19th PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS

June 4, 1967

“The 19th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards” were held at the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, and broadcast on ABC, on June 4, 1967. The ceremony was hosted by Joey Bishop and Hugh Downs. 

The nominees and winners, as they relate to Lucille Ball and Desilu Studios, were:

Outstanding Comedy Series 

The winner was “The Monkees”on NBC. 

Other nominees included the “The Andy Griffith Show” (filmed at Desilu), “Bewitched”, “Get Smart” and “Hogan’s Heroes”.  “The Lucy Show”, which had just completed its fifth season, was not nominated. A year earlier, “The Lucy Show” featured “Hogan’s Heroes” star Bob Crane and John Banner (above), who did a cameo as a Sergeant Schultz-type character uttering his famous line “I know nothing!” 

Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series

The winner was Lucille Ball as Lucy Carmichael on “The Lucy Show.”  

This was Ball’s third acting Emmy, having also won for “I Love Lucy” in 1953 and 1955. She will win again for “The Lucy Show” in 1968, her last competitive acting Emmy. 

Ball sat at a table with Gale Gordon and her husband Gary Morton. Clips of the their work are shown as the nominees names are read and Lucy’s brief clip is from “Lucy and the Rina-A-Ding Ring” (TLS S5;E5) with Gale Gordon. As her name was announced by Carl Reiner (co-presenting with Barbara Eden), Ball was stunned, saying “I don’t believe it.”  The orchestra played the theme from “The Lucy Show.” 

At the podium, she became visibly moved during her acceptance speech. While she mixes up her wins from the 1950s — thinking that her second Emmy came “because I had a baby” when that had been her first — she was clearly grateful for this honor from her peers. 

Ball’s 1967 competition included Elizabeth Montgomery and Agnes Moorhead for “Bewitched” and Marlo Thomas for “That Girl”.  Montgomery was then married to William Asher, who had directed Ball on “I Love Lucy.” Thomas’s father was Danny Thomas, Ball’s friend and collaborator on numerous projects. 

Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in a Comedy Series

The winner was Frances Bavier a Aunt Bee on the Desilu-filmed “The Andy Griffith Show.”  

Nancy Kulp, who was seen on “I Love Lucy” and “The Lucy Show”, was nominated for “The Beverly Hillbillies”. 

Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series

The winner was Don Adams as Maxwell Smart on “Get Smart”. 

Nominee Bob Crane of “Hogan’s Heroes” guest-starred as himself on “The Lucy Show” in 1966. The episode depicted Lucy and Crane making a war film, not unlike the setting of “Hogan’s Heroes.” 

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

The winner was Don Knotts as Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show,” his fifth Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Comedy, a record that still stands. 

In 1973, Knotts guest starred on “Here’s Lucy,” as a cousin of Lucy’s boss and brother-in-law, Harry, played by Gale Gordon. Coincidentally, Gale Gordon was also nominated in this category for playing Mr. Mooney in “The Lucy Show.” Gordon was previously nominated in 1955 for “Our Miss Brooks”. He would be nominated two more times, the last time for “Here’s Lucy,” but never won. 

Outstanding Drama Series

“Mission: Impossible” was the winner. 

"Mission: Impossible’s” first season was filmed at Desilu and “Here’s Lucy” did a satire of the show titled “Lucy’s Impossible Mission” (HL S1;E6). The series also won for best Dramatic Writing. 

Other nominees included Desilu’s “Star Trek”.

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

The winner was Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter on Desilu’s “Mission: Impossible.” 

Bain was the first actress in the history of television to be awarded three consecutive Emmy Awards – 1967, 1968, and 1969 – all for the same role.

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

The winner was Bill Cosby as Alexander Scott on “I Spy”. 

Martin Landau was nominated for Desilu’s “Mission: Impossible.” David Janssen was nominated for “The Fugitive,” a series alluded to when Lucy Carmichael is pursued by a one-armed fugitive on a 1966 episode of “The Lucy Show.” 

Outstanding Variety Series

The winner was “The Andy Williams Show”. 

Nominees included “The Dean Martin Show” which Lucille Ball appeared on three times and “The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson” on which Lucy also appeared several times. 

Outstanding Musical Program

The winner was “Brigadoon” a television adaptation of the 1948 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe. It starred Robert Goulet, who had just appeared on Broadway in Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot. Goulet played himself (and two doppelgangers) on an October 1966 episode of “The Lucy Show.” 

Outstanding Variety Show

The winner was “The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special” on CBS. In 1968, Sid Caesar guest starred as himself and his criminal doppelganger on “The Lucy Show.”

Outstanding Children’s Show

The winner was “Jack and The Beanstalk,” a Hanna-Barbera adaptation featuring the voice of Janet Waldo, who played Peggy on “I Love Lucy” and Lucy’s sister on “The Lucy Show.” 

Achievement in Daytime Programming

The winner was “The Mike Douglas Show.” Lucille Ball made a dozen appearances on the talk show, including co-hosting for a week in 1978. 

Outstanding Dramatic Program

The winner was “Death of a Salesman”, a television adaptation of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Arthur Miller. The title was alluded to in a 1953 episode of “I Love Lucy.” 

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy

The winner was James Frawley for ”The Monkees”.  

Maury Thompson was nominated for “The Lucy Show.” Thompson had directed 49 episodes of the series from 1965 to 1967. This was his only nomination. 

In 1967, Emmy winner Lucille Ball had succeeded in making Desilu profitable again. Less than two months after the ceremony, she sold her shares of Desilu to Paramount Studios who renamed it Paramount Television. Lucille Ball formed Lucille Ball Productions (LBP) to produce “Here’s Lucy” while renting studio space from Paramount. 

The dress that Lucille Ball wore to the Emmy Awards in 1967 later came up for auction. The custom made, pastel blue, green and pink abstract floral, floor-length gown was ornamented with strings of silver sequins overall. The gown came with a matching clutch.