List of Thanksgiving television specials

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

• Adventures from the Book of Virtues: Generosity (1997)
• Allegra's Window: Mitten Weather (1995)
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: Alvin’s Thanksgiving Celebration (2008)
• Amphibia: The Big Bugball Game (2019)
• Angela Anaconda: No Thanksgiving (2000)
• Animaniacs: Turkey Jerky (1993)
• As Told By Ginger: Ten Chairs (2004)
• B.C.: The First Thanksgiving (1973)
• Bear in the Big Blue House: The Best Thanksgiving Ever (1999)
• The Berenstain Bears: The Prize Pumpkin (2003)
• The Berenstain Bears Meet Bigpaw (1980)
• Big City Greens: Big Deal / Forbidden Feline (2018)
• The Big Comfy Couch: Feast of Fools (1993)
• Blue's Clues: Thankful (1999)
• Blue's Clues & You!: Thankful With Blue (2020)
• Biz Kid$: A Biz Kid$ Thanksgiving Special (2007)
• Bobby's World: Generics and Indians (1997)
• Bonkers: Gobble Gobble Bonkers (1993)
• Bozo, Gar and Ray: WGN TV Classics (2005)
• Bubble Guppies: Gobble Gobble Guppies! (2014)
• Butterbean's Cafe: Fairy Happy Thanksgiving / Cricket's The Boss! (2018)
• Caillou: Caillou's Thanksgiving (2000)
• Calvin and the Colonel: Thanksgiving Dinner (1961)
• The Care Bears: Grams Bear's Thanksgiving Surprise (1986)
• Carolesdaughter: Violent (2021)
• Casper the Friendly Ghost: Do or Diet (1953)
• CatDog: Talking Turkey (1999)
• Clarence: Chadsgiving (2017)
• Clifford's Puppy Days: Fall Feast / The Perfect Pancake (2005/2006)
• Craig of the Creek: ** Craig and the Kid's Table (2019)
• Cyberchase:
  • Giving Thanks Day (2019)
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Thank You, Grandpere Tiger!/Neighborhood Thank You Day (2012)
• Davey and Goliath: The Pilgrim Boy (1962)
• Dora the Explorer: Dora's Thanksgiving Day Parade (2012)
• Doug: Doug's Thanksgiving (1997)
• The Emperor's New School: "Cornivale" (2008)
• Fluppy Dogs (1986)
• Garfield's Thanksgiving (1989)
• Get Rolling with Otis: The Thankful Parade / Hay Day Hay Maze (2021)
• Harriet the Spy: The Walrus and the Carpenter (2023)
• Harvey Beaks: Yampions (2015)
• Henry Hugglemonster: Huggsgiving Day (2013)
• Hey Arnold: Arnold's Thanksgiving (1998)
• The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange: Thanksfornothing Day (2013)
• The Huckleberry Hound Show: Grim Pilgrim (1959)
• House of Mouse: House of Turkey (2003)
• Intergalactic Thanksgiving (1979)
• JoJo's Circus: The Thanksgiving Hip-Hooray Parade (2005)
• Life with Louie (Season 1, Episode 9): The Fourth Thursday in November (1995)
• Loopy De Loop: Drum-Sticked (1963)
• MAD: Bourne Leg-a-Turkey/Pilgrimm (2012)
• Martha Speaks: Martha's Thanksgiving (2012)
• Maya & Miguel: The Best Thanksgiving Ever (2005)
• Megas XLR: Thanksgiving Throwdown (2004)
• Mickey Mouse: Mixed-Up Adventures: Mickey's Thanksgiving Family Fun Race / Happy Thanksgiving Helpers! (2019)
• Minnie's Bow-Toons: Turkey Time (2014)
• The Mighty B: Thanksgiving Beeninactment (2008)
• Mouse on the Mayflower (1968)
• The Muppet Show (Arlo Guthrie, 1979)
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey: A Thanksgiving Carol (2008)
• My Little Pony: Friends Are Never Far Away (2005)
• The Patrick Star Show: Blorpsgiving (2023)
• PAW Patrol: Pups Save Thanksgiving / Pups Save a Windy Bay (2018)
• Peppa Pig Tales: Happy Thanksgiving
• Pepper Ann: Thanksgiving Dad (1997)
• Pinkalicious & Peterrific: A Fairy Thanksgiving (2020)
• The Pink Panther: Pilgrim Panther (1993)
• Planet Sheen: Thanksgetting (2010)
• The Real Ghostbusters: The Revenge of Murray the Mantis (1987)
• Recess (Season 1, Episode 22): The Great Can Drive (1997)
• Regular Show: The Thanksgiving Special (2013)
• Rocko's Modern Life: Turkey Time/Floundering Fathers (1996)
• Rugrats / All Grown Up:
  • The Turkey Who Came to Dinner (1997)
  • R.V. Having Fun Yet? (2005)
• Sago Mini Friends: Happy Thankful Day (2022)
• Saturday Supercade: Q*bert: Thanksgiving For the Memories (1983)
• Shining Time Station: Billy's Party (1993)
• The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show: What a Turkey! (1995)
• Skylanders Academy: Thankstaking For the Memories (2017)
• So Weird: "Earth 101" (2000)
• The Spectacular Spider-Man: Nature vs. Nurture (2008)
• Stanley: A Turkey of a Thanksgiving (2004)
• Steven Universe: Gem Harvest (2016)
• Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales: The Romance of Plymouth Rock (1965)
• Teacher's Pet: The Turkey That Came to Dinner (2002)
• Teletubbies Let's Go: A Very Special Meal/Noo-Noo Eats All The Tubby Custard (2023)
• Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz (1980)
• The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't (1972)
• The Tiny Chef Show: Fwendsgiving (2023)
• The Tom and Jerry Show: Turkey Tom (2021)
• Toon Heads: Turkey Toons (1999)
• T.O.T.S.: Totsgiving (2020)
• Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: "Funsgiving" (2019)
• The Turkey Caper (1985)
• Turkey Hollow (2015)
• Underdog: Simon Says No Thanksgiving (1965)
• Wild Kratts: Happy Turkey Day (2012)
• The Wild Thornberrys: A Family Tradition (2000)
• Wordgirl: Guess Who's Coming to Thanksgiving Dinner (2014)

