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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 283502" data-attributes="member: 23">When I first started writing about the regular series I had a bit of a debate with myself over semantics. It felt strange to me at first to write about episodes, but now that I&#039;m 70% of the way through, I&#039;ve grown used to using it for simplicity&#039;s sake.&nbsp; I also did a bit of looking round, and sites like IMDb and Columbophile refer to &quot;episodes&quot;.Technically it may be a series of TV films, but then individual films in certain long-running film series can also be referred to as an episode. In Columbo&#039;s case, each is under a broader series title and shown on a regular day/time to fit in with regular TV seasons, so it fits the TV series umbrella, and that comes with a particular terminology.Perhaps &quot;instalment&quot; might be more appropriate since it&#039;s used to describe both films and TV series episodes (and I&#039;ve occasionally used that term her for Columbo), but at this point I&#039;ll probably keep referring to episodes for convenience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 283502, member: 23"] When I first started writing about the regular series I had a bit of a debate with myself over semantics. It felt strange to me at first to write about episodes, but now that I'm 70% of the way through, I've grown used to using it for simplicity's sake. I also did a bit of looking round, and sites like IMDb and Columbophile refer to "episodes". Technically it may be a series of TV films, but then individual films in certain long-running film series can also be referred to as an episode. In [I]Columbo's[/I] case, each is under a broader series title and shown on a regular day/time to fit in with regular TV seasons, so it fits the TV series umbrella, and that comes with a particular terminology. Perhaps "instalment" might be more appropriate since it's used to describe both films and TV series episodes (and I've occasionally used that term her for [I]Columbo[/I]), but at this point I'll probably keep referring to episodes for convenience. [/QUOTE]

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