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Thanksgiving Weekend TV: Your Guide to Marathons, Holiday Specials and Football

NCIS, Modern Family and more

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What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than zoning out on your couch, full of turkey, and flipping on the television? Per annual tradition, the networks have put together various marathons, holiday specials, and Thanksgiving-themed episodes - not to mention all those football games - to allow you to do just that. Here's a roundup of all the holiday weekend programming (all times Eastern):

WEDNESDAY:

Thanksgiving specials/episodes:
Two and a Half Men "Merry Thanksgiving" (noon - 12:30, FX)
How I Met Your Mother Thanksgiving episodes (12:30 p.m. - 3 p.m., FX)
The ChewBest Thanksgiving Ever! (1 p.m., ABC)
The MiddleThanksgiving episodes (noon- 2:30 p.m., ABC Family)
Anger Management "Charlie and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Thanksgiving" (3:30 - 4 p.m., FX)
Reba Thanksgiving episodes (3:30 - 4:30 p.m., ABC Family)
Mike & Molly "Thanksgiving Is Cancelled" (5 - 5:30 p.m., FX)
South Park Thanksgiving episodes (7 - 11 p.m., Comedy Central)
The Middle "Thanksgiving VI" (8 - 8:30 p.m., ABC)
Everybody Loves RaymondThanksgiving episodes (8:45 p.m. - 11 p.m., TV Land)
Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving (9 - 11 p.m., NBC)
The King of QueensThanksgiving episodes (11 p.m. - midnight, TVLand)

Marathons:
Man vs. Wild(midnight - 8 a.m., BBC America)
NCIS(6 a.m. - 11 p.m., USA)
How the Earth Was Made(7 a.m. - 2 p.m., H2)
American Pickers(8 a.m. - 10 p.m., History)
Alaskan Bush People (9 a.m. - 10 p.m., Discovery)
Outrageous Acts of Science (9 a.m. - 8 p.m., Science Channel)
Dirty Jobs (9 a.m. - 7 p.m., Animal Planet)
Gone with the Windmarathon (9 a.m. - 5 a.m. Thursday, AMC)
Planet Earth(2 p.m. - 5 a.m. Thursday, BBC America)
Serial Killer Earth (4 p.m. - 4 a.m. Thursday, H2)
Sex and the City (7 p.m., Oxygen)

THURSDAY:

Football:
Philadelphia Eagles at Detroit Lions (12:30 p.m., Fox)
Carolina Panthers at Dallas Cowboys (4:30 p.m., CBS)
Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers (8:30 p.m., NBC)

Thanksgiving specials/episodes:
Good Morning America live from the Philadelphia and New York Thanksgiving Day parades (7 - 9 a.m., ABC)
Married with Children "A Bundy Thanksgiving" (8:30 - 9 a.m., TBS)
Thanksgiving Day Parade (9 a.m. - noon, CBS)
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (9 a.m. - noon, 2 - 5 p.m., NBC)
King of QueensThanksgiving episodes (9 - 10 a.m., TBS)
South Park "A History Channel Thanksgiving" (9:20 - 9:50 a.m., Comedy Central)
South Park "Helen Keller! The Musical" (9:50 - 10:20 a.m., Comedy Central)
Purina National Dog Show (noon - 2 p.m., NBC)
The Chew's Thanksgiving Spectacular (rerun) - 1 p.m., ABC
American Dad "There Will Be Bad Blood" and "Kung Pao Turkey" (4 p.m., 5 p.m., TBS)
Family Guy"Thanksgiving" and "Turkey Guys" (6 p.m., 6:30 p.m., TBS)
South Park "The Black Friday Trilogy" (8 - 9:30 p.m., Comedy Central)
2 Broke Girls"And the Very Christmas Thanksgiving" (8:30 p.m., TBS)
Fresh Off the Boat"Huangsgiving" (8:30 - 9 p.m., ABC)
Everybody Loves Raymond Thanksgiving episodes (9 - 11 p.m., TV Land)
The Middle "Thanksgiving VII" (9 - 9:30 p.m., ABC)
The Big Bang Theory"The Thanksgiving Decoupling" (9 p.m., TBS)
The Goldbergs"In Conclusion, Thanksgiving" (9:30 - 10 p.m., ABC)
Last Man Standing"The Gratitude List" (10 - 10:30 p.m., ABC)
Dr. Ken "Thanksgiving Culture Clash" (10:30 - 11 p.m., ABC)
King of Queens Thanksgiving episodes (11 p.m. - midnight, TV Land)

