Emmy Award-winning Television Series, 1948-2007
Most popular program: Pantomime Quiz, KTLA TV film: Your Show Time: The Necklace
Live show: The Ed Wynn Show, KTTV Kinescope show: The Texaco Star Theater, KNBH (NBC)
TV film: The Life of Riley, KNBH Pub. svc./cultural/educ.: Crusade in Europe, KECA- TV/KTTV (ABC) Children’s: Time for Beany, KTLA
Variety: The Alan Young Show, KTTV (CBS) Drama: Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, KECA-TV (ABC) Game/audience particip.: Truth or Consequences, KTTV (CBS) Children’s: Time for Beany, KTLA Educational: KFI-TV University, KFI-TV Cultural: Campus Chorus and Orchestra, KTSL
Variety: Your Show of Shows (NBC) Comedy: The Red Skelton Show (NBC) Drama: Studio One (CBS)
Variety: Your Show of Shows (NBC)
Comedy: I Love Lucy (CBS)
Drama: Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC)
Mystery/action/adventure: Dragnet (NBC)
Public affairs: See It Now (CBS)
Aud. particip./quiz/panel: What’s My Line? (CBS)
Children’s: Time for Beany (syndicated)
Variety: Omnibus (CBS)
Comedy: I Love Lucy (CBS)
Drama: The U.S. Steel Hour (ABC)
Mystery/action/adventure: Dragnet (NBC)
Public affairs: Victory at Sea (NBC)
Aud. particip./quiz/panel: This Is Your Life (NBC);
What’s My Line? (CBS) Children’s: Kukla, Fran, and Ollie (NBC)
Variety: Disneyland (ABC) Comedy: Make Room for Daddy (ABC) Drama: The United States Steel Hour (ABC) Mystery/intrigue: Dragnet (NBC) Western/adventure: Stories of the Century (syndicated) Cultural/relig./educ.: Omnibus (CBS) Aud. particip./quiz/panel: This Is Your Life (NBC) Children’s: Lassie (CBS)
Variety: The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS) Comedy: The Phil Silvers Show: You’ll Never Get Rich (CBS) Drama: Producers’ Showcase (NBC) Action/adventure: Disneyland (ABC) Music: Your Hit Parade (NBC) Documentary: Omnibus (CBS) Aud. particip.: The $64,000 Question (CBS) Children’s: Lassie (CBS)
Series (% hr. or less): The Phil Silvers Show: You’ll Never Get Rich (CBS) Series (1 hr. or more): Caesar’s Hour (NBC) New series: Playhouse 90 (CBS)
Mus./var./aud. par./quiz: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC) Comedy: The Phil Silvers Show: You’ll Never Get Rich (CBS) Drama, continuing: Gunsmoke (CBS) Drama, anthology: Playhouse 90 (CBS) New series: The Seven Lively Arts (CBS) Public service: Omnibus (ABC/NBC)
Musical/variety: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC) Comedy: The Jack Benny Show (CBS) Drama (<1 hr.): Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse (NBC) Drama (1 hr.+): Playhouse 90 (CBS) Western: Maverick (ABC) News reporting: The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) Public service: Omnibus (NBC) Panel/quiz/aud. particip.: What’s My Line? (CBS)
Variety: The Fabulous Fifties (CBS) Humor: Art Carney Special (NBC) Drama: Playhouse 90 (CBS) News: The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) Public affairs/education: The Twentieth Century (CBS) Children’s: Huckleberry Hound (syndicated)
Variety: Astaire Time (NBC) Humor: The Jack Benny Show (CBS) Drama: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Macbeth (NBC) News: The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) Public affairs/education: The Twentieth Century (CBS) Children’s: “Aaron Copland’s Birthday Party,” Young People’s Concert (CBS) Program of the year: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Macbeth (NBC)
Variety: The Garry Moore Show (CBS) Humor: The Bob Newhart Show (NBC) Drama: The Defenders (CBS) News: The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) Educational/public affairs: David Brinkley’s Journal (NBC)
Children’s: New York Philharmonic Young People’s
Concerts with Leonard Bernstein (CBS) Program of the year: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Victoria Regina (NBC)
Variety: The Andy Williams Show (NBC) Humor: The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) Drama: The Defenders (CBS) News: The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) Commentary/public affairs: David Brinkley’s Journal (NBC)
Documentary: The Tunnel (NBC) Panel/quiz/aud. particip.: The G.E. College Bowl (CBS)
Children’s: Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (NBC)
Program of the year: The Tunnel (NBC)
