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Daytime Emmy Awards

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    Daytime Emmy

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    Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series

    • Winner
      • Larry Haines
      • Search for Tomorrow
    • Macdonald Carey in Lock Up (1959)
      • Macdonald Carey
      • Days of Our Lives
    • Bill Hayes in Columbia Musical Travelark: Wonders of Manhattan (1955)
      • Bill Hayes
      • Days of Our Lives
    • John Beradino
      • John Beradino
      • General Hospital
    • Shepperd Strudwick
      • Shepperd Strudwick
      • One Life to Live
    • Michael Nouri
      • Michael Nouri
      • Search for Tomorrow

    Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Special

    • Gerald Gordon
      Winner
      • Gerald Gordon
      • First Ladies Diaries: Rachel Jackson
      Tied with James Luisi for First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington (1975).
    • James Luisi
      Winner
      • James Luisi
      • First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington
      Tied with Gerald Gordon for First Ladies Diaries: Rachel Jackson (1975).

    Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series

    • Winner
      • Helen Gallagher
      • Ryan's Hope
    • Susan Seaforth Hayes
      • Susan Seaforth Hayes
      • Days of Our Lives
    • Mary Stuart in Thunderhoof (1948)
      • Mary Stuart
      • Search for Tomorrow
      • Frances Heflin
      • All My Children
    • Denise Alexander
      • Denise Alexander
      • General Hospital

    Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Special

    • Elizabeth Hubbard
      Winner
      • Elizabeth Hubbard
      • First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson
    • Susan Browning in The Monkees (1965)
      • Susan Browning
      • First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington

    Outstanding Children's Instructional Programming - Series and Specials

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Schoolhouse Rock!

      8.2 (4.6K)
      Tom Yohe(executive producer)
      Radford Stone(producer)
    • [object Object]

      Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

      8.8 (10K)
      Fred Rogers(executive producer)
      Bill Moates(producer)
    • [object Object]

      Sesame Street

      8.1 (16K)
      Jon Stone(executive producer)
      Dulcy Singer(producer)

    Outstanding Children's Programming

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Sesame Street

      8.1 (16K)
      Jerry Nelson
      Jim Henson
      Frank Oz
      Caroll Spinney
      Richard Hunt
      Gerri Brioso
      Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
    • [object Object]

      NBC Special Treat

      Episode: 

      Papa and Me

      7.4 (51)
      Robert L. Harman(film sound mixer)
      Ted Gomillion(film sound mixer)
      Bill Edmondson(film sound mixer)

    Outstanding Daytime Drama Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Another World

      7.0 (1.2K)
      Paul Rauch(executive producer)
      Joe Rothenberger(producer)
      Mary S. Bonner(producer)
    • [object Object]

      All My Children

      6.8 (3.5K)
      Bud Kloss(producer)
    • [object Object]

      Days of Our Lives

      5.3 (7.9K)
      Betty Corday(executive producer)
      Jack Herzberg(producer)
      Al Rabin(producer)
    • [object Object]

      The Young and the Restless

      5.3 (7.2K)
      John Conboy(executive producer)
      Patricia Wenig(producer)

    Outstanding Daytime Drama Special

    • Winner

      First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson

      Jeff Young(producer)

    • First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington

      Linda Fidler Wendell

    • First Ladies Diaries: Rachel Jackson

      7.8 (10)
      Paul Rauch

    Outstanding Daytime Game or Audience Participation Show

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The $10,000 Pyramid

      6.8 (514)
      Bob Stewart(executive producer)
      Anne-Marie Schmitt(producer)
    • [object Object]

      The Hollywood Squares (Daytime)

      6.8 (1.1K)
      Merrill Heatter(executive producer)
      Bob Quigley(executive producer)
      Jay Redack(producer)
    • [object Object]

      Let's Make a Deal

      6.9 (524)
      Stefan Hatos(executive producer)
      Alan Gilbert(producer)
    • [object Object]

      Match Game

      8.3 (2.7K)
      Ira Skutch
    • [object Object]

      The Price is Right

      7.5 (4.5K)
      Frank Wayne(executive producer)
      Jay Wolpert(producer)

    Outstanding Daytime Talk, Service or Variety Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Dinah!

