romance – Holiday TV Specials

One Tree Hill

Air Date: 2003 – 2012
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 42 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
8	15	Valentine’s Day Is Over	167

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
8	6	Not Afraid	158

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
8	9	Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace	161

Network: The WB/The CW
Cast: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton, Bethany Joy Lenz, Paul Johansson, Sophia Bush, Barry Corbin, Craig Sheffer, Moira Kelly, Barbara Alyn Woods, Lee Norris, Antwon Tanner, Danneel Harris, Jackson Brundage, Lisa Goldstein, Austin Nichols, Robert Buckley, Shantel VanSanten, Jana Kramer, Stephen Colletti
Tyler Hilton

Updated: May 8, 2024

Undateable

Air Date: 2014 – 2016
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 21 – 23 minutes

New Year’s Eve/Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	10	A New Year’s Resolution Walks Into a Bar	33

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	5	Halloween Walks Into a Bar	28

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	9	A Box of Puppies Walks Into a Bar	32

Network: NBC
Cast: Chris D’Elia, Brent Morin, Bianca Kajlich, David Fynn, Rick Glassman, Ron Funches, Bridgit Mendler

Updated: April 16, 2024

Love, Inc.

Air Date: 2005 – 2006
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 20 – 22 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	14	Hello, Larry	10

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	10	The Honeymooners	10

Network: UPN
Cast: Busy Philipps, Vince Vieluf, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Ion Overman, Holly Robinson Peete

Updated: April 16, 2024

My Adventures with Superman

Air Date: 2023 – Present
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 22 minutes

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	10	Hearts of the Fathers	10

Related Shows:

Arrow
The Adventures of Batman
- The Batman
- Batman Beyond – No know holiday episodes
- Batman: The Animated Series
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold
- The Batman/Superman Hour – No known holiday episodes
- Beware the Batman – No known holiday episodes
- The New Batman Adventures
Batwoman – No known holiday episodes
Constantine – No known holiday episodes
DC Super Hero Girls [2015 series]
- DC Super Hero Girls [2019 series]
Doom Patrol – No known holiday episodes
The Flash [1990 series] – No known holiday episodes
- The Flash [2014 series]
Green Lantern: The Animated Series – No known holiday episodes
Justice League
- Justice League Unlimited – No known holiday episodes
- Justice League Action
Legends of Tomorrow
Static Shock
Supergirl
Superman [1941 series] – No known holiday episodes
- Smallville
- Superman [1988 series] – No known holiday episodes
- Superman: The Animated Series
- Superman & Lois
- My Adventures with Superman
Teen Titans – No known holiday episodes
- Teen Titans Go!
- Titans – No known holiday episodes
Young Justice
The Zeta Project – No known holiday episodes

Network: Adult Swim
Cast: Jack Quaid, Alice Lee, Ishmel Sahid, Darrell Brown Kari Wahlgren, Reid Scott, Jason Marnocha, Zehra Fazal, Azuri Hardy-Jones, Chris Parnell, Debra Wilson, Joel de la Fuente, Catherine Taber, Lucas Grabeel, Vincent Tong, Jake Green, Laila Berzins, Melanie Minichino, Kenna Ramsey, André Sogliuzzo, David Errigo Jr., Andromeda Dunker,

Updated: April 16, 2024

This Is Us

Air Date: 2016- 2022
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 42 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	12	Songbird Road: Part Two	48
6	14	The Night Before the Wedding	102

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	8	Pilgrim Rick	8
3	8	Six Thanksgivings	44
4	8	Sorry	62
4	9	So Long, Marianne	63
6	7	Taboo	95
6	8	The Guitar Man	96

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	10	Last Christmas	10

Network: NBC
Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan, Ron Cephas Jones, Jon Huertas, Alexandra Breckenridge, Niles Fitch, Logan Shroyer, Hannah Zeile, Mackenzie Hancsicsak, Parker Bates, Eris Baker, Faithe Herman, Lonnie Chavis, Melanie Liburd, Lyric Ross, Griffin Dunne, Asante Blackk, Caitlin Thompson, Chris Geere

Updated: March 29, 2024

Will & Grace

Air Date: 1998 – 2020
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 22 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
4	16	A Chorus Lie	87
7	16	Dance Cards and Greeting Cards	162
10	14	Supreme Courtship	224

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	5	Boo! Humbug	5
5	5	It’s the Gay Pumpkin, Charlie Brown	103

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	7	Homo for the Holidays	29
4	9	Moveable Feast [Part I]	80
4	10	Moveable Feast [Part II]	81
7	10	Queens for a Day [Part I]	156
7	11	Queens for a Day [Part II]	157