Arthur

• 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)

Looney Tunes

• Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet (1979/CBS)
• Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980/CBS)
• The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries: Happy Pranksgiving (1997)
• New Looney Tunes: No Thanks Giving (2019)
• Looney Tunes Cartoons: Pilgwim's Pwogress (2022)

The Loud House / The Casagrandes

• The Loudest Thanksgiving (2018)
• The Loud House Thanksgiving Special (2022)
• Cursed (2020)

Max & Ruby

• Max's Thanksgiving (2004)
• Max and Ruby Give Thanks (2012)

Peanuts (Charlie Brown)

• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)
• This Is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers (1988)

Puppy Dog Pals

• Turkey on the Town / Friendship Feast (2019)
• Pups on Parade / Pop's Promise (2020)
• A Very Berry Friendship Feast / Nature Pillow Pups (2022)

Sesame Street

• A Sesame Street Thanksgiving (2018)
• See Us Coming Together (2021)

Teen Titans Go!

• Thanksgiving (2014)
• Thanksgetting (2017)
• A Doom Patrol Thanksgiving (2021)
• The Wishbone (2023)

Winnie the Pooh

• Welcome to Pooh Corner: Pooh Corner Thanksgiving (1983)
• A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998)
• Seasons of Giving (1999)
• My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Many Thanks for Christopher Robin (2007)

Action/adventure series

• The A-Team: "Family Reunion" (1986)
• Alias: "Color Blind" (2001)
• Daniel Boone: "The Thanksgiving Story" (1965)
• The Incredible Hulk: "Homecoming" (1979)
• MacGyver: "The Outsiders" (1988)
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Season 2, Episodes 48 & 49): Storybook Rangers (Parts 1 and 2) (1995)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "Peking, March 1910" (1993)

