List of Thanksgiving television specials explained
The following is a list of Thanksgiving television specials in the United States and Canada. Unless otherwise stated, these are episodes of established television series or one-off specials that are rerun annually.
Events not specifically made for television (e.g. parades, theatrical films, unscripted sporting events) are not included in this list; professional wrestling pay-per-view specials, because they are scripted and made primarily for television, are included in this list.
Children's/family
Fwendsgiving (2023)
- Francine's Pilfered Paper (2007)
- An Arthur Thanksgiving (2020)
The Cartoon Network Minecraft Show
- Turkey Trouble (2016)
- Robot Jones' Black Friday Shopping (2017)
- Yumi's Thanksgiving (2021)
- The Turkey Stain (2022)
- The Turkey Problem! (2023)
- The Loudest Thanksgiving (2018)
- The Loud House Thanksgiving Special (2022)
- Cursed (2020)
- Tennessee You Later: A Very Loud Road Trip (2024)
Max & Ruby
- Max's Thanksgiving (2004)
- Max and Ruby Give Thanks (2012)
Peanuts (Charlie Brown)
- Turkey on the Town / Friendship Feast (2019)
- Pups on Parade / Pop's Promise (2020)
- A Very Berry Friendship Feast / Nature Pillow Pups (2022)
- A Sesame Street Thanksgiving (2018)
- See Us Coming Together (2021)
- Thanksgiving (2014)
- Thanksgetting (2017)
- A Doom Patrol Thanksgiving (2021)
- The Wishbone (2023)
Action/adventure series
- Season 1, Episode 10: "Chuck Versus the Nemesis" (2007)
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Chuck Versus the Gravitron" (2008)
- Season 4, Episode 10: "Chuck Versus the Leftovers" (2010)
American drama series
7th Heaven
American Dreams
Dirty Sexy Money
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
ER
- ER: "ER Confidential" (1994)
- ER: "Great Expectations" (1999)
- ER: "Rescue Me" (2000)
- ER: "Freefall" (2003)
- ER: "Scoop and Run" (2006)
Everwood
- Everwood: "A Thanksgiving Tale" (2002)
- Everwood: "Unhappy Holidays" (2003)
Family
- Family: "A Tale Out of Season" (1977)
- Family: "Generations" (1978)
- Family: "Thanksgiving" (1979)
Felicity
Grey's Anatomy
Hawaii Five-0
House M.D.
Mad Men
Melrose Place
- Melrose Place: "Cold Turkey" (1993)
- Melrose Place: "The Days of Wine and Vodka" (1994)
NCIS franchise
- NCIS: "Child's Play" (2009)
- NCIS: "Sins of the Father" (2011)
- NCIS: "Shell Shock (Part II)" (2012)
- NCIS: "Grounded" (2014)
- : "Chasing Ghosts" (2014)
- NCIS: "Blood Brothers" (2015)
- : "Billy and the Kid" (2015)
- NCIS: "Enemy Combatant" (2016)
- NCIS: "Ready or Not" (2017)
Once and Again
Private Practice
"Georgia on My Mind" (2012)
Promised Land
Providence
This Is Us
Touched by an Angel
The Waltons
- The Waltons: "The Thanksgiving Story" (1973)
- The Waltons: "The Waiting" (1979)
- A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain (1982) – TV movie
- A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993) – TV movie
- A Waltons Thanksgiving (2022) – TV movie
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Shibboleth" (November 22, 2000)
- Season 3, Episode 8: "The Indians in the Lobby" (November 21, 2001)
- Season 4, Episode 10: "Arctic Radar" (November 27, 2002)
Teen dramas
- 90210: "Smoked Turkey" (2011)
- The Carrie Diaries: "Endgame" (2015)
- Dawson's Creek: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1999)
- Degrassi: "Spiderwebs" (2013)
- : Thanksgiving (2019)
- Greek: "The Wish-Pretzel" (2009)
- Jack & Bobby: "Lost Boys" (2004)
- Life Unexpected: "Thanks Ungiven" (2010)
- One Tree Hill: "Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace" (2010)
- Scream Queens: "Thanksgiving" (2015)
- The Society: "Poison" (2019)
- Trinkets: "Same Time Last Year" (2020)
Beverly Hills, 90210
- Beverly Hills, 90210: "The Kindness of Strangers" (1992)
- Beverly Hills, 90210: "Radar Love" (1993)
- Beverly Hills, 90210: "Breast Side Up" (1995)
- Beverly Hills, 90210: "If I Had a Hammer" (1996)
- Beverly Hills, 90210: "You Say GoodBye, I Say Hello" (1998)
- Beverly Hills, 90210: "What's in a Name" (1999)
Gossip Girl
The O.C.
