The Television Academy Hall of Fame was founded by a former president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the late John H. Mitchell, to honor individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to television.

List of Television Hall of Fame inductees

1st induction

• Lucille Ball
• Milton Berle
• Paddy Chayefsky
• Norman Lear
• Edward R. Murrow
• William S. Paley
• David Sarnoff

2nd induction

• Carol Burnett
• Sid Caesar
• Walter Cronkite
• Joyce C. Hall
• Rod Serling
• Ed Sullivan
• Pat Weaver

3rd induction

• Steve Allen
• Fred Coe
• Walt Disney
• Jackie Gleason
• Mary Tyler Moore
• Frank Stanton
• Burr Tillstrom

4th induction

• Johnny Carson
• Jacques Cousteau
• Leonard Goldenson
• Jim Henson
• Bob Hope
• Ernie Kovacs
• Eric Sevareid

5th induction

• Jack Benny
• George Burns & Gracie Allen
• Chet Huntley & David Brinkley
• Red Skelton
• David Susskind
• David L. Wolper

6th induction

• Roone Arledge
• Fred Astaire
• Perry Como
• Joan Ganz Cooney
• Don Hewitt
• Carroll O'Connor
• Barbara Walters

7th induction

• Leonard Bernstein
• Desi Arnaz
• James Garner
• I Love Lucy
• Danny Thomas
• Mike Wallace

8th induction

• Bill Cosby
• Andy Griffith
• Ted Koppel
• Sheldon Leonard
• Dinah Shore
• Ted Turner

9th induction

• John Chancellor
• Dick Clark
• Phil Donahue
• Mark Goodson
• Bob Newhart
• Agnes Nixon
• Jack Webb

10th induction

• Alan Alda
• Howard Cosell
• Barry Diller
• Fred W. Friendly
• William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
• Oprah Winfrey

11th induction

• Michael Landon
• Richard Levinson and William Link
• Jim McKay
• Bill Moyers
• Dick Van Dyke
• Betty White

12th induction

• Edward Asner
• Steven Bochco
• Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner
• Charles Kuralt
• Angela Lansbury
• Aaron Spelling
• Lew Wasserman

13th induction

• James L. Brooks
• Garry Marshall
• Quinn Martin
• Diane Sawyer
• Grant Tinker

14th induction

• Herbert Brodkin
• Robert MacNeil & Jim Lehrer
• Lorne Michaels
• Carl Reiner
• Fred Rogers
• Fred Silverman
• Ethel Winant

15th induction

• Tim Conway & Harvey Korman
• John Frankenheimer
• Bob Mackie
• Jean Stapleton
• Bud Yorkin

16th induction

• Bob Barker
• Art Carney
• Katie Couric
• Dan Rather
• Brandon Tartikoff
• Charles Cappleman

17th induction

• Tom Brokaw
• James Burrows
• Leonard Goldberg
• Regis Philbin
• William Shatner

18th induction

• Beatrice Arthur
• Dan Burke
• Larry Gelbart
• Merv Griffin
• Thomas Murphy, Capital Cities/ABC former chairman/CEO
• Sherwood Schwartz

19th induction

• Candice Bergen
• Charles Lisanby
• Don Pardo
• Bob Stewart
• Gene Roddenberry

20th induction

• Diahann Carroll
• Tom Freston
• Earle Hagen
• Susan Harris
• Peter Jennings
• Cloris Leachman
• Bill Todman

21st induction

• Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray
• Michael Eisner
• Sherman Hemsley
• Bill Klages, lighting designer
• Mario Kreutzberger
• Chuck Lorre
• Vivian Vance and William Frawley

External links

• Wikipedia.org - Television Hall of Fame