29th Primetime Emmy Awards

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.

Outstanding Comedy Series

• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • All in the Family
  • Barney Miller
  • The Bob Newhart Show
  • M*A*S*H

Outstanding Drama Series

• Upstairs, Downstairs
  • Baretta
  • Columbo
  • Family
  • Police Story

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

• Carroll O'Connor for playing "Archie Bunker" on All in the Family
  • Alan Alda for playing "Capt. Benjamin Franklin Pierce" on M*A*S*H
  • Jack Albertson for playing "Ed Brown" on Chico and the Man
  • Hal Linden for playing "Capt. Barney Miller" on Barney Miller
  • Henry Winkler for playing "Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli" in Happy Days

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

• James Garner for playing "Jim Rockford" on The Rockford Files
  • Robert Blake for playing "Tony Baretta" on Baretta
  • Peter Falk for playing "Columbo" in Columbo
  • Jack Klugman for playing "Dr. R. Quincy" on Quincy, M.E.
  • Karl Malden for playing "Mike Stone" on The Streets of San Francisco

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

• Bea Arthur for playing "Maude Findlay" on Maude
  • Valerie Harper for playing "Rhoda Morgenstern" on Rhoda
  • Mary Tyler Moore for plaing "Mary Richards" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • Suzanne Pleshette for playing "Emily Hartley" on The Bob Newhart Show
  • Jean Stapleton for playing "Edith Bunker" on All in the Family

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

• Lindsay Wagner for playing "Jaime Sommers" on The Bionic Woman
  • Angie Dickinson for playing "Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson" in Police Woman
  • Kate Jackson for playing "Sabrina Duncan" in Charlie's Angels
  • Michael Learned for playing "Olivia Walton" on The Waltons
  • Sada Thompson for playing "Kate Lawrence" in Family

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

• Gary Burghoff for playing "Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly" on M*A*S*H
  • Edward Asner for playing "Lou Grant" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • Ted Knight for playing "Ted Baxter" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • Harry Morgan for playing "Colonel Sherman T. Potter" on M*A*S*H
  • Abe Vigoda for playing "Phil Fish" on Barney Miller

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

• Gary Frank for playing "Willie Lawrence" in Family
  • Noah Beery, Jr for playing "Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford" in The Rockford Files
  • David Doyle for playing "John Bosley" on Charlie's Angels
  • Tom Ewell for playing "Billy Truman" on Baretta
  • Will Geer for playing "Grandfather" on The Waltons

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Mary Kay Place for playing "Loretta Haggers" on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
  • Georgia Engel for playing "Georgette Franklin Baxter" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • Julie Kavner for playing "Brenda Morgenstern" on Rhoda
  • Loretta Swit for playing "Margaret Houlihan" on M*A*S*H
  • Betty White for playing "Sue Ann Nivens" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

• Kristy McNichol for playing "Letitia Lawrence" in Family
  • Meredith Baxter for playing "Nancy Lawrence Maitland" in Family
  • Ellen Corby for playing "Esther Walton" on The Waltons
  • Lee Meriwether for playing "Betty Jones" on Barnaby Jones
  • Jacqueline Tong for playing "Daisy" in Upstairs, Downstairs

Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music

• Rita Moreno for playing "Herself" in The Muppet Show
  • Vicki Lawrence in The Carol Burnett Show
  • Gilda Radner for playing "Herself" in Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series

• Roots
  • The Adams Chronicles

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series

• Roots
  • The Adams Chronicles

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • Barney Miller
  • M*A*S*H

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series

• M*A*S*H
  • All in the Family
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show

External links

• IMDB