Es la 13ª entrega de los Premios Primetime Emmy celebrado el 16 de mayo de 1961.

• Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC)
• Naked City (ABC)
• Sunday Showcase (NBC)
• The Twilight Zone (CBS)
• The Untouchables (ABC)

• Candid Camera (CBS)
• The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
• The Flintstones (ABC)
• The Jack Benny Program (CBS)

• Astaire Time (NBC)
• The Garry Moore Show (CBS)
• The Tonight Show (NBC)

• Captain Kangaroo (CBS)
• The Huckleberry Hound Show (Syndicated)
• Shirley Temple's Storybook (NBC)
• The Shari Lewis Show (NBC)
• Young People's Concerts (CBS)

• CBS Reports (CBS)
• NBC White Paper (NBC)
• Project XX (NBC)
• Twentieth Century (CBS)
• Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC)

• CBS Television News (CBS)
• Eyewitness to History (CBS)
• The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC)

• Raymond Burr for Perry Mason
• Jackie Cooper for Hennesey
• Robert Stack for The Untouchables

• Donna Reed for The Donna Reed Show
• Barbara Stanwyck for The Barbara Stanwyck Show
• Loretta Young for Letter to Loretta

• Maurice Evans for Hallmark Hall of Fame
• Cliff Robertson for The United States Steel Hour
• Ed Wynn for Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

• Judith Anderson for Hallmark Hall of Fame
• Ingrid Bergman for 24 Hours in a Woman's Life
• Elizabeth Montgomery for The Untouchables