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I feel that Jeopardy (77075) is incorrect and needs some serious love: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=77075&lid=7

An episode list doesn't exist on the official site (http://www.jeopardy.com/), so I was hoping that I could use something like http://www.j-archive.com until one surfaces. I understand that j-archive is a fan run archive and not an official one, but it's the best we got at the moment. While searching the forums there were discussions about Jeopardy being listed with years instead of season numbers. But according to the IMDB below Jeopardy has real seasons so I think we should standardize on that.

I checked the rules and searched some of the official sources for an episode list. IMDB is the best one (second to j-archive):

tv.com is missing a ton of seasons: http://www.tv.com/shows/jeopardy/episodes/
tvguide only goes back to 1999: http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/jeopardy/episodes/202355
tvrage is similar to imdb in that the main version starts in 1984. http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-7879/episode_list
imdb has two jeopardy shows:

- Only one episode for the original 1964 version of Jeopardy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057758/episodes
- Then a ton of episodes for the 1984 version that's on the air today. The one with Alex Trebek. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159881/episodes

NOTE: While IMDB is "more" correct then the other sources, it still falls way short of j-archive. I picked a random season, 19. Click on that in IMDB, then compare it to j-archive: http://www.j-archive.com/showseason.php?season=19

I think thetvdb.com should be similar to imdb in which is splits the show into two separate shows. The 1964 original and then the 1984 rebirth with Alex Trebek. So the seasons from IMDB and then fill in the episode data from j-archive. I'm willing to put in the work and clean it up if the mods are okay with it.

I personally think we should make it all years.

But, I'm waiting for another Moderator opinion.

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I think j-archive, in years would work. j-archive is the closest thing to a source I can see, the others are just kinda sad. Any other mods want to chime in?

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I think we could make and exception for a fansite in this case. It looks very complete and the others, well, they don't seem to be.

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I'm going to start working on this. wish me luck.

I added the seasons, 1984-2011. And I filled in the episodes for season 1984:

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid ... 2429&lid=7

I accidentally added in an extra episode but can't see where to delete it. I'm guessing that we have to ask the mods to do that?

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesi ... 9281&lid=7

And when I'm finished I'll ask the mods to remove the other non-year seasons. But we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

If I'm doing anything wrong please let me know before i get too far into this. Thanks.

Actully it would be better if you let a Mod handle moving the episodes. Ill take care of them after work.

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Alright, this was a much bigger task then I initially thought.

Is there any way I can write a program to scrape the j-archive site and then give you the information in a mysqldump like file? Where it's just a series of "insert into blah;" lines?

Or maybe a CSV dump?

Copying and pasting all this information from one site to another is silly in this day where we have fancy computers that can do the work for us (me).

Converted existing seasons, sent PM.

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I messed up, can I get this episode deleted?

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesi ... 4543&lid=7