Doctor Who Classic 1963 naming

[JuiceWSA]

https://forums.plex.tv/search?q=Doctor%20Who

Note:
After you use the search - find all ‘the answers’ - do that…
Then you’ll have to Fix Match anyway, 'cause Plex will fall flat on it’s face, unable to determine what year the show is - even after you tell it with a (YEAR) field.

In the end - the naming is determined by visiting TVDB and following the Media Preparation Section guidelines of Plex Support:
Particularly this area:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/naming-and-organizing-tv-shows/
… and continuing on from there

Note 2:
https://thetvdb.com/series/doctor-who

A TV Show Library/
.......Doctor Who (1963)/
........Season 01/
...........Doctor Who (1963) - S01E01 - An Unearthly Child (1).xxx
...........Doctor Who (1963) - S01E02 - The Cave of Skulls (2).xxx
...........and so on

Note 3:
https://thetvdb.com/series/doctor-who-2005

A TV Show Library/
.......Doctor Who (2005)/
........Season 01/
...........Doctor Who (2005) - S01E01 - Rose.xxx
...........Doctor Who (2005) - S01E02 - The End of the World.xxx
...........and so on

… and no, TVDB has already made up their mind - and there’s no changing it, or Plex. It is YOU who much conform, or change the agent to Personal Media and Hand edit.

Note 4:
You may try to abandon TVDB in favor of TMDB - but when you get there you find out it’s the same thing:

Doctor Who

FileBot can deal with those names in seconds - providing they haven’t been messed them up so bad not even FileBot knows what to do with them:

FileBot

Note 5:
You can join episodes together manually, in a slap-dash-hack <—the result being a slap-dash-hack:

[HowTo]: joining multi-part movies files with MKVtoolnix GUI

The purpose of this HowTo is to join videofiles, when a movie was ripped and split into two or more files. (This happens usually with very long movies [i.e. LOTR] or more often back in the day when we had Video CD or DIVX CDs) The ultimate goal is to have the movie back in one file, so there is no trouble in the various Plex clients which do not support multi-part files. The tool used is MKVtoolnixGUI it is freely available for all major PC operating systems. Therefore the container format …

You can even try to do a nicer job with something else (VideoReDo), but the end result is always the same - TVDB/TMDB or Hand Edit.

Note 6:
When you use TVDB, the way they want you to, the episodes come up in a row right where they’re supposed to in On Deck - so what difference does it make? <—said knowing full well I may be tar and feathered (again) for saying something dumb like that to a Dr. Who Fan (Tried, couldn’t get into it - I guess you had to be there - even the new ones make me wanna barf).