When life seems a little hard to bear (as is so often the case in late November), there’s much comfort to be had from regressing to the past and indulging in a little nostalgia.Thus LocateTV introduce this week’s theme page: Retro TV Classics.

Each of our theme pages acts as an example of how you can use LocateTV to watch a range of TV shows or films on a particular topical theme or genre by using our free embeddable widgets – previous ones include The World’s Sexiest Actors and Thanksgiving.

This week our page includes such old TV favourites The Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy, M*A*S*H and Dallas. Our selection has a US bias, but if you’re a UK TV fan why not take our example and use Locate to search for a handful of your childhood classics such as Mr Benn or The Prisoner?

The team over at Child of the 1980s have added LocateTV embeds to many of their retro pages such as Bagpuss. It’s a great site for nostalgic web users with articles on games, toys and sweets as well as UK and US 80s film and TV.

Never underestimate the bonding value of nostalgic programming. Share the retro TV theme page with friends and work colleagues to ensure misty-eyed conversations about quite how much Lassie made you cry. Come home, girl, come home!

Lottie

With Thanksgiving tomorrow, households across America will be merrily bustling with preparations for the big day: turkey to be roasted, cornbread to be baked, families to be endured – sorry, enjoyed.

TV is a big part of the celebrations for most people, with dinner being digested throughout a long afternoon of NFL football, not to mention those classic movies and TV shows set on and around Thanksgiving that are perfect to get you in the mood or provide a bit of an escape from the over-fed family claustrophobia.

And so the next addition to LocateTV’s stable of theme pages is our Thanksgiving Special, which uses the embeds to show when and where you can catch a host of Thanksgiving-related movies and TV shows: some obvious (Home for the Holidays) and some a little more surprising – such as Brokeback Mountain, featuring the memorable holiday dinner where Alma chooses to confront Ennis.

Jenna from The Underwire loves the page, declaring that she’ll be using it to catch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Let us know if we’ve missed out your own favourite holiday viewing, and if any of our suggested programmes helped to make you feel all warm and twinkly inside.