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Season Numbering of "Z Cars" (1962-1978) - not in agreement with other sources such as TheTVDB and Wikipedia
I noticed that the season numbers for later seasons of "Z Cars" (tt0129723) were different by one, compared with the numbers that someone had posted on Youtube. I've found the source of the discrepancy.
TheTVDB and Wikipedia both list Season 7 as having 115 episodes ranging from 2 August 1971 to 2 July 1973 whereas IMDB breaks this into two seasons, after episode 7.75, so the later episodes are 8.x and what TheTVDB and Wikipedia call 8.1 is 9.1 in IMDB terms - and so on. Other fan sites such as http://bbc.adactio.com/cult/treasurehunt/missing/zcars.shtml also consider Season 7 not to be broken into two parts.
I wonder whether the data managers think the IMDB season numbering should be altered in line with these other sources. Any thoughts from IMDB users?
It would be nice to find a definitive numbering by the BBC (who made and showed the series) but that may not be possible.
Fran
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2 months ago
Hello martin_695862,
The mentioned sources do not qualify as valid evidence for us to correct the numbering in the episodes. In this case an official source will be need to verify the order in the Episodes, this can be submitted with valid evidence through our online Update form. I am afraid the two pages you mentioned are not considered valid source.
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Col_Needham
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@martin_695862 / @skip_eastport This is a tricky one and we have been burned in cases like this before on other shows, so hopefully you can appreciate the dilemma and our preference for official sources. It will at least need some research by the team next week to determine how we arrived at where we are with the current listings.
We have seen cases like this before where someone has stated that we are wrong about some kind of numbering / ordering with unofficial evidence, and we have made the changes, only to find that we were correct all along because someone else working from better sources had painstakingly made the previous order correct, meaning everything had to be reverted again. We are trying to avoid this kind of flip-flop here.
Do you have any additional sources or even an explanation of why each “season” was spread over multiple years in the first place or if the BBC ever treated them as seasons at all via contemporary listings? It could even be that there are no official season boundaries and the episodes would therefore be better as a single season 1 with episode numbers from 1 to 799.
Any insights would be appreciated.
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