- The O.C.: "The Homecoming" (2003)
- The O.C.: "The Secret" (2003)
- The O.C.: "The Cold Turkey" (2006)
Party of Five
Pretty Little Liars
- Pretty Little Liars: "Taking This One to the Grave" (2014)
- Riverdale: "Chapter Sixty-Four: The Ice Storm" (2019)
- : "Chapter Eight: Bad Blood" (2022)
Comedy-drama
Ally McBeal
Desperate Housewives
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Ed
- Ed: "Something Old, Something New" (2000)
- Ed: "The New World" (2001)
- Ed: "The Proposal" (2003)
Gilmore Girls
- Gilmore Girls: Season 3, Episode 9: "A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving" (2002)
- Gilmore Girls: Season 6, Episode 10: "He's Slippin 'em Bread...Dig?" (2005)
Supernatural/sci-fi series
"Thanksgiving" (1986)
"Thanksgiving" (2017)
"Frankenturkey" (1996)
"Pangs" (1999)
"O Come, All Ye Thankful" (2018)
"In Case of Missed Communication" (2011)
"Thanksgiving" (2009)
"Tagumo Attacks!!!" (2018)
"Out of the Easy" (2015)
"The Leap Home" (Parts 1 and 2) (1990)
"Max in the City" (2000)
"The Last Car" (1986)
Into the Dark
Smallville
Supergirl
"Call to Action" (2018)
The Vampire Diaries
Sitcoms
- 2 Broke Girls: "And the Very Christmas Thanksgiving" (2011)
- 3rd Rock from the Sun (Season 2, Episode 10): "Gobble, Gobble, Dick, Dick" (1996)
- 9JKL: "Make Thanksgiving Great Again" (2017)
- Accidental Family: "What Is This - Thanksgiving or a Nightmare?" (1967)
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: "The Day After Thanksgiving" (1952)
- ALF (Season 3, Episodes 6&7): "Turkey in the Straw" (Parts 1 & 2) (1988)
- All in the Family: "The Little Atheist" (1975)
- Almost Perfect: "The Lost Weekend" (1995)
- The Ann Sothern Show: "The Thanksgiving Story" (1958)
- Archie Bunker's Place: "Thanksgiving Reunion" (1979)
- Babes: "The Thanksgiving Show" (1990)
- Baby Talk: "Cold Turkey" (1991)
- Bachelor Father: "Bentley's Double Play" (1959)
- Barney Miller: "Thanksgiving Story" (1977)
- Becker (Season 6, Episode 7): "Sister Spoils the Turkey" (2003)
- Ben and Kate: "Reunion" (2012)
- Better with You: "Better with Thanksgiving" (2010)
- Bewitched: "Samantha's Thanksgiving to Remember" (1967)
- Black-ish (Season 3, Episode 7): "Auntsgiving" (2016)
- Bob: "Mad Dog on 34th Street" (1992)
- The Bob Cummings Show: "Thanksgiving at Grandpa's" (1957)
- Boston Common: "Gobble, Gobble, Aggch!" (1996)
- The Boys Are Back: "Thanksgiving" (1994)
- The Brady Bunch: "The Un-Underground Movie" (1970)
- Café Americain: "... And Giblets for All" (1993)
- Call Me Kat: "Call Me Fancy Puffenstuff" (2022)
- Caroline in the City (Season 1, Episode 8): "Caroline and the Balloon" (1995)
- Carter Country: "Chicks and Turkeys" (1977)
- Charles in Charge: "The Loan Arranger" (1987)
- The Class: "The Class Gives Thanks" (2006)
- Clueless (Season 3, Episode 8): "Never P.E.T.A. Squirrel" (1998)
- Coach (Season 6, Episode 9): "It Came from New York" (1993)
- Common Law: "In the Matter of: Thanksgiving" (1996) - unaired
- Community (Season 4, Episode 5): "Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations" (2013)
- Complete Savages: "Thanksgiving with the Savages" (2004)
- The Cool Kids: "Thanksgiving at Murray's" (2018)
- Cosby (Season 3, Episode 10): "Turkey Day" (1998)
- Cuts: "The Turkey Triangle" (2005)
- Cybill: "They Shoot Turkeys, Don't They?" (1995)
- Daddy Dearest: "Thanks, But No Thanks" (1993)
- Dave's World: "Death and Mom Take a Holiday" (1993)
- Designing Women: "Perky's Visit" (1986)
- Diff'rent Strokes/Hello, Larry crossover: "Thanksgiving Crossover" (1979)
- The Donna Reed Show: "Guest in the House" (1958)
- Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (Season 2, Episode 4): "It's a Miracle..." (2012)
- The Drew Carey Show (Season 2, Episode 9): "Mimi's Day Parade" (1996)
- Drexell's Class: "The Best Thanksgiving Ever" (1991)
- Ellen (Season 4, Episode 10): "Kiss My Bum" (1996)
- Empty Nest: "Thanksgiving at the Westons'" (1992)
- Evening Shade: "The Thanksgiving Show" (1991)