Chuck

• 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

• 413 Hope St.: "Thanksgiving" (1997)
• The Agency: "Thanksgiving" (2002)
• Almost Family: "Thankful AF" (2019)
• American Playhouse: "The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski" (1985)
• Apple's Way: "The Real Thanksgiving" (1974)
• Beauty & the Beast: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" (2013)
• The Big C: "The Last Thanksgiving" (2011)
• Blue Bloods: "Thanksgiving" (2011)
• Bones: "High Treason in the Holiday Season" (2015)
• Boston Legal: "Thanksgiving" (2008)
• Boston Public: "Chapter Five" (2000)
• Brothers & Sisters: "Just a Sliver" (2008)
• Castle: "The Good, The Bad And The Baby" (2013)
• Chicago Fire: "Two Families" (2012)
• Chicago Hope: "Tantric Turkey" (1998)
• Commander in Chief: "The Mom Who Came to Dinner" (2005)
• Dexter (Season 4, Episode 9): "Hungry Man" (2009)
• Dynasty: "Shoot From the Hip" (2019)
• Flipper: "Thanksgiving" (1998)
• Friday Night Lights: "Thanksgiving" (2010)
• Good Trouble: "Turkey for Me, Turkey for You" (2023)
• The Good Wife: "A Defense of Marriage" (2012)
• Hill Street Blues: "Low Blow" (1984)
• Homicide: Life on the Street: "Hate Crimes" (1995)
• House (Season 6, Episode 9): "Ignorance Is Bliss" (2009)
• I'll Fly Away: "Coming Home" (1991)
• Jericho: "Red Flag" (2006)
• Judging Amy: "The Persistence of Tectonics" (1999)
• The L Word: Generation Q: "Quality Family Time" (2023)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent: "The War at Home" (2006)
• LAX: "Thanksgiving" (2004)
• Life Goes On: "A Thatcher Thanksgiving" (1990)
• Lipstick Jungle: "Chapter 16: Thanksgiving" (2008)
• Little House on the Prairie: "The Little House Years" (1979)
• My Own Worst Enemy: "High Crimes and Turducken" (2008)
• Now and Again: "Pulp Turkey" (1999)
• Ordinary Joe: "Thankful" (2021)
• Picket Fences: "Thanksgiving" (1992)
• Police Story: "Thanksgiving" (1976)
• The Resident: "Peking Duck Day" (2019)
• Reunion: "1992" (2005)
• Revenge: "Lineage" (2012)
• St. Elsewhere: "A Wing and a Prayer" (1983)
• Scream Queens: "Thanksgiving" (2015)
• Sisters: "Georgie Through the Looking Glass" (1991)
• The Sopranos: "He Is Risen" (2001)
• Spenser: For Hire: "Thanksgiving" (1987)
• Stumptown: "November Surprise" (2019)
• Third Watch: "History of the World" (1999)
• Thirtysomething: "We Gather Together" (1987)
• Trapper John, M.D.: "Thanks for Giving" (1982)
• Trauma: "Thank You" (2009)
• The Trials of Rosie O'Neill: "Rosie Gets the Blues" (1990)

7th Heaven

• 7th Heaven: "Last Call for Aunt Julie" (1996)
• 7th Heaven: "Thanksgiving" (2004)
• 7th Heaven: "Turkey" (2005)
• 7th Heaven: "Thanks and Giving" (2006)

American Dreams

• American Dreams: "The End of the Innocence" (2002)
• American Dreams: "What Dreams May Come" (2004)

Dirty Sexy Money

• Dirty Sexy Money: "The Country House" (2007)
• Dirty Sexy Money: "The Facts" (2009)

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: "Giving Thanks" (1993)
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: "Thanksgiving" (1994)
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: "One Touch of Nature" (1995)
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: "The Tempest" (1996)

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

• Felicity: "Thanksgiving" (1998)
• Felicity: "Family Affairs" (1999)
• Felicity: "The Last Thanksgiving" (2001)

Grey's Anatomy

• Grey's Anatomy: "Thanks for the Memories" (2005)
• Grey's Anatomy: "Holidaze" (2009)
• Grey's Anatomy: "Somebody That I Used to Know" (2013) season 10 episode 10
• Grey's Anatomy: "Every Day Is a Holiday (With You)" (2021) season 18 Episode 6

Hawaii Five-0

• Hawaii Five-0: "Hauʻoli La Hoʻomaikaʻi" (2013)
• Hawaii Five-0: "Lele pū nā manu like" (2018)
• Hawaii Five-0: "Ka la′au kumu ′ole o Kahilikolo" (2019)

House M.D.