Hanukkah

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
6	10	Fanilow	132

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	10	Three’s a Crowd, Six is a Freak Show	56
4	12	Jingle Balls	93
5	11	All About Christmas Eve	109
7	12	Christmas Break	158
8	9	A Little Christmas Queer	179
9	7	A Gay Olde Christmas	201

Network: NBC
Cast: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes, Gary Grubbs, Shelley Morrison, Michael Angarano

Updated: March 29, 2024

Two and a Half Men

Air Date: 2003 – 2015
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 20 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	14	Love Isn’t Blind, It’s Retarded	62
9	16	Sips, Sonnets and Sodomy	193
10	16	Advantage: Fat, Flying Baby	217

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	6	Hi, Mr. Horned One	54
12	1	The Ol’ Mexican Spinach	247

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	10	Merry Thanksgiving	10

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	11	Santa’s Village of the Damned	59
4	11	Walnuts and Demerol	83
7	11	Warning, It’s Dirty	150
9	12	One False Move, Zimbabwe	189
10	11	Give Santa a Tail-Hole	212
11	10	On Vodka, on Soda, on Blender, on Mixer!	234
12	8	Family, Bublé, Deep-Fried Turkey	254

Related Shows:

Anger Management

Network: CBS
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Marin Hinkle, Melanie Lynskey, Holland Taylor, Conchata Ferrell, April Bowlby, Jennifer Taylor, Ashton Kutcher, Amber Tamblyn, Edan Alexander

Updated: March 29, 2024

Grey’s Anatomy

Air Date: 2005 – Present
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 43 – 53 minutes

New Year’s Eve/Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	13	Begin the Begin	22
15	12	Girlfriend in a Coma	329

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
6	14	Valentine’s Day Massacre	116
8	14	All You Need Is Love	162
11	23	She’s Leaving Home	243

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
4	5	Haunt You Every Day	66
10	7	Thriller	203
16	6	Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard	348
19	4	Haunted	404

Día de Muertos

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
15	6	Flowers Grow Out of My Grave	323

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	9	Thanks for the Memories	18
10	10	Somebody That I Used to Know	206
18	6	Everyday Is a Holiday (With You)	386

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	12	Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer	21
6	10	Holidaze	112
9	9	Run, Baby, Run	181
18	8	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	388

Related Shows:

Network: ABC
Cast: Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers, T.R. Knight, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr., Isiah Washington, Patrick Dempsey, Kate Walsh, Sara Ramirez, Eric Dane, Chyler Laigh, Brooke Smith, Kevin McKidd, Jessica Capshaw, Kim Raver, Sarah Drew, Jesse Williams, Camilla Luddington, Gaius Charles, Jerrika Hinton, Tessa Ferrer, Caterina Scorsone, Kelly McCreary, Jason George, Martin Henderson, Giacomo Gianniotti, Greg Germann, Jake Borelli, Chris Carmack, Richard Flood, Anthony Hill, Scott Speedman, Alexis Floyd, Harry Shum Jr., Adelaide Kane, Midori Francis, Niko Terho

Updated: March 22, 2024

WandaVision

Air Date: 2021
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 30 – 50 minutes

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	6	All-New Halloween Spooktacular!	6

Related Shows:

Agent Carter – No known holiday episodes
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – No known holiday episodes
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot – No known holiday episodes
Avengers Assemble
Cloak & Dagger – No known holiday episodes
Daredevil – No known holiday episodes
The Defenders – No known holiday episodes
Echo – No known holiday episodes
Falcon and the Winter Soldier – No known holiday episodes
The Gifted – No known holiday episodes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Hawkeye
Helstrom – No known holiday episodes
Hit-Monkey – No known holiday episodes
Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
Inhumans – No known holiday episodes
Iron Fist – No known holiday episodes
Jessica Jones – No known holiday episodes
Loki – No known holiday episodes
Luke Cage – No known holiday episodes
Legion – No known holiday episodes
M.O.D.O.K. – No known holiday episodes
Moon Knight – No known holiday episodes
Ms. Marvel – No known holiday episodes
Mutant X – No known holiday episodes
The Punisher – No known holiday episodes
Secret Wars – No known holiday episodes
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – No known holiday episodes
Spider-Man [1967 series] – No known holiday episodes
- The Amazing Spider-Man – No known holiday episodes
- Spider-Man [1981 series] – No known holiday episodes
- Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends – No known holiday episodes
- Spider-Man [1994] – No known holiday episodes
- Spider-Man Unlimited – No known holiday episodes
- Spider-Man: The Animated Series – No known holiday episodes
- The Spectacular Spider-Man
- Ultimate Spider-Man
- Spider-Man [2017 series]
- Spidey and His Amazing Friends
What If…?
Wolverine and the X-Men – No known holiday episodes
X-Men: The Animated Series
- X-Men: Evolution
- X-Men ’97 – No known holiday episodes

