{"id":378435,"date":"2026-10-21T00:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:20:37","slug":"gone-for-decades-an-old-friend-returns-for-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378435\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone for decades, an old friend returns for Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/nyc\/\" title=\"Navigate to NYC News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYC News<\/a>Published: Oct. 19, 2026, 4:31 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"APTOPIX Macy's Thanksgiving Parade\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/II7EQYD4KFA7BOPYDJBNTXG3ZU.jpg\"  \/>The Tom Turkey float makes its way down Central Park West to kick off the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo\/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4FQJ36TDAVDABKXTR4WMGY45QE\">Underdog, the heroic canine in the same-named cartoon show, will return to the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade after 42 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FUN7RYYV3BDGDPUS5VBJS46H3Y\">Underdog, the show, only ran for three seasons, from 1964-1967.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2NKTA6IDUJDVHOITITMDKUJHPA\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/2026-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-underdog-returns-nyc-celebration\/19955219\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/2026-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-underdog-returns-nyc-celebration\/19955219\/\">ABC News<\/a>, Underdog remains one of the parade\u2019s longest running characters. He appeared in every parade from 1965-1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BGXMO2YUCRHC3GTGYEHCYBHD6E\">The balloon was displayed in Grand Central Terminal Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DJ33XLZ55ZBATBSDYPECZZKHKY\">His return comes just in time for the parade\u2019s centennial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3GGOJPQBVNBP5MVH2RNYHBGO6E\">The parade is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 26.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a New York City\u2013based reporter and long-suffering Mets fan. I recently graduated from Washington and Lee University, where I earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC NewsPublished: Oct. 19, 2026, 4:31 p.m.The Tom Turkey float makes its way down Central Park West to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-378435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}