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The following is a list of
George Foster Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions from the decade of the 1970s (1970–1979).
1970
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC News
Eye of the Storm
BBC Television
Civilisation
CBS
Award for the
Dr. Seuss animated programs, including
Horton Hears a Who! and
The Cat in the Hat
The Selling of The Pentagon
[1] (
Roger Mudd , correspondent)
CBS News
60 Minutes
NBC
The Flip Wilson Show
Hot Dog
NBC News
Migrant: An
NBC White Paper (presented by
Chet Huntley )
[2]
NBC Radio
The Danger Within: A Study of Disunity in America , a documentary narrated by
Bill Ryan with a discussion hosted by
Frank McGee
[3]
NBC Radio and
Douglas Kiker
Award for Kiker's reports from
Jordan
Voice of America and
Garry Moore
Personal Award for VOA's presentation of news and public affairs programming, in particular Moore's New York, New York
John E. Drewry
Personal Award to the of Dean of the
Henry W. Grady School of Journalism from 1940 to in 1969 for his role in the foundation and administration of the Peabody Awards
PBS
Evening at Pops
KCET-TV /Los Angeles, CA and
PBS
The Andersonville Trial
KMEX-TV /Los Angeles, CA
Peace... On Our Time: KMEX-TV and the Death of
Rubén Salazar , highlighting the work of station manager
Danny Villanueva
WAHT /Annville-Cleona (Lebanon), PA
Award for the series Medical Viewpoint and the documentary Pearl Harbor, Lest We Forget , highlighting the work of Fred Williams
WFBE /Flint, MI
Listening/4 , a series designed to teach listening skills to Flint area school students
WPBT-TV /Miami, FL
Polithon '70 , a statewide radio/TV broadcast featuring candidates for statewide public office
WWL-TV /New Orleans, LA
This New Frontier , a documentary profiling the nation of
Israel
1971
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC
Make a Wish
ABC and
William Blinn
Brian's Song
Mississippi State Educational Television Authority
Institutional Award for its efforts "to expand and modernize school curricula, to accelerate learning, and to equalize education in every classroom of the state."
NBC
This Child is Rated X , an
NBC White Paper documentary which examined "gross inequities" of juvenile facilities in the United States
Institutional Award for the network's dramatic programming, in particular
All the Way Home ,
Jane Eyre ,
The Price , and
The Snow Goose
NBC Radio
Second Sunday
John Rich
Personal Award for his work as Far East correspondent for
NBC News
George Heinemann
Personal Award for his work on "entertaining and constructive" children's programming for
NBC
Voice of America
Institutional Award for VOA's "Promotion of International Understanding"
WWVA /Wheeling, WV
Junior Town Meeting of the Air
WHA /Madison, WI
Wisconsin on the Move
Dr. Frank Stanton
Personal Award to the
CBS president for his protection of journalistic freedom in the face of political scrutiny
CBS
The American Revolution: 1770-1783, A Conversation with
Lord North ,
Eric Sevareid interviewed Lord North, played by
Peter Ustinov
WCCO /Minneapolis, MN
The Heart of the Matter ,
University of Minnesota Dean
E. W. Ziebarth 's recounting of his open-heart surgery
WQED-TV /Pittsburgh, PA
The Turned On Crisis , produced by
Rhea G. Sikes and Charlotte Woodside
United Nations Television
United Nations Day Concert with
Pablo Casals (parts
one and
two )
Arthur Godfrey
Personal Award for his "innovative programming... uniformly characterized by high quality, wholesome entertainment"
1972
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC
ABC Afterschool Specials (including
Last of the Curlews and
Santiago's Ark )
ABC Sports
Award for coverage of the
Games of the XX Olympiad
National Public Radio
All Things Considered
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
Breakdown , a radio series investigating "the critical deterioration of various systems that are an important part in the life of every American"
CBS
Captain Kangaroo
The Waltons
WWL-TV /New Orleans, LA
China '72: A Hole in the Bamboo Curtain
KOAC /Corvallis, OR
Conversations with Will Shakespeare and Certain of His Friends
Broadcasting Foundation of America
Institutional Award for its "promotion of international understanding" through distribution of various radio programs and specials
