Because someone's gotta start the Turkey Day listings ;D
from TV Guide-Detroit edition
WJBK 2-CBS Detroit (the station's then-studios at 7441 Second Blvd later became the long-time home for WTVS, which has since moved to Wixom)
6:15 On the Farm Scene
6:20 News
6:25 TBA
6:55 Editorial/News
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Happyland
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (Thanksgiving-themed episode)
9:00 Bowery Boys
10:00 Thanskgiving Parades (Capt. Kangaroo and Shari Lewis look in from New York on four holiday parades...Macy's in NYC (Arthur Godfrey/Bess Myerson), Gimbels in Philadelphia (Bud Collyer), J.L. Hudson in Detroit (Marilyn Van Debur/Frank Gifford), and Eaton's Santa Claus Parade in Toronto (Jack Linkletter on tape))
noon Movie "The Lone Ranger"
1:30 Movie "Lassie Come Home"
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 News (Carl Cederberg)
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Mike Douglas (guests Totie Fields, Shani Wallace, and the Four Seasons)
6:00 News (Kelly/LeGoff/Weaver)
6:15 Editorial
6:20 Weather
6:25 Sports (Ray Lane)
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Zorro "The Fall on Monasterior"
7:30 Munsters
8:00 Gilligan's Island (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Thursday Night Movie "Mysterious Island" (c)
11:00 News (Kelly/LeGoff/Weaver)
11:15 Editorial
11:20 Weather
11:25 Sports (Van Patrick)
11:30 Late Show "The Young Land" (c)
1:30 News/Weather
WWJ 4-NBC Detroit (622 W Lafayette St)
6:30 Classroom (the challenge of the "retirement years" for America's aging population)
7:00 Today (c/guests Michael Dyne, and Macy's Parade float designer Frank Jenkins)
9:00 Living
9:55 News (John Hultman)
10:00 Bozo the Clown (c)
10:15 J.L. Hudson Parade (Sonny Eliot covers the 39th annual parade)
11:00 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (c/JIP)
noon Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"
1:30 College Football: Oklahoma-Nebraska (c)
4:30 AFL: Buffalo-San Diego (c)
7:30 Daniel Boone (c)
8:30 Music by Cole Porter (c/Maurice Chevalier, Robert Goulet, Nancy Ames, and Peter Gennaro pay tribute to the legendary songwriter; pre-empts Laredo)
9:30 Mona McCluskey (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c/guests Milton Berle, Lisa Kirk, Phil Ford & Mimi Hines, Xavier Cugat, Charo & Company, the Windsor Boys Choral Group, and Ronnie Demarco)
11:00 News (Dick Westerkamp)
11:15 Weather (Sonny Ellot)
11:20 Sports (Don Kremer)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 Beat the Champ
1:30 Weather
WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit (20777 W 10 Mile Rd, Southfield)
6:30 Funews
7:00 Johnny Ginger Carnival
8:00 Big Theater (Capt. Toby)
9:00 Rita Bell's Prize Movie "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
10:30 Girl Talk (Anne Blair is joined by the wives of the Iraqi, Spanish, and Swiss ambassadors to the US)
11:00 Young Set (guests Gloria Swanson and Bud Shulberg)
noon Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Nurses
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4:00 Never Too Young
4:30 Where the Action is (guests Bobby Vee and Len Barry)
5:00 Sammy Davis & the Wonderful World of Children (c/Sammy visits the world of kids, with musical guests Dino Martin Jr, Desi Arnaz Jr, and Billy Henshe performing during the program)
6:00 Holiday Carnival (c)
6:25 Sports (Dave Diles)
6:30 News (Bill Bonds/local news films in color)
6:45 ABC News
7:00 Michigan Outdoors (c)
7:30 Shindig (the show makes its second trip to Hawaii with a show from Waikiki Beach with guests Len Barry, Ian Whitcomb, Glen Campbell, Bobby Sherman, and the Wellingtons)
8:30 OK Crackerby! (c)
9:00 Bewitched "Aunt Clara's Old Flame"
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 First Lady's Tour (c/Lady Bird Johnson formed a committee in Feb 1965 to eliminate ugliness from America's cities and countryside, with DC her first project...this program shows her touring various sections of the nation's capital; pre-empts Long Hot Summer)
11:00 News (Bill Bonds/same note as 6:30)
11:25 Premiere Theater "All the Young Men"
1:15 After Hours (Ed McKenzie)
2:00 News (Steve Smith)
2:15 Passport to Profit (an early infomercial?)
