List of Peabody Award winners (1970–1979)

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|Eye of the Storm

|Civilisation

|Award for the Dr. Seuss animated programs, including Horton Hears a Who! and The Cat in the Hat

|60 Minutes

|The Flip Wilson Show

|Migrant: An NBC White Paper (presented by Chet Huntley)[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/12/archives/shame-is-still-the-harvest.html Shame Is Still The Harvest - The New York Times]

|The Danger Within: A Study of Disunity in America, a documentary narrated by Bill Ryan with a discussion hosted by Frank McGee[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/19/archives/radio-n-b-c-seeks-the-roots-of-disunity-in-u-s-vietnam-and-poverty.html Radio: N.B.C. Seeks the Roots of Disunity in U.S. - The New York Times]

|Award for Kiker's reports from Jordan

|Personal Award for VOA's presentation of news and public affairs programming, in particular Moore's New York, New York

|Personal Award to the of Dean of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism from 1940 to in 1969 for his role in the foundation and administration of the Peabody Awards

|Evening at Pops

|The Andersonville Trial

|Peace... On Our Time: KMEX-TV and the Death of Rubén Salazar, highlighting the work of station manager Danny Villanueva

|Award for the series Medical Viewpoint and the documentary Pearl Harbor, Lest We Forget, highlighting the work of Fred Williams

| Listening/4, a series designed to teach listening skills to Flint area school students

|Polithon '70, a statewide radio/TV broadcast featuring candidates for statewide public office

|[http://thankevann.com/jimtolhurst/frontier.html This New Frontier], a documentary profiling the nation of Israel

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|Make a Wish

|Brian's Song

|Institutional Award for its efforts "to expand and modernize school curricula, to accelerate learning, and to equalize education in every classroom of the state."

|[https://archive.org/details/thischildisratedx This Child is Rated X], an NBC White Paper documentary which examined "gross inequities" of juvenile facilities in the United States

|Second Sunday

|Personal Award for his work as Far East correspondent for NBC News

|Personal Award for his work on "entertaining and constructive" children's programming for NBC

|Institutional Award for VOA's "Promotion of International Understanding"

|Junior Town Meeting of the Air

|Wisconsin on the Move

|Personal Award to the CBS president for his protection of journalistic freedom in the face of political scrutiny

|The American Revolution: 1770-1783, A Conversation with Lord North, Eric Sevareid interviewed Lord North, played by Peter Ustinov

|The Heart of the Matter, University of Minnesota Dean E. W. Ziebarth's recounting of his open-heart surgery

|[https://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=The+Turned+On+Crisis&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=all The Turned On Crisis], produced by Rhea G. Sikes and Charlotte Woodside

|United Nations Day Concert with Pablo Casals (parts [https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/2552/2552594/ one] and [https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/2552/2552619/ two])

|Personal Award for his "innovative programming... uniformly characterized by high quality, wholesome entertainment"

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|ABC Afterschool Specials (including Last of the Curlews and [https://archive.org/details/santiagosark Santiago's Ark])

|Award for coverage of the Games of the XX Olympiad

|All Things Considered

|Breakdown, a radio series investigating "the critical deterioration of various systems that are an important part in the life of every American"

|Captain Kangaroo

|[http://thankevann.com/jimtolhurst/china.html China '72: A Hole in the Bamboo Curtain]

|Conversations with Will Shakespeare and Certain of His Friends

|Institutional Award for its "promotion of international understanding" through distribution of various radio programs and specials

|Institutional Award for its coverage of the 1972 U.S. political campaigns

|Institutional Award for the station's educational programming

|Award for the TV specials Jack Lemmon in 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin, Liza with a Z, and The Timex All-star Swing Festival

|Monitor

|Award for the radio documentaries No Fault Insurance - Right or Wrong? and Second Sunday: A Seven-part Series on the Cities

|The Search for the Nile

|The Restless Earth, a film on plate tectonics scripted by Nigel Calder and narrated by David S. Prowitt

|Open Door

|Personal Award for his work in America: A Personal View by Alistair Cooke

|Personal Award for Monroe's interview work at NBC News

|The Noise Shows

|Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace, an investigative report examining successes and failures of care for residents with mental disabilities at Willowbrook State School[https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/w/willowbrook.htm Willowbrook Collection An inventory of the collection at Syracuse University]