Voice of America
Institutional Award for its coverage of the 1972 U.S. political campaigns
WHRO-TV /Hampton-Norfolk, VA
Institutional Award for the station's educational programming
NBC
Award for the TV specials
Jack Lemmon in 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin ,
Liza with a Z , and The
Timex All-star Swing Festival
Pensions, The Broken Promise , an NBC Reports investigation that exposed failings in privately administered group pension systems
NBC Radio
Monitor
NBC and its
owned and operated stations
Award for the radio documentaries No Fault Insurance - Right or Wrong? and Second Sunday: A Seven-part Series on the Cities
NBC ,
BBC , and
Time-Life Films
The Search for the Nile
WNET /New York, NY and
BBC
The Restless Earth , a film on plate tectonics scripted by
Nigel Calder and narrated by
David S. Prowitt
KGW /Portland, OR
Open Door
Alistair Cooke
Personal Award for his work in
America: A Personal View by Alistair Cooke
Bill Monroe
Personal Award for Monroe's interview work at
NBC News
District of Columbia Schools Radio Project
The Noise Shows
WABC-TV /New York, NY
Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace , an investigative report examining successes and failures of care for residents with mental disabilities at
Willowbrook State School
[4]
1973
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC ,
CBS , and
NBC
Jointly awarded to the TV networks for their "outstanding contributions to entertainment through an exceptional year of televised drama":
ABC Theater :
The Glass Menagerie and
Pueblo , CBS Playhouse 90's
Catholics (ITV Sunday Night Theatre) and NBC's
The Red Pony
NBC
The Energy Crisis: An American
White Paper , reported by
Frank McGee
Institutional Award for
Hallmark Hall of Fame :
The Borrowers and
NBC Children's Theatre :
Street of the Flower Boxes
NBC Radio
Project 1 Experiment , for its Live in Concert presentations of
The Carpenters and
Helen Reddy
Second Sunday , for the reports "Communism in the 70s" and "A Right to Death"
ABC News
Close-Up , under the leadership of
Av Westin , citing in particular the episodes "Fire!" and "
West Virginia : Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Coal"
The First and Essential Freedom , narrated by
Frank Reynolds and
Sam Donaldson
WFMT /Chicago, IL
Award for the series Music in Chicago and its broadcasts from the
Lyric Opera of Chicago
WIND /Chicago, IL
From 18th Street: Destination Peking
WRC-TV /Washington, DC
Award for WRC's "Home Rule" editorial campaign, which promoted self-government in the
District of Columbia
KNXT /Los Angeles, CA
Institutional Award for the children's educational programs Learning Can Be Fun and
Dusty's Treehouse
KNOW /Austin, TX
Marijuana and the Law , a series of documentaries and editorials "to separate facts about
marijuana from fiction," produced by
Wendell Wise Mayes Jr.
WTIU /Bloomington, IN
Myshkin
WCAU-TV /Philadelphia, PA
Overture to Friendship: The
Philadelphia Orchestra in
China
Joe Garagiola
Personal Award for his work on
NBC 's
The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola
Lowell Thomas
Personal Award "in recognition of his incredible 43 years of continuous daily broadcasts on
CBS "
Pamela Ilott
Personal Award to the Director of Religious & Cultural Broadcasting at
CBS News for her work on
Lamp Unto My Feet and
Look Up and Live
Peter Lisagor
Personal Award to the
Chicago Daily News Washington Bureau chief for his analysis/commentary work on radio and TV
KANU /Lawrence, KS and the
University of Kansas
The American Past
1974
Recipient
Area of Excellence
WMAL /Washington, DC
Battles Just Begun , a look at problems facing returning
Vietnam War veterans
CBS
Benjamin Franklin
CBS Radio
CBS Radio Mystery Theatre
The Johnson Foundation
Conversations from
Wingspread
ABC
Free to Be... You and Me
Sadat : Action Biography , produced by
Av Westin and highlighting the interviews by
Peter Jennings
WCCO-TV /Minneapolis, MN
From
Belfast with Love , a documentary profiling the strife in
Northern Ireland
NBC
Go
Tornado! 4:40PM, Xenia, Ohio
Institutional Award for the network's presentations of
The Execution of Private Slovik ,
The Law , and IBM Presents
Clarence Darrow
NBC Radio
Second Sunday
KING-TV /Seattle, WA
How Come?
