Incorrect TVDB episode IDs for Beast Wars: Transformers specials

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Short description of the issue

  • Seven Beast Wars: Transformers Season 0 episodes have incorrect TheTVDB episode IDs in Trakt’s current catalog. The IDs point to different specials, potentially causing incorrect watched-history synchronization.

Detailed description with additional context about the workflow

  • I discovered several incorrect TheTVDB episode ID associations for Beast Wars: Transformers and wanted to report them.

    Show identifiers:

    • Trakt show ID: 953

    • TMDB show ID: 958

    • TheTVDB show ID: 73562

    The episode titles and numbering in Trakt appear to follow a legitimate alternate catalog order. I’m not requesting changes to that numbering. The problem is that several episodes have TVDB IDs belonging to completely different specials.

    I verified this by querying Trakt’s API directly and comparing its watched History endpoint against its current Season 0 catalog. Both endpoints returned identical metadata, so this does not appear to be a stale History cache issue.

    Here are the discrepancies:

    Trakt episode Episode title Current TVDB ID Expected TVDB ID
    S00E05 Nemesis Part 2 Deleted Scene Full Animatic 8946941 8946947
    S00E06 Character Models 1 8946942 8946941
    S00E07 Character Models 2 8946943 8946942
    S00E08 Character Models 3 8946944 8946943
    S00E09 Character Models 4 8946945 8946944
    S00E10 Character Models 5 8305922 8946945
    S00E11 Agent 12 8946947 8305922

    For S00E05, TheTVDB calls the corresponding special Nemesis Part 2 Full Animatic. Trakt’s longer title includes Deleted Scene, although Trakt also has a separate S00E04 for that deleted scene. Please confirm this particular association when reviewing.

    References:

    I encountered these discrepancies while testing CrossWatch, which synchronizes watched history between Jellyfin and Trakt.

    Because CrossWatch matches episodes using their external IDs, these incorrect associations caused it to suggest mapping different specials to each other. This could potentially cause incorrect watched history synchronization.

    Could you please review these associations and correct them?

    If the incorrect IDs originate from TMDB’s episode external IDs rather than Trakt’s own database, please let me know so I can help correct them upstream.

    Thank you!