• House M.D.: "Ignorance Is Bliss" (2009)

Mad Men

• Mad Men: "The Wheel" (2007)
• Mad Men: "Public Relations" (2010)
• Mad Men: "Dark Shadows" (2012)
• Mad Men: "In Care Of" (2013)

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)
• NCIS: New Orleans: "Chasing Ghosts" (2014)
• NCIS: "Blood Brothers" (2015)
• NCIS: New Orleans: "Billy and the Kid" (2015)
• NCIS: "Enemy Combatant" (2016)
• NCIS: "Ready or Not" (2017)

Once and Again

• Once and Again: "Thanksgiving" (1999)
• Once and Again: "Feast or Famine" (2000)
• Once and Again: "Chaos Theory" (2001)

Private Practice

• Private Practice: "The Breaking Point" (2011)
• Private Practice: "Georgia on My Mind" (2012)

Promised Land

• Promised Land: "The Homecoming" (1996)
• Promised Land: "To Everything a Season" (1997)

Providence

• Providence: "Thank You, Providence" (1999)
• Providence: "The Thanksgiving Story" (2000)
• Providence: "Gobble, Gobble" (2001)
• Providence: "Left-Overs" (2002)

This Is Us

• This Is Us: "Pilgrim Rick" (2016)
• This Is Us: "Six Thanksgivings" (2018)
• This Is Us: "So Long, Marianne" (2019)
• This Is Us: "Taboo" (2022)

Touched by an Angel

• Touched by an Angel: "An Unexpected Snow" (1994)
• Touched by an Angel: "Homecoming" (1996)
• Touched by an Angel: "Heaven's Portal" (2001)

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

The West Wing

• 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)
• High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: 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

• Gossip Girl: "Blair Waldorf Must Pie" (2007)
• Gossip Girl: "The Magnificent Archibalds" (2008)
• Gossip Girl: "The Treasure of Serena Madre" (2009)
• Gossip Girl: "It’s Really Complicated " (2012)

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

• Party of Five: "Thanksgiving" (1994)
• Party of Five: "Tender Age" (1998)
• Party of Five: "We Gather Together" (1999)
• Time of Your Life: "The Time They All Came Over for Thanksgiving" (1999)

Pretty Little Liars

• Pretty Little Liars: "Taking This One to the Grave" (2014)
• Riverdale: "Chapter Sixty-Four: The Ice Storm" (2019)
• Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin: "Chapter Eight: Bad Blood" (2022)

Comedy-drama

• AfterMASH: "Thanksgiving of '53" (1983)
• Baskets: "Thanksgiving" (2018)
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: "My First Thanksgiving with Josh!" (2015)
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd: "Here's a Quick and Easy Recipe for Leftovers" (1990)
• Eight Is Enough: "All the Vice-President's Men" (1978)
• Glee: "Thanksgiving" (2012)
• Greek: "The Wish-Pretzel" (2009)
• Hart of Dixie: "The Pirate and the Practice" (2011)
• Hindsight: "The Cranberries" (2015)
• Insecure: "Lowkey Thankful" (2020)
• Jane the Virgin: "Chapter Twenty-Eight" (2015)
• Kidding: "Kintsugi" (2018)
• Love Life: "Luke Ducharme" (2020)
• M*A*S*H: "The Yalu Brick Road" (1979)
• Married: "Thanksgiving" (2015)
• Men in Trees: "New York Fiction" (2006)
• Miss Match: "Jive Turkey" (2003)
• Miss Farah (Arabic: الآنسة فرح): "Chapter Twenty-Eight" (Arabic: الفصل الثامن والعشرون) (2020)
• Northern Exposure: "Thanksgiving" (1992)
• Orange Is The New Black: "F***sgiving" (2013)
• Parenthood (1990 series): "Thanksgiving with a T that Rhymes with B that Stands for Basketball" (1990)
• Parenthood (2010 series): "Happy Thanksgiving" (2010)
• The Ranch: "Like It's the Last Time" (2020)
• Related: "Francesca" (2005)
• Shameless: "Just Like the Pilgrims Intended" (2012)
• Sports Night: "Thespis" (1998)
• Ugly Betty: "Four Thanksgivings and a Funeral" (2006)
• The Wonder Years (Season 4, Episode 7): "The Ties That Bind" (1990)

