Can I move a TV Show to an external drive without losing it?

I have a 60 GB video iPod and a MacBook with a 120 GB hard drive. I have 9 GB of TV show files that I'd like to keep but I don't need them on my hard drive because I doubt that I'd watch them again anytime soon (the packrat in me won't let me just delete files that I paid for at the iTunes store). Can I just copy the folder for that show to an external hard drive and delete it from my MacBook? and import it back into the library if I wanted to watch it at some time in the future?

Thanks-I was pretty sure that was the case, and it would be no loss in this case, but it helps for future reference.

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