Problem importing video to iTunes

So I have an entire season of a TV show that I've actually had on iTunes before and I've been able to put in some of the episodes but not all of them...I was wondering if there might be something in my settings that is preventing them from being added or if maybe some might not be converted to ipod format. I've done the add file to list and folder (for the season) to list, but only a few will come up, so I made those TV shows (they came up as movies of course) but can't get the rest of my episodes on there, making watching the show very frustrating. Again, I'v had the entire season on here before (my computer crashed but I had the DVD disc so i just did the samwe thing again).
Ideas?

Hey guidozero,
Great question. In first section of the article you are referencing, the screenshot is actually of iPhoto; a photo-managing software that comes pre-installed on Mac computers.
You can import photos from your iPhone on Windows computer in a very similar matter, utilizing Windows Photo Gallery. The steps to do so are outlined in the same article.
Cheers,
Matt M.

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