[mythtv] List all episodes of a series

[Trey Thompson]

On 10/2/07, Dan Wilga <mythtv-dev2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> wrote:
> I'm considering developing (what I think may be) a new feature, and
> I'd like to gauge interest and see if anyone has done anything
> similar already.
>
> I'd really like to be able to see a list of all known episodes of a
> given program, with indicators of whether or not each one has been:
>
> - watched and deleted
> - recorded, but not watched
> - scheduled to be recorded
> - not yet broadcast
>
> Ideally the UI should allow you to:
>
> - see when  a given episode was originally broadcast, when it was
> recorded, etc.
> - get more info about it (show the tv.com site?)
> - play it, if currently recorded
> - create or modify an existing recording rule
> - maybe show a screen shot
>
> I guess the hardest part is getting a reliable source for the data.
> IMDB lists all the episodes, but has little else for many programs.
> TV.com has a pretty good list, but no XML that I can find (though it
> does have a printable version that could be scraped).
>
> Then there's the issue of searching. If the series is named "Doctor
> Who", how do you know if it's "Doctor Who (2005)" or the original
> series from the 60's?
>
> Anybody have suggestions?
> --
> Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."

Well, I'm not a developer on this, but I'm a "pseudo" programmer from
the past.  I do think this would be a useful feature, some of this is
kind of in MythWeb already, so that might be a good starting point.