Changing infomation for multiple video files in itunes

I have been converting TV episodes to play on my iPod touch and when I add them into the iTunes catalog it considers them "movies".
If I “get info” on a single file and go to the "Video" tab, I have the options to select "Video Kind" (the options are Movie, Music Video and TV show) and the option to enter the name of the show. However, if I select several videos and "get info" iTunes gives me the standard choices for changing the identity tags... the same as for a music file.
The best description I can figure to give this is an ID3 tag for video... anyhew, on to my question.
I have converted the full run of South Park (don't worry they were recorded digitally from TV and I am using them myself)and that is A LOT of episodes if I were to go into each file individually. Is there a way to select a number of video files and select "TV Show" and have them all marked with South Park as the show title?
Also, if I can't do it in iTunes, is there a 3rd party application that will allow me to do it.
Thanks for any help,
NOS

This shortcoming of iTunes has bothered many of us for a long time. All the TV shows I offload to DVD-R for space and then later bring back into iTunes become "Movie" again, and I have to fix each one. There is no way to batch-edit the Video Kind choice in iTunes.
The easiest workaround I've found is to select the first TV show in the playlist or library, Get Info, change the video kind to "TV Show," and then use the Next button. The Video Kind box will remain active, and you can press arrow-down on the keyboard to choose "TV Show" again. Click Next, arrow-down, click Next, arrow-down . . . Soon you will have fixed all the files in the list.
Now start at the top again and type "South Park" into the Show field. Copy the words. Click Next, and paste the words. Next, paste, Next, paste . . . Now you will have given all the shows the correct name.
Another oddness about this Video tab: See the box for episode number? ITunes doesn't use that in the TV Shows library. It uses the music track number on the General tab.

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