Duplicate podcast subscriptions

After moving my iTunes library from computer to computer over the past several years, I've ended with with some podcast subscriptions that show up twice in my podcasts library.
Each subscription contains different episodes, so the actual podcasts aren't duplicated, but the podcast subscription appears twice.
so for example, I have:
KCRW's today's top tune
episode 5/6/10
episode 4/22/10
etc.
KCRW's today's top tune
12/15/06
12/14/06
etc.
is there any way to combine these so I can manage them as a single subscription?

Here is a previous thread on this topic. http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11054406#11054406
You'll need to find a Mac equivalent to mp3tag able to tweak the relevant fields.
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Technically I know the reason why this is happening. It is because the podcast author at some point have changed the URL feed for their podcast. So some episodes come from an old URL location and some from the new location.
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If you mean a duplicated series?
Grouping podcasts
A podcast series will split up in this way when its feed is moved to a new URL. Merging the series requires editing all the older episodes so that they appear to have come from the current feed. Download and install Mp3Tag (not sure of a Mac equivalent offhand). Use it to explore the Extended tags of podcasts from the same series. PODCASTURL (formerly ITUNESPODCASTURL) is used to link different podcasts from the same subscription (as opposed to fields like Album & Album Artist etc.) and PODCASTID (formerly ITUNESPODCASTID) determines the order. Everything else seems to be optional. Backup your files, tweak a few a tags then highlight the changed files in turn in iTunes with the image pane set to Selected item. This is marginally quicker for small numbers of files than using select, Get Info, OK to get iTunes to refresh its knowledge of the tags. Erm, last I checked the method no longer works anyway. If iTunes still fails to notice the updated tags try my script UpdateTagInfo (Win).
As far as I'm aware the order is determined by the PODCASTID, but if you need/want to modify the Release Date then in MP3Tag/Extended Tags it corresponds to RELEASETIMEin the format yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ, e.g. 2008-02-20T09:10:52Z
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Create a smart playlist with the rule Podcast is true, display exact duplicates, and then apply my DeDuper script.
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