Is there a way to temporarily stop series recording without having to delete the series?
If it's a show that's always repeats, change the series to "New episodes only".
Or you can just pick the episodes you don't want to record. Then select delete recording (not delete series).
Works ok if you just want to do a few. But if it is daily and you want to suspsend for a long time, then you have to do multiple deletes.