26th Primetime Emmy Awards

26th Primetime Emmy Awards
Date	May 28, 1974
Location	Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	Johnny Carson
Television/Radio coverage
Network	NBC

The 26th Emmy Awards, later known as the 26th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 28, 1974. The ceremony was hosted by Johnny Carson. Winners are listed in bold and networks are in parentheses.

The top shows of the night were M*A*S*H and Upstairs, Downstairs. M*A*S*H and Mary Tyler Moore had the most major nominations with ten. Two show led the night with five major wins, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and Mary Tyler Moore.

For this ceremony, individual awards dubbed "Super Emmys" were given out in addition to the traditional categories. The individual categories were dropped the following year and have not returned since.

Winners and nominees

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Programs

Outstanding Comedy Series	Outstanding Drama Series
MASH,* (CBS) All in the Family, (CBS) East Meadow High, (CBS) Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS) The Odd Couple, (ABC)	Upstairs, Downstairs, (PBS) Kojak, (CBS) Police Story, (NBC) The Streets of San Francisco, (ABC) The Waltons, (CBS)
Outstanding Music-Variety Series	Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music Special
The Carol Burnett Show, (CBS) The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, (CBS) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, (NBC)	Lily, (CBS) Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments, (CBS) The John Denver Show, (ABC) Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra, (NBC)
Outstanding Special – Comedy or Drama	Outstanding Limited Series
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (CBS) 6 Rms Riv Vu, (CBS) The Execution of Private Slovik, (NBC) The Migrants, (CBS) Steambath, (PBS)	Columbo, (NBC) The Blue Knight, (NBC) McCloud, (NBC)

Acting

Lead performances

Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series	Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
*Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce on MASH, (CBS)** Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford on Sanford and Son, (NBC) Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple, (ABC) Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker on All in the Family, (CBS) Tony Randall as Felix Unger on The Odd Couple, (ABC)	*Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS)* Bea Arthur as Maude Findlay on Maude, (CBS) Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker on All in the Family (CBS)
Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series
*Telly Savalas as Theo Kojak on Kojak* (CBS)** William Conrad as Frank Cannon on Cannon, (CBS) Karl Malden as Detective Lt. Mike Stone on The Streets of San Francisco, (ABC) Richard Thomas as John-Boy Walton on The Waltons, (CBS)	*Michael Learned as Olivia Walton on The Waltons, (CBS)* Jean Marsh as Rose on Upstairs, Downstairs, (PBS) Jeanette Nolan as Sally Fergus on Dirty Sally, (CBS)
Best Lead Actor in a Drama	Best Lead Actress in a Drama
*Hal Holbrook as Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo, (ABC)* Alan Alda as Paul Friedman on 6 Rms Riv Vu (CBS) Dick Van Dyke as Charlie Lester on The Morning After, (ABC) Laurence Olivier as Shylock on The Merchant of Venice, (ABC) Martin Sheen as Eddie Slovik on The Execution of Private Slovik, (NBC)	*Cicely Tyson as Jane Pittman on The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (CBS)* Carol Burnett as Anne Miller on 6 Rms Riv Vu, (CBS) Katharine Hepburn as Amanda Wingfield on The Glass Menagerie, (ABC) Cloris Leachman as Viola Barlow on The Migrants, (CBS) Elizabeth Montgomery as Ellen Harrod on A Case of Rape, (PBS)
Best Lead Actor in a Limited Series	Best Lead Actress in a Limited Series
*William Holden as Bumper Morgan on The Blue Knight, (NBC)* Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo on Columbo (NBC) Dennis Weaver as Sam McCloud on McCloud, (NBC)	*Mildred Natwick as Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson on The Snoop Sisters, (NBC)* Helen Hayes as Ernesta Snoop on The Snoop Sisters, (NBC) Lee Remick as Cassie Walters on The Blue Knight, (NBC)

Supporting performances

Best Supporting Actor in Comedy	Best Supporting Actress in Comedy
*Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic on All in the Family, (CBS)* Edward Asner as Lou Grant on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS) Gary Burghoff as Radar O'Reilly on MASH, (CBS) Ted Knight as Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS) McLean Stevenson as Henry Blake on MASH, (CBS)	*Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS)* Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS) Sally Struthers as Gloria Stivic on All in the Family, (CBS) Loretta Swit as Margaret Houlihan on MASH*, (CBS)
Best Supporting Actor in Drama	Best Supporting Actress in Drama
*Michael Moriarty as Jim O'Connor on The Glass Menagerie, (ABC)* Michael Douglas as Steve Keller on The Streets of San Francisco, (ABC) Will Geer as Zebulon Walton on The Waltons, (CBS) Sam Waterston as Tom Wingfield on The Glass Menagerie, (ABC)	*Joanna Miles as Laura Wingfield on The Glass Menagerie, (ABC)* Ellen Corby as Esther Walton on The Waltons, (CBS) Nancy Walker as Mildred on McMillan & Wife, (NBC)

