ICloud loses individual episodes from TV Shows

I have converted TV Shows from DVD to the harddisk of my Mac using Handbrake, and uploaded them to the iCloud so I can watch them via Apple TV. Since my harddisk is pretty full I have transferred the media to a Synology NAS using TuneSpan. This usually works quite well, but every other day or so individual episodes are not on Apple TV. When I check my library I see a circle with an exclamation mark to the left of the episode - but strange enough only for some of them. The menu option "Add to iTunes" is also available for the episodes - actually for all of them (even those that are visible on Apple TV), even though I have added them to iTunes a long time ago. The iCloud seems to be very unstable, losing media all the time (not from my harddisk, but from the Cloud).
Any idea how to fix this problem?

Hi,
Itunes match is for music (and music videos purchased from iTunes store) only. Therefore the issue is not with iTunes Match as the TV shows will not have been uploaded to the cloud.
Jim

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