Episode type list expand

Dvoreckii wrote 10 years ago: 1

Now we have two episode types: regular episode and special one. I'm not sure, that it's possible to expand this list using existing engine. But if it's possible, there are several other types of episode (okay, this types are subtypes of regular and special, but...). Many shows have "movies", which have been already added at TVMaze, which are indicated as Special, so I think we need a type for them named "Movie" or similar. Another my suggestion for type is "Missing episode", which is regular one (with season and number), but it doesn't exist now. This problem is actual for 60s-70s shows, mostly British. Commonly known show with missing episodes is classic Doctor Who, but there are plenty of them, for example Avengers.

ItsMike wrote 10 years ago: 1

Any non-regular episode is special. In some cases I would not even consider a movie an episode.
Yes, it has ties to the tv show, sure. However it's not a part of it. But that's not the point.

How can non-existing episodes have a season/episode number? If it has that; it exists?
Perhaps there is no information available but you can name it Episode XX without any additional info?

Dvoreckii wrote 10 years ago: 1

ItsMike wrote:
Any non-regular episode is special. In some cases I would not even consider a movie an episode.
Yes, it has ties to the tv show, sure. However it's not a part of it. But that's not the point.

How can non-existing episodes have a season/episode number? If it has that; it exists?
Perhaps there is no information available but you can name it Episode XX without any additional info?

About missing episodes (not non-existing). These epsiodes had been aired (the title, airdate and other information are known), but after that they have been erased in accordance with policy of networks or labor unions. Some of this epsiodes now exist only in slide-show or audio format.

Gadfly wrote 10 years ago: 1

ItsMike wrote:
Any non-regular episode is special. In some cases I would not even consider a movie an episode.
Yes, it has ties to the tv show, sure. However it's not a part of it. But that's not the point.

How can non-existing episodes have a season/episode number? If it has that; it exists?
Perhaps there is no information available but you can name it Episode XX without any additional info?

You have episodes that did exist, and did fit in the original sequence, and then were erased.

So it exists, and then it doesn't exists.

At least, that's the case with shows like 60s (and a few 70s) Doctor Who, and a few other shows that the BBC erased.

Tonks wrote 10 years ago: 1

There are a few options :

- TV pilot if a show was launched via a telefilm so successful that they decided to order a show. Even today, this happens. Not as much in the US, but in the Uk, that's pretty much the standard.

- Telefilm or telemovie (i have no preference, Australia uses telemovie)

- And there are the real specials, the ones that are airing at a specific time of the year. Halloween, Christmas, Passover and those exist in every country.

Basically, they're all specials, but i wouldn't mind having these options available and i don't think these would be confusing cause the ones who'd do the guides for those shows that had those would know the difference.

Some sites put them like a Zero episode which is so wrong on so many levels but if you put the telefilm that started it all (like a year or more ago) as a special and it's not regulated by airdate, that special will be out of chronology.

I have no real objection against using either tv pilot or telefilm (both would work 90% of the time).

It depends if the site has made a decision on adding all tv stuff, in that context, telefilm would be needed as a specific type like flowers in the attic etc. or sharknado (unless you put everything under sharknado and consider them all specials.

A few examples : (besides doctor who or any UK show) is Signed, sealed, delivered. It started with a telefilm (90 minutes), then 1 series of 10 episodes was ordered (45 minutes), and now it's specials as in telefilms of a 90 minute kind. Most of hallmark start like that : Cedar Cover did, When calls the heart did as well and has an entire new cast for the series as opposed to the tv movie etc. The good witch was a series of tv movies (7 in all, one per year) and then they ordered a new show and changed the title to differenciate between the series of tv movies and the series (complete new cast except for Catherine bell and some of the back ground characters)/