- Everybody Hates Chris (Season 2, Episode 8): "Everybody Hates Thanksgiving" (2006)
- Family Matters (Season 8, Episode 11): "Chick-A-Boom" (1996)
- Family Ties: "No Nukes Is Good Nukes" (1982)
- Father Knows Best: "Thanksgiving Day" (1954)
- Fired Up: "Honey, I Shrunk the Turkey" (1997)
- Flo: "A Castleberry Thanksgiving" (1980)
- George & Leo: "The Thanksgiving Show" (1997)
- The Burns and Allen Show: "Thanksgiving" (1951)
- Go On: "Dinner Takes All" (2012)
- Going Places: "The Thanksgiving Show" (1990)
- Good Morning Miami: "A Kiss Before Lying" (2003)
- Good Times: "Grandpa's Visit" (1976)
- Good Luck Charlie: It's a Charlie Duncan Thanksgiving (2011)
- Grandfathered: "Gerald's Two Dads" (2015)
- The Grinder: "Giving Thanks, Getting Justice" (2015)
- Grown Ups: "Why Can't We Not Be Friends?" (1999)
- Guys Like Us: "A Turkey Too Far" (1998)
- Guys with Kids: "Thanksgiving" (2012)
- Hank: "Hanksgiving" (2009)
- Happy Days: "The First Thanksgiving" (1978)
- Happy Endings (Season 3, Episode 4): "More Like Stanksgiving" (2012)
- Happy Family: "Not Thanksgiving" (2003)
- Happy Hour: "Thanksgiving" (2006)
- Head of the Class: "Cold Turkey" (1986)
- Hello, Larry/Diff'rent Strokes crossover: "Thanksgiving Crossover" (1979)
- Home Economics (Season 2, Episode 8): "Two Thousand Pounds of Sand, $240" (2021)
- How to Be a Gentleman: "How to Upstage Thanksgiving" (unaired)
- I'm with Her: "Meet the Parent" (2003)
- In the House: "The Max Who Came to Dinner" (1996)
- It's All Relative: "Thanks, But No Thanks" (2003)
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs" (2013)
- The Jeff Foxworthy Show: "The Thanksgiving Episode" (1996)
- Jesse: "The Cheese Ship" (1998)
- The Jersey: "Thanksgiving Day" (2000)
- Joe's Life: "Parental Guidance Not Suggested?" (1993)
- Just Shoot Me! (Season 5, Episode 7): "The First Thanksgiving" (2000)
- Kate & Allie: "Thanksgiving" (1985)
- Kenan and Kel (Season 2, Episode 11): "Turkey Day" (1997)
- Kevin Can Wait (Season 2, Episode 9): "Cooking Up a Storm" (2017)
- Ladies Man: "Thanks for Nothing" (1999)
- The League (Season 3, Episode 8): "Thanksgiving" (2011)
- Less than Perfect: "Claude's Alternative Thanksgiving" (2003)
- Life's Work: "Gobbledegook" (1996)
- Listen Up: "Thanksgiving" (2004)
- Love & War: "I Love a Parade" (1993)
- Love That Girl!: "Thanks for Not Giving" (2013)
- Maggie Winters: "Angstgiving Day" (1998)
- Make Room for Daddy: "Thanksgiving Story" (1953)
- Malcolm in the Middle (Season 5, Episode 4): "Thanksgiving" (2003)
- Mama's Family: "An Ill Wind" (1986)
- Man with a Plan (Season 1, Episode 5): "Thanksgiving" (2016)
- Married People: "The Baby Cometh" (1990)
- Married to the Kellys: "The Apartment" (2003)
- Married... with Children (Season 11, Episode 6): "A Bundy Thanksgiving" (1996)
- Marry Me: "Thank Me" (2014)
- Master of None (Season 2, Episode 8): "Thanksgiving" (2017)
- The McCarthys: "Love, McCarthys Style" (2014)
- Me, Myself & I: "Thanksgiving" (2017)
- The Michael J. Fox Show: "Thanksgiving" (2013)
- The Millers (Season 2, Episode 8): "Papa Was a Rolling Bone" (2014)
- The Mindy Project (Season 1, Episode 6): "Thanksgiving" (2012)
- A Minute with Stan Hooper: "An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving" (2003)
- Mister Ed: "Ed the Pilgrim" (1962)
- Mister Peepers: "Thanksgiving Show" (1953)
- The Mommies: "Thanks, But No Thanksgiving" (1993)
- Mr. Belvedere: "The Letter" (1985)
- Mr. Rhodes: "The Thanksgiving Show" (1996)
- The Munsters: "Low-Cal Munster" (1964)
- My Two Dads: "Thanks for the Memories" (1989)
- The Nanny: "Oh, Say, Can You Ski?" (1998)
- Ned & Stacey: "Thanksgiving Day Massacre" (1995)
- The Neighborhood (Season 1, Episode 8): "Welcome to Thanksgiving" (2018)
- The New Adventures of Old Christine (Season 4, Episode 10): "Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?" (2008)
- The New Leave It to Beaver: "Thanksgiving Day" (1984)
- The New Normal: "Pardon Me" (2012)
- Normal, Ohio: "A Thanksgiving Episode" (2000)
- Oh Baby: "Family History" (1999)
