soap opera – Holiday TV Specials

Revenge

Air Date: 2011 – 2015
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 43 minutes

New Year’s Eve/Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	20	Legacy	20

Memorial Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
4	1	Renaissance	67

Labor Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	15	Chaos	15

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	18	Masquerade	40

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	8	Lineage	30

Network: ABC
Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Emily VanCamp, Gabriel Mann, Henry Czerny, Ashley Madekwe, Nick Wechsler, Josh Bowman, Connor Paolo, Christa B. Allen, Barry Sloane, James Tupper, Karine Vanasse, Brian Hallisay, Elena Satine

Updated: April 11, 2024

Dynasty [2017 series]

Revival series

Air Date: 2017 – 2022
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 40 – 43 minutes

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	7	A Taste of Your Own Medicine	7
2	6	That Witch	28
3	7	Shoot from the Hip	51

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	9	Rotten Things	9
5	2	That Holiday Spirit	88

Related Shows:

Dynasty [2017 series]

Network: The CW
Cast: Elizabeth Gillies, Nathalie Kelley, James Mackay, Robert Christopher Riley, Sam Adegoke, Rafael de la Fuente, Alan Dale, Grant Show, Nicollette Sheridan, Ana Brenda Contreras, Maddison Brown, Sam Underwood, Daniella Alonso, Michael Michele, Adam Huber, Elaine Hendrix, Eliza Bennett

Updated: March 31, 2024

Dynasty [1981 series]

Original series

Air Date: 1981 – 1987
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 48 – 50 minutes

Christmas

Season	Episode	Episode	Overall
5	12	That Holiday Spirit	100

Related Series:

Dynasty [2017 series]

Network: ABC
Cast: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Pamela Sue Martin, John James, Emma Samms, Al Corley, Jack Coleman, Pamela Bellwood, Bo Hopkins, Lloyd Bochner, Gordon Thomson, Heather Locklear, Lee Bergere, Kathleen Beller, Michael Nader, Diahann Carroll, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Praed, Kate O’Mara, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Cazenove, Geoffrey Scott, Ted McGinley, Leann Hunley, Terri Garber, Tracy Scoggins, Katy Kurtzman, Dale Robertson, Wayne Northrop, James Farentino, Karen Cellini, Deborah Adair, Helmut Berger, Billy Dee Williams, George Hamilton, James Healey

Updated: March 31, 2024

Hotel

Air Date: 1983 – 1988
Parental Guide Rating: N/A
Average Runtime: 48 – 49 minutes

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	11	Christmas	11

Network: ABC
Cast: Anne Baxter, James Brolin, Connie Sellecca, Shea Farrell, Nathan Cook, Michael Spound, Heidi Bohay, Shari Belafonte

Updated: March 24, 2024

Knots Landing

Air Date: 1979 – 1993
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 60 minutes

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
12	12	A Merry Little Christmas	288
13	11	Holiday on Ice	314

Network: CBS
Cast: James Houghton, Kim Lankford, Michele Lee, Constance McCashin, Don Murray, John Pleshette, Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Julie Harris, Kevin Dobson, Claudia Lonow, Douglas Sheehan, William Devane, Lisa Hartman, Alec Baldwin, Teri Austin, Nicollette Sheridan, Hunt Block, Patrick Petersen, Tonya Crowe, Michelle Phillips, Larry Riley, Stacy Galina, Kathleen Noone

Updated: March 25, 2024

Models Inc.

Air Date: 1994 – 1995
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 45 minutes

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	15	Clash of the Super Vixens	15

Related Shows:

Beverly Hills, 90210
- 90210
- BH90210 – No known holiday episodes
Melrose Place
Melrose Place (2009 Series) – No known holiday episodes

Network: Fox
Cast: Linda Gray, Cameron Daddo, Brian Gaskill, David Goldsmith, Teresa Hill, Heather Medway, Carrie-Anne Moss, Cassidy Rae, Stephanie Romanov, Kylie Travis, Garcelle Beauvais, Emma Samms

Updated: March 27, 2024

Melrose Place

Melrose 2009 series does not have any known holiday episodes.

