List of Peabody Award winners (1970–79)
The following is a list of George Foster Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions from the decade of the 1970s (1970–1979).
1970
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC News |
Eye of the Storm |
| BBC Television |
Civilisation |
| CBS |
Award for the Dr. Seuss animated programs |
| The Selling of The Pentagon |
| CBS News |
60 Minutes |
| NBC |
The Flip Wilson Show |
| Hot Dog |
| NBC News |
Migrant: An NBC White Paper |
| NBC Radio |
The Danger Within: A Study of Disunity in America |
| NBC Radio and Douglas Kiker |
Award for Kiker's reports from Jordan |
| Voice of America and Garry Moore |
Personal Award for VOA's presentation of news and public affairs programming, in particular Moore's New York, New York |
| John E. Drewry |
Personal Award for Drewry's role in the foundation and administration of the Peabody Awards |
| PBS |
Evening at Pops |
| KCET-TV/Los Angeles, CA and PBS |
The Andersonville Trial |
| KMEX-TV/Los Angeles, CA |
Peace… On Our Time: KMEX-TV and the Death of Rubén Salazar |
| WAHT/Lebanon, PA |
Award for the programs Medical Viewpoint and Pearl Harbor, Lest We Forget |
| WFBE/Flint, MI |
Listening/4, a series designed to teach listening skills to Flint area school students |
| WPBT-TV/Miami, FL |
Polithon '70, a statewide radio/TV broadcast featuring candidates for statewide public office |
| WWL-TV/New Orleans, LA |
This New Frontier, a documentary profiling the nation of Israel |
1971
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC |
Make a Wish |
| ABC and William Blinn |
Brian's Song |
| Mississippi State Educational Television Authority |
Institutional Award for its efforts "to expand and modernize school curricula, to accelerate learning, and to equalize education in every classroom of the state." |
| NBC |
This Child is Rated X, a documentary which examined "gross inequities" of juvenile facilities in the United States |
| Institutional Award for the network's dramatic programming, in particular All the Way Home, Jane Eyre, The Price, and The Snow Goose |
| NBC Radio |
Second Sunday |
| John Rich |
Personal Award for his work as Far East correspondent for NBC News |
| George Heinemann |
Personal Award for his work on "entertaining and constructive" children's programming for NBC |
| Voice of America |
Institutional Award for VOA's "Promotion of International Understanding" |
| WWVA/Wheeling, WV |
Junior Town Meeting of the Air |
| WHA/Madison, WI |
Wisconsin on the Move |
| Dr. Frank Stanton |
Personal Award to the CBS president for his protection of journalistic freedom in the face of political scrutiny |
| CBS |
The American Revolution: 1770-1783, A Conversation with Lord North |
| WCCO/Minneapolis, MN |
The Heart of the Matter, University of Minnesota Dean E. W. Ziebarth's recounting of his open-heart surgery |
| WQED-TV/Pittsburgh, PA |
The Turned On Crisis |
| United Nations Television |
United Nations Day Concert with Pablo Casals |
| Arthur Godfrey |
Personal Award for his "innovative programming... uniformly characterized by high quality, wholesome entertainment" |
1972
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC |
ABC Afterschool Specials |
| ABC Sports |
Award for coverage of the Games of the XX Olympiad |
| National Public Radio |
All Things Considered |
| Westinghouse Broadcasting Company |
Breakdown, a radio series investigating "the critical deterioration of various systems that are an important part in the life of every American" |
| CBS |
Captain Kangaroo |
| The Waltons |
| WWL-TV/New Orleans, LA |
China '72: A Hole in the Bamboo Curtain |
| KOAC/Corvallis, OR |
Conversations with Will Shakespeare and Certain of His Friends |
| Broadcasting Foundation of America |
Institutional Award for its "promotion of international understanding" through distribution of various radio programs and specials |
| Voice of America |
Institutional Award for its coverage of the 1972 U.S. political campaigns |
| WHRO-TV/Hampton-Norfolk, VA |
Institutional Award for the station's educational programming |
