21st Primetime Emmy Awards#Programs

|+ {{sronly|Programs}}

• Get Smart (NBC)
• Bewitched (ABC)
• Family Affair (CBS)
• The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (NBC)
• Julia (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Dramatic Series}}

• NET Playhouse (NET)
• The F.B.I. (ABC)
• Ironside (NBC)
• Judd, for the Defense (ABC)
• Mission: Impossible (CBS)
• The Name of the Game (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Variety or Music Program}}

• The Bill Cosby Special (CBS)
• Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park (CBS)
• Duke Ellington Concert of Sacred Music (NET)
• Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing (CBS)
• The Rite of Spring (NET)
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC): "February 3, 1969"
• Vladimir Horowitz: A Television Concert at Carnegie Hall (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Achievement in {{nowrap|Sports Programming - Programs}}}}

• 19th Summer Olympics (ABC)
• 19th Summer Olympics (ABC) – Roone Arledge
• 19th Summer Olympics (ABC) – Chris Schenkel
• ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC)

|+ {{sronly|Acting}}

• Don Adams as Maxwell Smart in Get Smart (NBC)
• Brian Keith as Uncle Bill Davis in Family Affair (CBS)
• Edward Mulhare as Capt. Daniel Gregg in The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (NBC)
• Lloyd Nolan as Dr. Morton Chegley in Julia (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Continued Performance
by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series}}

• Hope Lange as Carolyn Muir in The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (NBC)
• Diahann Carroll as Nurse Julia Baker in Julia (NBC)
• Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 in Get Smart (NBC)
• Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens in Bewitched (ABC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Continued Performance
by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series}}

• Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter in Mission: Impossible (CBS)
• Joan Blondell as Lottie Hatfield in Here Come the Brides (ABC)
• Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes in The Mod Squad (ABC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Continued Performance
by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series}}

• Werner Klemperer as Col. Wilhelm Klink in Hogan's Heroes (CBS)
• Greg Morris as Barney Collier in Mission: Impossible (CBS)
• Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in Star Trek (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Continued Performance
by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series}}

• Susan Saint James as Peggy Maxwell in The Name of the Game (NBC)
• Barbara Anderson as Officer Eve Whitfield in Ironside (NBC)
• Agnes Moorehead as Endora in Bewitched (ABC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role}}

• Paul Scofield as Sir Emlyn Bowen, Q. C. in Male of the Species (NBC)
• Ossie Davis as Charles Carter in Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "Teacher, Teacher"
• David McCallum as Hamilton Cade in Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "Teacher, Teacher"
• Bill Travers as Crichton in Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "The Admirable Crichton"

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role}}

• Geraldine Page as Sook in The Thanksgiving Visitor (ABC)
• Anne Baxter as Betty-Jean Currier in The Name of the Game (NBC): "The Bobbie Currier Story"
• Lee Grant as Kay Gould in Judd, for the Defense (ABC): "The Gates of Cerberus"

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role}}

• Anna Calder-Marshall as Mary McNeil in Male of the Species (NBC)
• Pamela Brown as Lady Brocklehurst in Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "The Admirable Crichton"
• Irene Hervey as Beatrice Brady in My Three Sons (CBS): "The O'Casey Scandal"
• Nancy Kovack as Bret Nicols in Mannix (CBS): "The Girl Who Came in with the Tide"

|+ {{sronly|Directing}}

• The Dean Martin Show (NBC): "October 17, 1968" – Greg Garrison
• The Bill Cosby Special (NBC) – Bill Hobin
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC): "February 3, 1969" – Gordon Wiles

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama}}

• CBS Playhouse (CBS): "The People Next Door" – David Greene
• CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Secrets" – Paul Bogart
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "Teacher, Teacher" – Fielder Cook

|+ {{sronly|Writing}}

• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS): "David Frye and Liberace"
• The Carol Burnett Show (CBS): "Nanette Fabray, Mel Tormé and Don Rickles"
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC): "Don Rickles"

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama}}

• CBS Playhouse (CBS): "The People Next Door" – J.P. Miller
• CBS Playhouse (CBS): "The Experiment" – Ellen M. Violett
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "Teacher, Teacher" – Allan Sloane

|+Networks with multiple major nominations"Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

|+Programs with multiple major nominations

|+Networks with multiple major awards"Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

|+Programs with multiple major awards