# Finding duplicate tv episodes

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/finding-duplicate-tv-episodes/790080>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/finding-duplicate-tv-episodes/790080 "2022-04-25T18:15:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![kgluong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6a8cbe/32.png) [@kgluong](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kgluong)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/finding-duplicate-tv-episodes/790080/1 "2022-04-25T18:15:07Z")

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Is there an easy way to find episode duplicates? My primary way in the past was using the search page. Now that’s gone finding tv episodes duplicate is impossible for me.

Just found out plex combined hunter x hunter (1999) with the 2011 version. Very annoying.

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**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/finding-duplicate-tv-episodes/790080/2 "2022-04-25T18:27:03Z")

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filter episodes by duplicates.

![Plex](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/e/7/0/e70ebc07951e562588ce463dff516a45523d4f54.png)

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**Author:** ![Divideby0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@Divideby0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Divideby0)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/finding-duplicate-tv-episodes/790080/3 "2022-04-25T18:46:21Z")

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In order for “Duplicates” to show up as an option in the **first** drop-down, you must change the **second** drop-down choice to “Episodes”. Then you can change the **first** drop-down to “Duplicates” to see.

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**Author:** ![kgluong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6a8cbe/32.png) [@kgluong](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kgluong)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/finding-duplicate-tv-episodes/790080/4 "2022-04-25T23:21:25Z")

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Thanks.

Lol that is a weird way of doing it tho.

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**Author:** ![Divideby0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@Divideby0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Divideby0)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 5:04am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/finding-duplicate-tv-episodes/790080/5 "2022-04-26T05:04:21Z")

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The first drop down is the filter you are most likely to change often, picking by genre or actor or what-not. The second drop down changes how your content is shown, by **TV Show** (one entry per show) by **Season** (one entry per season per show) or by **Episode** (one entry per episode of every season of every show). This is unlikely to ever be changed.

The “Duplicates” filter on the first does not quite… work when it comes to the **TV Shows** filter. It doesn’t seem to me that entire shows would be duplicates, only individual episodes. Since you are sorting via TV Shows and not per episode, there is no duplicate to show, so it is not an option unless you are on **Episode** mode.

It’d make more sense if these two drop downs were swapped, but I think the show/season/episode drop down is unlikely to be changed as often, so was not given the prime real estate of being the first drop down.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 5:04am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/finding-duplicate-tv-episodes/790080/6 "2022-07-25T05:04:50Z")

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