| NBC |
Award for the TV specials Jack Lemmon in 'S Wonderful, 'S Gershwin, Liza with a Z, and The Timex All-star Swing Festival |
| Pensions, The Broken Promise, an NBC Reports investigation that exposed failings in privately administered group pension systems |
| NBC Radio |
Monitor |
| NBC and its owned and operated stations |
Award for the radio documentaries No Fault Insurance - Right or Wrong? and Second Sunday: A Seven-part Series on the Cities |
| NBC, BBC, and Time-Life Films |
The Search for the Nile |
| WNET/New York, NY and BBC |
The Restless Earth |
| KGW/Portland, OR |
Open Door |
| Alistair Cooke |
Personal Award for his work in America: A Personal View by Alistair Cooke |
| Bill Monroe |
Personal Award for Monroe's interview work at NBC News |
| District of Columbia Schools Radio Project |
The Noise Shows |
| WABC-TV/New York, NY |
Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace, an investigative report examining successes and failures of care for the mentally retarted |
1973
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC, CBS, and NBC |
Jointly awarded to the TV networks for their "outstanding contributions to entertainment through an exceptional year of televised drama" |
| NBC |
The Energy Crisis: An American White Paper |
| Institutional Award for Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Borrowers and NBC Children's Theatre: Street of the Flower Boxes |
| NBC Radio |
Project 1 Experiment, for its Live in Concert presentations of The Carpenters and Helen Reddy |
| Second Sunday, for the reports "Communism in the 70s" and "A Right to Death" |
| ABC News |
Close-Up, citing in particular the episodes "Fire!" and "West Virginia: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Coal" |
| The First and Essential Freedom |
| WFMT/Chicago, IL |
Award for the series Music in Chicago and its broadcasts from the Lyric Opera of Chicago |
| WIND/Chicago, IL |
From 18th Street: Destination Peking |
| WRC-TV/Washington, DC |
Award for WRC's "Home Rule" editorial campaign, which promoted self-government in the District of Columbia |
| KNXT/Los Angeles, CA |
Institutional Award for the children's educational programs Learning Can Be Fun and Dusty's Treehouse |
| KNOW-AM/Austin, TX |
Marijuana and the Law, a series of documentaries and editorials "to separate facts about marijuana from fiction" |
| WTIU/Bloomington, IN |
Myshkin |
| WCAU-TV/Philadelphia, PA |
Overture to Friendship: The Philadelphia Orchestra in China |
| Joe Garagiola |
Personal Award for his work on NBC's The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola |
| Lowell Thomas |
Personal Award "in recognition of his incredible 43 years of continuous daily broadcasts on CBS" |
| Pamela Ilott |
Personal Award to the Director of Religious & Cultural Broadcasting at CBS News for her work on Lamp Unto My Feet and Look Up and Live |
| Peter Lisagor |
Personal Award to the Chicago Daily News Washington Bureau chief for his analysis/commentary work on radio and TV |
| KANU/Lawrence, KS and the University of Kansas |
The American Past |
1974
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| WMAL/Washington, DC |
Battles Just Begun, a look at problems facing returning Vietnam War veterans |
| CBS |
Benjamin Franklin |
| CBS Radio |
CBS Radio Mystery Theatre |
| The Johnson Foundation |
Conversations from Wingspread |
| ABC |
Free to Be... You and Me |
| Sadat: Action Biography |
| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN |
From Belfast with Love, a documentary profiling the strife in Northern Ireland |
| NBC |
Go |
| Tornado! 4:40PM, Xenia, Ohio |
| Institutional Award for the network's presentations of The Execution of Private Slovik, The Law, and IBM Presents Clarence Darrow |
| NBC Radio |
Second Sunday |
| KING-TV/Seattle, WA |
How Come? |
| National Public Affairs Center for Television |
Institutional Award for NPACT's "outstanding overall effort to bring meaningful public affairs programming to the nation" |
| WCKT-TV/Miami, FL |
