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Thanks for all your replies guys. Does this mean that say I want every episode of Aircrash Investigation, of which there have been several series, I need to trawl through the guide looking out for when it is on and set series record for all the ones that are not now highlighted. Not an easy job when there is no way to search for a programme (why is that, although to be fair you couldn't search on my sky+ box either).
Can anyone shed any light on my other problem of losing dozens of recorded programmes when I deleted the "planned series" entries for some of them. i.e I deleted the series record entry for "Galactic Football" because there were getting too many of them and my son wasn't hardly watching them - as a result about 20 episodes of it disappeared from my recorded programmes. (Also several other programmes suffered the same fate). Thanks guys