TV show special file seems to be named correctly, but won't match TVDB

I am trying to get Plex to match special #12 for the old Max Headroom TV show, but while it detects the file as special #12, it shows the wrong name.

This is the episode, Max Headroom’s Giant Christmas Turkey.(LOL)

https://thetvdb.com/series/max-headroom/episodes/7106423

My file name is:

Max Headroom - SP12 - Max Headroom’s Giant Christmas Turkey.mkv

(The first thing I tried was “S00E12” but that didn’t work, so I tried the alternate “SP12” mentioned in the documentation–no change.)

The show is apparently detected as season 0, episode 12:

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However, Plex shows the episode name as:

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future - Extended Cinemax Version

How can I name the file to get the right metadata into Plex? Is there a way to add an ID to a single TV episode filename, like we can do with movies?

(Changing the metadata in the Plex GUI would be second choice. I want all my files to work if I ever need to re-scan them.)

Change the Episode Ordering for the series to TheTVDB (Aired) in its advanced settings:

The default ordering (The Movie Database) doesn’t have that episode as a special.

That was easy… Thank you kindly! Somehow I have gotten by without that trick for a long time.

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