Sorting TV Show Episodes

When viewing a specific TV show's episodes in ITunes, they are sorted by episode number. However, FR insists on sorting episodes alphabetically. Is there a way to get FR to sort by episode number instead?
Thanks in advance for the help!

Solved my own problem.  After posting my question, I browsed through the "more like this" suggestions.  It seems my iPod is now sorting by Episode ID on the Video info tab.  And even though all of my tv episodes were purchased through iTunes, not all of the episode ids were correct.  Or even the same.  Some were just 1, 2, 3, etc. Others were 1, 2, 103, S1E4, S1E5, 106, 7, etc.  And some were just wrong, identifiying episode 3 of season 1 with the episode id of 104.  So I've corrected 2 seasons, synced them, and they synced in the correct order. 

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