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14th Primetime Emmy Awards

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14th Primetime Emmy Awards
DateMay 22, 1962
LocationHollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California
Presented byAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted byJohnny Carson, Bob Newhart, David Brinkley
Highlights
Most awardsThe Defenders (4)
Most nominationsBen Casey (7)
Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of HumorThe Bob Newhart Show
Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of DramaThe Defenders
Outstanding Program Achievements in the Fields of Variety and Music - VarietyThe Garry Moore Show
Outstanding Program Achievements in the Fields of Variety and Music - MusicLeonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Japan
The Program of the YearHallmark Hall of Fame: "Victoria Regina"
Television/radio coverage
NetworkNBC
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The 14th Emmy Awards, later referred to as the 14th Primetime Emmy Awards, were held on May 22, 1962, to honor the best in television of the year. It was hosted by Johnny Carson in New York, Bob Newhart in Los Angeles and David Brinkley in Washington, DC. All nominations are listed, with winners in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.

The top show of the night was the CBS courtroom drama The Defenders which swept the four major categories it was nominated in. The Bob Newhart Show won top honors for comedy, and in doing so, became the first show to win a top program prize (comedy or drama) for what would be the show's only season. Composer Richard Rodgers would also become the first person to complete the Grand Slam of entertainment awards (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) when winning for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed with Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years.

Among the better-known presenters were Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Barbara Stanwyck, Judy Garland, Jimmy Durante, Jack Webb, Walter Brennan, Eartha Kitt, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Cyril Ritchard, whose pronunciation of "tomatoes" as "tomahtoes" greatly amused the audience; he humorously apologized and repeated it with the American pronunciation.

Winners and nominees

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E. G. Marshall, Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead) winner
Shirley Booth, Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead) winner
Don Knotts, Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor winner
Peter Falk, Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role winner
Julie Harris, Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role winner
Franklin J. Schaffner, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama winner
Carl Reiner, Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy winner

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Programs

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Programs
Outstanding Daytime Program
Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Children's Programming
Outstanding Program Achievement
in the Field of Educational and Public Affairs Programming
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "Victoria Regina"
    • Bell and Howell Close-Up! (ABC): "Walk in My Shoes"
    • CBS Reports (CBS): "Biography of a Bookie Joint"
    • The Judy Garland Show (CBS)
    • Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait (NBC)

Acting

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Lead performances

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Acting
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead)
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead)

Supporting performances

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Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor
Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress

Single performances

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Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Directing

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Directing

Writing

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Writing
Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field

Most major nominations

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Networks with multiple major nominations[note 1]
Network Number of
Nominations
NBC 37
CBS 35
ABC 26
Programs with multiple major nominations
Program Category Network Number of
Nominations
Ben Casey Drama ABC 7
The Dick Powell Theatre NBC 6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Alcoa Premiere ABC 4
The Defenders CBS
Naked City ABC
Bell and Howell Close-Up! Documentary/Educational 3
Car 54, Where Are You? Comedy NBC
CBS Reports Documentary/Educational CBS
The Red Skelton Show Comedy
The Andy Griffith Show 2
The Bob Newhart Show NBC
The Dick Van Dyke Show Comedy CBS
Dr. Kildare Drama NBC
The Garry Moore Show Comedy/Variety CBS
The Gertrude Berg Show Comedy
Hazel NBC
The Judy Garland Show Variety CBS
NBC White Paper Daytime/Documentary NBC
Purex Summer Specials
Route 66 Drama CBS
Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait Documentary NBC
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Children's/Variety

Most major awards

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Networks with multiple major awards[note 1]
Network Number of
Awards
NBC 10
CBS 9
Programs with multiple major awards
Program Category Network Number of
Awards
The Defenders Drama CBS 4
Hallmark Hall of Fame NBC 3
Notes
  1. ^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

References

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