CKLW 9-CBC Windsor (825 Riverside Dr W, and still there today; then owned by RKO General, who plunked the General Tire logo into the hole in the 9)
8:55 Morgan's Marry-Go-Round
9:00 Romper Room (Miss Flora)
10:00 Canadian Schools "Edmonton: Gateway to the North"
10:30 Friendly Giant
10:45 Chez Helene
11:00 Butternut Square
11:20 Across Canada
11:50 News
noon Razzle Dazzle
12:30 Take 30 (Jo Ouelette shows a film on smelt fishing in Quebec)
1:00 Bill Kennedy Showtime "Dondi"
3:30 Swingin' Time (Seymour)
4:30 Fun House (Jerry Booth)
6:00 Dennis the Menace "Alice's Birthday"
6:30 Marshal Dillon (Gunsmoke)
7:00 Twilight Zone "A World of Difference"/"Long Live Walter Jameson"
8:00 Hollywood a Go Go (Sam Riddle welcomes Group B, Dobie Gray, Mike Clifford, Sue Thompson, the Fugitives, and the We Five)
9:00 Windsor Raceway
10:00 Wrestling (Windsor)
11:00 CBC News
11:15 News (Irv Morrison)
11:25 Weather (Don West)
11:30 Gideon's Way "How to Retire Without Really Working"
12:30 Film Feature
WTOL 11-CBS/NBC Toledo (604 Jackson St)
7:30 Comedy Carnival
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (11 jumps off after 30 min for the movie, it usually ran the full hour)
8:30 Holiday Theater "Have Rocket, Will Travel"
10:00 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (c/NBC's commentators were Lorne Greene and Betty White)
noon Holiday Theater "Broken Lance" (c)
1:30 College Football: Oklahoma-Nebraska (c)
4:30 Big Show "Right Cross"
6:00 Wally Gator
6:30 Woody Woodpecker (c)
7:00 News (Ward/Saunders)
7:30 Munsters
8:00 Gilligan's Island (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Thursday Night Movie "Mysterious Island" (c)
11:00 News (Edwards/McLoughlin)
11:20 Sports (Orris Tabner)
11:25 News (Clem Gendron)
11:30 Night Owl Theater "Holiday Inn"
WSPD 13-ABC/NBC Toledo (136 Huron St)
7:20 Prayer for Today
7:25 Farm Report
7:30 Today (c/JIP)
9:00 Movie "Barbary Coast Gent"
10:30 Donna Reed
11:00 Young Set
noon Ben Casey
1:00 Mike Douglas (no info listed)
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Nurses (7 and 13 aired different episodes...I assume 7's were off the ABC feed and 13's were delayed kinnies?)
4:00 Where the Action is (guests Little Anthony & the Imperials, and Jo Anne Campbell)
4:30 Movie "At Gunpoint"
6:00 Deadline Toledo
6:45 ABC News
7:00 Rifleman "Long Trek"
7:30 Shindig
8:00 Donna Reed
8:30 OK Crackerby! (c)
9:00 Bewitched "Aunt Clara's Old Flame"
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 First Lady's Tour (c)
11:00 News (Rudes/Venner)
11:15 Sports (Mac McCullough)
11:20 Weather (Frank Venner)
11:25 TV Editorial (David Drury)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 Prayer for Today
WKBD 50-Ind Detroit (26955 W 11 Mile Rd, Southfield)
noon Dickory Doc
1:00 Movies "The Hoodlum"/"Dark Waters"
4:00 Topper "The Neighbors"
4:30 Love That Bob!