Air Date: 1992 – 1999
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 44 minutes

New Year’s Eve/Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
4	16	Holy Strokes	112

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	21	St. Valentine’s Day Massacre	85
7	23	The Younger Son Also Rises	214

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	12	Cold Turkey	44

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	18	A Melrose Place Christmas	18
2	15	Under the Mistletoe	47
4	15	Oy! To the World	111
5	13	Crazy Love	143
6	13	A Tree Talks in Melrose	177
7	18	Suddenly Sperm	209
7	19	The Usual Santas	210

Related Shows:

Beverly Hills, 90210
- 90210
BH90210 – No known holiday episodes
Melrose Place (Remake) – No known holiday episodes
Models Inc.

Network: Fox
Cast: Linden Ashby, Josie Bissett, Thomas Calabro, David Charvet, Marcia Cross, Kristin Davis, Rob Estes, Brooke Langton, Laura Leighton, Amy Locane, Jamie Luner, Alyssa Milano, John Haymes Newton, Lisa Rinna, Kelly Rutherford, Doug Savant, Grant Show, Andrew Shue, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Jack Wagner, Vanessa A. Williams, Daphne Zuniga, Heather Locklear

Updated: March 27, 2024

Desperate Housewives

Air Date: 2004 – 2012
Parental Guide Rating: TV-14
Average Runtime: 43 minutes

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	14	Love Is in the Air	14
2	15	Thank You So Much	38
8	13	Is This What You Call Love?	170

Mother’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
4	15	Mother Said	85

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
4	8	Now I Know, Don’t Be Scared	76
7	6	Excited and Scared	140
8	6	Witch’s Lament	163

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
7	8	Sorry Grateful	142

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	10	The Miracle Song	57
6	10	Boom Crunch	121

Related Shows:

Devious Maids – No known holiday episodes

Network: CBS
Cast: Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan, Steven Culp, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Mark Moses, Andrea Bowen, Jesse Metcalfe, Cody Kasch, Brenda Strong, James Denton, Alfre Woodard, Doug Savant, Richard Burgi, Kyle MacLachlan, Dana Delany, Shawn Pyfrom, Neal McDonough, Drea de Matteo, Maiara Walsh, Kathryn Joosten, Vanessa Williams, Kevin Rahm, Tuc Watkins, Jonathan Cake, Charles Mesure, Madison De La Garza

Updated: March 31, 2024

Beverly Hills, 90210

Air Date: 1990 – 2000
Parental Guide Rating: TV-PG
Average Runtime: 45 – 95 minutes

Presidents’ Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
1	15	A Fling in Palm Springs	15

Valentine’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	22	And Baby Makes Five	44
4	20	Scared Very Straight	100
5	20	You Gotta Have Heart	132
6	21	Bleeding Hearts	165
7	19	My Funny Valentine	195
8	20	Cupid’s Arrow	228
9	15	Beheading St. Valentine	255

Easter

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
10	22	The Easter Bunny	288

Mother’s Day

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
7	29	Mother’s Day	205

Halloween

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	13	Halloween	35
5	8	Thing That Go Bang in the Night	120
6	8	Gypsies, Cramps and Fleas	152
7	7	Fearless	183
10	6	80’s Night	272

Thanksgiving

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
3	15	The Kindness of Strangers	65
4	12	Radar Love	92
6	12	Breast Side Up	156
7	11	If I Had a Hammer	189
10	10	What’s in a Name	276

Hanukkah

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
5	14	Injustice for All	126

Christmas

Season	Episode	Title of Episode	Overall
2	18	A Walsh Family Christmas	40
3	16	It’s a Totally Happening Life	66
4	15	Somewhere in the World it’s Christmas	95
5	15	Christmas Come This Time Each Year	127
6	15	Angels We Have Heard On High	159
7	13	Gift Wrapped	189
8	14	Santa Knows	222
10	12	Nine Yolks Whipped Lightly	278

Title of Special	Year of Release
A Christmas Special	1994

Related Shows:

90210
- BH90210 – No known holiday episodes
Melrose Place
- Melrose Place (2009 Series) – No known holiday episodes
Models Inc.

Network: Fox
Cast: Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Luke Perry, Brian Austin Green, Douglas Emerson, Tori Spelling, Carol Potter, James Eckhouse, Joe E. Tata, Mark Damon Espinoza, Kathleen Robertson, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Jamie Walters, Hilary Swank, Vincent Young, Lindsay Price, Daniel Cosgrove, Vanessa Marcil

Updated: March 31, 2024