TV marathons:
House of Payne(2 a.m. - 7 p.m., BET)
Mythbusters(3 a.m. - 3 a.m. Friday, Science Channel)
Secrets of World War II(6 a.m. - midnight, American Heroes Channel)
Star Trek: The Next Generation(6 a.m. - 6 a.m. Friday, BBC America)
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce(6 a.m. - 2 p.m., Bravo)
Chrisley Knows Best (6 a.m. - 4 p.m., USA)
Way of the Turkey Thanksgiving Kung Fu marathon (6 a.m. - 3:15 a.m.Saturday)
That '70s Show(6 a.m. - 10 p.m., IFC)
Swamp People (7 a.m. - 4 p.m., History)
Eat: The Story of Food (9 a.m. - 7 p.m., National Geographic)
The Facts of Life(9 a.m. - 9 p.m., TV Land)
Tanked(9 a.m. - midnight, Animal Planet)
Railroad Alaska: Real Time Train Ride(9 a.m. - 2 p.m., with an encore on Destination America)
Ancients Behaving Badly(10 a.m. - 6 p.m., H2)
Friends(10 a.m. - 4 p.m., TBS)
Naked and Afraid XL (3 p.m. - midnight, Discovery)
Pawn Stars(4 p.m. - 11 p.m., History)
The Simpsons(4 p.m. - 10 p.m., FXX)
Modern Family (4 p.m. - 1 a.m., USA)
Idiotest(5 p.m. - 8 p.m., GSN)
The World Wars(6 p.m. - 4 a.m. Friday, H2)
Saints & Strangers(7 p.m. - 3 a.m. Friday, National Geographic)

Movie marathons:
James Bond marathon (6:30 a.m. - 8 p.m., Syfy)
James Bond marathon (7:15 a.m. Thursday - 7 a.m. Friday, EPIX)
Godfathermarathon (9 a.m. - 6 a.m. Friday, AMC )
Despicable Me 2Marathon (9 a.m. - 1 a.m. Friday, FX)

FRIDAY:

Special programming/holiday episodes:
South Park Thanksgiving episodes (2:07 - 4:40 a.m., Comedy Central)
How I Met Your Mother Thanksgiving episodes (noon - 1 p.m., FX)
Mike & Molly "Thanksgiving Is Cancelled" (2 - 2:30 p.m., FX)
Purina National Dog Show (8 - 10 p.m., NBC)
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town(8 - 9 p.m., ABC)

Marathons:
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air(3 a.m. - 7 p.m., BET)
How It's Made(3 a.m. - 9 p.m., Science Channel)
Cities of the Underworld(7 a.m. - 8 p.m., H2)
James Bond movie marathon (8 a.m. - 10 p.m., Syfy)
Pawn Stars (8 a.m. - 1 p.m., History)
The '90s: The Last Great Decade?(9 a.m. - 7 p.m., National Geographic Channel)
Todd Margaret (10 p.m. Thursday - 4 a.m. Friday, IFC)
What Not to Wear(6 a.m. - midnight, TLC)
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills(6 a.m. - 1:40 p.m., Bravo)
The Golden Girls (9 a.m. - 6 p.m., TV Land)
Treehouse Masters(9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Animal Planet)
Black Belt Friday Bruce Lee marathon (11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m., Esquire)
Counting Cars (1 p.m. - 4 a.m., History)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 p.m. - 8 p.m., BBC America)
Gold Rush (2 p.m. - 10 p.m., Discovery)
Tanked (3 p.m. - midnight, Animal Planet)
The Haunted(5 p.m. - 10 p.m., Destination America)
The Simpsons (6 p.m. - midnight, FXX)
The 2000s (7 p.m. - 3 a.m. Saturday, National Geographic Channel)

SATURDAY:

Marathons:
Martin (2 a.m. - 7 p.m., BET)
Mythbusters (3 a.m. - 8 p.m., Science Channel)
Law & Order(5 a.m. - noon, TNT) Reba (9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m., TV Land)
NCIS (10 a.m. - 11 p.m., USA)
That '70s Show (6 a.m. - 1 p.m., IFC)
Modern Marvels(7 a.m. - 5 p.m., History)
Stan Lee's Superhumans(7 a.m. - 5 a.m. Sunday, H2)
Fast n' Loud(9 a.m. - midnight, Discovery)
Diggers(9 a.m. - 7 p.m., National Geographic)
Pit Bulls and Parolees(9 a.m. - 11 p.m., Animal Planet)
Resident Evilmovie marathon (1 p.m. - 6 a.m. Sunday, IFC)
American Pickers (5 - 10 p.m., History)
Drugs, Inc.(7 p.m. - 6 a.m. Sunday, National Geographic)

SUNDAY:

Football:
New England Patriots at Denver Broncos (8:20 p.m., NBC)

Marathons:
Law & Order (3 a.m. - noon, TNT)
House of Payne (3:20 a.m. - 7 p.m., BET)
Resident Evil movie marathon (7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., IFC)
Golden Girls (7:45 a.m. - 2 p.m., TV Land)
NCIS (11 a.m. - 11 p.m., USA)
Brain Games(1 - 9 p.m., National Geographic)
The Walking Dead (1 - 10 p.m., AMC)
Reba (2 - 7 p.m., TV Land)
Mythbusters (7 p.m. - midnight, Science Channel)

What will you be watching this weekend?