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

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

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)

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

Action/adventure series

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

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

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

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.

Mad Men

Melrose Place

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

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

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

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

Gossip Girl

The O.C.

Party of Five

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

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

  • 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

Supergirl

  • Supergirl: "Livewire" (2015)
  • Supergirl: "Medusa" (2016)
  • 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)
  • 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

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

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

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 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 20th, 1997)
  • Season 2, Episode 8: "Veronica's Thanksgiving That Keeps On Giving" (November 19th, 1998)
  • Season 3, Episode 7: "Veronica's Got All the Right Stuffing" (November 22nd, 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

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

South Park

Professional wrestling

Canadian series

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