Institutional Award for "a superb series of investigative reports which brought considerable response and change" |
| WSB/Atlanta, GA |
Institutional Award for Suffer the Little Children, Atlanta: A Portrait in Black and White, and Henry Aaron: A Man with a Mission |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA |
NOVA |
| Carl Stern |
Separate Personal Awards to the legal correspondents (Stern with NBC News, Graham with CBS News) |
| Fred P. Graham |
| Julian Goodman |
Personal Award to the CEO of NBC "for his long years of dedicated service to the broadcasting industry" |
| Marilyn Baker |
Personal Award to the KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA reporter for her investigative work |
| WNBC/New York, NY |
Pledge a Job, a 5-day campaign "to blunt the impact of an unemployment crisis" in the New York City area |
| KTW/Seattle, WA |
The Hit and Run Players, a series of satirical comedy vignettes |
| KPRC-TV/Houston, TX |
The Right Man, a documentary profiling Dr. Robert Hayes' efforts to save Wiley College |
| WNET-TV/Washington, DC and PBS |
Theatre in America |
| KFAC/Los Angeles, CA |
Through the Looking Glass |
1975
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| WCBS/New York, NY |
A Life to Share, an initiative aimed at educating parents in special areas of child development |
| WWL-TV/New Orleans, LA |
A Sunday Journal |
| ABC Television |
ABC Afterschool Special |
| ABC Theatre, for Love Among the Ruins |
| Alphaventure |
Big Blue Marble |
| Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc. (Group W) |
Call It Macaroni |
| KDKB/Mesa, AZ |
Institutional Award for the station's "superior overall public service programming" |
| The Standard School Broadcast |
Institutional Award for the school's "educational radio service to citizens of the Far West" |
| WCKT-TV/Miami, FL |
Institutional Award for the station's "envious record of outstanding investigative reporting" |
| WCVB-TV/Boston, MA |
Institutional Award for overall programming excellence |
| WGMS and WGMS-FM/Bethesda, MD |
Institutional Award for the stations' "overall efforts to provide outstanding radio entertainment," citing in particular The Collector's Shelf and 200 Years of Music in America |
| WMAL/Washington, DC |
Institutional Award for radio documentary excellence, citing in particular Suffer the Little Children (profiles of sexually abused children) and The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle |
| WTOP-TV/Washington, DC |
Institutional Award "for overall public service effort," citing the Harambee episode "For My People" (review of minority hiring at the Washington Post) and the Everywoman episode "The Hidden World" (a medical look inside a woman's body) |
| WAPA-TV/San Juan, PR |
Las Rosas Blancas |
| CBS |
M*A*S*H |
| CBS News |
Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington |
| The American Assassins, a profile of speculations into the assassination of John F. Kennedy |
| Charles Kuralt |
Personal Award to the CBS News correspondent for On the Road to '76 |
| Dr. James R. Killian |
Personal Award for Dr. Killian's 25 years of "unflagging, steadfast devotion" to public broadcasting |
| Jim Laurie |
Personal Award to the NBC News correspondent for his dedicated reporting on the fall of Saigon |
| KMOX/St Louis, MO |
"Sleeping Watchdogs," an investigation into government agencies broad consumer protection efforts |
| Kaiser Broadcasting |
Snipets |
| Voice of America |
"The Battle of Lexington," an episode of Two Hundred Years Ago Tonight |
| KABC-TV/Los Angeles, CA |
"The Dale Car: A Dream or a Nightmare?" an investigation that revealed a confidence scheme involving the construction of the Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation vehicle |
| WSOU-FM/South Orange, NJ |
The Land of Poetry |
| NBC |
Weekend |
| WFMT/Chicago, IL |
Music in Chicago: Stravinsky '75 |
1976
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC |
Animals, Animals, Animals |
| Eleanor and Franklin |
| ABC News |
Suddenly an Eagle |
| ABC Sports |
Award for coverage of the 1976 Winter and Summer Olympic Games |
