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    Jellyfin Forum Support General Questions Doctor Who (1963): How to organize alternate episode presentations ?

     
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    Doctor Who (1963): How to organize alternate episode presentations ?
    schrodinger
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    Today, 05:23 AM
    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).mkv

    The 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?
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    5 hours ago (This post was last modified: 5 hours ago by Generator. Edited 1 time in total.)
    You can try similar to Emby, see if it works
    https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-N...n-episodes
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