Help in archiving an individual TV series in itunes

I erroneously bought the HD version of a TV series on my macbook. It is taking up an awful lot of space (33GB). I do not want to delete it - I will certainly watch it again - but I would like to archive it to DVD/CD until that time.
There are various (illegal) options to strip the material of DRM and burn it to DVD to watch on a player, but if I don't actually want to do that, just move it somewhere else how do I do that ? I can drag and drop it to alternate media, but after that do I just delete it ? or can I just delete the file, not the library entry.
I am sure this is probably fairly simple, but I just can't quite get my head around it, can anyone give me step by step instructions. I am worried that I will lose the content.
Thanks

techy-layman wrote:
... just move it somewhere else how do I do that ?
go preferences > advanced and point iTunes (temporarily) to the +alternate media+, such as an external HD.
select the file(s) in iTunes, right-click and choose +consolidate selection+. this will copy the selected content and when done, you can delete the original file to make room on your startup disk.
then, preferences > advanced and point iTunes back to the usual location.
I can drag and drop it to alternate media, but after that do I just delete it ?
never move files around using the finder. iTunes will lose track of its location and give you the dreaded "!".
or can I just delete the file, not the library entry.
this would result in a "!"
JGG

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