Is there a way to autoplay a show by date aired?

I’ve been trying to find out if there is a way to have the autoplay feature play episodes in order by the date that they aired. I’ve seen several forums that say the On-Deck feature works this way, but autoplay doesn’t. I have a large collection of Doctor Who, and there are many specials and minisodes that aired between seasons, but autoplay skips over them and starts the next season. In order to watch the series in its true order, I have to go back to the main page, and play each episode from On-Deck, which is incredibly inconvenient.

If On-Deck already has this functionality, I don’t see how it could be difficult to extend this feature to autoplay.

Has anybody figured out a workaround for this?

The only way I have found to do this is create a playlist on your Plex server and sort it by date. This way the episodes play in that order. I had to do this for my CW series because I was so far behind and wanted to make sure I watched them in the correct order for the cross-over.