Storing TV Shows Downloaded from iTunes on External Drive?

My HP has about 137 GB of storage available and I am now using almost 130 GB. 60 GB is for several TV shows and movies I have downloaded. (Entire 1st year of Six Feet Under, West Wing and Mad Men plus Godfather, Animal House, etc.)
What I want to do is store these items on an external drive and access them only when needed. The saving to the external drive went well, but now I have three questions:
1. How do I take the TV Shows out of iTunes/my hard drive to free up space?
2. I have an iPod Touch and iPhone for my wife. How do I sync these machines so that some or all of a series of TV shows is captured on the devices? (I intend to leave my music in the iTunes library as well as photos etc., if possible to do so and still sync.)
3. I accidentally deleted several episodes of a program from my iTunes library -- is it possible to get these back without buying them a second time?
Thanks in advance
Kerry

1) Hey there, I think the best way for your case is to use 2 separate itunes libraries.
One for TV/movies and a second for music/podcasts/etc.
So use this article to create a new itunes library _on your exHD_ - meaning, the actual ITL file you create _is on the exHD with movies_. Post back if you do not understand this important part. Otherwise you are going to have a big mixup of library files on your C: drive, I think.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/8.0/en/15502.html
It will show up as a blank library, and then you just drag the movie/TV folders over to it fro WIndows Explorer.
Once you are sure that new library is working OK, you can delete them from your original itunes library. In itunes just highlight them, and press delete.
Don't delete them from your actual C: hard drive until you have made sure everything is OK!
And you might consider burning them to a DVD data disk - it's risky having one copy of purchases.
Even exHDs can fail.
Message was edited by: Katrina S.

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