Ally McBeal

• Ally McBeal: "You Never Can Tell" (1998)
• Ally McBeal: "Troubled Water" (1999)

Desperate Housewives

• Desperate Housewives: "Don't Walk on the Grass" (2009)
• Desperate Housewives: "Sorry Grateful" (2010)

Doogie Howser, M.D.

• Doogie Howser, M.D.: "Don't Let the Turkeys Get You Down" (1990)
• Doogie Howser, M.D.: "The Big Sleep...Not!" (1992)

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

• Amazing Stories: "Thanksgiving" (1986)
• Arrow: "Thanksgiving" (2017)
• Bone Chillers: "Frankenturkey" (1996)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Pangs" (1999)
• The Flash: "O Come, All Ye Thankful" (2018)
• A Gifted Man: "In Case of Missed Communication" (2011)
• Heroes: "Thanksgiving" (2009)
• Legends of Tomorrow: "Tagumo Attacks!!!" (2018)
• The Originals: "Out of the Easy" (2015)
• Quantum Leap: "The Leap Home" (Parts 1 and 2) (1990)
• Roswell: "Max in the City" (2000)
• Tales from the Darkside: "The Last Car" (1986)

Into the Dark

• Into the Dark: "Flesh & Blood" (2018)
• Into the Dark: "Pilgrim" (2019)

Smallville

• Smallville: "Rage" (2006)
• Smallville: "Ambush" (2010)

Supergirl

• Supergirl: "Livewire" (2015)
• Supergirl: "Medusa" (2016)
• Supergirl: "Call to Action" (2018)

The Vampire Diaries

• The Vampire Diaries: Fade Into You (2014)
• The Vampire Diaries: Mommie Dearest (2015)

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)
• 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)
• Saved by the Bell: The College Years: "A Thanksgiving Story" (1993)
• Saved by the Bell: The New Class: "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)

8 Simple Rules

• 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)

A Different World

• 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)

According to Jim

• 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)

Alice

• Season 3, Episode 9: "Who Ordered the Hot Turkey?" (1978)
• Season 7, Episode 6: "Alice's Turkey of a Thanksgiving" (1982)

All of Us

• Season 2, Episode 8: "Parents Just Don't Understand" (2004)
• Season 4, Episode 8: "My Two Dads" (2006)

American Housewife

• Season 1, Episode 6: "The Blow-Up" (2016)
• Season 2, Episode 7: "Family Secrets" (2017)

The Bernie Mac Show

• Season 2, Episode 7: "Tryptophan-tasy" (2002)
• Season 3, Episode 22: "Thanksgiving" (2004)

The Beverly Hillbillies

• Season 1, Episode 9: "Elly's First Date" (1962)
• Season 2, Episode 10: "Turkey Day" (1963)
• Season 7, Episode 10: "The Thanksgiving Spirit" (1968)

The Big Bang Theory

• Season 7, Episode 9: "The Thanksgiving Decoupling" (November 21, 2013)
• Season 9, Episode 9: "The Platonic Permutation" (November 19, 2015)

The Bob Newhart Show

• Season 3, Episode 11: "An American Family" (November 23, 1974)
• Season 4, Episode 11: "Over the River and Through the Woods" (November 22, 1975)

Boy Meets World

• Season 4, Episode 10: "Turkey Day" (1996)
• Season 5, Episode 8: "Chasing Angela-Part II" (1997)

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

• 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)

Brothers

• 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)

The Cosby Show

• Season 1, Episode 10: "Bon Jour, Sondra" (November 22, 1984)
• Season 6, Episode 9: "Cliff's Wet Adventure" (November 16, 1989)

Cougar Town

• 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)

