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Did you leave during The End of Time and you want to get caught up on the show? You don't just want a plot summary - reading isn't the same is watching, but, gosh, it's a lot of TV to watch to get caught up. Look no further. This is a recommended viewing guide to catch up with the plot of the show since you left. You might miss some small things, but the big plot points are all gonna be hit by this guide, and it also mentions the episodes that people generally regard as standout hits in case you want to watch those as well.
Note: This list is for stories that get across the plot between The End of Time and the upcoming specials, irrelevant of episode quality.
Series 5: The Eleventh Hour, The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, (The last 5-10 minutes of Cold Blood), The Pandorica Opens, and The Big Bang
Series 6: (This is all perfectly skippable frankly) The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon, The Doctor's Wife (This is not necessary, but the episode is generally regarded as very good), (The last 5-10 minutes of The Almost People), A Good Man Goes to War, Let's Kill Hitler, The Girl Who Waited (One again, this is not necessary, but the episode is generally regarded as very good), and The Wedding of River Song
Series 7: Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Snowmen, The Bells of Saint John, The Name of the Doctor.
Two specials between Series 7 and Series 8: The Day of the Doctor, the 50th anniversary special, and The Time of the Doctor.
Series 8: Deep Breath, Listen (This is not necessary, but generally regarded as very good), Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline, Dark Water, Death in Heaven.
Series 9: Last Christmas, The Magician's Apprentice, The Witch's Familiar, The Girl Who Died, Face the Raven, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent.
Series 10: The Husbands of River Song (This is not strictly necessary, but it's generally liked, and it's helpful for both resolution for previous character beats and context for the next few episodes), The Pilot, Oxygen, Extremis, The Pyramid at the End of the World, The Lie of the Land, The Eaters of Light), World Enough and Time, The Doctor Falls.
Series 11: Twice Upon a Time, The Woman Who Fell to Earth, The Ghost Monument, Kerblam! (TV story).
Series 12: Spyfall part 1 and 2, Fugitive of the Judoon, The Haunting of Villa Diodati, Ascension of the Cybermen, The Timeless Children.
Series 13: This series is completely skippable with no consequences. Revolution of the Daleks, The Halloween Apocalypse, War of the Sontarans, Once, Upon Time, Village of the Angels, Survivors of the Flux, The Vanquishers.
The latest episode before the 60th specials: The Power of the Doctor, highly recommended!