| Jim Karayn and the League of Women Voters |
Award for organization of the 1976 presidential debates |
| CBS News |
60 Minutes |
| In Celebration of US, the network's coverage of Bicentennial events across the United States on July 4th |
| In the News |
| WETA-TV/Washington, DC |
In Performance at Wolf Trap |
| WETA-TV/Washington, DC, WNET/New York, NY, and Bill Moyers |
"A Conversation with Jimmy Carter," an episode of U.S.A.: People and Politics |
| WNET/New York, NY |
The Adams Chronicles |
| KERA-TV/Dallas, TX |
A Thirst in the Garden, a documentary examining lack of potable water in the lower Rio Grande Valley |
| South Carolina Educational Radio Network |
American Popular Song with Alec Wilder and Friends |
| WGIR AM & FM/Manchester, NH |
Flashback 1976 |
| Tomorrow Entertainment, Inc. |
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys |
| Charles Barthold |
Personal Award to the WHO-TV/Des Moines, IA cameraman for filming a tornado striking Jordan, Iowa |
| Perry Como |
Personal Award for the NBC special Perry Como's Christmas in Austria |
| Sy Pearlman |
Personal Award to the NBC News producer for "The Sawyer Brothers," a segment of Weekend that raised suspicion of the guilt and conviction of two brothers in a North Carolina kidnapping |
| Bruce Morton and Hughes Rudd |
Joint Personal Awards to the anchors of CBS Morning News |
| WLBT-TV/Jackson, MS |
"Power Politics in Mississippi," an episode of PROBE that examined legal ethics and conflicts of interest |
| WBBM-TV/Chicago, IL and Franklin McMahon |
Primary Colors, An Artist on the Campaign Trail, which followed the WBBM reporter/artist creating works depicting the presidential campaigns |
| NBC |
Sybil |
| Associated Press Radio |
The Garden Plot: Food as a Weapon |
| KCET/Los Angeles, CA |
Visions |
1977
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| WNET/New York, NY |
A Good Dissonance Like a Man |
| Police Tapes |
| WNET/New York, NY and WETA-TV/Washington, DC |
MacNeil/Lehrer Report |
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY |
Buyline: Betty Furness |
| Award for NewsCenter 4's "F.I.N.D." investigative segments |
| WCBS-TV/New York, NY |
Camera Three |
| WHLN/Harlan, KY |
Coverage of a flood that hit the Harlan area in April 1977 |
| National Public Radio |
Crossroads: Sea Island Sketches |
| WHA/Madison, WI |
Earplay |
| ABC and Lorimar Productions |
ABC Theatre, for Green Eyes |
| ABC and David Wolper |
Roots |
| Multimedia Program Productions |
"Joshua's Confusion," an episode of Young People's Specials |
| Metropolitan Opera Association |
Live from the Met |
| Norman Lear |
Personal Award for All in the Family |
| Paul Hume |
Personal Award to the WGMS/Rockville, MD personality for A Variable Feast |
| Steve Allen |
Personal Award to the creator/host of the KCET (Los Angeles, CA)/PBS series Meeting of Minds |
| KABC-TV/Los Angeles, CA |
Award for reports into accountability by police in incidents involving civilian shootings |
| KPFA-FM/Berkeley, CA |
Science Story |
| NBC |
Tut: The Boy King |
| NBC, Arthur Rankin, and Jules Bass |
The Hobbit |
| WPIX-TV/New York, NY |
The Lifer's Group, I Am My Brother's Keeper |
| MTM Enterprises |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| KSJN/St Paul, MN |
The Prairie was Quiet |
| WBTV/Charlotte, NC |
The Rowe String Quartet Plays on Your Imagination |
| London Weekend Television |
Upstairs, Downstairs |
| KCMO-TV/Kansas City, MO |
"Where Have All the Flood Cars Gone?" which traced the re-selling of flood-damaged automobiles |
| WXYZ/Detroit, MI |
Winter's Fear, a documentary examining a series of child abductions and murders |
1978
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Tomorrow Entertainment/Medcom Company and CBS |
The Body Human: The Vital Connection |
| CBS and MTM Productions |
Lou Grant |
| CBS News |
30 Minutes |
| "The Battle for South Africa," an episode of CBS Reports |
| CBS Radio News |
CBS World News Roundup |
| WQED-TV/Pittsburgh, PA |
Award for the Once Upon a Classic adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Baptist Radio and TV Commission |
