26th Primetime Emmy Awards

26th Primetime Emmy Awards
Date	May 28, 1974
Location	Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted by	Johnny Carson
Highlights
Most awards	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (4)
Most nominations	M*A*S*H The Waltons (9)
Outstanding Comedy Series	M*A*S*H
Outstanding Drama Series	Upstairs, Downstairs
Outstanding Limited Series	Columbo
Outstanding Music-Variety Series	The Carol Burnett Show
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 The Waltons had the most major nominations with nine. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman led the night with four major wins.

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

Programs

Outstanding Comedy Series	Outstanding Drama Series
M*A*S*H (CBS) All in the Family (CBS) The Mary Tyler Moore Show (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 M*A*S*H, (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 (Episode: "Best of Enemies"), (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 (Episode: "Requiem For a Cop"), (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) Laurence Olivier as Shylock on The Merchant of Venice, (ABC) Martin Sheen as Eddie Slovik on The Execution of Private Slovik, (NBC) Dick Van Dyke as Charlie Lester on The Morning After, (ABC)	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, (NBC)
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(Episode:"Games Bunkers Play"), (CBS) Edward Asner as Lou Grant on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS) Gary Burghoff as Radar O'Reilly on M*A*S*H, (CBS) Ted Knight as Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS) McLean Stevenson as Henry Blake on M*A*S*H, (CBS)	Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom on Mary Tyler Moore (Episode: The Lars Affair), (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 M*A*S*H, (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 M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Carry on, Hawkeye"), (CBS) Gene Reynolds for M*A*S*H, (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 M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Hot Lips and Empty Arms"), (CBS) McLean Stevenson for M*A*S*H, (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

The Primetime Super Emmy Award was a set of 14 awards that were given in conjunction with the traditional Emmy Awards at the 1974 ceremony.

Winners of a traditional Emmy would then compete against their genre counterpart from the same category (comedy vs. drama for "Series", miniseries vs. telefilm for "Special"). This format would prove to be the Super Emmy's undoing. In order to vote on a Super Emmy winner, the traditional Emmy winners had to be announced well before the ceremony.

Several members of the Television Academy were against implementing the new awards. Super Emmy winners Alan Alda and Mary Tyler Moore were some of the loudest detractors. Both threatened to resign from the academy if they were installed. During their acceptance speeches, Moore said that comparing comedic and dramatic television was "apples to oranges". Alda went one step further in his speech "it's comparing apples to oranges to Volkswagens."

The Super Emmy was never awarded again.

Acting

Actor of the Year – Series	Actor of the Year – Special
Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H, (CBS) Telly Savalas as Theo Kojak on Kojak, (CBS)	Hal Holbrook as Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo, (ABC) William Holden as Bumper Morgan on The Blue Knight, (NBC)
Actress of the Year – Series	Actress of the Year – Special
Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS) Michael Learned as Olivia Walton on The Waltons, (CBS)	Cicely Tyson as Jane Pittman on The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (CBS) Mildred Natwick as Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson on The Snoop Sisters, (NBC)
Supporting Actor of the Year	Supporting Actress of the Year
Michael Moriarty as Jim O'Connor on The Glass Menagerie, (ABC) Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic on All in the Family, (CBS)	Joanna Miles as Laura Wingfield on The Glass Menagerie, (ABC) Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom on Mary Tyler Moore, (CBS)

Directing

Director of the Year – Series	Director of the Year – Special
Robert Butler for The Blue Knight, (Episode: "Part III"), (NBC) Jackie Cooper for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Carry on, Hawkeye"), (CBS)	Dwight Hemion for Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments, (CBS) John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (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) Joanna Lee for The Waltons, (Episode: "The Thanksgiving Story"), (CBS)	Fay Kanin for Tell Me Where it Hurts, (CBS) Tracy Keenan Wynn for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (CBS)

Craft categories

Art & Set Director of the Year	Cinematographer of the Year
Jan Scott & Charles Kreiner for The Lie (CBS) Brian Bartholomew for Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments (CBS)	Ted Voigtlander for It's Good to Be Alive (CBS) Harry L. Wolf for Columbo: "Any Old Port in a Storm" (NBC)
Film Editor of the Year	Musician of the Year
Frank Morriss for The Execution of Private Slovik (NBC) Gene Fowler Jr., Marjorie Fowler, and Samuel E. Beetley for The Blue Knight (NBC)	Jack Parnell, Ken Welch, and Mitzie Welch for Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments (CBS)

Most major nominations

By network

• CBS – 71
• NBC – 23
• ABC – 18

By program

• M*A*S*H (CBS) / The Waltons (CBS) – 9
• Mary Tyler Moore (CBS) – 8
• The Glass Menagerie (ABC) – 6
• All in the Family (CBS) – 5
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (CBS) / The Blue Knight (NBC) – 4

Most major awards

By network

• CBS – 27
• ABC – 6
• NBC – 5

By program

• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (CBS) – 4
• The Carol Burnett Show (CBS) / Mary Tyler Moore (CBS) / M*A*S*H (CBS) – 3
• The Blue Knight / The Glass Menagerie (ABC) – 2

Notes

External links

• Emmys.com list of 1974 Nominees & Winners
• 26th Primetime Emmy Awards at IMDb