Multiple air dates for first/final episodes???

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    1. brade
      Oct 11, 2008
      brade says:

      So why is this the case? It's making life difficult when trying to sort search results for TV programs by air dates. Compare to Film, which has only one value for initial release date. Why is TV different?

      2. jeff Metaweb Staff
        Oct 13, 2008
        jeff says:

        Good catch. I see that "number of episodes" is also non-unique.  If there are no topics with multiple dates, this should be a quick fix; if there are some with multiple dates, it will take a bit longer.

      3. brade
        Oct 13, 2008
        brade says:

        well, sadly the reason I even noticed this was that the app I'm building stumbled upon one. The new Battlestar Galactica show (can't remember if it's miniseries or regular series) has two dates for first episode. I haven't found any others yet, but who knows. Coincidentally, the value for "release_date" on video games also allows multiple values. I've figured a way around this in my program, but I still don't know how you would sort the results by air date as long as they allow multiples...

      4. jeff Metaweb Staff
        Oct 13, 2008
        jeff says:

        Turns out that there are several hundred instances with more than one of either first or final air date, so this will take some time. I've opened up a ticket for this (and videogames).

      5. brade
        Oct 14, 2008
        brade says:

        Cool, thanks for looking into this.

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