TV Movie in four parts - BBC Shakespeare - Richard VI

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Hello,
Plex 2.12.6 - no modifications to the agents.

I’m trying to get a match on four titles from the BBC Shakespeare DVD set, all of which are in IMDB:

The First Part of King Henry VI (1983) - which consists of two titles Part 1 and Part 2. Plex scraped these and joined them together as one title with the right chapters.

/mnt/sdb1/BBC Shakespeare/The First Part of King Henry VI (1983).mp4
/mnt/sdb1/BBC Shakespeare/The First Part of King Henry VI (1983) - Part 2.mp4

But I can’t match these, but I can search for them in IMDB. These are the titles from IMDB:
The Second Part of King Henry VI (1983)
The Third Part of King Henry VI (1983)

The files are:
/mnt/sdb1/BBC Shakespeare/The Second Part of King Henry VI (1983).mp4
/mnt/sdb1/BBC Shakespeare/The Third Part of King Henry VI (1983).mp4

I think this fits somewhere in the stacked or multi-part movies naming convention, but it won’t find anything remotely like what I see on IMDB for the last two of the four files.

In other messages on the forum, I see that Plex logs the results. I checked them and found this:
Jan 10, 2017 17:18:06.968 [0x7f4bb96b4800] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: /mnt/sdb1/BBC Shakespeare/The Second Part of King Henry VI (1983).mp4
Jan 10, 2017 17:18:06.968 [0x7f4bb96b4800] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: /mnt/sdb1/BBC Shakespeare/The Life and Death of King John (1984).mp4
Jan 10, 2017 17:18:06.968 [0x7f4bb96b4800] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: /mnt/sdb1/BBC Shakespeare/The Third Part of King Henry VI (1983).mp4
Jan 10, 2017 17:18:06.968 [0x7f4bb96b4800] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: /mnt/sdb1/BBC Shakespeare/The Winter’s Tale (1981).mp4

These are the only entries for “Henry VI”, other than Part 1
Any ideas on how I can get this to load the metadata?

Merci,
Sergneri

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I’ve changed the naming The Second Part of King Henry VI (1983).mp4 becoming /mnt/sdb1/BBC Shakespeare/The First Part of King Henry VI (1983) - Part 3.mp4 etc and Plex has merged them all into the top title. Not what I wanted exactly, but close enough.

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This is right up my UPS Delivery Door. Those things are GREAT!

I just recorded from PBS (USA) the Complete Great Performances offerings of The Hollow Crown (3 parts). ‘Willing’ Americans will have to give it 10 minutes to get the hang of the lingo - then back it up.

However, these guys are listed at TVDB in the little known, seldom found:

As such they will go in a TV Show Library:

A TV Show Library/
…BBC Television Shakespeare/
…Season 01/
…BBC Television Shakespeare - S01E24 - King Henry the Sixth, Part I.xxx
…BBC Television Shakespeare - S01E25 - King Henry the Sixth, Part II.xxx
…BBC Television Shakespeare - S01E26 - King Henry the Sixth, Part III.xxx

Instant, first time, fully populated match. It is possible the DVDs are named completely different than the listing at TVDB (and quite likely actually), but some exploring should ultimately produce some edible fruit.