
Specials - Four largely standalone specials with David Tennant running from 2008-2010. Not listed as a "season", you have to go to "unknown" to find these.
Season Five - 13 episodes running during 2010 with Matt Smith. Advertised by the BBC as "season five".
Now, the problem here is that if you change the season numbers in logical order they'll eventually be completely out of synch with the "season numbers" listed by the BBC. But as it stands, the series is represented in a random order, as there's just been three specials, which, again, will air between "seasons" and will go into "unknown".
(Slightly unrelated, but the very first episode of the original series from 1963, which had an unaired pilot as a separate entry, now seems to have been merged and listed under "alternate versions" - is there any way I can find out my original rating, as it seems to have retained my rating for the unaired pilot version, not the one I gave the final episode?: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0562828/reference/)






bderoes
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2 years ago
Because they have the same Dr. Who as Season 4, the 4 "unknown" 2009 eps could be labeled as, say, s4.e101 through s4.e104, so they fall after the official season eps. Even better might be if the ep number itself could have a non-numeric, say s4.ex1 through s4.ex4.
However, if specials were prequels with the next Who, would IMDb cope with sN.e001 through sN.e009? I think I've seen e0 or e00 somewhere, but can it do e001?
Assigning ep numbers seems preferable to leaving them dangling in Unknown territory, since the Seen feature only lists eps with numbers.
https://www.imdb.com/seen/tt0436992/
is missing the Unknown eps.
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Bethanny
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2 years ago
Hi @MovieCat -
There is an open ticket reference number D106040478 to decide how listings on that series should be. Once decision is made all will be fixed.
Cheers!
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2 years ago
Another issue is that I understand there are several shorts on the BluRay releases with the main cast that aren't on the system.
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