27th Primetime Emmy Awards

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

| 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 Special - Comedy-Variety or Music}}

• An Evening with John Denver (ABC)
• Lily (ABC)
• Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now (CBS)

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

• Benjamin Franklin (CBS)
• Columbo (NBC)
• McCloud (NBC)

|+ {{sronly|Acting}}

• Tony Randall as Felix Unger in The Odd Couple (ABC)
• Jack Albertson as Ed Brown in Chico and the Man (NBC)
• Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (CBS)
• Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple (ABC)
• Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker in All in the Family (CBS)

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

• Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern in Rhoda (CBS) (Episode: "Rhoda's Wedding")
• Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)
• Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker in All in the Family (CBS)

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

• Jean Marsh as Rose in Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
• Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson in Police Woman (NBC)
• Michael Learned as Olivia Walton in The Waltons (CBS)

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy}}

• Katharine Hepburn as Jessica Medlicott in Love Among the Ruins (ABC)
• Jill Clayburgh as Wanda in Hustling (ABC)
• Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden (ABC)
• Diana Rigg as Philippa in In This House of Brede (CBS)
• Maureen Stapleton as Bea Asher in Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (CBS)

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

• Jessica Walter as Amy Prentiss in Amy Prentiss (NBC)
• Susan Saint James as Sally McMillan in McMillan & Wife (NBC)

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

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

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

• Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)
• Julie Kavner as Brenda Morgenstern in Rhoda (CBS)
• Loretta Swit as Margaret Houlihan in M*A*S*H (CBS)
• Nancy Walker as Ida Morgenstern in Rhoda (CBS)

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

• Ellen Corby as Esther Walton in The Waltons (CBS)
• Angela Baddeley as Mrs. Bridges in Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
• Nancy Walker as Mildred in McMillan & Wife (NBC)

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

• Juliet Mills as Samantha Cady in QB VII (ABC)
• Eileen Heckart as Herman's Mother in Wedding Band (ABC)
• Charlotte Rae as Helen in Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (CBS)
• Lee Remick as Lady Margaret in QB VII (ABC)

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

• Zohra Lampert as Marina Sheldon in Kojak (CBS): "Queen of the Gypsies"
• Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS): "Phyllis Whips Inflation"
• Shelley Winters as Thelma in McCloud (NBC): "The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street"

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

• Cloris Leachman in Cher (CBS)
• Vicki Lawrence in The Carol Burnett Show (CBS)
• Rita Moreno in Out to Lunch (ABC)

|+ {{sronly|Directing}}

• M*A*S*H (CBS): "O.R." – Gene Reynolds
• M*A*S*H (CBS): "Alcoholics Unanimous" – Hy Averback
• M*A*S*H (CBS): "Bulletin Board" – Alan Alda

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

• Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS): "A Sudden Storm" – Bill Bain
• Benjamin Franklin (CBS): "The Ambassador" – Glenn Jordan
• Kojak (CBS): "Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die" – David Friedkin
• Kojak (CBS): "I Want to Report a Dream..." – Telly Savalas
• The Streets of San Francisco (ABC): "The Mask of Death" – Harry Falk

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

• An Evening with John Denver (ABC) – Bill Davis
• Ann-Margret Olsson (NBC) – Dwight Hemion
• Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now (CBS) – Robert Scheerer

|+ {{sronly|Writing}}

• The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS): "Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?" – Ed. Weinberger and Stan Daniels
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS): "Lou and That Woman" – David Lloyd
• Rhoda (CBS): "Rhoda's Wedding" – James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, David Davis, Lorenzo Music, Norman Barasch, Carroll Moore and David Lloyd

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

• Benjamin Franklin (CBS): "The Ambassador" – Howard Fast
• Benjamin Franklin (CBS): "The Whirlwind" – Loring Mandel
• Police Story (NBC): "Robbery: 48 Hours" – Robert L. Collins
• Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS): "The Bolter" – John Hawkesworth
• Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS): "Miss Forrest" – Alfred Shaughnessy

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

• The Carol Burnett Show (CBS): "Alan Alda"
• Cher (CBS): "Raquel Welch, Tatum O'Neal and Wayne Rogers"

| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Award category|#EEDD82|Outstanding Writing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy – Adaptation}}

• Clarence Darrow (NBC) – David W. Rintels
• QB VII (ABC) – Edward Anhalt

|+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

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|+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