23rd Primetime Emmy Awards

Template:Short description Template:Short description 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 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

Programs

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Template:Award category All in the Family (CBS) Arnie (CBS) Love, American Style (ABC) The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) The Odd Couple (ABC)	Template:Award category The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC) The First Churchills (PBS) Ironside (NBC) Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC) NET Playhouse (PBS)
Template:Award category The Flip Wilson Show (NBC) The Carol Burnett Show (CBS) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC)	Template:Award category The David Frost Show (Syndicated) The Dick Cavett Show (ABC) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC)
Template:Award category Singer Presents Burt Bacharach (CBS) Another Evening with Burt Bacharach (NBC) Harry and Lena (ABC)	Template:Award category NET Festival: "Leopold Stokowski" (PBS) NET Fanfare: "Swan Lake" (PBS) NET Opera Theater: "Queen of Spades" (PBS)
Template:Award category Today (NBC) The Galloping Gourmet (Syndicated)	Template:Award category Sesame Street (PBS) Kukla, Fran and Ollie (PBS)
Template:Award category ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC) – Roone Arledge ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC) – Jim McKay NFL Monday Night Football (ABC) – Don Meredith 34th Masters Tournament (CBS) NCAA Football (ABC) NFL Monday Night Football (ABC) – Roone Arledge and Chet Forte	Template:Award category The Andersonville Trial (PBS) Hallmark Hall of Fame: "Hamlet" (NBC) Hallmark Hall of Fame: "The Price" (NBC) Night Gallery: "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" (NBC) Vanished (NBC)
Template:Award category 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

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Template:Award category Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple (ABC) Ted Bessell as Donald Hollinger in That Girl (ABC) Bill Bixby as Tom Corbett in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (ABC) Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker in All in the Family (CBS) Tony Randall as Felix Unger in The Odd Couple (ABC)	Template:Award category Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker in All in the Family (CBS) Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie in That Girl (ABC)
Template:Award category Hal Holbrook as Senator Hays Stowe in The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC) Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside in Ironside (NBC) Mike Connors as Joe Mannix in Mannix (CBS) Robert Young as Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC)	Template:Award category Susan Hampshire as Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough in The First Churchills (PBS) Linda Cristal as Victoria Montoya in The High Chaparral (NBC) Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes in The Mod Squad (ABC)

Supporting performances

Template:Award category Edward Asner as Lou Grant in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) Michael Constantine as Seymour Kaufman in Room 222 (ABC) Gale Gordon as Harrison Carter in Here's Lucy (CBS)	Template:Award category Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) (Episode: "Support Your Local Mother") Agnes Moorehead as Endora in Bewitched (ABC) Karen Valentine as Alice Johnson in Room 222 (ABC)
Template:Award category 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)	Template:Award category Margaret Leighton as Gertrude in Hallmark Hall of Fame: "Hamlet" (NBC) Gail Fisher as Peggy Fair in Mannix (CBS) Susan Saint James as Peggy Maxwell in The Name of the Game (NBC) Elena Verdugo as Consuelo Lopez in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC)

Single performances

Template:Award category 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)

Template:Award category 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

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Template:Award category 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	Template:Award category The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC): "The Day the Lion Died" – Daryl Duke The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC): "A Single Blow of a Sword" – John Badham Hawaii Five-O (CBS): "Over Fifty? Steal!" – Bob Sweeney
Template:Award category Peggy Fleming at Sun Valley (NBC) – Sterling Johnson George M! (NBC) – Walter C. Miller and Martin Charnin Young People's Concerts: Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra (CBS) – Roger Englander	Template:Award category Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC): "Orson Welles" – Mark Warren The Andy Williams Show (NBC): "Christmas Show" – Art Fisher The Flip Wilson Show (NBC): "David Frost, James Brown and The Muppets" – Tim Kiley
Template:Award category Hallmark Hall of Fame: "The Price" (NBC) – Fielder Cook A Clear and Present Danger (NBC) – James Goldstone Hallmark Hall of Fame: "Hamlet" (NBC) – Peter Wood Tribes (ABC) – Joseph Sargent

Writing

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Template:Award category The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS): "Support Your Local Mother" – Allan Burns and James L. Brooks All in the Family (CBS): "Meet the Bunkers" – Norman Lear All in the Family (CBS): "Oh, My Aching Back" – Stanley Ralph Ross Here's Lucy (CBS): "Lucy Meets the Burtons" – Bob Carroll Jr. and Madelyn Davis	Template:Award category 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
Template:Award category Singer Presents Burt Bacharach (CBS) The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special (CBS) Jack Benny's Twentieth Anniversary Special (NBC)	Template:Award category The Flip Wilson Show (NBC): "Lena Horne and Tony Randall" The Carol Burnett Show (CBS): "Rita Hayworth" Kraft Music Hall (NBC): "Kopykats Kopy TV"
Template:Award category 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	Template:Award category 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

Network	Number of Nominations
NBC	46
CBS	29
ABC	23
PBS	11

Programs with multiple major nominations

Program	Category	Network	Number of Nominations
The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Comedy	CBS	8
All in the Family			7
The Bold Ones: The Senator	Drama	NBC
The Price	Special		5
The Flip Wilson Show	Variety		4
Hamlet	Special
Marcus Welby, M.D.	Drama	ABC
The Odd Couple	Comedy
Vanished	Special	NBC
The Andersonville Trial		PBS	3
The Carol Burnett Show	Variety	CBS	2
The Churchills	Drama	PBS
A Clear and Present Danger	Special	NBC
Here's Lucy	Comedy	CBS
Ironside	Drama	NBC
Mannix		CBS
NFL Monday Night Football	Sports	ABC
The Neon Ceiling	Special	NBC
Room 222	Comedy	ABC
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Variety	NBC
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach		CBS
That Girl	Comedy	ABC
Tribes	Special
Wide World of Sports	Sports

Most major awards

Networks with multiple major awards

Network	Number of Awards
NBC	14
CBS	9
PBS	5
ABC	3

Programs with multiple major awards

Programs	Category	Network	Number of Awards
The Bold Ones: The Senator	Drama	NBC	4
The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Comedy	CBS
All in the Family	Comedy	CBS	3
The Price	Special	NBC
The Andersonville Trial		PBS	2
The Flip Wilson Show	Variety	NBC
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach		CBS
Wide World of Sports	Sports	ABC

Notes

External links

• Emmys.com list of 1971 Nominees & Winners
• Template:IMDb event