5:00 Lloyd Thaxton (guests the Dovells)
6:00 Soupy Sales
6:30 Superman
7:00 Little Rascals
7:20 Sports Desk
7:30 Holiday
8:00 Gridiron Preview
8:15 Hockey Preview
8:25 Hockey: Detroit-Chicago
10:45 Action Scoreboard
11:00 Merv Griffin (guests David Burns, Tiger Haynes, Dick Davy, and Steve Perry)
12:30 Tales of Wells Faego "Frightened Witness"
WTVS 56-Edu Detroit (5035 Woodward Ave)
5pm Invitation to Art
5:30 What's New
6:00 Americans at Work
6:15 Industry on Parade
6:30 French Chef
7:00 Dateline: UN "The US and the UN" (UN diplomacy is discussed by US ambassador to the UN Economic & Social Council James Rockefeller, Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), and Rep. Barrett O'Hara (D-IL))
7:30 Driver Education
8:00 American Memoir
8:30 Regional Report "School Integration" (Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel and the Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Spivak discuss the Federal government's program to enforce school desegregation)
9:30 UN Day Concert (the 16th annual concert from the UN, celebrating the UN's 20th anniversary)
from TV Guide-Detroit edition
WJBK 2-CBS Detroit (the station's then-studios at 7441 Second Blvd later became the long-time home for WTVS, which has since moved to Wixom)
6:15 On the Farm Scene
6:20 News
6:25 TBA
6:55 Editorial/News
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Happyland
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (Thanksgiving-themed episode)
9:00 Bowery Boys
10:00 Thanskgiving Parades (Capt. Kangaroo and Shari Lewis look in from New York on four holiday parades...Macy's in NYC (Arthur Godfrey/Bess Myerson), Gimbels in Philadelphia (Bud Collyer), J.L. Hudson in Detroit (Marilyn Van Debur/Frank Gifford), and Eaton's Santa Claus Parade in Toronto (Jack Linkletter on tape))
noon Movie "The Lone Ranger"
1:30 Movie "Lassie Come Home"
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 News (Carl Cederberg)
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Mike Douglas (guests Totie Fields, Shani Wallace, and the Four Seasons)
6:00 News (Kelly/LeGoff/Weaver)
6:15 Editorial
6:20 Weather
6:25 Sports (Ray Lane)
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Zorro "The Fall on Monasterior"
7:30 Munsters
8:00 Gilligan's Island (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Thursday Night Movie "Mysterious Island" (c)
11:00 News (Kelly/LeGoff/Weaver)
11:15 Editorial
11:20 Weather
11:25 Sports (Van Patrick)
11:30 Late Show "The Young Land" (c)
1:30 News/Weather
WWJ 4-NBC Detroit (622 W Lafayette St)
6:30 Classroom (the challenge of the "retirement years" for America's aging population)
7:00 Today (c/guests Michael Dyne, and Macy's Parade float designer Frank Jenkins)
9:00 Living
9:55 News (John Hultman)
10:00 Bozo the Clown (c)
10:15 J.L. Hudson Parade (Sonny Eliot covers the 39th annual parade)
11:00 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (c/JIP)
noon Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"
1:30 College Football: Oklahoma-Nebraska (c)
4:30 AFL: Buffalo-San Diego (c)
7:30 Daniel Boone (c)
8:30 Music by Cole Porter (c/Maurice Chevalier, Robert Goulet, Nancy Ames, and Peter Gennaro pay tribute to the legendary songwriter; pre-empts Laredo)
9:30 Mona McCluskey (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c/guests Milton Berle, Lisa Kirk, Phil Ford & Mimi Hines, Xavier Cugat, Charo & Company, the Windsor Boys Choral Group, and Ronnie Demarco)
11:00 News (Dick Westerkamp)
11:15 Weather (Sonny Ellot)
11:20 Sports (Don Kremer)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 Beat the Champ
1:30 Weather
WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit (20777 W 10 Mile Rd, Southfield)
6:30 Funews
7:00 Johnny Ginger Carnival
8:00 Big Theater (Capt. Toby)
9:00 Rita Bell's Prize Movie "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
10:30 Girl Talk (Anne Blair is joined by the wives of the Iraqi, Spanish, and Swiss ambassadors to the US)
11:00 Young Set (guests Gloria Swanson and Bud Shulberg)
noon Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Nurses
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4:00 Never Too Young
4:30 Where the Action is (guests Bobby Vee and Len Barry)
5:00 Sammy Davis & the Wonderful World of Children (c/Sammy visits the world of kids, with musical guests Dino Martin Jr, Desi Arnaz Jr, and Billy Henshe performing during the program)
6:00 Holiday Carnival (c)
6:25 Sports (Dave Diles)
6:30 News (Bill Bonds/local news films in color)
6:45 ABC News
7:00 Michigan Outdoors (c)
7:30 Shindig (the show makes its second trip to Hawaii with a show from Waikiki Beach with guests Len Barry, Ian Whitcomb, Glen Campbell, Bobby Sherman, and the Wellingtons)
8:30 OK Crackerby! (c)
9:00 Bewitched "Aunt Clara's Old Flame"
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 First Lady's Tour (c/Lady Bird Johnson formed a committee in Feb 1965 to eliminate ugliness from America's cities and countryside, with DC her first project...this program shows her touring various sections of the nation's capital; pre-empts Long Hot Summer)
11:00 News (Bill Bonds/same note as 6:30)
11:25 Premiere Theater "All the Young Men"
1:15 After Hours (Ed McKenzie)
2:00 News (Steve Smith)
2:15 Passport to Profit (an early infomercial?)
