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First of all, let me explain the reason that I added season indicator and autocheck.

I decided that I had all too many TV shows that lacked cast and crew, and I was primarily interested in cast. I had no intention to watch the credits for all TV episodes in my collection, so I was satisfied with adding data for my local database only. That left me with two possible sources for the data; IMDb or TMDb. IMDb is certainly more comprehensive than TMDb, so I first experimented with DJ Doena's Cast/Crew Edit 2, but while it works fine for adding data to a few TV shows, it became too complicated when trying to do them en masse.

So I decided to go with TMDb (The Movie Database). I had already written TmdbTvShowCheck, so it seemed natural to use that, but I needed to tweak it in order to make it as useful as I could. Getting all cast from the Cast tab was just four clicks - right click for the context menu, select "Check all cast" and click, right click again, select "Copy checked cast" and click. Sounds simple, but clicking and moving the mouse time and time again also became tiresome. So I decided to implement AutoCheck. With that, all I had to do was select the Cast tab and then paste the result into DVD Profiler. And of course I did the same thing for Crew.

With that done, I came upon another problem - multi season titles. Adding several seasons is not a problem in itself. After adding one season, you just use Paste and Append Cast in Profiler to add the following. But that made it look a bit odd, because the episode numbering would start with 1 for each season. So for multi season titles I wanted the episode numbering to include the season number. So now if you check Add season indicator, the episode titles in cast / crew will look something like this: S 1 Ep 1. Pilot Episode

I considered making format of the episode numbering configurable, but I decided to wait to see if anyone requested it.