The 20th Emmy Awards, later known as the 20th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 19, 1968. The ceremony was hosted by Frank Sinatra and Dick Van Dyke. 24 awards were presented. Winners are listed in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.

The top shows of the night were Get Smart and Mission: Impossible. Get Smart won three major awards, while the most nominated show was the anthology drama CBS Playhouse with ten. It also won three major awards.

The first posthumous Acting Emmy went to Marion Lorne for her performance in Bewitched, while The Avengers was the first non American produced nomination, having been syndicated from ABC Weekend TV, which was a part of the United Kingdom Independent Television Network, by ABC. However, other than sharing the same initials, the two companies were independent of each other.

Winners and nominees Emmys.com list of 1968 Nominees & Winners

Programs + Get Smart (NBC) Bewitched (ABC) Family Affair (CBS) Hogan's Heroes (CBS) The Lucy Show (CBS) Mission: Impossible (CBS) The Avengers (ABC) I Spy (NBC) NET Playhouse (NET) Run for Your Life (NBC) Star Trek (NBC) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC) The Bell Telephone Hour (NBC) The Carol Burnett Show (CBS) The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (NBC) The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC): "Pilot" Chrysler Presents The Bob Hope Show (NBC) The Fred Astaire Show (NBC) Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (CBS) Lincoln Center/Stage 5 (Syndicated) A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (NBC) Today (NBC) Camera Three (CBS) The Mike Douglas Show (Syndicated) ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC) – Roone Arledge ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC) – Jim McKay 10th Winter Olympic Games (ABC) – Roone Arledge 10th Winter Olympic Games (ABC) – Dick Button The American Sportsman (ABC) The Flying Fisherman (Syndicated) NCAA Football (ABC) Although nominees were announced for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming, no award was given. Contemporary coverage in Variety reported that "no awards were given in musical composition and child program categories." No award given He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown (CBS) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (NET) You're in Love, Charlie Brown (CBS) Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "Elizabeth the Queen" CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Dear Friends" CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" NET Playhouse (NET): "Uncle Vanya" The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (ABC) Xerox Special (ABC): "Luther"

Acting

Lead performances + Don Adams as Maxwell Smart in Get Smart (NBC) Richard Benjamin as Dick Hollister in He & She (CBS) Sebastian Cabot as Mr. Giles French in Family Affair (CBS) Brian Keith as Uncle Bill Davis in Family Affair (CBS) Dick York as Darrin Stephens in Bewitched (ABC) Lucille Ball as Lucy Carmichael in The Lucy Show (CBS) Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 in Get Smart (NBC) Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens in Bewitched (ABC) Paula Prentiss as Paula Hollister in He & She (CBS) Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie in That Girl (ABC) Bill Cosby as Alexander Scott in I Spy (NBC) Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside in Ironside (NBC) Robert Culp as Kelly Robinson in I Spy (NBC) Ben Gazzara as Paul Bryan in Run for Your Life (NBC) Martin Landau as Rollin Hand in Mission: Impossible (CBS) Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter in Mission: Impossible (CBS) Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers (ABC) Barbara Stanwyck as Victoria Barkley in The Big Valley (ABC)

Supporting performances

Werner Klemperer as Col. Wilhelm Klink in Hogan's Heroes (CBS) Jack Cassidy as Oscar North in He & She (CBS) William Demarest as Uncle Charley O'Casey in My Three Sons (CBS) Gale Gordon as Mr. Theodore J. Mooney in The Lucy Show (CBS) Marion Lorne as Aunt Clara in Bewitched (ABC) Agnes Moorehead as Endora in Bewitched (ABC) Marge Redmond as Sister Jacqueline in The Flying Nun (ABC) Nita Talbot as Marya in Hogan's Heroes (CBS) (Episode: "The Hostage") Milburn Stone as Doc in Gunsmoke (CBS) (Episode: "Baker's Dozen") Joseph Campanella as Lew Wickersham in Mannix (CBS) Lawrence Dobkin as Dr. Gettlinger in CBS Playhouse (CBS) (Episode: "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night") Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in Star Trek (NBC) Barbara Anderson as Officer Eve Whitfield in Ironside (NBC) Linda Cristal as Victoria Cannon in The High Chaparral (NBC) Tessie O'Shea as Tessie O'Toole in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (ABC)

