29th Primetime Emmy Awards
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Date | September 11, 1977 |
Location | Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California |
Presented by | Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
Hosted by | Angie Dickinson Robert Blake |
Highlights | |
Most awards | Roots (6) |
Most nominations | Roots (21) |
Outstanding Comedy Series | The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
Outstanding Drama Series | Upstairs, Downstairs |
Outstanding Limited Series | Roots |
Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series | Van Dyke and Company |
Website | https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1977 |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | NBC |
The 29th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 11, 1977. The ceremony was broadcast on NBC. It was hosted by Angie Dickinson and Robert Blake.
The top shows of the night were Mary Tyler Moore, which, in its final season, won its third consecutive Outstanding Comedy Series Award, it also became the first comedy series to gain eleven major nominations (since broken). Upstairs, Downstairs, also in its final season, won its third Outstanding Drama Series Award in four years (it competed as a miniseries in 1976, and won that category too). But the overwhelming champion of the ceremony was the miniseries Roots.
Roots set several milestones and broke multiple records during the night. It became the first show to receive at least twenty major nominations (21). Adding its nominations in Creative Arts categories, its total expands to 37. Both records still stand for all shows. It was the first show to gain every nomination in an acting category. Its thirteen acting nominations tied the record set the previous year by Rich Man, Poor Man, however all of Roots' nominations came in the miniseries category, while Rich Man, Poor Man had nominations cross over into the drama series field. Roots became the first miniseries, and second show overall, along with All in the Family in 1972, to win six of seven major categories. All but one of Roots' eight episodes were nominated for major awards (Part VII).
Other distinctions included Mary Kay Place winning a Major Acting award for a TV show (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) that had no major network, only broadcast in Syndication - the first time this rare feat has occurred. Also, with actress Rita Moreno's win for her guest appearance on The Muppet Show, she became the third person after Richard Rodgers and Helen Hayes to achieve all four major entertainment awards (EGOT).
With this ceremony, the Primetime Emmys began a long residency at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium that would continue until 1997.
Winners and nominees
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Single performances
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Directing
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Writing
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Most major nominations
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Network | Number of Nominations |
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ABC | 59 |
CBS | 48 |
NBC | |
PBS | 14 |
Program | Category | Network | Number of Nominations |
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Roots | Limited | ABC | 21 |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Comedy | CBS | 11 |
M*A*S*H | 9 | ||
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Special | ABC | 8 |
Saturday Night | Variety | NBC | 7 |
The Carol Burnett Show | CBS | 6 | |
Raid on Entebbe | Special | NBC | |
Captains and the Kings | Limited | 5 | |
Family | Drama | ABC | |
Tail Gunner Joe | Special | NBC | |
The Adams Chronicles | Limited | PBS | 4 |
All in the Family | Comedy | CBS | |
Barney Miller | ABC | ||
Sybil | Special | NBC | |
The Waltons | Drama | CBS | |
Baretta | ABC | 3 | |
The Barry Manilow Special | Variety | ||
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking | Special | PBS | |
The Moneychangers | Limited | NBC | |
The Muppet Show | Variety | Syndicated | |
Rhoda | Comedy | CBS | |
Sills and Burnett at the Met | Variety | ||
Van Dyke and Company | NBC | ||
Amelia Earhart | Special | 2 | |
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music | Variety | CBS | |
The Bob Newhart Show | Comedy | ||
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble | Special | ABC | |
Charlie's Angels | Drama | ||
Columbo | NBC | ||
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys | Special | ||
The Rockford Files | Drama | ||
Seventh Avenue | Limited | ||
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here? | Variety | CBS | |
The Streets of San Francisco | Drama | ABC | |
Upstairs, Downstairs | PBS | ||
World of Magic | Variety | NBC |
Most major awards
[edit]Network | Number of Awards |
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ABC | 13 |
CBS | 11 |
NBC | 9 |
PBS | 2 |
Program | Category | Network | Number of Awards |
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Roots | Limited | ABC | 6 |
Sybil | Special | NBC | 3 |
America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music | Variety | CBS | 2 |
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Special | ABC | |
Family | Drama | ||
M*A*S*H | Comedy | CBS | |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show | |||
Tail Gunner Joe | Special | NBC |
- Notes
- ^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- 1977 nominees and winners
at Emmys.com
- 29th Primetime Emmy Awards at IMDb