Streaming on: Disney+
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Debra Jo Rupp, Fred Melamed, Kathryn Hahn, Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Evan Peters

Updated: March 29, 2024

Ugly Betty

Air Date: 2006 – 2010
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 42 minutes

Administrative Professionals’ Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	21	Secretaries’ Day	21

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	5	The Lyin’, The Watch and the Wardrobe	5

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	8	Four Thanksgivings and a Funeral	8

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	10	Fake Plastic Snow	10
4	9	*Be-Shure	74

*Holiday episode that celebrates both Hanukkah and Christmas.

Network: ABC
Cast: America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Alan Dale, Tony Plana, Ana Ortiz, Ashley Jensen, Becki Newton, Mark Indelicato, Vanessa Williams, Rebecca Romijn, Michael Urie, Kevin Sussman, Christopher Gorham, Judith Light, Daniel Eric Gold

Updated: March 29, 2024

New Girl

Also known as New Girl Jess.

Air Date: 2011 – 2018
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 21 – 24 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	13	Valentine’s Day	13
4	15	The Crawl	87
6	16	Operation: Bobcat	132

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	6	Halloween	30
3	6	Keaton	55

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	6	Thanksgiving	6
2	8	Parents	32
3	10	Thanksgiving III	59
4	9	Thanksgiving IV	81
6	7	Last Thanksgiving	123

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	9	The 23rd	9
2	11	Santa	35
4	11	LAXmas	83
6	10	Christmas Eve Eve	126

Network: Fox
Cast: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone, Damon Wayans Jr., Megan Fox, Danielle Rockoff, Rhiannon Rockoff

Updated: March 27, 2024

Man Seeking Woman

Air Date: 2015 – 2017
Parental Guide Rating: TV-MA
Average Runtime: 18 – 23 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	5	Sizzurp	5

Network: FXX
Cast: Jay Baruchel, Eric André, Britt Lower, Maya Erskine, Katie Findlay

Updated: March 27. 2024

Californication

Air Date: 2007 – 2014
Parental Guide Rating: TV-MA
Average Runtime: 27 – 53 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
5	6	Love Song	54

Network: Showtime
Cast: David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone, Madeleine Martin, Evan Handler, Pamela Adlon, Madeline Zima

Updated: March 30, 2024

Moonlighting

Air Date: 1985 – 1989
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 45 – 49 minutes

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	10	Twas the Episode Before Christmas	17
3	8	It’s a Wonderful Job	33

Network: ABC
Cast: Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley, Curtis Armstrong

Updated: March 27, 2024

The Mindy Project

Air Date: 2012 – 2017
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 22 – 31 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	14	Harry & Mindy	14

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	4	Halloween	4

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	6	Thanksgiving	6

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	9	Josh and Mindy’s Christmas Party	9
2	11	Christmas Party Sex Trap	35
3	11	Christmas	57
4	13	When Mindy Met Danny	80

Network: Fox/Hulu
Cast: Mindy Kaling, Chris Messina, Ed Weeks, Anna Camp, Zoe Jarman, Amanda Setton, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ike Barinholtz, Beth Grant, Xosha Roquemore, Adam Pally, Garret Dillahunt, Fortune Feimster, Rebecca Rittenhouse

Updated: March 27, 2024

Master of None

Air Date: 2015 – 2021
Parental Guide Rating: TV-MA
Average Runtime: 21 – 57 minutes

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	8	Thanksgiving	18

Streaming on: Netflix
Cast: Aziz Ansari, Eric Wareheim, Noël Wells, Lena Waithe, Kelvin Yu, Alessandra Mastronardi, Naomi Ackie

Updated: March 27, 2024

Love Boat: The Next Wave

Air Date: 1998 – 1999
Parental Guide Rating: N/A
Average Runtime: 60 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	12	Love Floats: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre	18

Related Shows:

The Love Boat

Network: UPN
Cast: Robert Urich, Phil Morris, Tim Maculan, Joan Severance, Corey Parker, Randy Vasquez

