Q: Podcast Shows with no episodes

Your podcast is at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/saga-of-steve-rogers-podcast/id1112013503?mt =2

Your feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/SagaOfSteveRogersPodcast

Please always include these when you have a question to save detective work. Your feed appears to be OK: the episodes appear when subscribing in iTunes. This looks like another iTunes Store glitch - there have been a number of instances of episodes going missing. Go to Podcasts Connect, sign in, select your podcast and click 'Refresh Feed'. Give it time - the Store may take a day or two to update. If it doesn't work, contact Support and ask for a re-index: that may solve it. Go to https://itunespartner.apple.com/en/podcasts/overview and click the 'Contact Us' link at the bottom of the page.

If you go to the iTunes Store and click the 'Subscribe' button, then go to 'My Podcasts' you will see your podcast with all its episodes. When you subscribe the iTunes application reads the feed directly and the Store is not involved. Since this works, the problem is obviously with the Store, so you will need to contact Support and ask for a re-index. I should remove the test episode, it's not serving any useful purpose.

The feed validates at http://xmlgrid.net/validator.html which is the pickiest validator I've seen. I couldn't get it to validate in Podcasts Connect, though it works fine when subscribing in iTunes.

I'm convinced it's a problem with the iTunes Store, not your feed: I can only suggest you go back to them and insist on escalating it if they're not helpful. Referring you back here isn't going to solve anything.

Further to the above, though the feed validates at the link I gave above it doesn't in feedvalidator.org because the URLs for both your image and your media files begin with https. This doesn't seem to affect the iTunes application; it used to upset the Store but more recently that seemed to be able to cope. However it's not a good idea and may be upsetting the validator. You can change the https to http - the URL still works when you do that.

This suggests that possibly the problem in the Store lies only in whether or not it copes with https - originally it didn't, then it seemed to, so for all I know it's reverted to not coping.

http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FS agaOfSteveRogersPodcast

Your feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/SagaOfSteveRogersPodcast not the URL you quote.

It might be helpful if you posted the other feed URL just for comparison.

I've now accessed your blogspot page and re-examined the Feedburner feed. The URLs in the 'enclosure' tags are http: it's the meddia content tags which have https and these don't matter (these are the ones that show when the feed is viewed in Feedburner, hence the confusion).

So we're back where we started. Forget about the https issue. I still think there's a problem with both the Podcasts Connect validator and a separate problem with the Store (not an uncommon one) and the Store staff are looking at the first and assuming that it's the cause of the second.

Of course I'm running on guesswork here because obviously I don't have access to the Store to find out what's going on. I can only suggest you conctact them again and ask them firmly to re-index your feed. Similar problems have been cleared by doing this.