One of the most popular portions of each year's Primetime Emmy Awards telecast is the In Memoriam segment, a moving video salute to notable television figures who passed away since the previous year's ceremonies.
Unfortunately, due to inevitable time limitations, the producers of the telecast are not able to include all of the worthy television professionals who have passed away from year to year.
Therefore, in an effort to pay tribute to as many people as possible, the Television Academy created an In Memoriam database on its website, Emmys.tv.
Established in 2006, this database includes the name, date of passing, profession and key credits of the men and women who were included in the telecast, as well as many others who were not. The database also features an obituary and a place for family, friends and fans to share their thoughts and feelings about the deceased.
As an expression of gratitude to the television community as a whole, the Television Academy hopes that this database will provide a venue for the acknowledgment of all television professionals.
Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine, Route 66, The Wild, Wild West, Here Come the Brides, Maude, Sanford and Son, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Streets of San Francisco, The Rookies, Kojak, M*A*S*H, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Barney Miller, Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, Cagney & Lacey, Seinfeld, Just Shoot Me
Black Saddle, Maverick, Perry Mason, The Roaring ’20s, Sugarfoot, Hawaiian Eye, Surfside 6, 77 Sunset Strip, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Big Valley, Mission: Impossible, Vega$, The Six Million Dollar Man, S.W.A.T., Fantasy Island
Treasury Men in Action, The United States Steel Hour, Danger, Playhouse 90, Kraft Theatre, Arrest and Trial, Run for Your Life, An Early Frost, Hysterical Blindness
I Married Joan, Our Miss Brooks, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, The Twilight Zone, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gomer Pyle, USMC, That Girl, All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Barney Miller, Newhart, Benson, MacGyver
The Defenders, Route 66, 77 Sunset Strip, Ben Casey, The FBI, The Fugitive, Death of a Salesman, Marcus Welby, MD, Love, American Style, Police Story, The Bold Ones: The Lawyers, Blue Thunder, The Family RIco, Evita Perón, Dynasty, Melrose Place, ER