National Public Affairs Center for Television
Institutional Award for NPACT's "outstanding overall effort to bring meaningful public affairs programming to the nation"
WCKT-TV /Miami, FL
Institutional Award for "a superb series of investigative reports which brought considerable response and change"
WSB /Atlanta, GA
Institutional Award for Suffer the Little Children, Atlanta: A Portrait in Black and White, and
Henry Aaron : A Man with a Mission
WGBH-TV /Boston, MA
NOVA
Carl Stern
Separate Personal Awards to the legal correspondents (Stern with
NBC News , Graham with
CBS News )
Fred P. Graham
Julian Goodman
Personal Award to the CEO of
NBC "for his long years of dedicated service to the broadcasting industry"
Marilyn Baker
Personal Award to the
KQED-TV /San Francisco, CA reporter for her investigative work
WNBC /New York, NY
Pledge a Job , a 5-day campaign "to blunt the impact of an unemployment crisis" in the New York City area
KTW /Seattle, WA
The Hit and Run Players , a series of satirical comedy vignettes
KPRC-TV /Houston, TX
The Right Man , a documentary profiling Dr. Robert Hayes' efforts to save
Wiley College
WNET-TV /Washington, DC and
PBS
Theatre in America
KFAC /Los Angeles, CA
Through the Looking Glass , a youth and arts radio show hosted by Leonora
Schildkraut
1975
Recipient
Area of Excellence
WCBS /New York, NY
A Life to Share , an initiative aimed at educating parents in special areas of child development
WWL-TV /New Orleans, LA
Jim Metcalf , A Sunday Journal
ABC Television
ABC Afterschool Special
ABC Theater , for
Love Among the Ruins
Alphaventure
Big Blue Marble
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company , Inc. (Group W)
Call It Macaroni
KDKB /Mesa, AZ
Institutional Award for the station's "superior overall public service programming"
The Standard School Broadcast
Institutional Award for the school's "educational radio service to citizens of the Far West"
WCKT-TV /Miami, FL
Institutional Award for the station's "envious record of outstanding investigative reporting"
WCVB-TV /Boston, MA
Institutional Award for overall programming excellence
WGMS and
WGMS-FM /Bethesda, MD
Institutional Award for the stations' "overall efforts to provide outstanding radio entertainment," citing in particular The Collector's Shelf and 200 Years of Music in America
WMAL /Washington, DC
Institutional Award for radio documentary excellence, citing in particular Suffer the Little Children (profiles of sexually abused children) and The Legend of the
Bermuda Triangle
WTOP-TV /Washington, DC
Institutional Award "for overall public service effort," citing the Harambee episode "For My People" (review of minority hiring at the
Washington Post ) and the Everywoman episode "The Hidden World" (a medical look inside a woman's body)
WAPA-TV /San Juan, PR
Las Rosas Blancas
CBS
M*A*S*H
CBS News
Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington
The American Assassins , a profile of speculations into the
assassination of John F. Kennedy (
Dan Rather , correspondent)
Charles Kuralt
Personal Award to the
CBS News correspondent for On the Road to
'76
Dr. James R. Killian
Personal Award for Dr. Killian's 25 years of "unflagging, steadfast devotion" to public broadcasting
Jim Laurie
Personal Award to the
NBC News correspondent for his dedicated reporting on the
fall of Saigon
KMOX /St Louis, MO
"Sleeping Watchdogs," an investigation into government agencies broad consumer protection efforts
Kaiser Broadcasting
Snipets
Voice of America
"
The Battle of Lexington ," an episode of Two Hundred Years Ago Tonight
KABC-TV /Los Angeles, CA
"The Dale Car: A Dream or a Nightmare?" an investigation that revealed a confidence scheme involving the construction of the
Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation vehicle
WSOU-FM /South Orange, NJ
The Land of Poetry
NBC
Weekend
WFMT /Chicago, IL
Music in Chicago: Stravinsky '75
1976
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC
Animals, Animals, Animals
Eleanor and Franklin
ABC News
Suddenly an Eagle , a documentary about the lead-up to the Revolutionary War narrated by
Lee J. Cobb and
Kenneth Griffith
ABC Sports
Award for coverage of the
1976 Winter and
Summer Olympic Games
Jim Karayn and the
League of Women Voters
Award for organization of the
1976 presidential debates
CBS News
60 Minutes
In Celebration of US , the network's coverage of
Bicentennial events across the
United States on
July 4th
In the News
WETA-TV /Washington, DC
In Performance at
Wolf Trap
WETA-TV /Washington, DC,
WNET /New York, NY, and
Bill Moyers
"A Conversation with
Jimmy Carter ," an episode of U.S.A.: People and Politics
WNET /New York, NY
The Adams Chronicles
KERA-TV /Dallas, TX
A Thirst in the Garden , a documentary examining lack of potable water in the lower
Rio Grande Valley
South Carolina Educational Radio Network
American Popular Song with Alec Wilder and Friends (with
Alec Wilder )
WGIR AM &
FM /Manchester, NH
Flashback 1976
Tomorrow Entertainment, Inc.
