Exclude shows from Missing Episodes

[brothom 177]

I'm an avid user of the Missing Episodes feature. For those who don't know it, it can be found via Metadata Manager -> Views -> Missing Episodes. This section will then gather all the individual episodes that are missing from the shows on Emby.

Before 4.9.3.0, we could use the "Lock this item to prevent future changes" function on tv shows, so that they wouldn't appear in the Missing Episodes section.
Since 4.9.3.0, a bug has been fixed and now that functionality no longer works. Previous thread: 

.Considering I have many older digitized shows, of which I will probably never get the first seasons or only want the latest seasons or where the reporting (remote dataset) doesn't apply or is for another region.

For example I have a boxset of "How It's Made", containing 5 seasons. Missing Episodes now reports I'm missing 25 seasons, about 800 episodes, greatly polluting this view.
Not to mention other long running shows like South Park or Bold and the Beautiful.

Can we have a functionality to "skip missing episodes for this show" (via a checkbox or so)?

[CasualChuck 0]

First, thanks - I had no idea it could do this... then I completely agree - especially for a show like 60 minutes - I don't need to know I'm missing 50+ years of episodes.  And there are definitely others I would exclude from this list.

[brothom 177]

@LukeI've been thinking about this issue. What could also be an alternative is that the missing episodes overview doesn't list each specific episode initially, but lists the shows that have missing episodes. Having to scroll through a bunch of shows is a lot less data than thousands of separate missing episodes. Maybe that could become a seperate overview or maybe a filter option within Missing Episodes.

[Luke 42077]

18 hours ago, brothom said:

@LukeI've been thinking about this issue. What could also be an alternative is that the missing episodes overview doesn't list each specific episode initially, but lists the shows that have missing episodes. Having to scroll through a bunch of shows is a lot less data than thousands of separate missing episodes. Maybe that could become a seperate overview or maybe a filter option within Missing Episodes.

Yea that might be a better way of doing it.

[brothom 177]

On 19/01/2026 at 06:06, Luke said:

Yea that might be a better way of doing it.

I've been playing around with the Missing Episodes feature and tried to order the "latest" episode first using the following search:

/emby/Shows/Missing?IncludeItemTypes=Episode&Fields=BasicSyncInfo%2CCanDelete%2CCanDownload%2CPrimaryImageAspectRatio%2CProductionYear%2CStatus%2CEndDate%2CPremiereDate%2CUserDataPlayCount&StartIndex=0&SortBy=PremiereDate&SortOrder=Descending&Recursive=true&GroupItemsIntoCollections=true&Limit=50&EnableTotalRecordCount=false&UserId=d7c676b8cd1c4fd1839b52963e3c86a7&X-Emby-Client=Emby+Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Google+Chrome+Windows&X-Emby-Device-Id=XXX&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.3.14&X-Emby-Token=XXX&X-Emby-Language=en

Specifically "&SortBy=PremiereDate&SortOrder=Descending". Using any type of SortOrder doesn't seem to work on this endpoint, on none of the fields.

The Metadata Manager itself uses the following by default: "&SortBy=SeriesSortName,ParentIndexNumber,IndexNumber,SortName&SortOrder=Ascending" but changing that to Descending doesn't seem to do much either. Being able to sort the Missing Episodes table would also be a great QoL addition.

I'm also pretty sure most people aren't even aware of this feature at all and with some care it could be the feature to break through on users on the other platforms that don't have this feature.

[Daboose 3]

Agree. Would love to see an ability to sort them by the current series first for all missing in current then by remaining, else be able to only show missing episodes for current seasons only. I use the complete list all the time, but once you have show like south park or the graham norton show, its endless pages of scrolling just looking for the change in show poster graphic  I have 1000+ entries from shows in there from previous seasons i am not interested in seeing.