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|Jointly awarded to the TV networks for their "outstanding contributions to entertainment through an exceptional year of televised drama": ABC Theater: The Glass Menagerie and Pueblo, CBS Playhouse 90's Catholics (ITV Sunday Night Theatre) and NBC's The Red Pony

|The Energy Crisis: An American White Paper, reported by Frank McGee

|Project 1 Experiment, for its Live in Concert presentations of The Carpenters and Helen Reddy

|Close-Up, under the leadership of Av Westin, citing in particular the episodes "Fire!" and "West Virginia: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Coal"

|Award for the series Music in Chicago and its broadcasts from the Lyric Opera of Chicago

|From 18th Street: Destination Peking

|Award for WRC's "Home Rule" editorial campaign, which promoted self-government in the District of Columbia

|Institutional Award for the children's educational programs Learning Can Be Fun and Dusty's Treehouse

|Marijuana and the Law, a series of documentaries and editorials "to separate facts about marijuana from fiction," produced by Wendell Wise Mayes Jr.

|[https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_160-08v9s6vg Myshkin]

|Overture to Friendship: The Philadelphia Orchestra in China

|Personal Award for his work on NBC's The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola

|Personal Award "in recognition of his incredible 43 years of continuous daily broadcasts on CBS"

|Personal Award to the Director of Religious & Cultural Broadcasting at CBS News for her work on Lamp Unto My Feet and Look Up and Live

|Personal Award to the Chicago Daily News Washington Bureau chief for his analysis/commentary work on radio and TV

|The American Past

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|Battles Just Begun, a look at problems facing returning Vietnam War veterans

|Benjamin Franklin

|CBS Radio Mystery Theatre

|Conversations from Wingspread

|Free to Be... You and Me

|From Belfast with Love, a documentary profiling the strife in Northern Ireland

|Go

|Second Sunday

|How Come?

|Institutional Award for NPACT's "outstanding overall effort to bring meaningful public affairs programming to the nation"

|Institutional Award for "a superb series of investigative reports which brought considerable response and change"

|Institutional Award for Suffer the Little Children, Atlanta: A Portrait in Black and White, and Henry Aaron: A Man with a Mission

|NOVA

|rowspan="2"|Separate Personal Awards to the legal correspondents (Stern with NBC News, Graham with CBS News)

|Personal Award to the CEO of NBC "for his long years of dedicated service to the broadcasting industry"

|Personal Award to the KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA reporter for her investigative work

|Pledge a Job, a 5-day campaign "to blunt the impact of an unemployment crisis" in the New York City area

|The Hit and Run Players, a series of satirical comedy vignettes

|The Right Man, a documentary profiling Dr. Robert Hayes' efforts to save Wiley College

|Theatre in America

|Through the Looking Glass, a youth and arts radio show hosted by Leonora Schildkraut

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|A Life to Share, an initiative aimed at educating parents in special areas of child development

|Jim Metcalf, A Sunday Journal

|ABC Afterschool Special

|Big Blue Marble

|Call It Macaroni

|Institutional Award for the station's "superior overall public service programming"

|Institutional Award for the school's "educational radio service to citizens of the Far West"

|Institutional Award for the station's "envious record of outstanding investigative reporting"

|Institutional Award for overall programming excellence

|Institutional Award for the stations' "overall efforts to provide outstanding radio entertainment," citing in particular The Collector's Shelf and 200 Years of Music in America

|Institutional Award for radio documentary excellence, citing in particular Suffer the Little Children (profiles of sexually abused children) and The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

|Institutional Award "for overall public service effort," citing the Harambee episode "For My People" (review of minority hiring at the Washington Post) and the Everywoman episode "The Hidden World" (a medical look inside a woman's body)

|Las Rosas Blancas

|M*A*S*H

|Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington

|Personal Award to the CBS News correspondent for On the Road to '76

|Personal Award for Dr. Killian's 25 years of "unflagging, steadfast devotion" to public broadcasting

|Personal Award to the NBC News correspondent for his dedicated reporting on the fall of Saigon

|"Sleeping Watchdogs," an investigation into government agencies broad consumer protection efforts