- Our Miss Brooks: "Thanksgiving Show" (1953)
- Out of Practice: "Thanks" (2005)
- Outsourced: "Temporary Monsanity" (2010)
- Partners: "How Long Does It Take to Cook a 22-Pound Turkey?" (1995)
- Perfect Harmony: "Thanks-Talking" (2019)
- Perfect Strangers: "Wild Turkey" (1991)
- The Pride of the Family: "Thanksgiving Story" (1953)
- Quintuplets: "Thanksgiving Day Charade" (2004)
- The Real O'Neals (Season 2, Episode 5): "The Real Tradition" (2016)
- Rodney: "Thanksgiving" (2004)
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Season 4, Episode 9): "Love Means Having to Say You're Sorry" (1999)
- : "A Thanksgiving Story" (1993)
- : "Thanks For Giving" (1997)
- Scrubs (Season 1, Episode 9): "My Day Off" (2001)
- Seinfeld (Season 6, Episode 8): "The Mom and Pop Store" (November 17, 1994)
- Silver Spoons: "Voyage of the Darned" (Parts 1 and 2) (1984)
- Single Parents (Season 2, Episode 8): "Every Thursday Should Be Like This" (2019)
- Sister, Sister: "Thanksgiving in Hawaii" (Parts 1 and 2) (1995)
- Small Wonder: "Thanksgiving Story" (1986)
- Something So Right: "Something About Thanksgiving" (1996)
- Son of a Critch: "Thanksgiving" (2024)
- Still Standing (Season 1, Episode 9): "Still Thankful" (2002)
- Suddenly Susan: "Cold Turkey" (1996)
- Sunnyside: "Too Many Lumpies" (2019)
- Superior Donuts (Season 2, Episode 4): "Thanks for Nothing" (2017)
- Thanks: "Thanksgiving" (1999)
- That Girl: "Thanksgiving Comes But Once a Year, Hopefully" (1967)
- Thea: "Mama, I'm Full" (1993)
- 'Til Death: "The Courtship of Eddie's Parents" (2009)
- Titus: "The Perfect Thanksgiving" (2000)
- The Tony Danza Show: "Thanks...But No Thanksgiving" (1998)
- The Torkelsons: "Thanksgivingmesomething" (1991)
- Townies: "Thanksgiving" (1996)
- Twins: "Sister's Keeper" (2005)
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: "Kimmy Finds Her Mom" (2016)
- The Unicorn (Season 1, Episode 8): "Turkeys and Traditions" (2019)
- Union Square: "Jack Gets a Hot Tip" (1997)
- Up All Night (Season 2, Episode 7): "Thanksgiving" (2012)
- Veep: "Thanksgiving" (Season 5, Episode 5) (May 22, 2016)
- What's Happening!!: "Mama The School Girl" (1977)
- Who's the Boss? (Season 2, Episode 9): "Thanksgiving at Mrs. Rossini's" (1985)
- WKRP in Cincinnati (Season 1, Episode 7): "Turkeys Away" (October 30, 1978)
- Woops!: "The Thanksgiving Show" (1992)
- Workaholics (Season 2, Episode 10): "6 Hours Till Hedonism II" (2011)
- Yes, Dear (Season 2, Episode 9): "Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner" (2001)
- Season 1, Episode 11: "Paul Meets His Match" (2002)
- Season 2, Episode 8: "The First Thanksgiving" (2003)
- Season 3, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving Guest" (aka "Thanksgiving") (2004)
- Season 2, Episode 6: "If You Like Pilgrim Coladas" (November 17, 1988)
- Season 6, Episode 9 & 10 (two-part episode): "Faith, Hope and Charity" (November 12, 1992)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "The Turkey Bowl" (2001)
- Season 2, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving Confidential" (2002)
- Season 3, Episode 11: "The Empty Gesture" (2003)
- Season 4, Episode 8: "The Hunters" (2004)
- Season 3, Episode 9: "Who Ordered the Hot Turkey?" (1978)
- Season 7, Episode 6: "Alice's Turkey of a Thanksgiving" (1982)
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Parents Just Don't Understand" (2004)
- Season 4, Episode 8: "My Two Dads" (2006)
- Season 1, Episode 6: "The Blow-Up" (2016)
- Season 2, Episode 7: "Family Secrets" (2017)
- Season 2, Episode 7: "Tryptophan-tasy" (2002)
- Season 3, Episode 22: "Thanksgiving" (2004)
- Season 1, Episode 9: "Elly's First Date" (1962)
- Season 2, Episode 10: "Turkey Day" (1963)
- Season 7, Episode 10: "The Thanksgiving Spirit" (1968)
- Season 7, Episode 9: "The Thanksgiving Decoupling" (November 21, 2013)
- Season 9, Episode 9: "The Platonic Permutation" (November 19, 2015)
- Season 2, Episode 9: "Family Dynamics and a Red Fiero" (November 15, 2018)
