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      "url": "https://www.syfy.com/chucky",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "episodes",
      "title": "Chucky episode inventory and air dates",
      "url": "https://epguides.com/Chucky/",
      "kind": "Secondary index",
      "note": "24 episode titles and original air dates; these are not story dates."
    },
    {
      "id": "film3",
      "title": "Child’s Play 3: eight-year interval",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_3",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Cross-check for eight years after the second film."
    },
    {
      "id": "early",
      "title": "Charles Lee Ray flashback chronology",
      "url": "https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3694274/childs-play-timeline-chucky-taught-us-charles-lee-rays-early-years-final-days/",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Early events from television flashbacks; year claims remain qualified without direct frame inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel2",
      "title": "Child’s Play 2 novel edition",
      "url": "https://openlibrary.org/isbn/0515104345",
      "kind": "Library catalogue",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel3",
      "title": "Child’s Play 3 novel edition",
      "url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7657244M/Child%27s_Play_3",
      "kind": "Library catalogue",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "innovation",
      "title": "Innovation’s licensed Child’s Play comics",
      "url": "https://www.beckett.com/news/cbcs-horror-movie-covers-childs-play/",
      "kind": "Secondary index",
      "note": "Film adaptations, five-issue original series and Hack/Slash crossover."
    },
    {
      "id": "gcd",
      "title": "Grand Comics Database: Child’s Play 2 #2",
      "url": "https://www.comics.org/issue/250234/?display=list",
      "kind": "Secondary index",
      "note": "Original 1991 adaptation publication record."
    },
    {
      "id": "ddp",
      "title": "Chucky: four-issue Devil’s Due series",
      "url": "https://comicvine.gamespot.com/chucky/4050-22917/",
      "kind": "Secondary index",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "ddp2",
      "title": "Devil’s Due second volume publication gap",
      "url": "https://childsplay.fandom.com/wiki/Chucky_%28Devil%27s_Due_Publishing_Comics%29",
      "kind": "Secondary lead",
      "note": "Only the first second-volume issue was published; planned later issues are excluded pending evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "shorts",
      "title": "Short-form Child’s Play inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_%28franchise%29",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "DVD Vacation Slides and four Chucky Invades shorts; no calendar placement asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "mashups",
      "title": "Chucky Invades: original producer portfolio",
      "url": "https://vimeo.com/134875653",
      "kind": "Primary creator",
      "note": "Four commissioned Universal-film mashups, with original Movieclips link."
    },
    {
      "id": "slash",
      "title": "Slash & Dash: licensed developer interview",
      "url": "https://entertainment-focus.com/2013/11/03/chucky-slash-dash-interview/",
      "kind": "Creator interview",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd",
      "title": "Behaviour: Chucky chapter",
      "url": "https://deadbydaylight.com/game/chapters/chucky/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "funko",
      "title": "Funko Fusion: Chucky’s Hide-and-Seek quest",
      "url": "https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/406253-funko-fusion/faqs/82238/chuckys-hide-and-seek",
      "kind": "Secondary gameplay",
      "note": "Verified work or publication metadata; not a substitute for an interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "collection",
      "title": "Verified Amazon seven-film edition",
      "url": "https://www.thepopverse.com/chucky-movie-collection-deal-black-friday-2023",
      "kind": "Retail link cross-check",
      "note": "Product B0C2D764JP; edition contents cross-checked with Universal. No historic prices reproduced."
    },
    {
      "id": "s2christmas",
      "title": "SYFY: Chucky Actually — official finale recap",
      "url": "https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/chucky-season-2-finale-recap-chucky-actually",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Christmas Eve setting verified; does not establish an exact fictional year."
    },
    {
      "id": "s3-flashback",
      "title": "SYFY: season 3 episode 3 — January and May flashbacks",
      "url": "https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/chucky-season-3-episode-3-recap-jennifers-body",
      "kind": "Primary broadcaster recap",
      "note": "The ongoing season approaches Halloween; episode 3 explicitly revisits last January, Chucky’s route into the White House and Lexy’s May prison visit."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Chucky: Wanna Play?",
      "type": "Cancelled game",
      "status": "Not a released narrative",
      "note": "Cancelled project; not counted as a published game.",
      "sources": [
        "slash"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Wrestling appearances, stage shows and licensed attractions",
      "type": "Narrative promotional leads",
      "status": "Coverage / script audit pending",
      "note": "WCW and WWE appearances and Universal’s Chucky shows need individual video and license checks. Not assigned film dates from their performance dates.",
      "sources": [
        "shorts"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Manga, original audio dramas and additional novels",
      "type": "Coverage check",
      "status": "No additional verified entry in this edition",
      "note": "Novel audiobook formats and film commentaries are editions/extras, not automatically new stories.",
      "sources": [
        "novel2",
        "novel3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-07",
    "status": "Research edition — open verification gaps",
    "checks": [
      "Seven original films, separate 2019 reboot, three seasons and all 24 episodes inventoried.",
      "Two Costello novels; two three-issue movie adaptations; five Innovation original issues; four Devil’s Due issues and one published volume-two issue checked.",
      "Four Chucky Invades shorts, Vacation Slides, Slash & Dash and both licensed crossover games indexed.",
      "Child’s Play 3’s story interval separated from its 1991 release; reboot does not share Charles Lee Ray’s origin.",
      "Season 3 main story compacted as episodes 1–8; the episode 3 January–May flashback is separately visible. No story-time jump inferred from the broadcast hiatus."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Full comic interiors, backups and possible letters-page narratives remain uninspected. Issue inventory is not a complete short-story date audit.",
      "Television calendar years conflict across dialogue, props and creator statements; this edition uses post-Cult / season-relative ordering.",
      "Direct frame audit of film years and individual promotional viewing links remains open.",
      "Exact Amazon television and out-of-print comic editions still require product verification; source links are provided meanwhile."
    ]
  }
}