Television Most Popular Shows Laugh-in Gomer Pyle Bonanza Mayberry, RFD Gunsmoke Julia Dick Van Dyke Show Dean Martin Show Here's Lucy Beverly Hillbillies Mission: Impossible Bewitched Red Skelton Hour My Three Sons Glen Cambell Good Time Hour Ironside Virginian The FBI Green Acres Dragnet Daniel Boone Walt Disney Ed Sullivan Carol Burnett Show Jackie Gleason Show Also the debut season for Adam-12, The Mod Squad, 60 Minutes, and The Doris Day Show. The Lucy Show becomes Here's Lucy. The Smothers Brothers are canned by CBS and it is the last year for Star Trek and Batman. 1968 Emmy Awards Outstanding Dramatic Series ~ Mission: Impossible Outstanding Leading Actor ~ Bill Cosby, I Spy Outstanding Leading Actress ~ Barbara Bain, Mission: Impossible Outstanding Supporting Actor ~ Milburn Stone, Gunsmoke Outstanding Supporting Actress ~ Barbara Anderson, Ironside Outstanding Comedy Series ~ Get Smart! Outstanding Leading Actor ~ Don Adams, Get Smart! Outstanding Leading Actress ~ Lucille Ball, The Lucy Show Outstanding Supporting Actor ~ Werner Klemperer, Hogan's Heroes Outstanding Supporting Actress ~ Marion Lorne, Bewitched Movies Academy Awards (Oscars) (winner in italics) Best Picture Funny Girl The Lion in Winter Oliver! Rachel, Rachel Romeo and Juliet Best Actor Alan Arkin, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Alan Bates, The Fixer Ron Moody, Oliver! Peter O'Toole, The Lion in Winter Cliff Robertson, Charly Best Actress (tie) Katherine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter Patricia Neal, The Subject was Roses Vanessa Redgrave, Isadora Barbara Streisand, Funny Girl Joanne Woodward, Rachel, Rachel Best Supporting Actor Jack Albertson, The Subject Was Roses Seymore Cassel, Faces Daniel Massey, Star! Jack Wild, Oliver! Gene Wilder, The Producers Best Supporting Actress Lynn Carlin, Faces Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby Sandra Locke, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Kay Medford, Funny Girl Estelle Parsons, Rachel, Rachel Best Director Anthony Harvey, The Lion in Winter Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers Carol Reed, Oliver! Franco Zeffirelli, Romeo and Juliet Cannes Film Festival was canceled because of the unstable political climate in Paris Music The 1968 Grammy Awards Record of the Year "Mrs. Robinson," Simon and Garfunkel Album of the Year By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Cambell Song of the Year "Little Green Apples", Bobby Russell Best New Artist José Feliciano Best Contemporary Pop "Light My Fire", José Feliciano Vocal Performance, Male Otis Redding and Steve Cropper Best Contemporary Pop "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" Vocal Performance, Female Dionne Warwick Best Rhythm & Blues Song "The Dock of the Bay", Otis Redding & Steve Cropper Best Rhythm and Blues "The Dock of the Bay", Otis Redding Best Rhythm and Blues "Chain of Fools", Aretha Franklin Best Country Song "Little Green Apples", Bobby Russell Best Country Vocal "Folsom Prison Blues", Johnny Cash Best Country Vocal "Harper Valley P.T.A.", Jeannie C. Riley Best Selling Singles of 1968 What A Wonderful World ~ Louis Armstrong I Pretend ~ Des O'Connor Those Were The Days ~ Mary Hopkin Help Yourself ~ Tom Jones Young Girl ~ Gary Puckett and The Union Gap Delilah ~ Tom Jones Little Arrows ~ Leapy Lee Baby Come Back ~ The Equals The Good, The Bad And The Ugly ~ Hugo Montenegro Jesamine ~ The Casuals She Wears My Ring ~ Solomon King Hey Jude ~ The Beatles If I Only Had Time ~ John Rowles This Guy's In Love With You ~ Herb Alpert Simon Says ~ The 1910 Fruitgum Co. Honey ~ Bobby Goldsboro A Man Without Love ~ Engelbert Humperdinck Fire ~ The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown I Gotta Get A Message To You ~ The Bee Gees Do It Again ~ The Beach Boys Cant Take My Eyes Off You ~ Andy Williams Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp ~ O.C. Smith Sports Professional Football 1968 Season scores in ( ) AFL Playoffs Western Division Playoff Kansas City (6) @ Oakland (41) AFL Championship Game Oakland (23) @ NY Jets (27) NFL PlayoffsEastern Conference Dallas (20) @ Cleveland (31) Western Conference Minnesota (14) @ Baltimore (24) NFL Championship Baltimore (34) @ Cleveland (0) Super Bowl III Orange Bowl, Miami NY Jets (16) v. Baltimore (7) MVP: NY Jets QB Joe Namath (17 for 28, 206 yards) 1968 Baseball All-Star Game National League (1) v. American League (0) MVP: Willie Mays, San Francisco OF National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals 97 - 65 American League Champion Detroit Tigers 103 - 59 World Series Detroit wins World Series 4 – 3 MVP: Mickey Lolich, P Det |