Judge Horton and the
Scottsboro Boys (aired on NBC
[5] )
Charles Barthold
Personal Award to the
WHO-TV /Des Moines, IA cameraman for filming a tornado striking
Jordan, Iowa
Perry Como
Personal Award for the
NBC special Perry Como's Christmas in
Austria
Sy Pearlman
Personal Award to the
NBC News producer for "The Sawyer Brothers," a segment of
Weekend that raised suspicion of the guilt and conviction of two brothers in a
North Carolina kidnapping
Bruce Morton and
Hughes Rudd
Joint Personal Awards to the anchors of
CBS Morning News
WLBT-TV /Jackson, MS
"Power Politics in
Mississippi ," an episode of PROBE that examined legal ethics and conflicts of interest
WBBM-TV /Chicago, IL and
Franklin McMahon
Primary Colors, An Artist on the Campaign Trail , which followed the WBBM reporter/artist creating works depicting the
presidential campaigns
NBC
Sybil
Associated Press Radio
The Garden Plot: Food as a Weapon
KCET /Los Angeles, CA
Visions
1977
Recipient
Area of Excellence
WNET /New York, NY
A Good Dissonance Like a Man , a documentary on
Charles Ives directed by Theodore Timreck
The Police Tapes
WNET /New York, NY and
WETA-TV /Washington, DC
MacNeil/Lehrer Report
WNBC-TV /New York, NY
Buyline:
Betty Furness
Award for NewsCenter 4's "F.I.N.D." investigative segments
WCBS-TV /New York, NY
Camera Three
WHLN /Harlan, KY
Coverage of a flood that hit the
Harlan area in April 1977
National Public Radio
Crossroads:
Sea Island Sketches , produced by Robert Montiegel
WHA /Madison, WI
Earplay
ABC and
Lorimar Productions
ABC Theater , for
Green Eyes
ABC and
David Wolper
Roots
Multimedia Program Productions
"Joshua's Confusion," an episode of Young People's Specials
Metropolitan Opera Association
Live from the Met
Norman Lear
Personal Award for
All in the Family
Paul Hume
Personal Award to the
WGMS /Rockville, MD personality for A Variable Feast
Steve Allen
Personal Award to the creator/host of the
KCET (Los Angeles, CA)/
PBS series
Meeting of Minds
KABC-TV /Los Angeles, CA
Award for reports into accountability by police in incidents involving civilian shootings
KPFA-FM /Berkeley, CA
Science Story , produced by
Laurie Garrett and
Adi Gevins
NBC
Tut : The Boy King , narrated by
Orson Welles
NBC ,
Arthur Rankin , and
Jules Bass
The Hobbit
[6]
WPIX-TV /New York, NY
The Lifer's Group, I Am My Brother's Keeper , a documentary about prisoners at
Rahway State Prison produced by
Richard N. Hughes
MTM Enterprises
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
KSJN /St Paul, MN
The Prairie was Quiet
WBTV /Charlotte, NC
The Rowe String Quartet Plays on Your Imagination
London Weekend Television
Upstairs, Downstairs
KCMO-TV /Kansas City, MO
"Where Have All the Flood Cars Gone?" which traced the re-selling of flood-damaged automobiles
WXYZ /Detroit, MI
Winter's Fear , a documentary examining a series of child abductions and murders by the
Oakland County Child Killer
1978
Recipient
Area of Excellence
Tomorrow Entertainment/Medcom Company and
CBS
The Body Human : The Vital Connection
CBS and
MTM Productions
Lou Grant
CBS News
30 Minutes
"The Battle for
South Africa ," an episode of
CBS Reports reported by
Bill Moyers
CBS Radio News
CBS World News Roundup
WQED-TV /Pittsburgh, PA
Award for the
Once Upon a Classic adaptation of
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Baptist Radio and TV Commission
A River to the Sea , a documentary on the English language narrated by
Alexander Scourby and aired on
CBS '
Look Up and Live
WENH-TV /Durham, NH
Arts in New Hampshire
Four D Productions /Trisene Corporation and
ABC
Barney Miller
Newsweek Broadcasting
Cartoon-A-Torial , animated editorial cartoons
[7]
The National Radio Theatre of Chicago
Chicago Radio Theatre
KHET-TV /Honolulu, HI
Damien , a documentary profiling the life of Jozef De Veuster ("
Father Damien ") and his caring of patients at a leper colony on
Molokai ,
Hawaii
National Public Radio
Dialogues on a Tightrope: An Italian Mosaic , a documentary by Josh Darsa examining
Italy 's political turmoil
Titus Productions, Inc. and
NBC
Holocaust
Survival Anglia Ltd. /
World Wildlife Fund and