Single performances

Melvyn Douglas as Peter Schermann in CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside in NBC World Premiere Movie (NBC): "Ironside" Van Heflin as Robert Sloane in A Case of Libel (ABC) George C. Scott as John Proctor in The Crucible (CBS) Eli Wallach as Douglas Lambert in CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Dear Friends" Maureen Stapleton as Mary O'Meaghan in Among the Paths to Eden (ABC) Judith Anderson as Queen Elizabeth I in Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "Elizabeth the Queen" Geneviève Bujold as Joan of Arc in Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "Saint Joan" Colleen Dewhurst as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible (CBS) Anne Jackson as Vivian Spears in CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Dear Friends"

Directing + Get Smart (NBC): "Maxwell Smart, Private Eye" – Bruce Bilson The Monkees (NBC): "The Devil and Peter Tork" – James Frawley That Girl (ABC): "That Girl" – Danny Arnold CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Dear Friends" – Paul Bogart CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" – George Schaefer The Crucible (CBS) – Alex Segal Mission: Impossible (CBS): "The Killing" – Lee H. Katzin Movin' with Nancy (NBC) – Jack Haley Jr. The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (NBC) – Greg Garrison Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (CBS) – Dwight Hemion Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC) – Gordon Wiles Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC): "Pilot" – Bill Foster

Writing + He & She (CBS): "The Coming Out Party" – Chris Hayward and Allan Burns He & She (CBS): "The Old Man and the She" – Leonard Stern and Arne Sultan The Lucy Show (CBS): "Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account" – Milt Josefsberg and Ray Singer That Girl (ABC): "The Mailman Cometh" – Danny Arnold and Ruth Brooks Flippen | style="vertical-align:top;" | CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" – Loring Mandel CBS Playhouse (CBS): "Dear Friends" – Reginald Rose Mission: Impossible (CBS): "The Seal" – William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter NBC World Premiere Movie (NBC): "Ironside" – Don Mankiewicz |- | style="vertical-align:top;" colspan="2"| Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC) The Carol Burnett Show (CBS) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: "Pilot" (NBC) The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS): "Ronnie Schell, Kate Smith and Simon & Garfunkel"

Most major nominations +Networks with multiple major nominations"Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories. Network Number ofNominations CBS 43 NBC 30 ABC 20

+Programs with multiple major nominations Program Category Network Number ofNominations Bewitched Comedy ABC 5 Dear Friends Special CBS Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night He & She Comedy Mission: Impossible Drama Get Smart Comedy NBC 4 Ironside Drama The Lucy Show Comedy CBS The Crucible Special 3 Family Affair Comedy Hogan's Heroes I Spy Drama NBC Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Variety That Girl Comedy ABC 10th Winter Olympic Games Sports 2 The Avengers Drama The Carol Burnett Show Variety CBS The Dean Martin Comedy Hour NBC Elizabeth the Queen Special Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Variety CBS NET Playhouse Drama NET Run for Your Life NBC The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Variety CBS Star Trek Drama NBC The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Special ABC Wide World of Sports Sports

Most major awards +Networks with multiple major awards"Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories. Network Number ofAwards NBC 10 CBS 9 ABC 3

+Programs with multiple major awards Program Category Network Number ofAwards Get Smart Comedy NBC 3 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Special CBS 2 Mission: Impossible Drama Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Variety NBC Wide World of Sports Sports ABC

Notes

References

External links Emmys.com list of 1968 Nominees & Winners