20th Primetime Emmy Awards | |
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Date | May 19, 1968 |
Location | Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California |
Presented by | Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
Hosted by | Frank Sinatra Dick Van Dyke |
Highlights | |
Most awards | Get Smart (3) |
Most nominations | Bewitched Dear Friends Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night He & She Mission: Impossible (5) |
Outstanding Comedy Series | Get Smart |
Outstanding Dramatic Series | Mission: Impossible |
Outstanding Dramatic Program | Hallmark Hall of Fame : "Elizabeth the Queen" |
Outstanding Musical or Variety Series | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | NBC |
The 20th Emmy Awards, later known as the 20th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 19, 1968. The ceremony was hosted by Frank Sinatra and Dick Van Dyke. Winners are listed in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.
The top shows of the night were Get Smart and Mission: Impossible . Get Smart won three major awards, while the most nominated show was the anthology drama CBS Playhouse with ten. It also won three major awards.
The first posthumous Acting Emmy went to Marion Lorne for her performance in Bewitched , while The Avengers was the first non American produced nomination, having been syndicated from ABC Weekend TV, which was a part of the United Kingdom Independent Television Network, by ABC. However, other than sharing the same initials, the two companies were independent of each other.
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Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming - Programs
| Outstanding Achievement in Sports Programming - Programs
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Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama
| Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama
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Network | Number of Nominations |
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CBS | 43 |
NBC | 30 |
ABC | 20 |
Program | Category | Network | Number of Nominations |
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Bewitched | Comedy | ABC | 5 |
Dear Friends | Special | CBS | |
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | |||
He & She | Comedy | ||
Mission: Impossible | Drama | ||
Get Smart | Comedy | NBC | 4 |
Ironside | Drama | ||
The Lucy Show | Comedy | CBS | |
The Crucible | Special | 3 | |
Family Affair | Comedy | ||
Hogan's Heroes | |||
I Spy | Drama | NBC | |
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Variety | ||
That Girl | Comedy | ABC | |
10th Winter Olympic Games | Sports | 2 | |
The Avengers | Drama | ||
The Carol Burnett Show | Variety | CBS | |
The Dean Martin Comedy Hour | NBC | ||
Elizabeth the Queen | Special | ||
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass | Variety | CBS | |
NET Playhouse | Drama | NET | |
Run for Your Life | NBC | ||
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Variety | CBS | |
Star Trek | Drama | NBC | |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Special | ABC | |
Wide World of Sports | Sports |
Network | Number of Awards |
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NBC | 10 |
CBS | 9 |
ABC | 3 |
Program | Category | Network | Number of Awards |
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Get Smart | Comedy | NBC | 3 |
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | Special | CBS | 2 |
Mission: Impossible | Drama | ||
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Variety | NBC | |
Wide World of Sports | Sports | ABC |
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