The 14th Emmy Awards, later referred to as the 14th Primetime Emmy Awards, were held on May 22, 1962, to honor the best in television of the year. It was hosted by Johnny Carson in New York, Bob Newhart in Los Angeles and David Brinkley in Washington, DC. All nominations are listed, with winners in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.

The top show of the night was the CBS courtroom drama The Defenders which swept the four major categories it was nominated in. The Bob Newhart Show won top honors for comedy, and in doing so, became the first show to win a top program prize (comedy or drama) for what would be the show's only season. Composer Richard Rodgers would also become the first person to complete the Grand Slam of entertainment awards (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) when winning for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed with Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years.

Among the better-known presenters were Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Barbara Stanwyck, Judy Garland, Jimmy Durante, Jack Webb, Walter Brennan, Eartha Kitt, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Cyril Ritchard, whose pronunciation of "tomatoes" as "tomahtoes" greatly amused the audience; he humorously apologized and repeated it with the American pronunciation.

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Programs

Programs

Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor The Bob Newhart Show (NBC) The Andy Griffith Show (CBS) Car 54, Where Are You? (NBC) Hazel (NBC) The Red Skelton Show (CBS)	Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Drama The Defenders (CBS) Alcoa Premiere (ABC) Ben Casey (ABC) The Dick Powell Theatre (NBC) Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC) Naked City (ABC)
Outstanding Program Achievements in the Fields of Variety and Music – Variety The Garry Moore Show (CBS) Here's Edie (ABC) The Judy Garland Show (CBS) Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC) Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC)	Outstanding Program Achievements in the Fields of Variety and Music – Music Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in Japan (CBS) The Bell Telephone Hour (NBC) Directions (ABC) NBC Television Opera Theatre (NBC)
Outstanding Daytime Program Purex Summer Specials (NBC) Calendar (CBS) The Linkletter Show (CBS) Today (NBC) The Verdict is Yours (CBS)	Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Children's Programming New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts with Leonard Bernstein (CBS) 1, 2, 3 Go! (NBC) Captain Kangaroo (CBS) The Shari Lewis Show (NBC) Update (NBC) Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC)
Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Educational and Public Affairs Programming David Brinkley's Journal (NBC) ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC) Bell and Howell Close-Up! (ABC) CBS Reports (CBS) Howard K. Smith (ABC) NBC White Paper (NBC)	The Program of the Year Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC): "Victoria Regina" Bell and Howell Close-Up! (ABC): "Walk in My Shoes" CBS Reports (CBS): "Biography of a Bookie Joint" The Judy Garland Show (CBS) Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait (NBC)

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