- Season 3, Episode 11: "An American Family" (November 23, 1974)
- Season 4, Episode 11: "Over the River and Through the Woods" (November 22, 1975)
- Season 4, Episode 10: "Turkey Day" (1996)
- Season 5, Episode 8: "Chasing Angela-Part II" (1997)
- Season 1, Episode 10: "Thanksgiving" (November 26, 2013)
- Season 2, Episode 7: "Lockdown" (November 16, 2014)
- Season 3, Episode 8: "Ava" (November 22, 2015)
- Season 4, Episode 7: "Mr. Santiago" (November 22, 2016)
- Season 5, Episode 7: "Two Turkeys" (November 21, 2017)
- Season 2, Episode 23: "Gobba, Gobba" (1985)
- Season 4, Episode 21: "Thanksgiving" (1987)
Cheers
- Season 5, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving Orphans" (November 27, 1986)
- Season 11, Episode 8: "Ill-Gotten Gaines" (November 19, 1992)
- Season 1, Episode 10: "Bon Jour, Sondra" (November 22, 1984)
- Season 6, Episode 9: "Cliff's Wet Adventure" (November 16, 1989)
- Season 1, Episode 9: "Here Comes My Girl" (2009)
- Season 2, Episode 9: "When the Time Comes" (2010)
- Season 3, Episode 13: "It'll All Work Out" (2012)
Dharma & Greg
- Season 1, Episode 10: "The First Thanksgiving" (1997)
- Season 3, Episode 10: "Thanksgiving Until It Hurts" (1999)
- Season 5, Episode 9: "Wish We Weren't Here" (2001)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving Culture Clash" (2015)
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Allison's Thanksgiving Meltdown" (2016)
- Season 1, Episode 10: "Turkey or Fish" (1996)
- Season 3, Episode 10: "No Fat" (1998)
- Season 4, Episode 9: "No Thanks" (1999)
- Season 5, Episode 9: "Fighting In-Laws" (2000)
- Season 6, Episode 9: "Older Women" (2001)
- Season 7, Episode 10: "Marie's Vision" (2002)
- Season 8, Episode 9: "The Bird" (2003)
- Season 9, Episode 7: "Debra's Parents" (2004)
Frasier
- Season 4, Episode 7: "A Lilith Thanksgiving" (November 26, 1996)
- Season 7, Episode 9: "The Apparent Trap" (November 18, 1999)
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Huangsgiving" (2015)
- Season 3, Episode 5: "No Thanks-giving" (2016)
- Season 4, Episode 7: "The Day After Thanksgiving" (2017)
- Season 1, Episode 12: "Talking Turkey" (1990)
- Season 6, Episodes 9 & 10: "There's the Rub (Part 1)"/"There's the Rub (Part 2)" (1995)
- Season 1, Episode 9: "The One Where Underdog Gets Away" (November 17, 1994)
- Season 3, Episode 9: "The One with the Football" (November 21, 1996)
- Season 4, Episode 8: "The One with Chandler in a Box" (November 20, 1997)
- Season 5, Episode 8: "The One with All the Thanksgivings" (November 19, 1998)
- Season 6, Episode 9: "The One Where Ross Got High" (November 25, 1999)
- Season 7, Episode 8: "The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs" (November 23, 2000)
- Season 8, Episode 9: "The One with the Rumor" (November 22, 2001)
- Season 9, Episode 8: "The One with Rachel's Other Sister" (November 21, 2002)
- Season 10, Episode 8: "The One with the Late Thanksgiving" (November 20, 2003)
- Joey
Season 2, Episode 10: "Joey and the Bachelor Thanksgiving" (November 24, 2005)
Full House/Fuller House
- Full House Season 1, Episode 9: "The Miracle of Thanksgiving" (1987)
- Fuller House: "Fuller Thanksgiving" (2016)
- Fuller House: "Cold Turkey" (2020)
Gary Unmarried
George Lopez
"Trouble in Paradise" (2004)
Girlfriends
- Season 1, Episode 9: "Stop Arguing and Start Thanking" (November 19, 2013)
- Season 2, Episode 7: "A Goldberg Thanksgiving" (November 19, 2014)
- Season 3, Episode 8: "In Conclusion, Thanksgiving" (November 18, 2015)
- Season 4, Episode 7: "Ho-ly K.I.T.T." (November 16, 2016)
- Season 5, Episode 7: "A Wall Street Thanksgiving" (November 15, 2017)
- Season 7, Episode 8: "Angst-Giving" (November 20, 2019)
- Season 9, Episode 8: "A Light Thanksgiving Nosh" (November 17, 2021)
- Season 10, Episode 8: "Another Turkey in the Trot" (November 16, 2022)
- Schooled:
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Friendsgiving" (2019)
Grace Under Fire
Half & Half
