The Christmas story is not the bonus beside it
Acorn places a Christmas Special after the six ordinary entries in its series 2 group. It then separately labels A Day Out With Detectorists as behind-the-scenes material. The adjacent placement does not make them the same kind of programme.
For fictional continuity, keep the special as a story entry and the production item as a companion. A numbered list can include both without claiming that an interview or set visit is another event in Andy and Lance’s fictional lives.
Movie Special is a separate catalogue group
The publisher supplies Detectorists Movie Special alongside its series 1–3 selector. That identifies a distinct item group. The word movie in this packaging does not itself establish an unrelated cinema production or another complete ordinary season.
Use the full special title when requesting it. A generic Episode 1 label is too weak because each series or special group can begin its own numbering. Preserve the parent group with the item so that a search or recording request remains meaningful.
Bonus titles can inflate a raw episode total
The series 1 group includes Discovering Detectorists, while series 3 includes Welcome to the Clubhouse and Mum’s the Word as bonuses. Counting every catalogue row as a fictional episode would mix different scopes.
For a completeness check, separate ordinary stories, story specials and production extras. A distributor may legitimately omit bonuses while offering the main narrative. Conversely, finding a bonus does not establish that the story it discusses is present in full.
Use actual edition evidence for dates and order
A current upload date does not identify when a special was originally made. If a precise chronological position matters, use the special’s own publisher record and story description rather than infer a new edition from the upload.
The programme follows the Danebury Metal Detecting Club, with Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones among its leads. Those facts establish a fictional comedy context, not an instructional detecting course. Acorn’s catalogue establishes the groupings described here; it does not establish identical Canadian packaging, current entitlement or every bonus through IPTV Canada.
Sources and scope
Scope notes distinguish published documentation, supplied information and editorial methods. They do not report a hands-on service test.
- Acorn Detectorists catalogue — Actual series1–3, Christmas story, MovieSpecial grouping and separately labelled bonuses; no unsupported precise special dates.
