La siguiente es una lista de los nominados, los ganadores están en negrita:

• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (CBS)
• I Love Lucy (CBS)
• Mister Peepers (NBC)
• Our Miss Brooks (CBS)
• Topper (CBS)

• Goodyear Television Playhouse (NBC)
• Kraft Television Theatre (NBC)
• The Philco Television Playhouse (NBC)
• Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC)
• Studio One (CBS)
• The United States Steel Hour (ABC)

• Dragnet (NBC)
• Foreign Intrigue (NBC)
• I Led Three Lives (NBC)
• Suspense (CBS)
• The Web (CBS)

• The Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC)
• The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS)
• The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS)
• Omnibus (CBS)
• Your Show of Shows (NBC)
• Super Chevy Hour with Morgy and Shoo (NBC)

• I've Got a Secret (CBS)
• This Is Your Life (NBC)
• Two for the Money (CBS)
• What's My Line? (CBS)
• You Bet Your Life (CBS)

• Adventure (CBS)
• Life is Worth Living (Syndication)
• Meet the Press (NBC)
• Person to Person (CBS)
• Victory at Sea (NBC)

• Camel News Caravan (NBC)
• Cavalcade of Sports (NBC)
• NCAA Football Games] (NBC)
• Pabst Fight (CBS)
• Professional Football (DuMont)
• See It Now (CBS)

• Adventure (CBS)
• Ding Dong School (NBC)
• Letter to Loretta (NBC)
• Make Room for Daddy (ABC)
• Person to Person (CBS)
• The United States Steel Hour (ABC)

• Eve Arden for Our Miss Brooks (CBS)
• Lucille Ball for I Love Lucy (CBS)
• Imogene Coca for Your Show of Shows
• Dinah Shore for The Dinah Shore Show (NBC)
• Loretta Young for Letter to Loretta (NBC)

• Sid Caesar for Your Show of Shows (NBC)
• Wally Cox for Mr. Peepers (NBC)
• Jackie Gleason for The Jackie Gleason Show
• Donald O'Connor for The Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC)
• Jack Webb for Dragnet (NBC)

• Bea Benaderet for The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (CBS)
• Ruth Gilbert for The Milton Berle Show (NBC)
• Marion Lorne for Mister Peepers (NBC)
• Audrey Meadows for The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS)
• Vivian Vance for I Love Lucy (CBS)

• Ben Alexander for Dragnet (NBC)
• Art Carney for The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS)
• William Frawley for I Love Lucy (CBS)
• Tony Randall for Mister Peepers (NBC)
• Carl Reiner for Your Show of Shows (NBC)

• Big Top (CBS)
• Ding Dong School (NBC)
• Kukla, Fran, and Ollie (NBC)
• Super Circus (NBC)
• Zoo Parade (NBC)

• Arthur Godfrey (CBS)
• Edward R. Murrow (CBS)
• Martha Raye (NBC)
• Fulton J. Sheen (Syndication)
• Jack Webb (NBC)