- Half & Half: "The Big Thanks for Forgiving Episode" (2002)
- Half & Half: "The Big Thanks for Nothing Episode" (2004)
Hazel
"Everybody's Thankful But Us Turkeys" (1961)
"Genie with the Light Brown Lamp" (1962)
"Hazel and the Vanishing Hero" (1963)
"A Lesson in Diplomacy" (1964)
- Season 3, Episode 10: "A Frozen Moment" (1993)
- Season 4, Episode 9: "My Dinner with Wilson" (1994)
- Season 6, Episode 10: "The Wood, the Bad and the Hungry" (1996)
- Season 7, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving" (1997)
- Season 8, Episode 10: "Thanks, but No Thanks" (1998)
Hope & Faith
- Hope & Faith: "Phone Home for the Holidays" (2003)
- Hope & Faith: "9021-Uh-Oh" (2004)
- Hope & Faith: "Blood Is Thicker Than Daughter" (2005)
- Season 1, Episode 9: "Belly Full of Turkey" (November 22, 2005)
- Season 3, Episode 9: "Slapsgiving" (November 19, 2007)
- Season 5, Episode 9: "" (November 23, 2009)
- Season 6, Episode 10: "Blitzgiving" (November 22, 2010)
- Season 7, Episode 11: "The Rebound Girl" (November 21, 2011)
The Hughleys
- Season 1, Episode 12: "A Thanksgiving to Remember" (1996)
- Season 2, Episode 11: "Too Much Soul Food" (1997)
- Season 1, Episode 10: "Supermarket Story" (1998)
- Season 2, Episode 10: "Roamin' Holiday" (1999)
- Season 3, Episode 8: "Dark Meet" (2000)
- Season 5, Episode 10: "Loaner Car" (2002)
- Season 6, Episode 9: "Thanks Man" (2003)
- Season 3, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving" (2013)
- Season 5, Episode 9: "The Gratitude List" (2015)
- Season 6, Episode 8: "My Father the Car" (2016)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "Godparent Turkey Corn Farts" (2015)
- Season 3, Episode 4: "Testosterone Martyr Baked Knife" (2017)
- Season 1, Episode 13: "Love Takes a Holiday" (1993)
- Season 2, Episode 12: "Thanks for Giving" (1994)
- Season 2, Episode 10: "Man of the Cloth/Her Own Two Feet/Tony's Family" (November 18, 1978)
- Season 6, Episode 9: "The Best of Friends/Too Many Dads/Love Will Find a Way" (November 20, 1982)
- Season 1, Episode 9: "Riding Backwards" (November 18, 1992)
- Season 3, Episode 8: "Giblets for Murray" (November 17, 1994)
- Season 5, Episode 7: "Outbreak" (November 19, 1996)
- Season 7, Episode 7: "The Thanksgiving Show" (November 24, 1998)
- Season 2, Episode 13: "Thanks for Nothing" (November 21, 1993)
- Season 3, Episode 11: "Feast or Famine" (November 24, 1994)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving" (November 25, 2009)
- Season 2, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving II" (November 24, 2010)
- Season 3, Episode 10: "Thanksgiving III" (November 23, 2011)
- Season 4, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving IV" (November 14, 2012)
- Season 5, Episode 7: "Thanksgiving V" (November 20, 2013)
- Season 6, Episode 7: "Thanksgiving VI" (November 19, 2014)
- Season 7, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving VII" (November 18, 2015)
- Season 8, Episode 6: "Thanksgiving VIII" (November 22, 2016)
- Season 9, Episode 7: "Thanksgiving IX" (November 14, 2017)
Mike & Molly
- Season 1, Episode 10: "Molly Gets a Hat" (November 22, 2010)
- Season 2, Episode 9: "Mike Cheats" (November 21, 2011)
- Season 3, Episode 7: "Thanksgiving Is Cancelled" (November 19, 2012)
- Season 3, Episode 9: "Punkin Chunkin" (November 23, 2011)
- Season 6, Episode 8: "Three Turkeys" (November 19, 2014)
- Season 8, Episode 7: "Thanksgiving Jamboree" (November 16, 2016)
- Season 9, Episode 7: "Winner Winner Turkey Dinner" (November 15, 2017)
- Season 11, Episode 7: "The Last Thanksgiving" (November 6, 2019)
Moesha
- Season 2, Episode 13: "Road Trip" (November 26, 1996)
- Season 5, Episode 10: "Thanksgiving" (November 22, 1999)
- Season 6, Episode 10: "All This and Turkey, Too" (November 20, 2000)
Murphy Brown
- Season 4, Episode 11: "Mission Control" (November 25, 1991)
- Season 11, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving and Taking" (November 22, 2018)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "Chip's Harvest" (November 17, 1960)