Dr. Ken

• Season 1, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving Culture Clash" (2015)
• Season 2, Episode 8: "Allison's Thanksgiving Meltdown" (2016)

Everybody Loves Raymond

• 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)

Fresh Off the Boat

• Season 2, Episode 8: "Huangsgiving" (2015)
• Season 3, Episode 5: "No Thanks-giving" (2016)
• Season 4, Episode 7: "The Day After Thanksgiving" (2017)

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

• 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)

Friends/Joey

• 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

• Gary Unmarried: "Gary Gives Thanks" (2008)
• Gary Unmarried: "Gary Apologizes" (2009)

George Lopez

• George Lopez: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Honey" (2002)
• George Lopez: "Would You Like a Drumstick or a Kidney?" (2003)
• George Lopez: "Trouble in Paradise" (2004)

Girlfriends

• 'Girlfriends: "Fried Turkey" (2000)
• Girlfriends: "Porn to Write" (2004)

The Goldbergs / Schooled

• 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

• Grace Under Fire: "Cold Turkey" (1994)
• Grace Under Fire: "Thanks for Nothing" (1995)

Half & Half

• Half & Half: "The Big Thanks for Forgiving Episode" (2002)
• Half & Half: "The Big Thanks for Nothing Episode" (2004)

Hazel

• Hazel: "Everybody's Thankful But Us Turkeys" (1961)
• Hazel: "Genie with the Light Brown Lamp" (1962)
• Hazel: "Hazel and the Vanishing Hero" (1963)
• Hazel: "A Lesson in Diplomacy" (1964)

Home Improvement

• 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)

How I Met Your Mother

• Season 1, Episode 9: "Belly Full of Turkey" (November 22, 2005)
• Season 3, Episode 9: "Slapsgiving" (November 19, 2007)
• Season 5, Episode 9: "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap" (November 23, 2009)
• Season 6, Episode 10: "Blitzgiving" (November 22, 2010)
• Season 7, Episode 11: "The Rebound Girl" (November 21, 2011)

The Hughleys

• The Hughleys: "Thanksgiving Episode" (1998)
• The Hughleys: "Roots" (Parts 1 and 2) (1999)
• The Hughleys: "Oh Thank Heaven for Seven-Eleven" (2000)
• The Hughleys" "One Foot in the Gravy" (2001)

The Jamie Foxx Show

• Season 1, Episode 12: "A Thanksgiving to Remember" (1996)
• Season 2, Episode 11: "Too Much Soul Food" (1997)

The King of Queens

• 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)

Last Man Standing

• Season 3, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving" (2013)
• Season 5, Episode 9: "The Gratitude List" (2015)
• Season 6, Episode 8: "My Father the Car" (2016)

Life in Pieces

• Season 1, Episode 8: "Godparent Turkey Corn Farts" (2015)
• Season 3, Episode 4: "Testosterone Martyr Baked Knife" (2017)

Living Single

• Season 1, Episode 13: "Love Takes a Holiday" (1993)
• Season 2, Episode 12: "Thanks for Giving" (1994)

The Love Boat

• 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)

Mad About You

• 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)

Martin

• Season 2, Episode 13: "Thanks for Nothing" (November 21, 1993)
• Season 3, Episode 11: "Feast or Famine" (November 24, 1994)

The Middle

• 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)

Modern Family

• 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)

My Three Sons

• 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)

The Neighbors

• 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)

New Girl

• 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)

Newhart

• Season 2, Episode 6: "Don't Rain on My Parade" (November 21, 1983)
• Season 5, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving for the Memories" (November 24, 1986)

Night Court

• Season 2, Episode 8: "Harry and the Madam" (November 22, 1984)
• Season 6, Episode 6: "The Last Temptation of Mac" (November 23, 1988)

One on One

• Season 1, Episode 11: "Thanksgiving It to Me, Baby" (November 19, 2001)
• Season 4, Episode 9: "Who Brought the Jive Turkey?" (November 22, 2004)

The Parkers

• Season 1, Episode 11: "It's a Family Affair" (November 22, 1999)
• Season 2, Episode 10: "Turkey Day Blues" (November 20, 2000)