CKLW 9-CBC Windsor (825 Riverside Dr W, and still there today; then owned by RKO General, who plunked the General Tire logo into the hole in the 9)
8:55 Morgan's Marry-Go-Round
9:00 Romper Room (Miss Flora)
10:00 Canadian Schools "Edmonton: Gateway to the North"
10:30 Friendly Giant
10:45 Chez Helene
11:00 Butternut Square
11:20 Across Canada
11:50 News
noon Razzle Dazzle
12:30 Take 30 (Jo Ouelette shows a film on smelt fishing in Quebec)
1:00 Bill Kennedy Showtime "Dondi"
3:30 Swingin' Time (Seymour)
4:30 Fun House (Jerry Booth)
6:00 Dennis the Menace "Alice's Birthday"
6:30 Marshal Dillon (Gunsmoke)
7:00 Twilight Zone "A World of Difference"/"Long Live Walter Jameson"
8:00 Hollywood a Go Go (Sam Riddle welcomes Group B, Dobie Gray, Mike Clifford, Sue Thompson, the Fugitives, and the We Five)
9:00 Windsor Raceway
10:00 Wrestling (Windsor)
11:00 CBC News
11:15 News (Irv Morrison)
11:25 Weather (Don West)
11:30 Gideon's Way "How to Retire Without Really Working"
12:30 Film Feature
WTOL 11-CBS/NBC Toledo (604 Jackson St)
7:30 Comedy Carnival
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (11 jumps off after 30 min for the movie, it usually ran the full hour)
8:30 Holiday Theater "Have Rocket, Will Travel"
10:00 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (c/NBC's commentators were Lorne Greene and Betty White)
noon Holiday Theater "Broken Lance" (c)
1:30 College Football: Oklahoma-Nebraska (c)
4:30 Big Show "Right Cross"
6:00 Wally Gator
6:30 Woody Woodpecker (c)
7:00 News (Ward/Saunders)
7:30 Munsters
8:00 Gilligan's Island (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Thursday Night Movie "Mysterious Island" (c)
11:00 News (Edwards/McLoughlin)
11:20 Sports (Orris Tabner)
11:25 News (Clem Gendron)
11:30 Night Owl Theater "Holiday Inn"
WSPD 13-ABC/NBC Toledo (136 Huron St)
7:20 Prayer for Today
7:25 Farm Report
7:30 Today (c/JIP)
9:00 Movie "Barbary Coast Gent"
10:30 Donna Reed
11:00 Young Set
noon Ben Casey
1:00 Mike Douglas (no info listed)
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Nurses (7 and 13 aired different episodes...I assume 7's were off the ABC feed and 13's were delayed kinnies?)
4:00 Where the Action is (guests Little Anthony & the Imperials, and Jo Anne Campbell)
4:30 Movie "At Gunpoint"
6:00 Deadline Toledo
6:45 ABC News
7:00 Rifleman "Long Trek"
7:30 Shindig
8:00 Donna Reed
8:30 OK Crackerby! (c)
9:00 Bewitched "Aunt Clara's Old Flame"
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 First Lady's Tour (c)
11:00 News (Rudes/Venner)
11:15 Sports (Mac McCullough)
11:20 Weather (Frank Venner)
11:25 TV Editorial (David Drury)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 Prayer for Today
WKBD 50-Ind Detroit (26955 W 11 Mile Rd, Southfield)
noon Dickory Doc
1:00 Movies "The Hoodlum"/"Dark Waters"
4:00 Topper "The Neighbors"
4:30 Love That Bob!
5:00 Lloyd Thaxton (guests the Dovells)
6:00 Soupy Sales
6:30 Superman
7:00 Little Rascals
7:20 Sports Desk
7:30 Holiday
8:00 Gridiron Preview
8:15 Hockey Preview
8:25 Hockey: Detroit-Chicago
10:45 Action Scoreboard
11:00 Merv Griffin (guests David Burns, Tiger Haynes, Dick Davy, and Steve Perry)
12:30 Tales of Wells Faego "Frightened Witness"
WTVS 56-Edu Detroit (5035 Woodward Ave)
5pm Invitation to Art
5:30 What's New
6:00 Americans at Work
6:15 Industry on Parade
6:30 French Chef
7:00 Dateline: UN "The US and the UN" (UN diplomacy is discussed by US ambassador to the UN Economic & Social Council James Rockefeller, Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), and Rep. Barrett O'Hara (D-IL))
7:30 Driver Education
8:00 American Memoir
8:30 Regional Report "School Integration" (Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel and the Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Spivak discuss the Federal government's program to enforce school desegregation)
9:30 UN Day Concert (the 16th annual concert from the UN, celebrating the UN's 20th anniversary)