- TV Movie: "A Thanksgiving Reunion with The Partridge Family and My Three Sons" (November 25, 1977)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving Is for the Bird-Kersees" (November 14, 2012)
- Season 2, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving Is No Schmuck Bait" (November 22, 2013)
- Season 1, Episode 6: "Thanksgiving" (November 15, 2011)
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Parents" (November 20, 2012)
- Season 3, Episode 10: "Thanksgiving III" (November 26, 2013)
- Season 4, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving IV" (November 25, 2014)
- Season 6, Episode 7: "Last Thanksgiving" (November 22, 2016)
- Season 2, Episode 6: "Don't Rain on My Parade" (November 21, 1983)
- Season 5, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving for the Memories" (November 24, 1986)
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Harry and the Madam" (November 22, 1984)
- Season 6, Episode 6: "The Last Temptation of Mac" (November 23, 1988)
- Season 1, Episode 11: "Thanksgiving It to Me, Baby" (November 19, 2001)
- Season 4, Episode 9: "Who Brought the Jive Turkey?" (November 22, 2004)
- Season 1, Episode 11: "It's a Family Affair" (November 22, 1999)
- Season 2, Episode 10: "Turkey Day Blues" (November 20, 2000)
- Season 1, Episode 9: "Meet the Grandparents" (November 23, 2010)
- Season 2, Episode 7: "Burt's Parents" (November 15, 2011)
- Season 3, Episode 7: "Candy Wars" (November 20, 2012)
- Season 4, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving" (November 19, 2004)
- Season 5, Episode 9: "Invasion" (November 18, 2005)
Roseanne
- Season 2, Episode 9: "We Gather Together" (November 21, 1989)
- Season 4, Episode 10: "Thanksgiving '91" (November 26, 1991)
- Season 6, Episode 10: "Thanksgiving '93" (November 23, 1993)
- Season 7, Episode 10: "Thanksgiving '94" (November 23, 1994)
- Season 8, Episode 8: "The Last Thursday in November" (November 21, 1995)
- Season 9, Episode 10': "Home Is Where the Afghan Is" (November 26, 1996)
The Conners
- Season 2, Episode 7: "Slappy Holidays" (November 19, 2019)
- Season 5, Episode 8: "Of Missing Minds and Missing Fries" (November 16, 2022)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "Sister" (November 16, 1995)
- Season 2, Episode 9: "Davy Jones" (November 21, 1996)
- Season 1, Episode 7: "T-h-a-Thanksgiving" (November 16, 2016)
- Season 2, Episode 7: "B-r-i-British I-n-v-Invasion" (November 15, 2017)
- Season 3, Episode 6: "C-e-Celebrity S-u-Suite" (November 16, 2018)
- Season 1, Episode 8 "The Competition" (November 26, 1996)
- Season 3, Episode 10: "Gobble the Wonder Turkey Saves the Day" (November 24, 1998)
- Season 4, Episode 9: "The Thanksgiving Show" (November 24, 1999)
- Season 5, Episode 6: "Balloons Over Broadway" (November 22, 2000)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving" (November 23, 2011)
- Season 2, Episode 5: "The Wishbone" (November 14, 2012
That '70s Show
- Season 1, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving" (November 22, 1998)
- Season 5, Episode 8: "Thank You" (December 3, 2002)
- Season 7, Episode 9: "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (November 24, 2004)
- Season 2, Episode 6: "Rafkin's Bum" (November 24, 1981)
- Season 3, Episode 9: "A Thanksgiving Tale" (November 25, 1982)
Two and a Half Men
- Season 1, Episode 10: "Merry Thanksgiving" (November 24, 2003)
- Season 8, Episode 10: "Ow, Ow, Don't Stop" (November 22, 2010)
- Season 2, Episode 10: "Two Guys, a Girl and a Thanksgiving" (November 25, 1998)
- Season 3, Episode 9: "Talking Turkey" (November 17, 1999)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "Veronica's First Thanksgiving" (November 20, 1997)
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Veronica's Thanksgiving That Keeps On Giving" (November 19, 1998)
- Season 3, Episode 7: "Veronica's Got All the Right Stuffing" (November 22, 1999)
