TV Season rules say

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Complete Series/Season - Use the year that the Series/Season was produced and first aired in its country of origin. TV series are typically spread over a date range for a season, for example 2002-2003, for DVD Profiler purposes this will be entered as the beginning of the season; from the example the entry would be 2002.

Anthologies of Episodes – The Production Year will be the date of the Earliest Episode

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Individual profiles for each disc may be submitted if desired, but this is not required. Add these profiles to the box set contents of the parent profile. Create each of these individual profiles in line with the standard Contribution Rules with one exception - Cover Images. If a disc, or set of discs, have their own case, use the cover images from that case. When submitting a change to an existing TV series profile that is currently a box set, do not remove the existing contents.

So when I have the sixth disc of a season. What's the production year of said disc?

What Addicted2DVD says is the way most of us do it.
Earliest airdate of the episodes per set of discs or of the individual discs.
For the series, the parent profile would take the date of earliest episode in the set, I hope.
If profiling each disc in a series, each profile would take the earliest date of episodes on that disc.

Note that some media distributors of older TV series or best of series like Koch, Timeless Media Group, Classic Media, etc. may not order the episodes on the disc in the order that they were aired. Some research may be necessary to find actual air dates.

Also some UK TV series may not follow in order of air dates and not necessarily released on a seasonal basis like USA TV series, but are released in what they call sets or volumes, etc. But the same rules apply.

Huh, that was a bit of an anti-climax.

All of my contributions had a lot of yes votes and all of them had two no votes. Some of them were accepted, some of them weren't. No decline statement given.

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What should I make of that?

Karsten:

here's the problem I see and if I did vote on it I should have caught it at the time.  The disc set provides NO AIRDATE information, you say that the shows were aired in 2007, and they probably were, but since there is no airdate info in the set, unless I didn't copy the Overview infor right (unlikely, but anything is possible), you provide nothing to back up your claim. If i were a screener I too would have rejected it on that basis. This thread does nothing for verification that the first episode of Disc 5 or 6 was in 2007.

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But per Rules we use the Airdate for TV series just like per Rules we use the Theatrical Release date for movies.

Quoting dee1959jay:

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Exactly. The production year is irrelevant, even though that's what the DVDP field is called. I wish Invelos would finally change the field name!

I agree with this.  The current label for the field vs the usage for the field do not match.

I would be against that for accuracy sake. But my findings is the total opposite of yours. It seems that the Original air date is on most of the sets I have... whether it is on the case or in the booklet that came with the set.

Hmm, have to check my tv-series boxes again, but I could remember only few of them having airdates given in the booklet or on the back.

As long as the information is somewhere on the disc or the package I have nothing against having these informations, but Ken still should clarify the field / the use of the field.