|Snipets

|"[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/105934 The Battle of Lexington]," an episode of Two Hundred Years Ago Tonight

|"The Dale Car: A Dream or a Nightmare?" an investigation that revealed a confidence scheme involving the construction of the Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation vehicle

|The Land of Poetry

|Weekend

|Music in Chicago: Stravinsky '75

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|Animals, Animals, Animals

|Suddenly an Eagle, a documentary about the lead-up to the Revolutionary War narrated by Lee J. Cobb and Kenneth Griffith

|Award for coverage of the 1976 Winter and Summer Olympic Games

|Award for organization of the 1976 presidential debates

|60 Minutes

|In Performance at Wolf Trap

|"A Conversation with Jimmy Carter," an episode of U.S.A.: People and Politics

|The Adams Chronicles

|[https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_526-p843r0r27w A Thirst in the Garden], a documentary examining lack of potable water in the lower Rio Grande Valley

|[https://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=American+Popular+Songs+with+Alec+Wilder+%26+Friends&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=all American Popular Song with Alec Wilder and Friends] (with Alec Wilder)

|Flashback 1976

|Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (aired on NBC{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = O'Connor| first = John J.| title = TV: 'Scottsboro Boys,' Quality Show (Published 1976)| work = The New York Times| accessdate = 2020-12-28| date = 1976-04-22| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/22/archives/tv-scottsboro-boys-quality-show-drama-recounts-trial-of-9-blacks-in.html}})

|Personal Award to the WHO-TV/Des Moines, IA cameraman for filming a tornado striking Jordan, Iowa

|Personal Award for the NBC special Perry Como's Christmas in Austria

|Personal Award to the NBC News producer for "The Sawyer Brothers," a segment of Weekend that raised suspicion of the guilt and conviction of two brothers in a North Carolina kidnapping

|Joint Personal Awards to the anchors of CBS Morning News

|"Power Politics in Mississippi," an episode of PROBE that examined legal ethics and conflicts of interest

|Primary Colors, An Artist on the Campaign Trail, which followed the WBBM reporter/artist creating works depicting the presidential campaigns

|Sybil

|The Garden Plot: Food as a Weapon

|Visions

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|[https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-t72794254z A Good Dissonance Like a Man], a documentary on Charles Ives directed by Theodore Timreck

|MacNeil/Lehrer Report

|Buyline: Betty Furness

|Camera Three

|Coverage of a flood that hit the Harlan area in April 1977

|Crossroads: Sea Island Sketches, produced by Robert Montiegel

|Earplay

|ABC Theater, for Green Eyes

|Roots

|"Joshua's Confusion," an episode of Young People's Specials

|Live from the Met

|Personal Award for All in the Family

|Personal Award to the WGMS/Rockville, MD personality for A Variable Feast

|Personal Award to the creator/host of the KCET (Los Angeles, CA)/PBS series Meeting of Minds

|Award for reports into accountability by police in incidents involving civilian shootings

|[https://pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/az0027 Science Story], produced by Laurie Garrett and Adi Gevins

|Tut: The Boy King, narrated by Orson Welles

|The Hobbit[https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-hobbit-on-disneyland-records/ "The Hobbit" on Disneyland Records - Cartoon Research]

|The Lifer's Group, I Am My Brother's Keeper, a documentary about prisoners at Rahway State Prison produced by Richard N. Hughes

|The Mary Tyler Moore Show

|[https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1977/11/14/prairie-was-quiet The Prairie was Quiet]

|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S-vlZMq2vc The Rowe String Quartet Plays on Your Imagination]

|Upstairs, Downstairs

|"Where Have All the Flood Cars Gone?" which traced the re-selling of flood-damaged automobiles

|Winter's Fear, a documentary examining a series of child abductions and murders by the Oakland County Child Killer

