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Doctor Who (1963): How to organize alternate episode presentations ? - schrodinger - 2025-08-18
Hi,
I am adding the classic Doctor Who Series to Jellyfin and am running into trouble trying to figure out how to account for "alternate" presentations of the same episode. For example, the four-part serial The Underwater Menace has:
* Two surviving original episodes: "s04e20 - The Underwater Menace (2)", and "s04e21 - The Underwater Menace (3)"
* Black & white animated reconstructions of all four episodes
* Color animated reconstructions of all four episodes
At the moment, I have them organized like this:
Code:
Doctor Who (1963)
|── Season 04
|── The Underwater Menace
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e19 - The Underwater Menace (1) - Animated Reconstruction (B+W).mkv
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e19 - The Underwater Menace (1) - Animated Reconstruction (Color).mkv
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e20 - The Underwater Menace (2) - Animated Reconstruction (B+W).mkv
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e20 - The Underwater Menace (2) - Animated Reconstruction (Color).mkv
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e20 - The Underwater Menace (2).mkv
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e21 - The Underwater Menace (3) - Animated Reconstruction (B+W).mkv
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e21 - The Underwater Menace (3) - Animated Reconstruction (Color).mkv
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e21 - The Underwater Menace (3).mkv
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e22 - The Underwater Menace (4) - Animated Reconstruction (B+W).mkv
├── Doctor Who (1963) - s04e22 - The Underwater Menace (4) - Animated Reconstruction (Color).mkvThe multiple episodes show up in Jellyfin, but there's no distinction made between them -- i.e., no tag like "Animated Reconstruction (B+W)". I assume that's because I'm using TVDB as my metadata provider and it doesn't show the alternate episodes for Doctor Who. So to TVDB, it's all the same episode.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to watch the serial in three different ways:
1. The surviving original episodes plus B&W animated reconstructions in place of the missing original episodes.
2. All B&W animated reconstructions
3. All Color animated reconstructions
How have other people dealt with this?
RE: Doctor Who (1963): How to organize alternate episode presentations ? - Generator - 2025-08-18
You can try similar to Emby, see if it works
https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#multi-version-episodes
RE: Doctor Who (1963): How to organize alternate episode presentations ? - schrodinger - 2025-08-18
(2025-08-18, 12:39 PM)Generator Wrote: You can try similar to Emby, see if it works
https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html#multi-version-episodes
In Jellyfin that works for Movies and Music Videos, but unfortunately not for TV Shows.
Jellyfin devs, are there any plans to add Version recognition to TV Shows in the future as Emby has done?
RE: Doctor Who (1963): How to organize alternate episode presentations ? - IndianaLarry - 2025-09-17
The Star Trek: The Next Generation Blu-Rays has something like this with its Season 2 episode The Measure of a Man. From what I can tell, there are two ways of doing this:
- Adding the episode to the Specials folder, where Jellyfin will have it show up as an episode independent of the seasons. The Movie Database has support for this.
- Add an Extras folder within the season folder, and put the extra files there. Jellyfin will use the file name as the entry name. This method reflects how the Blu-Ray handles this sort of situation.