Updated: March 25, 2024

The Love Boat

Air Date: 1977 – 1987
Parental Guide Rating: TV-G
Average Runtime: 45 – 52 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	20	Memories of You Computerman Parlez Vous?	20
2	23	Funny Valentine The Wallflower A Home is Not a Home	48
6	20	The Zinging Valentine The Very Temporary Secretary Final Score	157

Title of TV Special/Movie	Year of Release	Overall
The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage	1990	250

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	7	Ship of Ghouls	32

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	10	Man of the Cloth Her Own Two Feet Tony’s Family	35
6	9	Thanksgiving Cruise: Too Many Dads Love Will Find a Way The Best of Friends	146

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	11	Lonely at the Top Silent Night Divorce Me, Please	11
4	11	That’s My Dad The Captain’s Bird Captive Audience	91
6	13	The Christmas Presence	150
8	15	Santa, Santa, Santa Another Dog Gone Christmas Noel’s Christmas Carol	208

Title of TV Special/Movie	Year of Release	Overall
The Christmas Cruise – Part 1	1986	247
The Christmas Cruise – Part 2	1986	248

Related Shows:

Love Boat: The Next Wave

Network: ABC
Cast: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan, Ted McGinley, Pat Klous

Updated: March 25, 2024

Johnny Bravo

Air Date: 1997 – 2004
Parental Guide Rating: TV-Y7
Average Runtime: 23 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Title of Special	Year of Release
It’s Valentine’s Day, Johnny Bravo!	2004

Mother’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	10b	The Perfect Gift	10b

Christmas

Title of Special	Year of Release
A Johnny Bravo Christmas	2001

Related Shows:

What a Cartoon! – No known holiday episodes

Network: Cartoon Network
Cast: Jeff Bennett, Brenda Vaccaro, Mae Whitman, Tom Kenny, Larry Drake

Updated: March 25, 2024

Jane the Virgin

Air Date: 2014 – 2019
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 39 – 47 minutes

Mother’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	20	Chapter Forty-Two	42

Network: The CW
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Andrea Navedo, Yael Grobglas, Justin Baldoni, Ivonne Coll, Brett Dier, Jaime Camil, Elias Janssen

Updated: March 25, 2024

How I Met Your Mother

Air Date: 2005 – 2014
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 22 minutes

New Year’s Eve/Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	11	The Limo	11
4	13	Three Days of Snow	77
7	13	Tailgate	149

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
5	15	Rabbit or Duck	103
6	16	Desperation Day	128
7	16	The Drunk Train	152

St. Patrick’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	12	No Tomorrow	56

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	6	Slutty Pumpkin	6
7	8	The Slutty Pumpkin Returns	144

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	9	Belly Full of Turkey	9
3	9	Slapsgiving	53
5	9	Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap	97
6	10	Blitzgiving	122
7	11	The Rebound Girl	147

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	11	How Lily Stole Christmas	33
4	11	Little Minnesota	75
6	12	False Positive	124
8	10	The Over-Correction	170
8	11	The Final Page [Part I]	171
8	12	The Final Page [Part II]	172

Not Father’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
4	7	Not Father’s Day	71

Related Shows:

How I Met Your Father

Network: CBS
Cast: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Cristin Milioti

glee

Air Date: 2009 – 2015
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 40 – 48 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	12	Silly Love Songs	34
3	13	Heart	57
4	14	I Do	80

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	5	The Rocky Horror Glee Show	27

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
4	8	Thanksgiving	74

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	10	A Very Glee Christmas	32
3	9	Extraordinary Merry Christmas	53
4	10	Glee, Actually	76
5	8	Previously Unaired Christmas	96

Related Shows:

The Glee Project – No known holiday episodes

Network: Fox
Cast: Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Mark Salling, Jenna Ushkowitz, Heather Morris, Mike O’Malley, Naya Rivera, Darren Criss, Harry Shum Jr., Chord Overstreet, Jacob Artist, Melissa Benoist, Blake Jenner, Alex Newell, Becca Tobin, Dot-Marie Jones

Updated: March 22, 2024

Chuck

Air Date: 2007 – 2012
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 40 – 46 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
4	16	Chuck Versus the Masquerade	70

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	6	Chuck Versus the Sandworm	6

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	10	Chuck Versus the Nemesis	10
2	8	Chuck Versus the Graviton	21
4	10	Chuck Versus the Leftovers	64

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	11	Chuck Versus Santa Claus	24
5	7	Chuck Versus the Santa Suit	85

Network: NBC
Cast: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Sarah Lancaster, Adam Baldwin, Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Scott Krinsky, Vik Sahay, Julia Ling, Bonita Friedericy

Updated: March 30, 2024