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Issue with season numbers
posted by ZippieSTAFFMOD on June 9, 2017 at 9:29 AM
Hey Travis,
One of the developers using our wrapper for .NET noticed an issue with some strange season numbers. Namely that there seem to be shows with seasons that have no number, I feel like that should not be possible. (ref to our issue and examples: https://github.com/LordMike/TMDbLib/issues/219)
Secondly I tried reproducing the issue via the interface but it seems that posting an empty season number is translated to 0 but negatives are allowed. I was also unable to remove the created season so sorry for the test @ https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/57243-doctor-who/edit?active_nav_item=seasons.
Cheers, Thomas
Reply by Travis Bell
on June 9, 2017 at 10:41 AM
Hi Thomas,
Based on the data I'm looking at, this data came in from the initial Freebase import in 2013. I don't think it's ever been possible to create a new season with no season number on TMDb.
I've not only deleted the bad season on Hercules but also went through and found around 60 more that had a blank season number and no episodes, and deleted those as well.