I'm considering dumping an enormous amount of work into a show that ran for decades. I read in the "TV Bible" that seasons should be numbered, not named by-year, but one thing that's not clear is if a "season" has to be comprised of a single year's content, or if a decade of content could be considered a season. e.g. Season 1 = 1950s content, Season 2 = 1960s content, etc.

I ask because for some shows that ran a very long time, they will sometimes only have a few episodes per-year in a span of years. Grouping things by decade would prevent there from being a bunch of seasons with single-digit episodes and also make things a bit more manageable on the media server side. (I'd rather have 5 seasons than 50 seasons)

Just want to make sure I'm going down the right path before building it out. Thanks!