A River to the Sea |
| WENH-TV/Durham, NH |
Arts in New Hampshire |
| Four D Productions/Trisene Corporation and ABC |
Barney Miller |
| Newsweek Broadcasting |
Cartoon-A-Torial |
| The National Radio Theatre of Chicago |
Chicago Radio Theatre |
| KHET-TV/Honolulu, HI |
Damien, a documentary profiling the life of Jozef De Veuster ("Father Damien") and his caring of patients at a leper colony on Molokai, Hawaii |
| National Public Radio |
Dialogues on a Tightrope: An Italian Mosaic, a documentary examining Italy's political turmoil |
| Titus Productions, Inc. and NBC |
Holocaust |
| Survival Anglia Ltd./World Wildlife Fund and NBC |
Mysterious Castles of Clay |
| NBC Radio Network |
Second Sunday |
| Jewish Theological Seminary and NBC Radio Network |
The Eternal Light |
| WMUK/Kalamazoo, MI |
Award for the station's presentation of live-performance radio dramas |
| KGO-TV/San Francisco, CA |
Old Age: Do Not Go Gentle, a documentary examining treatment of the elderly |
| KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA |
Over Easy |
| Bob Keeshan |
Personal Award for Keeshan's work on Captain Kangaroo and his promoting of "quality children's programs on American television" |
| Richard S. Salant |
Personal Award for Salant's leadership at CBS News and "his staunch defense of the First Amendment guarantee of a free press" |
| WDVM-TV/Washington, DC |
Race War in Rhodesia, a documentary with Carl Rowan that examined political tensions in Rhodesia and Central Africa |
| Your Health and Your Wallet, a mini-series examining the rising costs of medical treatments |
| WABE/Atlanta, GA |
The Eyewitness Who Wasn't, a documentary examining how evidence in a Georgia murder trial was manufactured |
| WOCB/West Yarmouth, MA |
The Last Voyage of the 'Cap'n Bill', which captured conversations with fishermen and townspeople affected by a fishing vessel's final voyage |
| Henson Associates |
The Muppet Show |
| WAVE-TV/Louisville, KY |
Whose Child is This? an examination of the effects of child abuse |
1979
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC |
ABC Afterschool Special, for the episode "A Special Gift" |
| Friendly Fire |
| Valentine |
| CBS News |
CBS News Sunday Morning |
| CBS Reports for The Boston Goes to China |
| Roger Mudd (CBS News) |
Personal Award for Mudd's CBS Reports interview with Edward Kennedy |
| CBS Entertainment, The Konigsberg Company, and Warner Bros. Television |
Dummy |
| WCBS/New York, NY |
"Follow That Cab: The Great Taxi Rip-off," an investigation into fraudulent overcharges by New York City taxi and limousine services |
| WGBH-FM/Boston, MA |
Currier Bell, Esquire, a presentation of Masterpiece Radio Theatre |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA |
World |
| KNXT/Los Angeles, CA |
Down at the Dunbar, which examined the entertainment legacy of the Dunbar Hotel |
| Children's Radio Theatre |
Henny Penny Playwrighting Contest |
| WTTW/Chicago, IL |
Miles To Go Before We Sleep |
| WTTW/Chicago, IL and PBS |
Little Rock Central High School, an episode of As We See It |
| Robert Trout (ABC News) |
Personal Award in recognition of Trout's near-half-century of work in news and commentary |
| Sylvia Fine Kaye |
Personal Award to the producer/hostess of Musical Comedy Tonight |
| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA |
Politics of Poison, a documentary examining the effects of herbicide spraying in Northern California |
| WMAQ-TV/Chicago, IL |
"Strip and Search," an investigation into routine strip searches of female suspects by the Chicago Police Department |
| KTVI/St. Louis, MO |
"The Adventures of Whistling Sam," a segment of Extra |
| KOOL-TV/Phoenix, AZ |
The Long Eyes of Kitt Peak |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
"The Longest Journey," an episode of Open Circuit |
| KSJN/Minneapolis, MN |
The Way to 8-A, which explored legal abuses in the mental health commitment process in Minnesota |
| NBC and Aubrey/Hamner Productions |
When Hell was in Session |
| NBC and BBC |
Treasures of the British Crown |