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Reported Problem for The Rockford Files
posted by Mr.RogersSTAFFMOD on September 2, 2021 at 10:09 AM
Item: The Rockford Files
Language: en-US
Type of Problem: Incorrect_content
Extra Details: Season 1 should be updated to include a total of 23 episodes. NBC has episode 6 (This Case is Closed) split into 2 parts, and it would make sense to update things to be consistent with them.
https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/the-rockford-files/6037942854077286112/seasons/1
TheTVDB also lists this episode as 2 parts.
https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-rockford-files/seasons/official/1
Reply by Mr.Rogers
on September 2, 2021 at 10:33 AM
It looks like there was some previous discussion on this and the 2 episodes were combined, but this is not consistent with how NBC has them listed.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/954-the-rockford-files/discuss/5ae094c1c3a3683dcf01568b
Reply by superboy97
on September 2, 2021 at 11:56 AM
The important thing is not how NBC list this now, but how it was originally broadcasted.
Reply by Mr.Rogers
on September 2, 2021 at 12:04 PM
That's fair, but I wasn't able to find any evidence of them being a single episode when originally broadcast. The only reference to this is from 'Steve' in the other thread I linked.
IMHO, 2 episodes broadcast on the same day are still 2 episodes.
Other sources also have these split.
https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-rockford-files/episodes-season-1/1030260610/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Rockford_Files_episodes#Season_1_(1974–75)
https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-rockford-files/umc.cmc.xi9qkywkfmt0aea0viqavys6
http://epguides.com/RockfordFiles/
Reply by superboy97
on September 2, 2021 at 12:09 PM
If you look at this page (linked from one of your links), you will read "Originally shown as a 90-minute episode; later re-edited (with much repeated and redundant footage) into two one-hour episodes."
Reply by Mr.Rogers
on September 2, 2021 at 12:19 PM
Interesting.
However, this means there is ~10 min of official episode(s) which are not covered by TMDB, since the single episode listing would only cover 90 min of footage.
Would an Episode Group make sense here?
Reply by superboy97
on September 2, 2021 at 12:21 PM
An episode group can't be used here. With an episode group, you can only reorder existing episodes. You can't split an episode in 2 parts.