NBC
Mysterious Castles of Clay
NBC Radio Network
Second Sunday
Jewish Theological Seminary and
NBC Radio Network
The Eternal Light
WMUK /Kalamazoo, MI
Award for the station's presentation of live-performance radio dramas
KGO-TV /San Francisco, CA
Old Age: Do Not Go Gentle , a documentary examining treatment of the elderly
KQED-TV /San Francisco, CA
Over Easy , a program on aging hosted by
Hugh Downs
Bob Keeshan
Personal Award for Keeshan's work on
Captain Kangaroo and his promoting of "quality children's programs on American television"
Richard S. Salant
Personal Award for Salant's leadership at
CBS News and "his staunch defense of the First Amendment guarantee of a free press"
WDVM-TV /Washington, DC
Race War in Rhodesia , a documentary with
Carl Rowan that examined political tensions in
Rhodesia and Central Africa
Your Health and Your Wallet , a mini-series examining the rising costs of medical treatments
WABE /Atlanta, GA
The Eyewitness Who Wasn't , a documentary examining how evidence against the
Marietta Seven was manufactured
WOCB /West Yarmouth, MA
The Last Voyage of the 'Cap'n Bill' , which captured conversations with fishermen and townspeople affected by a fishing vessel's final voyage
Henson Associates
The Muppet Show
WAVE-TV /Louisville, KY
Whose Child is This? an examination by Alfred Shands of the effects of child abuse
1979
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC
ABC Afterschool Special , for the episode "A Special Gift"
Friendly Fire
Valentine , a television movie starring
Jack Albertson and
Mary Martin and directed by
Lee Philips about a love story in a retirement home
[8]
CBS News
CBS News Sunday Morning
CBS Reports for
The Boston Goes to China , reported by
Ed Bradley
[9]
Roger Mudd (
CBS News )
Personal Award for Mudd's
CBS Reports interview with
Edward Kennedy
CBS Entertainment ,
The Konigsberg Company , and
Warner Bros. Television
Dummy
WCBS /New York, NY
"Follow That Cab: The Great Taxi Rip-off," an investigation into fraudulent overcharges by New York City taxi and limousine services
WGBH-FM /Boston, MA
Currier Bell, Esquire , a presentation of
Masterpiece Radio Theatre
WGBH-TV /Boston, MA
World , executive produced by
David Fanning
KNXT /Los Angeles, CA
Down at the Dunbar , a documentary produced by
Vin Di Bona which examined the entertainment legacy of the
Dunbar Hotel
[10]
Children's Radio Theatre
Henny Penny Playwrighting Contest , a contest for children playwrights
WTTW /Chicago, IL
Miles To Go Before We Sleep , a documentary on aging and retirement produced by Ken Voss and Chuck Collins
WTTW /Chicago, IL and
PBS
Little Rock Central High School , an episode of As We See It directed by Chris Pechin about the
Little Rock Crisis
[11]
Robert Trout (
ABC News )
Personal Award in recognition of Trout's near-half-century of work in news and commentary
Sylvia Fine Kaye
Personal Award to the producer/hostess of
Musical Comedy Tonight , which aired as part of
Great Performances
KRON-TV /San Francisco, CA
Politics of Poison , a documentary produced by John D. Rabinovitch and narrated by
Michael Learned examining the effects of herbicide spraying in Northern California
WMAQ-TV /Chicago, IL
"Strip and Search," an investigation into routine strip searches of female suspects by the
Chicago Police Department
KTVI /St. Louis, MO
"The Adventures of Whistling Sam," an animated editorial cartoon airing on Extra
KOOL-TV /Phoenix, AZ
The Long Eyes of
Kitt Peak , a documentary on the
Kitt Peak National Observatory directed by Bill Miller and narrated by Mary Jo West
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
"The Longest Journey," an episode of Open Circuit about pregnancy produced by Eithne Black and written by Elizabeth Grove-White
[12]
KSJN /Minneapolis, MN
The Way to 8-A , which explored legal abuses in the mental health commitment process at
Hennepin County General Hospital
NBC and Aubrey/Hamner Productions
When Hell Was in Session
NBC and
BBC
Treasures of the British Crown a program by
Huw Wheldon about the
Royal Collection
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