Playing home ripped TV Series on Apple TV through ITunes

I decided to transfer some of my older TV series I have on CD and DVD's to my ITunes, enabling me to just click on my Apple TV and rewatch episodes from ITunes (we never used to get digital copies in 'them days'!).
I transfered the TV series to ITunes after converting them with no problem (24 episodes so far using a 3rd party software) and updated all the info with series number and episode numbers. I can watch them on ITunes but can't even find them on my Apple TV!
I have all 24 episodes labeled as TV series and in ITunes, they appear under TV shows under one folder which expands when you click it to select each episode BUT the folder info will not change from music to TV shows. Each individual episode is listed as TV Show media (they wouldn't apear in the TV shows menu otherwise). i have tried countless times to change the folder info but it remaind music.
Does this mean, you can't play anything but bought TV shows from ITunes on Apple TV under the TV Series heading? I know I can just label each episode as a film and watch them under the Apple TV film menu BUT to make it all nice and neat (and I was thinking of ripping most of my old TV series to watch this way which would make scrolling through hundreds of episodes a bit of a mare!)
Is there anything I have missed or is Apple TV not capable of watching home ripped series through the TV series menu?
Thanks

I've sorted it! I was probably looking in the wrong place!!!!
You need to go to 'Computer', there will now be a new TV Series menu where you can select the series and then each episode!
Sorry to bother everyone!!!

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