      7.0 (329)
      Henry Jaffe(executive producer)
      Carolyn Raskin(executive producer)
      Fred Tatashore(producer)
    • [object Object]

      Good Morning America

      4.4 (2.2K)
      Mel Ferber(executive producer)
      George Merlis(producer)
      Bob Lissit(producer)
    • [object Object]

      The Mike Douglas Show

      7.1 (608)
      Jack Reilly(executive producer)
      Woody Fraser(producer)

    Outstanding Entertainment - Children's Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Big Blue Marble

      8.3 (109)
      Henry Fownes
    • [object Object]

      Captain Kangaroo

      8.0 (1.7K)
      Jim Hirschfeld
    • [object Object]

      Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

      6.7 (2.8K)
      Norm Prescott
      Lou Scheimer
    • [object Object]

      Zoom

      7.7 (376)
      Austin Hoyt(executive producer)

    Outstanding Entertainment - Children's Special

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People

      Episode: 

      Danny Kaye's Look-In at the Metropolitan Opera

      6.9 (63)
      Sylvia Fine(executive producer)
      Bernard Rothman(producer)
      Jack Wohl(producer)
      Herbert Bonis(producer)

    • What Is Noise and What Is Music?

      Roger Englander(producer)
    • [object Object]

      ABC Afterschool Specials

      7.1 (1.4K)
      Arthur Barron
      Evelyn Barron
      For episode "It Must Be Love ('Cause I Feel So Dumb!)".
    • [object Object]

      ABC Afterschool Specials

      Episode: 

      Me and Dad's New Wife

      7.1 (1.4K)
      Daniel Wilson
    • [object Object]

      NBC Special Treat

      Episode: 

      Papa and Me

      7.4 (51)
      William P. D'Angelo(executive producer)
      R.S. Allen(executive producer)
      Harvey Bullock(executive producer)
      Michael S. McLean(producer)

    Outstanding Host or Hostess - Game or Audience Participation Show

    • Allen Ludden
      Winner
      • Allen Ludden
      • Password
    • Peter Marshall
      • Peter Marshall
      • The Hollywood Squares (Daytime)
    • Geoff Edwards in WUSA (1970)
      • Geoff Edwards
      • Jackpot

    Outstanding Host or Hostess in a Talk, Service or Variety Series

    • Dinah Shore
      Winner
      • Dinah Shore
      • Dinah!
    • David Hartman
      • David Hartman
      • Good Morning America
    • Merv Griffin
      • Merv Griffin
      • The Merv Griffin Show
    • Mike Douglas 1/18/56
      • Mike Douglas
      • The Mike Douglas Show

    Outstanding Individual Achievement Children's Programming

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Bound for Freedom

      6.7 (11)
      Bud Nolan(film editor)
      Jim Cookman(film editor)
    • [object Object]

      Land of the Lost

      Episode: 

      Blackout

      7.1 (3.7K)
      Michael Westmore(make-up)
      Louis Phillipi(make-up)

    Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Sesame Street

      8.1 (16K)
      Don Sahlin(costumes/props)
      Kermit Love(costumes/props)
      Caroly Wilcox(costumes/props)
      John Lovelady(costumes/props)
      Rollin Krewson(costumes/props)
    • [object Object]

      Live from Lincoln Center

      8.5 (312)
      John Leay
      Mark Schubin
      For the first stereo simulcast via satellite (ep. "André Previn/Van Cliburn").

    • First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington

      Werner Sherer(hairdresser)
    • [object Object]

      The Tiny Tree

      8.0 (88)
      Louie Schmitt(character designer)
      Sophie Quinn(character designer)
      Trudy Philion(character designer)

    Outstanding Individual Achievement in Daytime Programming

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Dinah!