Variety: The Danny Kaye Show (CBS) Comedy: The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) Drama: The Defenders (CBS) News reports: The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) Commentary/public affairs: “Cuba—Part I: The Bay of Pigs” and “Cuba—Part II: The Missile Crisis,” NBC White Paper (NBC) Documentary: The Making of the President 1960 (ABC) Children’s: Discovery ’63-’64 (ABC) Program of the year: The Making of the President 1960 (ABC)
Entertainment: The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS); Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Magnificent Yankee (NBC); My Name Is Barbra (CBS); “What Is Sonata Form?,” New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts with Leonard Bernstein (CBS) News/docu./info./sports: “I, Leonardo da Vinci,” Saga of Western Man (ABC); The Louvre (NBC)
Variety: The Andy Williams Show (NBC) Comedy: The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) Drama: The Fugitive (ABC)
Variety: The Andy Williams Show (NBC) Comedy: The Monkees (NBC) Drama: Mission: Impossible (CBS)
Musical/variety: Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC) Comedy: Get Smart (NBC) Drama: Mission: Impossible (CBS)
Musical/variety: Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC) Comedy: Get Smart (NBC) Drama: NET Playhouse (NET)
Variety/musical: The David Frost Show (syndicated) Comedy: My World and Welcome to It (NBC) Drama: Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC)
Comedy: All in the Family (CBS) Drama: The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC) Variety, musical: The Flip Wilson Show (nBc) Variety, talk: The David Frost Show (syndicated) New series: All in the Family (CBS)
Comedy: All in the Family (CBS)
Drama: Masterpiece Theatre: Elizabeth R (PBS)
Variety, musical: The Carol Burnett Show (CBS)
Variety, talk: The Dick Cavett Show (ABC)
New series: Masterpiece Theatre: Elizabeth R (PBS)
Comedy: All in the Family (CBS) Drama (continuing): The Waltons (CBS) Drama/comedy (limited): Masterpiece Theatre: Tom Brown’s Schooldays (PBS) Variety, musical: The Julie Andrews Hour (ABC) New series: America (NBC)
Comedy: M*A*S*H (CBS)
Drama: Masterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
Limited series: Columbo (NBC) Music/variety: The Carol Burnett Show (CBS)
Comedy: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) Drama: Masterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
Limited series: Benjamin Franklin (CBS) Comedy-variety/music: The Carol Burnett Show (CBS)
Comedy: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) Drama: Police Story (NBC)
Limited series: Masterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
Comedy-variety/music: NBC’s Saturday Night (NBC)
Comedy: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) Drama: Masterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
Limited series: Roots (ABC)
Comedy-variety/music: Van Dyke and Company (NBC)
Comedy: All in the Family (CBS) Drama: The Rockford Files (NBC) Limited series: Holocaust (NBC) Comedy-variety/music: The MuppetShow(syndicated) Informational: The Body Human (CBS)
Comedy: Taxi (ABC) Drama: Lou Grant (CBS)
Limited series: Roots: The Next Generations (ABC) Comedy-variety/music: “Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin” (NBC)
Comedy: Taxi (ABC) Drama: Lou Grant (CBS)
Limited series: Edward & Mrs. Simpson (syndicated) Variety/music: IBM Presents Baryshnikov on Broadway (abc)
Comedy: Taxi (ABC)
Drama: Hill Street Blues (NBC)
Limited series: Shogun (NBC)
Informational: Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds (PBS)
Comedy: Barney Miller (ABC) Drama: Hill Street Blues (NBC) Limited series: Marco Polo (NBC) Informational: Creativity with Bill Moyers (PBS)
Comedy: Cheers (NBC)
Drama: Hill Street Blues (NBC)
Limited series: Nicholas Nickleby (syndicated)
Informational: The Barbara Walters Specials (ABC)
Comedy: Cheers (NBC) Drama: Hill Street Blues (NBC) Limited series: American Playhouse: Concealed Enemies (PBS)
Informational: A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers (PBS)
Comedy: The Cosby Show (NBC) Drama: Cagney & Lacey (CBS) Limited series: Masterpiece Theatre: The Jewel in the Crown (PBS)
Informational: The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth (PBS)
Comedy: The Golden Girls (NBC) Drama: Cagney & Lacey (CBS) Miniseries: Peter the Great (NBC) Informational: Great Performances: Laurence Olivier—A Life (PBS); Planet Earth (PBS)
