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I've been thinking for a while about updating / altering (minorly) the TV infoboxes for the classic and new series:

Classic Series Infobox

{{{image}}}
{{{story name}}}
Series:	{{{series}}}
Season Number:	{{{number}}}
Story Number:	{{{story number}}}
Doctor:	{{{doctor}}}
Companions:	{{{companions}}}
Enemy:	{{{enemy}}}
Setting:	{{{year}}}
Writer:	{{{writer}}}
Director:	{{{director}}}
Producer:	{{{producer}}}
Broadcast:	{{{broadcast date}}}
Format:	{{{format}}}
Prod. Code:	{{{production code}}}
Previous Story:	{{{previous story}}}
Following Story:	{{{next story}}}

New Series Infobox

{{{image}}}
{{{story name}}}
Series:	{{{series}}}
Series Number:	{{{number}}}
Story Number:	{{{story number}}}
Doctor:	{{{doctor}}}
Companions:	{{{companions}}}
Enemy:	{{{enemy}}}
Setting:	{{{setting}}}
Writer:	{{{writer}}}
Director:	{{{director}}}
Producer:	{{{producer}}}
Broadcast:	{{{broadcast date}}}
Format:	{{{format}}}
Prod. Code:	{{{production code}}}
Previous Story:	{{{previous story}}}
Following Story:	{{{next story}}}

What's changed and Why?

Only two things would change is in the classic series infobox Series Number becomes Season Number: and there is the addition of Story Number. For the new series infobox Series Number stays the same, with the addition of Season Number: to the infobox. Additionally for the New Series infobox setting and the responding setting text has been changed to match (to avoid future confusion).

The current infobox (Template:Infobox TV) would continue to serve the classic series (with the changes and additions, though alternatively an infobox could be created called Template:Infobox ClasicTV and slowly changed over) and a new Template:Infobox NewTV would be created to service the new series.

Why?: The 'Series Number' area in the infoboxes seems to mean different things to differnt people, depending on who has edited, some people have it as story number, others season/series. So I'm hoping this will clear everything up. --Tangerineduel 12:57, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Examples

I've created both infoboxes as: Template:Infobox ClassicTV and Template:Infobox NewTV, and implemented them on Rose and The End of the World (NewTV) and Silver Nemesis (ClassicTV). --Tangerineduel 05:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)