Raising Hope

• 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)

Reba

• Season 4, Episode 9: "Thanksgiving" (November 19, 2004)
• Season 5, Episode 9: "Invasion" (November 18, 2005)

Roseanne / The Conners

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)

The Single Guy

• Season 1, Episode 8: "Sister" (November 16, 1995)
• Season 2, Episode 9: "Davy Jones" (November 21, 1996)

Speechless

• 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)

Spin City

• 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)

Suburgatory

• 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)

Too Close for Comfort

• 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)

Two Guys and a Girl

• Season 2, Episode 10: "Two Guys, a Girl and a Thanksgiving" (November 25, 1998)
• Season 3, Episode 9: "Talking Turkey" (November 17, 1999)

Veronica's Closet

• 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)

Webster

• Season 2, Episode 8: "Thanksgiving Show" (November 16, 1984)
• Season 6, Episode 16: "Thanksgiving with the Four Tops" (January 6, 1989)

What I Like About You

• 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)

American Dad!

• Season 6, Episode 6: "There Will Be Bad Blood" (November 28, 2010)
• Season 9, Episode 5: "Kung Pao Turkey" (November 24, 2013)

Bless the Harts

• Season 1, Episode 8: "Mega-Lo-Memories” (November 24, 2019)
• Season 2, Episode 7: "Mega Lo Memories: Part Deux" (November 22, 2020)

Bob's Burgers

• 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)

The Cleveland Show

• 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)

King of the Hill

• 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)

Rick and Morty

• 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

• Season 1, Episode 8: "Starvin' Marvin" (November 19, 1997)
• Season 4, Episode 13: "Helen Keller! The Musical" (November 22, 2000)
• Season 15, Episode 13: "A History Channel Thanksgiving" (November 9, 2011)
• Season 17, Episode 7: "Black Friday" (November 13, 2013)

Professional wrestling

• National Wrestling Alliance: Starrcade (1983–87, 2017–present as a WWE brand)
• World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment: Survivor Series (1987–present)
• Impact Wrestling/Total Nonstop Action/Global Force: TNA Genesis (2005–07), TNA Turning Point (2008–13)

Canadian series

• The Best Years: "Destiny" (2009)
• Darcy's Wild Life: "Thanksgiving" (2005)
• How To Be Indie: "How to Be Thankful" (2010)

Other

• Alaskan Bush People: "Clear & Pheasant Danger" (2019)
• The Ashlee Simpson Show: "Ashlee Backs Up Her Vocals" (2005)
• Comedy Bang! Bang!:
  • "Amber Tamblyn Wears a Leather Jacket & Black Booties" (Season 3, Episode 16) (2014)
  • "Mike Colter Wears a Pink Button Up and Black Boots"(Season 5, Episode 18) (2016)
• Conan: "The Turducken Kerfuffle" (2010)
• Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (1950)
• Glutton for Punishment: "Pumpkin Regatta" (2008)
• King of Cars: "Talkin' Turkey" (2006)
• The Lawrence Welk Show: "Thanksgiving Special" (1955–81)
• Long Island Medium: "Before the Baby" (2016)
• The Oprah Winfrey Show: "Oprah's Favorite Things" (1990s–2008, 2010)
• The Osbournes: "Get Stuffed" (2002)
• NBC News: Matt Lauer specials: "People of the Year" (2009–10), "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 85th Anniversary Special" (2011)
• Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica: "The French Language" (2004)
• The Perry Como Thanksgiving Show (1961, 1965)
• Remembering Bo (2006)
• Rosie Live (2008)
• Sister Wives: "Thanksgiving: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (2016)
• The Smothers Brothers Thanksgiving Special (1988)
• Soul Train Music Awards (1987–present)
• A Very Gaga Thanksgiving (2011)

See also

• List of films set around Thanksgiving
• List of Christmas television specials
• List of United States Christmas television specials
• List of Christmas television episodes
• List of Easter television specials
• List of Halloween television specials
• List of St. Patrick's Day television specials
• List of Valentine's Day television specials

External links

• List of Thanksgiving TV Specials, TV Episodes, TV Movies, and Short Films at the Internet Movie Database