DID YOU HAVE A THANKSGIVING TV RITUAL ?

[gregg75]

I can just remember the same parades lasting forever on at least 3 channels. Where's "Gilligan's Island" when you NEED it?

 

[Tim L]

I can just remember the same parades lasting forever on at least 3 channels. Where's "Gilligan's Island" when you NEED it?

If we had any ritual at all, it was the parades..NBC for a few years would air a special Thanksgiving-themed "Underdog" episode..Other things I remember:

Santa's Chief Elf "Keeper of the Keys" Mr. Jingeling would start daily visits on WEWS-Channel 5 in Cleveland On Thanksgiving Day..

ABC and for a time CBS would have wall to wall Cartoons from 10AM-2PM The day after Thanksgiving..And of course the Football..

WUAB-43 Cleveland would show "King Kong" (1933) every Thanksgiving as well..

 

[wbhist]

WUAB-43 Cleveland would show "King Kong" (1933) every Thanksgiving as well..

That's funny - throughout the 1970's and into the '80's that was a tradition at WOR Channel 9 in New York.

 

[Markieo]

WUAB-43 Cleveland would show "King Kong" (1933) every Thanksgiving as well..

That's funny - throughout the 1970's and into the '80's that was a tradition at WOR Channel 9 in New York.

Yep. 12 PM: Mighty Joe Young, 2 PM: King Kong and 4 P.M.: Son of Kong!

The next day they would play 3 Godzilla movies (always ending with King Kong vs. Godzilla)!

Also, I know they play it on classic rock stations, but does any TV station play the movie "Alice's Restaurant" on Thanksgiving?

 

[Corky Marlowe]

NBC for a few years would air a special Thanksgiving-themed "Underdog" episode..

I remember that one!!! Simon Bar Sinister was trying to steal Thanksgiving, wasn't he?

 

[cwf1701]

The Hudson Parade in Detroit (on WWJ/WDIV-4) and the Lions game (when not blacked out)

 

[therealjm12]

Watching Dallas LOSE!

 

[Bob1370]

"Watching Dallas LOSE!"

Hey, that's one thing we can still count on...

 

[dmargalotti]

I must be older than you guys...does anyone else remember watching Laurel & Hardy in March of the Wooden Soldiers on Thanksgiving Day? I used to look forward to that every year as a kid!

 

[Tim L]

I must be older than you guys...does anyone else remember watching Laurel & Hardy in March of the Wooden Soldiers on Thanksgiving Day? I used to look forward to that every year as a kid!

Not on Thanksgiving day necessarily, but The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Movie Show on WJW-TV 8 Cleveland would air "March of The Wooden Soldiers" or some other L&H film on their Friday Night Show around Thanksgiving/Christmas as a "family" alternative to the usual Horror/Sci-Fi movie fare..

 

[FreddyE1977]

- Sitting on the couch while the wife watches the parades on CBS and listening to her
complain about how "it's not like the old days" and "will these idiots shut up and quit
plugging crappy shows and just let me enjoy the parade?"

- Just past noon watching the Detroit Lions play another awful, hideous football game.

- Surfing around at night trying to find something worth watching. Used to generally be some
college football game on ESPN featuring two teams I could not care less about. Glad the
NFL Network has brought us that 8PM game.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Watching the Macy's parade on NBC live at 7 AM MT (or if I had been in the midwest,
I could have watched live at 8 AM CT). Can't do that anymore since for a number of
years now NBC has insisted it be run at 9 AM in every time zone, so it's only live in
the east now. Can't screw with their blessed Today Show, even on a major holiday.

BTW, the CBS parades are still live in CT/MT, at least in the markets I checked on
zap2it.com (Chicago and Phoenix).

The left coast always has been, and still is, out of whack on CBS, especially when CBS
has the early NFL game--pushing the parade telecast to the afternoon.

 

[radiophiler]

Is any station going to air the WKRP in Cincinnati turkey drop episode?

THAT should be a Thanksgiving tradition. It's a classic.