Directing

Best Directing in Comedy	Best Directing in Drama – Single Program of a Series with Continuing Characters and/or Theme
*Jackie Cooper for MASH, (Episode: "Carry on, Hawkeye"), (CBS)** Gene Reynolds for MASH, (Episode: "Deal Me Out"), (CBS) Jay Sandrich for Mary Tyler Moore*, (Episode: "Lou's First Date"), (CBS)	*Robert Butler for The Blue Knight, (Episode: "Part III"), (NBC)* Harry Harris for The Waltons, (Episode: "The Journey"), (CBS) Philip Leacock for The Waltons, (Episode: "The Thanksgiving Story"), (CBS)
Best Directing in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music	Best Directing in Drama – Single Program – Comedy or Drama
*Dwight Hemion for Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments, (CBS)* Tony Charmoli for Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife, (CBS) Sterling Johnson for Peggy Fleming Visits the Soviet Union, (NBC) Marty Pasetta for Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra, (NBC)	*John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (CBS)* Tom Gries for The Migrants, (CBS) Lamont Johnson for The Execution of Private Slovik, (NBC) Anthony Page for Pueblo, (ABC) Boris Sagal for A Case of Rape, (NBC)
Best Directing in Variety or Music
*Dave Powers for The Carol Burnett Show, (CBS)* Art Fisher for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, (CBS) Joshua White for In Concert Cat Stevens: Moon & Star, (ABC)

Writing

Best Writing in Comedy	Best Writing in Drama
*Treva Silverman for Mary Tyler Moore, (Episode: "The Lou And Edie Story"), (CBS)* Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Mary Kay Place for MASH', (Episode: "Hot Lips and Empty Arms"), (CBS) McLean Stevenson for MASH, (Episode: "The Trial of Henry Blake"), (CBS)	*Joanna Lee for The Waltons, (Episode: "The Thanksgiving Story"), (CBS)* Gene R. Kearney, for Kojak, (Episode: "Death is Not a Passing Grade"), (CBS) John McGreevey for The Waltons, (Episode: "The Easter Story"), (CBS)
Best Writing in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music	Best Writing in Variety or Music
Lily, (CBS) Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments, (CBS) Paradise, (CBS)	The Carol Burnett Show, (CBS) The Carol Burnett Show, (CBS) The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, (CBS)
Best Writing in Drama – Original Teleplay	Best Writing in Drama – Adaptation
*Fay Kanin for Tell Me Where it Hurts, (CBS)* Will Lorin for Cry Rape, (CBS) Lanford Wilson, for The Migrants, (CBS)	*Tracy Keenan Wynn for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (CBS)* Bruce Jay Friedman for Steambath, (PBS) Richard Levinson for The Execution of Private Slovik, (NBC)

Super Emmys

Acting

Actor of the Year – Series	Actor of the Year – Special
*Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce on MASH, (CBS)**	*Hal Holbrook as Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo, (ABC)*
Actress of the Year – Series	Actress of the Year – Special
*Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS)*	*Cicely Tyson as Jane Pittman on The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (CBS)*
Supporting Actor of the Year	Supporting Actress of the Year
*Michael Moriarty as Jim O'Connor on The Glass Menagerie, (ABC)*	*Joanna Miles as Laura Wingfield on The Glass Menagerie, (ABC)*

Directing

Director of the Year – Series	Director of the Year – Special
*Robert Butler for The Blue Knight, (Episode: "Part III"), (NBC)*	*Dwight Hemion for Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments, (CBS)*

Writing

Writer of the Year – Series	Writer of the Year – Special
*Treva Silverman for Mary Tyler Moore, (Episode: "The Lou And Edie Story"), (CBS)*	*Fay Kanin for Tell Me Where it Hurts, (CBS)*

Most major nominations

By network ^{[note 1]}

CBS – 71
NBC – 23
ABC – 18

By program

Mary Tyler Moore (CBS) / M*A*S*H (CBS) – 10
The Waltons (CBS) – 9
The Glass Menagerie (ABC) – 6
All in the Family (CBS) / The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (CBS) / The Blue Knight (NBC) – 5

Most major awards

By network ^{[note 1]}

CBS – 27
ABC – 6
NBC – 5

By program

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (CBS) / Mary Tyler Moore (CBS) – 5
The Glass Menagerie (ABC) / M*A*S*H (CBS) – 4
The Carol Burnett Show (CBS) – 3

Notes

1 2 "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

References

↑ "1974 Primetime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved April 19, 2013.

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