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|The Body Human: The Vital Connection

|Lou Grant

|30 Minutes

|CBS World News Roundup

|Award for the Once Upon a Classic adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

|A River to the Sea, a documentary on the English language narrated by Alexander Scourby and aired on CBS' Look Up and Live

|Arts in New Hampshire

|Barney Miller

|Cartoon-A-Torial, animated editorial cartoons[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG-6B0C6ncc CARTOON-A-TORIAL posted by Whitseeg on YouTube]

|Chicago Radio Theatre

|Damien, a documentary profiling the life of Jozef De Veuster ("Father Damien") and his caring of patients at a leper colony on Molokai, Hawaii

|Dialogues on a Tightrope: An Italian Mosaic, a documentary by Josh Darsa examining Italy's political turmoil

|Holocaust

|Mysterious Castles of Clay

|Second Sunday

|The Eternal Light

|Award for the station's presentation of live-performance radio dramas

|Old Age: Do Not Go Gentle, a documentary examining treatment of the elderly

|[https://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=Over+Easy&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=all Over Easy], a program on aging hosted by Hugh Downs

|Personal Award for Keeshan's work on Captain Kangaroo and his promoting of "quality children's programs on American television"

|Personal Award for Salant's leadership at CBS News and "his staunch defense of the First Amendment guarantee of a free press"

|Race War in Rhodesia, a documentary with Carl Rowan that examined political tensions in Rhodesia and Central Africa

|[https://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=The+Eyewitness+Who+Wasn%27t%2C+The+Matthews+Murder+Trials&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=all The Eyewitness Who Wasn't], a documentary examining how evidence against the Marietta Seven was manufactured

|The Last Voyage of the 'Cap'n Bill', which captured conversations with fishermen and townspeople affected by a fishing vessel's final voyage

|The Muppet Show

|Whose Child is This? an examination by Alfred Shands of the effects of child abuse

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|ABC Afterschool Special, for the episode "A Special Gift"

|CBS News Sunday Morning

|Personal Award for Mudd's CBS Reports interview with Edward Kennedy

|Dummy

|"Follow That Cab: The Great Taxi Rip-off," an investigation into fraudulent overcharges by New York City taxi and limousine services

|[http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_1F4A7BC47D044D3880F6B7CB0CDBFC4A Currier Bell, Esquire], a presentation of [http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog?f%5Baccess%5D%5B%5D=All+Records&f%5Bseries_title%5D%5B%5D=Masterpiece+Radio+Theatre Masterpiece Radio Theatre]

|[http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog?f%5Baccess%5D%5B%5D=All+Records&f%5Bseries_title%5D%5B%5D=World World], executive produced by David Fanning

|Down at the Dunbar, a documentary produced by Vin Di Bona which examined the entertainment legacy of the Dunbar Hotel{{cite web | url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/american-scene/vin-di-bona | title=Vin di Bona | date=12 March 2018 }}

|Henny Penny Playwrighting Contest, a contest for children playwrights

|Miles To Go Before We Sleep, a documentary on aging and retirement produced by Ken Voss and Chuck Collins

|Little Rock Central High School, an episode of As We See It directed by Chris Pechin about the Little Rock Crisis[https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=president&p=113&item=T:38019 AS WE SEE IT: 22 YEARS SINCE LITTLE ROCK (TV) - The Paley Center for Media]

|Personal Award in recognition of Trout's near-half-century of work in news and commentary

|Personal Award to the producer/hostess of [https://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=all&q=Musical+Comedy+Tonight Musical Comedy Tonight], which aired as part of Great Performances

|Politics of Poison, a documentary produced by John D. Rabinovitch and narrated by Michael Learned examining the effects of herbicide spraying in Northern California

|"Strip and Search," an investigation into routine strip searches of female suspects by the Chicago Police Department

|"The Adventures of Whistling Sam," an animated editorial cartoon airing on Extra

|The Long Eyes of Kitt Peak, a documentary on the Kitt Peak National Observatory directed by Bill Miller and narrated by Mary Jo West

|"The Longest Journey," an episode of Open Circuit about pregnancy produced by Eithne Black and written by Elizabeth Grove-White[https://site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/site/_lib/75th/_media/memory-bank/first-peabody-award/program-release.pdf COVETED INTERNATIONAL AWARD WON BY CBC PROGRAM]

|[https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1979/08/13/the-way-to-8a The Way to 8-A], which explored legal abuses in the mental health commitment process at Hennepin County General Hospital

|When Hell Was in Session

|Treasures of the British Crown a program by Huw Wheldon about the Royal Collection