- Season 2, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving Show" (November 16, 1984)
- Season 6, Episode 16: "Thanksgiving with the Four Tops" (January 6, 1989)
- Season 1, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving" (November 22, 2002)
- Season 4, Episode 9: "Ground-Turkey-Hog-Day" (November 18, 2005)
Will & Grace
- Season 2, Episode 7: "Homo for the Holidays" (November 25, 1999)
- Season 3, Episode 8-9: "Lows in the Mid-Eighties" (November 23, 2000)
- Season 4, Episode 9-10: "Moveable Feast" (November 22, 2001)
- Season 7, Episode 10-11: "Queens for a Day" (November 25, 2004)
Animated sitcoms
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Season 2, Episode 21: "The Dressing" (December 14, 2003)
- Beavis and Butt-Head: Season 7, Episode Non-Canon "Beavis and Butt-Head Do Thanksgiving" (November 27, 1997)
- Dan Vs.: Season 2, Episode 1: "The Family Thanksgiving" (November 19, 2011)
- Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season 5, Episode 18: "Thanksgiving" (November 23, 1998)
- Father of the Pride: Season 1, Episode 9: "The Thanksgiving Episode" (December 28, 2004)
- Son of Zorn: Season 1, Episode 7: "The Battle of Thanksgiving" (November 13, 2016)
- Squidbillies: Season 10, Episode 9: "Thank-Taking" (November 20, 2016)
- Season 6, Episode 6: "There Will Be Bad Blood" (November 28, 2010)
- Season 9, Episode 5: "Kung Pao Turkey" (November 24, 2013)
- Season 1, Episode 8: "Mega-Lo-Memories” (November 24, 2019)
- Season 2, Episode 7: "Mega Lo Memories: Part Deux" (November 22, 2020)
- Season 3, Episode 5: "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal" (November 18, 2012)
- Season 4, Episode 5: "Turkey in a Can" (November 24, 2013)
- Season 5, Episode 4: "Dawn of the Peck" (November 23, 2014)
- Season 6, Episode 4: "Gayle Makin' Bob Sled" (November 8, 2015)
- Season 7, Episode 6: "The Quirkducers" (November 20, 2016)
- Season 8, Episode 5: "Thanks-Hoarding" (November 19, 2017)
- Season 9, Episode 7: "I Bob Your Pardon" (November 18, 2018)
- Season 10, Episode 8: "Now We're Not Cooking with Gas" (November 24, 2019)
- Season 11, Episode 7: "Diarrhea of a Poopy Kid" (November 22, 2020)
- Season 12, Episode 8: "Stuck in the Kitchen With You" (November 21, 2021)
- Season 13, Episode 8: "Putts-giving" (November 20, 2022)
- Season 1, Episode 7: "A Brown Thanksgiving" (November 22, 2009)
- Season 2, Episode 7: "Another Bad Thanksgiving" (November 28, 2010)
- Season 4, Episode 3: "A General Thanksgiving Episode" (November 18, 2012)
- Season 4, Episode 4: "Turkey Pot Die" (November 25, 2012)
Family Guy
- Season 10, Episode 6: "Thanksgiving" (November 20, 2011)
- Season 12, Episode 7: "Into Harmony's Way" (December 8, 2013)
- Season 13, Episode 5: "Turkey Guys" (November 16, 2014)
- Season 14, Episode 6: "Peter's Sister" (November 15, 2015)
- Season 18, Episode 8: "Shanksgiving" (November 24, 2019)
- Season 3, Episode 7: "Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men" (November 17, 1998)
- Season 4, Episode 7: "Happy Hank's Giving" (November 21, 1999)
- Season 5, Episode 4: "Spin the Choice" (November 19, 2000)
- Season 7, Episode 4: "Goodbye Normal Jeans" (November 24, 2002)
- Season 9, Episode 1: "A Rover Runs Through It" (November 7, 2004)
- Season 5, Episode 6: "Rick and Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular" (July 25, 2021)
- Season 6, Episode 3: "Bethic Twinstinct" (September 18, 2022)
The Simpsons
- Season 2, Episode 7: "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" (November 22, 1990)
- Season 12, Episode 5: "Homer vs. Dignity" (November 26, 2000)
- Season 13, Episode 3: "Homer the Moe" (November 18, 2001)
- Season 17, Episode 18: "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (April 23, 2006)
- Season 31, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving of Horror" (November 24, 2019)
- Season 35, Episode 7: "It's a Blunderful Life" (November 19, 2023)
South Park
Professional wrestling
Canadian series
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