Preventing video podcasts from filling up my iPhone memory

I like to download video podcasts into iTunes so that I can watch them later on my computer, but I don't want them syncing onto my iPhone and using up all of it's memory.  Is there a way to keep them in iTunes without having them transfer onto my phone or even better, allow me to transfer only one or two of them onto my phone and keep the rest in iTunes?

Hi there Dave in Anacortes,
I sounds like you may need to manually manage your Podcasts. Take a look at the article below for more information.
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
-Griff W.

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