User:CmdrDan/Improve List of Colbert Episodes

Episodes v Specials
Can someone please explain how a "special" differs from an "episode" and how how these specials are indicated.

As of this writing the episode list says there have been 9 specials.

Here's the source of of the 9 specials, the num_episodes fields from the television season Infobox:
 * 2015 | num_episodes = 62
 * 2106 | num_episodes = 203 (and 1 special)
 * 2017 | num_episodes = 197 (and 1 special)
 * 2018 | num_episodes = 205 (and 1 special)
 * 2019 | num_episodes = 187
 * 2020 | num_episodes = 164 (and 3 specials)
 * 2021 | num_episodes = 75 (and 3 specials)

Here are the snippets from each of the seven Infoboxes (from each of the episode years) in which you can see the number of episodes and specials.