Move downloaded TV shows?

The hard drive on my computer is filling up. I want to move episodes of TV Shows that I have bought in iTunes off the hard drive and on to an ext. drive. Can this be done? If 'yes', how?

I presume I won't be able to watch the shows on my desktop computer unless or until I upgrade to iTunes 7? Right?
Right.
Can you watch them directly from a CD or DVD that you would burn, or do you have to put them back on the hard drive before you can watch them?
The show/movie must be in the iTunes library and the system authorized with the iTunes Store to be able to play the video. While it's possible that you could do this directly from the CD/DVD, it might be awkward, and your may have playback problems due to the slow (relative to a hard drive) speed of CD and DVD drives.
Finally, this may help:
iTunes: How to copy music between authorized computers
Though it refers to iTMS purchased music, it applies to all your content. And if you happen to also own an iPod:
How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer

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My problem:
I do not have much free Hard Drive space on the older laptop that I currently have iTunes running on. Everytime I open iTunes on my laptop it starts downloading the very large movie and TV show files and I do not have enough hard drive space for them and I do not want them now that I have alredy watched them.
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