      7.0 (329)
      René Lagler(art director)
      Richard Harvey(set decorator)
    • [object Object]

      The Hollywood Squares (Daytime)

      6.8 (1.1K)
      Paul Lynde

    • First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson

      Stas Pyka(graphic design and title sequence)

    • First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington

      Lee Baygan(make-up)
    • [object Object]

      The Merv Griffin Show

      6.6 (630)
      Dick Wilson(tape sound mixer)

    Outstanding Individual Achievement in Religious Programming

    • Winner

      A Determining Force

      Joseph Vadala(cinematographer)
    • [object Object]

      Directions

      Episode: 

      The Will to Be Free

      6.4 (26)
      Sharon Kaufman(film sound editor)

    • The Rex Humbard World Outreach Ministry

      Harvey Holocker(make-up artist)

    Outstanding Individual Director for a Daytime Drama Series

    • Winner
      • David Pressman
      • One Life to Live
      • Hugh McPhillips
      • The Doctors
      • Richard Dunlap
      • The Young and the Restless

    Outstanding Individual Director for a Daytime Special Program

    • Winner
      • Nick Havinga
      • First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson
      • John J. Desmond
      • First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington
      • Ira Cirker
      • First Ladies Diaries: Rachel Jackson

    Outstanding Individual Director for a Daytime Variety Program

    • Winner
      • Glen Swanson
      • Dinah!
      For episode "Dinah Salutes Tony Orlando and Dawn on Their Fifth Anniversary".
    • Don Roy King at an event for The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011)
      • Don Roy King
      • The Mike Douglas Show
      For episode with Fred Astaire and 'Gene Kelly'.

    Outstanding Individual Director for a Game or Audience Participation Show

    • Winner
      • Mike Gargiulo
      • The $10,000 Pyramid
      For episode on 18 February 1976.
      • Jerome Shaw
      • The Hollywood Squares (Daytime)

    Outstanding Informational Children's Series

    • Winner

      Go

      George A. Heinemann(executive producer)
      Rift Fournier(producer)
      J. Philip Miller(producer)
      Spliff Starr(producer)
      Joan Bender(producer)
    • [object Object]

      The Electric Company

      8.1 (2.5K)
      Andrew B. Ferguson Jr.
    • [object Object]

      Make a Wish

      8.9 (69)
      Lester Cooper(executive producer)
      Peter Weinberg(producer)

    Outstanding Informational Children's Special

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown

      6.9 (43)
      Lee Mendelson
      Warren Lockhart

    • What's It All About?

      Joel Heller(executive producer)
      Walter Lister(producer)
      For episode "What Are The Loch Ness And Other Monster's All About?"
    • [object Object]

      ABC Afterschool Specials

      Episode: 

      Winning and Losing: Diary of a Campaign

      7.1 (1.4K)
      Daniel Wilson

    Outstanding Writing for a Daytime Drama Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Days of Our Lives

      5.3 (7.9K)
      William J. Bell
      Kay Lenard
      Patricia Falken Smith
      Bill Rega
      Margaret Stewart
      Sheri Anderson Thomas
      Wanda Coleman
    • [object Object]

      All My Children

      6.8 (3.5K)
      Agnes Nixon
      Wisner Washam
      Kathryn McCabe
      Mary K. Wells
      Jack Wood
    • [object Object]

      The Young and the Restless

      5.3 (7.2K)
      William J. Bell
      Kay Alden
    • [object Object]

      The Edge of Night

      7.8 (508)
      Henry Slesar
    • [object Object]

      Guiding Light

      6.6 (2K)
      Bridget Dobson
      Jerome Dobson
      Jean Rouverol

    Outstanding Writing for a Daytime Special Program

    • Winner

      First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson

      Audrey Davis Levin

    • First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington

      Ethel Frank

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    Event date

    May 11, 1976

    Event location

    USA

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