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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