episode count too high

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On this page
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075584/fullcredits
Robert Urich appears to be out of order, because the count shows 8 episodes. But when expanded, he only has 7:

When I do a search, only 7 are found as well:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=tv_episode&series=tt0075584&role=nm0001810&view=simple

This happens on Chrome, Firefox and MS Edge, all on Windows 10.
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bderoes, Champion

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Phil G

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The eighth episode shows up on his name page under 'archive footage'. But I have no idea why it's counted but not shown in the series summary, and not listed via search.
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Hi there,

Thank you for your message.

Filmographies are ordered automatically on the site.

Whenever a filmography page is displayed, the order of the credits/categories is based on the number of titles in each one.

For example, if someone is credited as follows:

 2 titles as director
 5 titles as cinematographer
 1 as actor

Their listing will display the following order:

 1) cinematographer
 2) directing
 3) acting

Please note that TV episodes count as individual titles when counted.

Credits within each category are then listed in reverse chronological order (most recent ones at the top) based on the earliest known release date of each title.

When two categories have the same number of titles/credits, the one with the most recent credit appears first.

This automatic ordering isn't therefore meant to imply anything about the relative importance of the various credits. It's just a technical convention.

This is a software-dictated function which applies to all filmographies/credits stored in IMDb. For this reason, we regret that we cannot change the order of credits on a specific filmography page.

Please also note the above ordering rule only applies to filmographies displayed on IMDb.com. Filmography pages on IMDbPro.com allow greater flexibility and users can choose to see credits sorted in chronological order, by production status, by job, by title type (i.e. films, TV shows), by credited name etc.

Thank you for your understanding and please let us know if we can offer further assistance.
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Well, Jaime, you missed the entire point of this thread: 
The problem is NOT with filmography pages, but on the fullcredit page of a TITLE.
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As previously stated it is due to the credit being under Archive Footage for a special episode https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5217156/?ref_=nm_flmg_arf_4 as this was not a normal episode of the show and marked as such by archive footage it is counted separately

Thanks for your post!
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Jaime - you're still not addressing the fact that the fullcast page SAYS 8 credits, but only LISTS 7 credits.  Either the count should be 7, and Urich should be sorted in with the other 7's, or the count should be 8 and all 8 episodes display.