Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) and her crew of #gladiators return tonight as Scandal launches its last season. The Shonda Rhimes series was honored with a Peabody Award in 2013.
David Manson Accepting the 1997 Peabody Award for “Nothing Sacred”
Created by Father Bill Cain, a Jesuit priest and playwright, and David Manson, with Richard Kramer as executive producer, and Cyrus Yavneh as producer, Nothing Sacred featured talented actor Kevin Anderson as Father Ray, a young Catholic priest struggling to retain the flicker of God in an urban community facing moral, spiritual and economic decay. In its all-too-brief run on network television, the program was fiercely unafraid to interweave into parish life such contemporary issues as abortion, HIV, class struggles, and racism.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/nothing-sacred
Communism, U.S. Brand | Peabody Award Winner 1948
The Award for the outstanding educational program goes to Robert M. Saudek, Vice-President in charge of public affairs of ABC, in appreciation of his documentary program, Communism, U.S. Brand. This was first broadcast on August 2, 1948, and was repeated six days later in response to the immediate popular demand. Dramatic in form, it explained without exaggeration what Communism is and how it infiltrates and operates within our country. The action throughout was commented on by an interpolated voice which always introduced himself as a footnote—an original and effective device. In substance and performance, this program raised the documentary to a new high level.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/communism-u.s.-brand
Personal Award: Quincy Howe | Peabody Award Winner 1955
The distinguished historian, journalist and commentator Quincy Howe has long been a great asset to broadcasting. His five-times-a-week commentaries on the ABC Radio Network are objective and penetrating analyses of the important issues of our times. His new documentary television series entitled Outside U.S.A. is an outstanding contribution to the understanding of the significant events and developments around the world. The variety and effectiveness of its presentation have made this program a most significant contribution of television to the promotion of international understanding.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/personal-award-quincy-howe
Theatre Guild on the Air | Peabody Award Winner 1947
This year, our award in drama goes unhesitatingly to Theater Guild on the Air, American Broadcasting Company, which has done what every great company always dreamed of doing: It has brought the best of the Theatre, the finest plays of our time, right into every village and hamlet, right into every home. By the end of this season, more than one hundred plays will have been produced for an ever-increasing audience.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/theatre-guild-on-the-air
A Visit to Washington with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, On Behalf of a More Beautiful America | Peabody Award Winner 1965
The participation of the First Lady of the Land in itself gave distinction to ABC’s A Visit To Washington With Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, On Behalf of a More Beautiful America. As Jack Gould wrote in The New York Times, “Mrs. Johnson’s collaboration may well give the cause of national beautification its most important advance.” Already new projects looking to “a more beautiful America” have sprung up across the country, fulfilling the hope expressed by critic John Horn in the New York Herald-Tribune that this program would “sting individual conscience to local beautification action throughout the land.”
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/a-visit-to-washington-with-mrs.-lyndon-b.-johnson-on-behalf-of-a-more-beaut
A Special Gift | 1979 Peabody Award Winner
A boy with two exciting talents—basketball and ballet—gives the American television viewer a real treat in the ABC Afterschool Specials presentation A Special Gift. Martin Tahse Productions took a story in which a personable young boy faced the first great dilemma of his life and brought it to life in such a way that no viewer was spared the agony of helping him make the choice.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/a-special-gift-an-abc-afterschool-special
Chris Montan Accepting the 1999 Peabody Award for “Annie”
Musicals may be plentiful on Broadway but they’re in short supply on network television. Bravo then to ABC’s show-stopping presentation of Annie, which aired in the fall of 1999 as part of the Wonderful World of Disney series. In homage to the original Broadway production, original Annie Andrea McArdle plays the “Star-to-Be” in the big “NYC” production number. Executive produced by Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Chris Montan and directed by Rob Marshall, Annie brightly reprises ten tunes from the original, which debuted on Broadway in 1977. Exceptional ratings for Annie, which finished second in the weekly program rankings, proved there indeed is a “tomorrow’ for musicals on network television.
Read full winner’s citation here:http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/annie
The Wide World of Sports | Peabody Award Winner 1966
More than a mere chronicling of athletic contests around the globe, ABC’s The Wide World of Sports, in concept and philosophy, has achieved a closer relationship of countries as well as competitors. Under producer Roone Arledge’s helm, this has been accomplished in an indefinable but nonetheless measurable way that does broadcasting credit.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-wide-world-of-sports
Friendly Fire | Peabody Award Winner 1979
Television covered Vietnam more extensively than any war in history. Only recently has that conflict received serious dramatic treatment. An ABC Theatre presentation, Friendly Fire showed the effect of that war on one Iowa farm family. This true story recounts the efforts of the Mullens family as the search to find out how their son was killed by “friendly fire”—that is, his own side. Starring Carol Burnett and Ned Beatty, the program depicts their growing bitterness over military indifference. The result was a powerful and compassionate case study of how they came to support anti-war cause in the process.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/friendly-fire
Amber Waves | Peabody Award Winner 1980
Amber Waves tugs at the heart strings as two men from widely different cultural backgrounds discover a new faith in their country, their values, and themselves.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/amber-waves
ABC Afterschool Special | Peabody Award Winner 1972
Programs ranged from animated excursions into the field of ecology to live-action drama to in-depth sociological studies. Each “Special” was indeed just that. It brought fresh insight and knowledge to a group which has already had considerable television exposure and it did it with clarity and excellence.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/abc-afterschool-specials
#VeteransDay flashback: @BobWoodruff of @Stand4Heroes accepts award for Wounds of War: The Long Road Home for Our Nation's Veterans #ABC #TBI #veteransupport #veterans #usmilitary
Peter Jennings with the 1999 Award for "ABC 2000" #tbt #throwbackthursday #peterjennings #abc #2000 #1999