Using The Movie Database for TV Shows

General Discussions
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I am trying to add the The Honeymooners, but TheTVDB only has the original 39, not any of the lost episodes. However, The Movie Database has all of them listed. How do I get Plex to match up these shows with The Movie Database? I am afraid to make it my default agent because it might mess up all my other series. And there is no option to fix incorrect matches manually or to select a particular agent for just once series. Right now I have The Movie Database listed as selected along with TheTVDB, but it appears Plex is only using TheTVDB. Any thoughts?

2

Aren’t the Lost Episodes shown here the Specials Season?
REF: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=73923&seasonid=21385&lid=7

3

Holy smokes, I didn’t even bother to click into specials since I thought it was just that. However, how would you name the episodes since there is no season number? Thanks for your help.

4

Shows sometimes air “specials” or other content that isn’t part of the standard season. For these shows to be recognized correctly, give them a series number “00” and so name them as follows:

/TV Shows/ShowName/Specials/ShowName - s00eYY.ext

Place the Season Specials inside a folder named either Season 00 or Specials.
And follow the episode number just as it appears on thetvdb.com site

REF: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220707-Naming-TV-Show-Specials-

5

Thank you very much. I will give this a try.

6

@hthighway said:
Shows sometimes air “specials” or other content that isn’t part of the standard season. For these shows to be recognized correctly, give them a series number “00” and so name them as follows:

/TV Shows/ShowName/Specials/ShowName - s00eYY.ext

Place the Season Specials inside a folder named either Season 00 or Specials.
And follow the episode number just as it appears on thetvdb.com site

REF: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220707-Naming-TV-Show-Specials-

Sorry to hijack this but I also had a question about TMdb. I had a bunch of Disney sing-along-songs that my nephew loves. I want to add them to TV shows since there is 27 of them. When searching thetvdb the do not have them, but themoviedb shows them on their website, but does not find them when doing a manual search. I’m guessing this is because it’s under shows and not movies. Why doesn’t plex search all of themoviedb and only shows when doing a manual search? Is there anyway around this? I just don’t want 27 movies.

I really just want the metadata I don’t even mind manually entering sort information so that they organize into “episodes”