23rd Primetime Emmy Awards
The 23rd Emmy Awards, later known as the 23rd Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 9, 1971. The ceremony was hosted by Johnny Carson. Winners are listed in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.
The top shows of the night were All in the Family and The Bold Ones: The Senator. The Bold Ones: The Senator, along with other shows, had the most major nominations (nine) and wins (four) on the night.
Actress Lee Grant set an Emmy milestone when she joined the exclusive club of actors who were nominated for two performances in the same acting category. She won the award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, for her performance in The Neon Ceiling, she was also nominated for an episode of Columbo.
Winners and nominees
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Programs
| Outstanding Series - Comedy |
Outstanding Series - Drama |
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| Outstanding Variety Series - Musical |
Outstanding Variety Series - Talk |
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| Outstanding Single Program - Variety or Musical - Variety and Popular Music |
Outstanding Single Program - Variety or Musical - Classical Music |
- Singer Presents Burt Bacharach, (CBS)
- Another Evening with Burt Bacharach, (NBC)
- Harry and Lena, (ABC)
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- NET Festival, (Episode: "Leopold Stokowski"), (PBS)
- NET Fanfare, (Episode: "Swan Lake"), (PBS)
- NET Opera Theater, (Episode: "Queen of Spades"), (PBS)
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| Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming - Programs |
Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming - Programs |
- Today, (NBC)
- The Galloping Gourmet, (Syndicated)
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| Outstanding Achievement in Sports Programming |
Outstanding Single Program - Drama or Comedy |
- ABC's Wide World of Sports, (ABC)
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| Outstanding New Series |
- All in the Family, (CBS)
- The Bold Ones: The Senator, (NBC)
- The Flip Wilson Show, (NBC)
- Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS)
- The Odd Couple, (ABC)
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Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Single performances
| Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
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- George C. Scott as Victor Franz on Hallmark Hall of Fame, (Episode: "The Price"), (NBC)
- Jack Cassidy as Otis Baker on The Andersonville Trial, (PBS)
- Hal Holbrook as Senator Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator, (Episode: "A Clear and Present Danger"), (NBC)
- Richard Widmark as President Paul Roudebush on Vanished, (NBC)
- Gig Young as Jones on The Neon Ceiling, (NBC)
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- Lee Grant as Carrie Miller on The Neon Ceiling, (NBC)
- Colleen Dewhurst as Mrs. Franz on Hallmark Hall of Fame, (Episode: "The Price"), (NBC)
- Lee Grant as Leslie Williams on Columbo, (Episode: "Ransom for a Dead Man"), (NBC)
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Directing
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy |
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama -
A Single Program of a Series with Continuing Characters and/or Theme |
- Jay Sandrich for Mary Tyler Moore, (Episode: "Toulouse Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists"), (CBS)
- Alan Rafkin for Mary Tyler Moore, (Episode: "Support Your Local Mother"), (CBS)
- John Rich for All in the Family, (Episode: "Gloria's Pregnancy"), (CBS)
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- Daryl Duke for The Bold Ones: The Senator, (Episode: "The Day the Lion Died"), (NBC)
- John Badham for The Bold Ones: The Senator, (Episode: "A Single Blow Of A Sword"), (NBC)
- Bob Sweeney for Hawaii Five-O, (Episode: "Over Fifty? Steal!"), (CBS)
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| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music |
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama - A Single Program |
- Sterling Johnson for Peggy Fleming at Sun Valley, (NBC)
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- Fielder Cook for Hallmark Hall of Fame, (Episode: "The Price"), (NBC)
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| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety or Music |
- Mark Warren for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, (NBC)
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Writing
| Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy |
Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama |
- James L. Brooks, Allan Burns for Mary Tyler Moore, (Episode: "Support Your Local Mother"), (CBS)
- Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Davis for Here's Lucy, (Episode: "Lucy Meets the Burtons"), (CBS)
- Norman Lear for All in the Family, (Episode: "Meet the Bunkers"), (CBS)
- Stanley Ralph Ross for All in the Family, (Episode: "Oh, My Aching Back"), (CBS)
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- Joel Oliansky for The Bold Ones: The Senator, (Episode: "To Taste of Death But Once"), (NBC)
- Jerrold Freedman, for The Psychiatrist, (NBC)
- David W. Rintels for The Bold Ones: The Senator, (Episode: "A Continual Roar of Musketry"), (NBC)
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| Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music |
Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety or Music |
- Singer Presents Burt Bacharach, (CBS)
- The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special, (CBS)
- Jack Benny's Twentieth Anniversary Special, (NBC)
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- The Flip Wilson Show, (NBC)
- The Carol Burnett Show, (CBS)
- Kraft Music Hall, (Episode: "Kopykats Kopy TV"), (NBC)
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| Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - Original Teleplay |
Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - Adaptation |
- Tracy Keenan Wynn, Marvin Schwartz for Tribes, (ABC)
- David Karp, for The Brotherhood of the Bell, (CBS)
- William Read Woodfield, Allan Balter for San Francisco International Airport, (NBC)
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- Saul Levitt for The Andersonville Trial, (PBS)
- John Barton, for Hallmark Hall of Fame, (Episode: "Hamlet"), (NBC)
- Dean Riesner for Vanished, (NBC)
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Most major nominations
- By network [note 1]
- NBC – 46
- CBS – 29
- ABC – 23
- PBS – 11
- By program
- The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC) / Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC) – 9
- Mary Tyler Moore (CBS) – 8
- All in the Family (CBS) – 7
- The Flip Wilson Show (NBC) / Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC) / The Odd Couple (ABC) / Vanished (NBC) – 4
Most major awards
- By network [note 1]
- NBC – 14
- CBS – 9
- PBS – 5
- ABC – 3
- By program
- The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC) / Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC) / Mary Tyler Moore (CBS) – 4
- All in the Family (CBS) – 3
- Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
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