26th Primetime Emmy Awards

|+ {{sronly|Programs}}

• M*A*S*H (CBS)
• All in the Family (CBS)
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)
• The Odd Couple (ABC)

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

• Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
• Kojak (CBS)
• Police Story (NBC)
• The Streets of San Francisco (ABC)
• The Waltons (CBS)

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

• Lily (CBS)
• Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments (CBS)
• The John Denver Show (ABC)
• Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra (NBC)

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

• Columbo (NBC)
• The Blue Knight (NBC)
• McCloud (NBC)

|+ {{sronly|Acting}}

• Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (CBS)
• Redd Foxx as Fred G. Sanford in Sanford and Son (NBC)
• Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple (ABC)
• Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker in All in the Family (CBS)
• Tony Randall as Felix Unger in The Odd Couple (ABC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series}}

• Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) (Episode: "Best of Enemies")
• Bea Arthur as Maude Findlay in Maude (CBS)
• Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker in All in the Family (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series}}

• Michael Learned as Olivia Walton in The Waltons (CBS)
• Jean Marsh as Rose in Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
• Jeanette Nolan as Sally Fergus in Dirty Sally (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Lead Actress in a Drama}}

• Cicely Tyson as Jane Pittman in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (CBS)
• Carol Burnett as Anne Miller in 6 Rms Riv Vu (CBS)
• Katharine Hepburn as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (ABC)
• Cloris Leachman as Viola Barlow in The Migrants (CBS)
• Elizabeth Montgomery as Ellen Harrod in A Case of Rape (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Lead Actress in a Limited Series}}

• Mildred Natwick as Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson in The Snoop Sisters (NBC)
• Helen Hayes as Ernesta Snoop in The Snoop Sisters (NBC)
• Lee Remick as Cassie Walters in The Blue Knight (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actor in Comedy}}

• Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic in All in the Family (CBS) (Episode: "The Games Bunkers Play")
• Edward Asner as Lou Grant in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)
• Gary Burghoff as Radar O'Reilly in M*A*S*H (CBS)
• Ted Knight as Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)
• McLean Stevenson as Henry Blake in M*A*S*H (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actress in Comedy}}

• Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) (Episode: "The Lars Affair")
• Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)
• Sally Struthers as Gloria Stivic in All in the Family (CBS)
• Loretta Swit as Margaret Houlihan in M*A*S*H (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actress in Drama}}

• Joanna Miles as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (ABC)
• Ellen Corby as Esther Walton in The Waltons (CBS)
• Nancy Walker as Mildred in McMillan & Wife (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actress in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music}}

• Brenda Vaccaro in The Shape of Things (CBS)
• Ruth Buzzi in The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (NBC)
• Lee Grant in The Shape of Things (CBS)
• Vicki Lawrence in The Carol Burnett Show (CBS)

|+ {{sronly|Directing}}

• M*A*S*H (CBS): "Carry on, Hawkeye" – Jackie Cooper
• M*A*S*H (CBS): "Deal Me Out" – Gene Reynolds
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS): "Lou's First Date" – Jay Sandrich

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Directing in Drama – Single Program of a Series with Continuing Characters and/or Theme}}

• The Blue Knight (NBC): "Part III" – Robert Butler
• The Waltons (CBS): "The Journey" – Harry Harris
• The Waltons (CBS): "The Thanksgiving Story" – Philip Leacock

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Directing in Variety or Music}}

• The Carol Burnett Show (CBS): "The Australia Show" – Dave Powers
• In Concert (ABC): "Cat Stevens" – Joshua White
• The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (CBS): "Ken Berry and George Foreman" – Art Fisher

|+ {{sronly|Writing}}

• The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS): "The Lou and Edie Story" – Treva Silverman
• M*A*S*H (CBS): "Hot Lips and Empty Arms" – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Mary Kay Place
• M*A*S*H (CBS): "The Trial of Henry Blake" – McLean Stevenson

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

• The Waltons (CBS): "The Thanksgiving Story" – Joanna Lee
• Kojak (CBS): "Death is Not a Passing Grade" – Gene R. Kearney
• The Waltons (CBS): "The Easter Story" – John McGreevey

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Writing in Variety or Music}}

• The Carol Burnett Show (CBS): "Bernadette Peters"
• The Carol Burnett Show (CBS): "The Family Show"
• The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (CBS): "Chuck Connors and Howard Cosell"

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Writing in Drama – Adaptation}}

• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (CBS) – Tracy Keenan Wynn
• The Execution of Private Slovik (NBC) – Richard Levinson and William Link
• Steambath (PBS) – Bruce Jay Friedman

• Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (CBS)
• Telly Savalas as Theo Kojak in Kojak (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Actor of the Year – Special}}

• Hal Holbrook as Capt. Lloyd Bucher in Pueblo (ABC)
• William Holden as Bumper Morgan in The Blue Knight (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Actress of the Year – Special}}

• Cicely Tyson as Jane Pittman in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (CBS)
• Mildred Natwick as Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson in The Snoop Sisters (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Supporting Actress of the Year}}

• Joanna Miles as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (ABC)
• Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)

• Robert Butler for The Blue Knight, (Episode: "Part III"), (NBC)
• Jackie Cooper for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Carry on, Hawkeye"), (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Director of the Year – Special}}

• Dwight Hemion for Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments, (CBS)
• John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (CBS)

• Treva Silverman for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, (Episode: "The Lou And Edie Story"), (CBS)
• Joanna Lee for The Waltons, (Episode: "The Thanksgiving Story"), (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Writer of the Year – Special}}

• Fay Kanin for Tell Me Where it Hurts, (CBS)
• Tracy Keenan Wynn for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (CBS)

• Jan Scott & Charles Kreiner for The Lie (CBS)
• Brian Bartholomew for Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Cinematographer of the Year}}

• Ted Voigtlander for It's Good to Be Alive (CBS)
• Harry L. Wolf for Columbo: "Any Old Port in a Storm" (NBC)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Musician of the Year}}

• Jack Parnell, Ken Welch, and Mitzie Welch for Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments (CBS)

|+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