Blog series and lists

I have a unique situation that I am looking for suggestions on or just to see if there is any other interest in adding something like this. I am looking for a couple of ways to do the following:

1) Organizable archives - visit http://www.flophousepodcast.com/episodes/episode-index/ for a view of doing this. This site is WP so I have no idea how this is setup in the back end. This podcast has 3 different ways of viewing their episodes. It'd be nice to be able to do something like this in Easyblog without building a TON of categories.

2) Setup a blog series option - visit http://www.causticsodapodcast.com/2015/04/27/ivan-the-terrible-part-1/ for a view of doing this. See how there is: This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Evil Men In History which has a full link at: http://www.causticsodapodcast.com/series/evil-men-in-history/
I believe this would have to be built into Easyblog to function. But a category wouldn't work because then you'd eliminate those entries from all other categories. Tagging also wouldn't work because there'd be no way to number the items in the series.

Any ideas how to accomplish the above?