Comedy: The Golden Girls (NBC) Drama: L.A. Law (NBC) Miniseries: A Year in the Life (NBC) Informational: Smithsonian World (PBS); American Masters: Unknown Chaplin (PBS)
Comedy: The Wonder Years (ABC) Drama: thirtysomething (ABC) Miniseries: The Murder of Mary Phagan (NBC) Informational: American Masters: Buster Keaton: A Hard Act To Follow (PBS); Nature (PBS)
Comedy: Cheers (NBC)
Drama: L.A. Law (NBC)
Miniseries: War and Remembrance (ABC)
Variety/music/comedy: The Tracy Ullman Show (Fox)
Informational: Nature (PBS)
Comedy: Murphy Brown (CBS) Drama: L.A. Law (NBC)
Miniseries: Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (NBC) Variety/music/comedy: In Living Color (Fox) Informational: Smithsonian World (PBS)
Comedy: Cheers (NBC) Drama: L.A. Law (NBC) Miniseries: Separate but Equal (ABC) Informational: The Civil War (PBS)
Comedy: Murphy Brown (CBS) Drama: Northern Exposure (CBS) Miniseries: A Woman Named Jackie (NBC) Variety/music/comedy: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC)
Informational: MGM:When the Lion Roars (TNT)
Comedy: Seinfeld (NBC) Drama: Picket Fences (CBS) Miniseries: Prime Suspect 2 (PBS) Variety/music/comedy: Saturday Night Live (NBC) Informational: Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers (PBS)
Comedy: Frasier (NBC) Drama: Picket Fences (CBS) Miniseries: Prime Suspect 3 (PBS) Variety/music/comedy: Late Show with David Letter-man (CBS)
Informational: Later with Bob Costas (NBC)
Comedy: Frasier (NBC) Drama: NYPD Blue (ABC) Miniseries: Joseph (TNT)
Variety/music/comedy: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC)
Informational: Baseball (PBS); TV Nation (NBC)
Comedy: Frasier (NBC) Drama: ER (NBC)
Miniseries: Gulliver’s Travels (NBC) Variety/music/comedy: Dennis Miller Live (HBO) Informational: Lost Civilizations (NBC)
Comedy: Frasier (NBC) Drama: Law & Order (NBC)
Miniseries: Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment (PBS) Variety/music/comedy: Tracey Takes On… (HBO) Informational: Biography (A&E); The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (PBS)
Comedy: Frasier (NBC) Drama: The Practice (ABC) Miniseries: From the Earth to the Moon (HBO) Variety/music/comedy: Late Show with David Letter-man (CBS)
Nonfiction: The American Experience (PBS)
Comedy: Ally McBeal (Fox) Drama: The Practice (ABC)
Miniseries: Horatio Hornblower: The Even Chance (A&E) Variety/music/comedy: Late Show with David Letter-man (CBS)
Nonfiction: The American Experience (PBS); American Masters (PBS)
Comedy: Will & Grace (NBC) Drama: The West Wing (NBC) Miniseries: The Corner (HBO) Variety/music/comedy: Late Show with David Letter-man (CBS) Nonfiction: American Masters (PBS)
Comedy: Sex and the City (HBO) Drama: The West Wing (NBC) Miniseries: Anne Frank (ABC) Variety/music/comedy: Late Show with David Letter- man (CBS) Nonfiction: American Masters (PBS)
Comedy: Friends (NBC) Drama: The West Wing (NBC) Miniseries: Band of Brothers (HBO) Variety/music/comedy: Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) Nonfiction: Biography (A&E)
Comedy: Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS) Drama: The West Wing (NBC) Miniseries: Steven Spielberg Presents Taken (Sci Fi) Variety/music/comedy: The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart (Comedy Central) Nonfiction: American Masters (PBS)
Comedy: Arrested Development (Fox) Drama: The Sopranos (HBO) Miniseries: Angels in America (HBO) Variety/music/comedy: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
Nonfiction: American Masters (PBS)
Comedy: Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS) Drama: Lost (ABC)
Miniseries: Masterpiece Theatre: The Lost Prince (PBS)
Variety/music/comedy: The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart (Comedy Central) Nonfiction: Broadway: The American Musical (PBS)
Comedy: The Office (NBC) Drama: 24 (Fox) Miniseries: Elizabeth I (HBO)
Variety/music/comedy: The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart (Comedy Central) Nonfiction: 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (The History Channel)
Comedy: 30 Rock (NBC) Drama: The Sopranos (HBO) Miniseries: Broken Trail (AMC) Variety/music/comedy: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) Nonfiction: Planet Earth (Discovery Channel)
