23rd Primetime Emmy Awards

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23rd Primetime Emmy Awards
DateMay 9, 1971
Location Pantages Theatre,
Los Angeles, California
Presented by Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted by Johnny Carson
Highlights
Most awards The Bold Ones: The Senator
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (4)
Most nominationsThe Mary Tyler Moore Show (8)
Outstanding Comedy Series All in the Family
Outstanding Drama Series The Bold Ones: The Senator
Outstanding Single Program - Drama or Comedy The Andersonville Trial
Outstanding Variety Series - Musical The Flip Wilson Show
Outstanding Variety Series - TalkThe David Frost Show
Television/radio coverage
Network NBC
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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.

Contents

The top shows of the night were All in the Family and The Bold Ones: The Senator . The Mary Tyler Moore Show had the most major nominations (eight) and tied with The Bold Ones: The Senator for the most wins (four) of 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 .

Susan Hampshire became PBS' first win in the Lead Actress, Drama category, for The First Churchills , as well as being the network's first ever Acting win. (Hampshire also won in the same category, the previous year, again beating the Big Three television networks, but from the NET network, a network which dissolved within a year, but became the direct predecessor for PBS.)

David Burns became the second posthumous performance in Emmy history to win for ITV Sunday Night Theatre .

Winners and nominees

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Programs

Programs
  • Singer Presents Burt Bacharach (CBS)
    • Another Evening with Burt Bacharach (NBC)
    • Harry and Lena (ABC)
  • NET Festival: "Leopold Stokowski" (PBS)
    • NET Fanfare: "Swan Lake" (PBS)
    • NET Opera Theater: "Queen of Spades" (PBS)
Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming - Programs
Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming - Programs
Outstanding Achievement in Sports Programming
  • All in the Family (CBS)
    • The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC)
    • The Flip Wilson Show (NBC)
    • The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)
    • The Odd Couple (ABC)

Acting

Lead performances

Acting

Supporting performances

  • David Burns as Mr. Solomon in Hallmark Hall of Fame: "The Price" (NBC)
    • James Brolin as Dr. Steven Kiley in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC)
    • Robert Young as Senator Earl Gannon in Vanished (NBC)

Single performances

  • George C. Scott as Victor Franz in Hallmark Hall of Fame: "The Price" (NBC)
    • Jack Cassidy as Otis Baker in The Andersonville Trial (PBS)
    • Hal Holbrook as Senator Hays Stowe in A Clear and Present Danger (NBC)
    • Richard Widmark as President Paul Roudebush in Vanished (NBC)
    • Gig Young as Jones in The Neon Ceiling (NBC)
  • Lee Grant as Carrie Miller in The Neon Ceiling (NBC)
    • Colleen Dewhurst as Mrs. Franz in Hallmark Hall of Fame: "The Price" (NBC)
    • Lee Grant as Leslie Williams in Ransom for a Dead Man (NBC)

Directing

Directing
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS): "Toulouse Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists" – Jay Sandrich
    • All in the Family (CBS): "Gloria's Pregnancy" – John Rich
    • The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS): "Support Your Local Mother" – Alan Rafkin

Writing

Writing
  • The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC): "To Taste of Death But Once" – Joel Oliansky
    • The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC): "A Continual Roar of Musketry" – David W. Rintels
    • Four in One (NBC): "The Psychiatrist" – Jerrold Freedman
  • Singer Presents Burt Bacharach (CBS)
    • The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special (CBS)
    • Jack Benny's Twentieth Anniversary Special (NBC)
  • The Flip Wilson Show (NBC): "Lena Horne and Tony Randall"
    • The Carol Burnett Show (CBS): "Rita Hayworth"
    • Kraft Music Hall (NBC): "Kopykats Kopy TV"
Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - Original Teleplay
  • Tribes (ABC) – Tracy Keenan Wynn and Marvin Schwartz
    • The Brotherhood of the Bell (CBS) – David Karp
    • San Francisco International Airport (NBC) – William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter
Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - Adaptation
  • The Andersonville Trial (PBS) – Saul Levitt
    • Hallmark Hall of Fame: "Hamlet" (NBC) – John Barton
    • Vanished (NBC) – Dean Riesner

Most major nominations

Networks with multiple major nominations [note 1]
NetworkNumber of
Nominations
NBC46
CBS29
ABC23
PBS11
Programs with multiple major nominations
ProgramCategoryNetworkNumber of
Nominations
The Mary Tyler Moore ShowComedyCBS8
All in the Family7
The Bold Ones: The SenatorDramaNBC
The PriceSpecial5
The Flip Wilson ShowVariety4
HamletSpecial
Marcus Welby, M.D.DramaABC
The Odd CoupleComedy
VanishedSpecialNBC
The Andersonville TrialPBS3
The Carol Burnett ShowVarietyCBS2
The ChurchillsDramaPBS
A Clear and Present DangerSpecialNBC
Here's LucyComedyCBS
IronsideDramaNBC
MannixCBS
NFL Monday Night FootballSportsABC
The Neon CeilingSpecialNBC
Room 222ComedyABC
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InVarietyNBC
Singer Presents Burt BacharachCBS
That GirlComedyABC
TribesSpecial
Wide World of SportsSports

Most major awards

Networks with multiple major awards [note 1]
NetworkNumber of
Awards
NBC14
CBS9
PBS5
ABC3
Programs with multiple major awards
ProgramsCategoryNetworkNumber of
Awards
The Bold Ones: The SenatorDramaNBC4
The Mary Tyler Moore ShowComedyCBS
All in the FamilyComedyCBS3
The PriceSpecialNBC
The Andersonville TrialPBS2
The Flip Wilson ShowVarietyNBC
Singer Presents Burt BacharachCBS
Wide World of SportsSportsABC
Notes
  1. 1 2 "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

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