TV Show Battlestar Galactica 2003 - In Season Specials for Episodes

I have always been told that tv show specials have to all be under S00 / specials etc. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220707-naming-tv-show-specials/

However, that confuses me when it comes to Battlestar Galactica. I have ripped my entire series collection of Battlestar Galactica (2003). On TVDB it shows multiple in season specials where the episode is marked as “special.” I’m curious on how this works … am I still going to have to put all these in season specials under S00 / specials? https://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73545
Or is now a way to add them an in season special?

Perhaps I need to continue to it the way always have, but TVDB has more features / function that PLEX currently does?

all specials go into the Specials / Season 00 folder. You’ll notice that those specials in TheTVDB are also showing up in the Specials section. However they have a “aired before episode X” information set, so TheTVDB will display them in line with the regular episodes as well. Plex might consider this when picking the next episode for auto-play but it’s not actually displaying the specials inline with the other episodes.

@tom80H said:
all specials go into the Specials / Season 00 folder. You’ll notice that those specials in TheTVDB are also showing up in the Specials section. However they have a “aired before episode X” information set, so TheTVDB will display them in line with the regular episodes as well. Plex might consider this when picking the next episode for auto-play but it’s not actually displaying the specials inline with the other episodes.

Thanks for the explanation! This answers my questions.

@tom80H said:
Plex might consider this when picking the next episode for auto-play but it’s not actually displaying the specials inline with the other episodes.

PLEX will not auto-play specials. However, PLEX will queue them up OnDeck.
More here…
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1488320/#Comment_1488320

Stupid that it shows up in on-deck, but not in auto-play.

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