diff --git a/couchpotato/core/plugins/renamer.py b/couchpotato/core/plugins/renamer.py
index d0720d0..df25fca 100755
--- a/couchpotato/core/plugins/renamer.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/plugins/renamer.py
@@ -885,7 +885,9 @@ Remove it if you want it to be renamed (again, or at least let it try again)
                 #If information is not available, we don't want the tag in the filename
                 replaced = replaced.replace('<' + x + '>', '')
 
-        replaced = self.replaceDoubles(replaced.lstrip('. '))
+        if self.conf('replace_doubles'):
+           replaced = self.replaceDoubles(replaced.lstrip('. '))       
+        
         for x, r in replacements.items():
             if x in ['thename', 'namethe']:
                 replaced = replaced.replace(six.u('<%s>') % toUnicode(x), toUnicode(r))
@@ -1343,6 +1345,14 @@ config = [{
                     'options': rename_options
                 },
                 {
+                    'advanced': True,                
+                    'name': 'replace_doubles',
+                    'type': 'bool',
+                    'label': 'Consider Missing Data',
+                    'description': 'Attempt to clean up double separaters due to missing data for fields',
+                    'default': True 
+                },
+                {
                     'name': 'unrar',
                     'type': 'bool',
                     'description': 'Extract rar files if found.',