7th Primetime Emmy Awards

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The 7th Emmy Awards, later referred to as the 7th Primetime Emmy Awards, were held on March 7, 1955 to honor the best in television of the year. The ceremony was held at the "Moulin Rouge Nightclub" in Hollywood, California. The ceremony, hosted by Steve Allen and broadcast on NBC, was the first Emmy Awards ceremony to be televised nationally. All nominations are listed, with winners in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.

Awards, Winners, & Nominations

Best Situation Comedy

• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (CBS)
• I Love Lucy (CBS)
• Make Room for Daddy (ABC)
• Mister Peepers (NBC)
• Our Miss Brooks (CBS)
• Private Secretary (CBS)

Best Dramatic Program

• Four Star Playhouse (CBS)
• Medic (NBC)
• The Philco Television Playhouse (NBC)
• Studio One (CBS)
• The United States Steel Hour (ABC)

Best Mystery, Action, or Adventure Program

• Dragnet (NBC)
• Foreign Intrigue (NBC)
• I Led Three Lives (NBC)
• Racket Squad (CBS)
• Waterfront (Syndicated)

Best Variety Program

• Disneyland (ABC)
• The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS)
• The George Gobel Show (NBC)
• The Jack Benny Program (CBS)
• The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS)
• Your Show of Shows (NBC)

Best Audience Participation, Quiz or Panel Program

• Masquerade Party (ABC)
• People Are Funny (NBC)
• This Is Your Life (NBC)
• What's My Line? (CBS)
• You Bet Your Life (CBS)

Best Individual Program of the Year

• Disneyland (ABC)
• Light's Diamond Jubilee (Syndicated)
• Medic (NBC)
• Shower of Stars (CBS)
• Studio One (CBS)

Best Sports Program

• Cavalcade of Sports (NBC)

Best News Reporter or Commentator

• John Daly
• Douglas Edwards
• Eric Sevareid
• John Cameron Swayze
• Clete Roberts

Best Western or Adventure Series

• The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (CBS)
• Annie Oakley (Syndicated)
• Death Valley Days (CBS)
• The Roy Rogers Show (NBC)
• Stories of the Century (Syndicated)

Best Daytime Program

• The Betty White Show (NBC)
• The Bob Crosby Show (CBS)
• The Garry Moore Show (CBS)
• House Party (CBS)
• The Robert Q. Lewis Show (CBS)

Best Actor Starring in a Regular Series

• Richard Boone for Medic
• Robert Cummings for My Hero
• Jackie Gleason for The Jackie Gleason Show
• Danny Thomas for Make Room for Daddy
• Jack Webb for Dragnet

Best Actress Starring in a Regular Series

• Gracie Allen for The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
• Eve Arden for Our Miss Brooks
• Lucille Ball for I Love Lucy
• Ann Sothern for Private Secretary
• Loretta Young for Letter to Loretta

Best Supporting Actor in a Regular Series

• Ben Alexander for Dragnet
• Art Carney for The Jackie Gleason Show
• Don DeFore for The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
• William Frawley for I Love Lucy
• Gale Gordon for Our Miss Brooks

Best Supporting Actress in a Regular Series

• Bea Benaderet for The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
• Jean Hagen for Make Room for Daddy
• Marion Lorne for Mister Peepers
• Audrey Meadows for The Jackie Gleason Show
• Vivian Vance for I Love Lucy

Best Actor in a Single Performance

• Robert Cummings for Studio One
• Frank Lovejoy for Lux Video Theatre
• Thomas Mitchell for The Ford Television Theatre
• Fredric March for The Best of Broadway
• Fredric March for Shower of Stars
• David Niven for 'Four Star Playhouse

Best Actress in a Single Performance

• Judith Anderson for Hallmark Hall of Fame
• Ethel Barrymore for Climax!
• Beverly Garland for Medic
• Ruth Hussey for Lux Video Theatre
• Dorothy McGuire for Climax!
• Eva Marie Saint for The Philco Television Playhouse
• Claire Trevor for Lux Video Theatre

Best Female Singer

• Jane Froman
• Peggy King
• Gisele MacKenzie
• Dinah Shore
• Jo Stafford

Best Male Singer

• Perry Como
• Eddie Fisher
• Frankie Laine
• Tony Martin
• Gordon MacRae

Most Outstanding New Personality

• Richard Boone
• Walt Disney
• Tennessee Ernie Ford
• Preston Foster
• George Gobel
• Fess Parker
• Michael O'Shea

Best Children's Program

• Ding Dong School (NBC)
• Kukla, Fran and Ollie (ABC)
• Lassie (CBS)
• Time for Beany (Paramount Television Network)
• Zoo Parade (NBC)