Here are The Top 20 Box Office Hits of 1968 ...
Surprisingly, 1968 did not offer the amount of timeless classics that we saw in our Salute to 1967 last year ...
But there are still a few good titles on this list worth checking out ...
# 1 - 2001: A Space Odyssey ($56,700,000)
# 2 - Funny Girl ($52,000,000)
# 3 - The Love Bug ($51,264,000)
# 4 - The Odd Couple ($44,527,234)
# 5 - Bullit ($42,300,873)
# 6 - Romeo And Juliet ($38,901,218)
# 7 - Oliver! ($37,402,877)
# 8 - Rosemary's Baby ($33,395,426)
# 9 - Planet Of The Apes ($32,589,624)
#10 - Night Of The Living Dead ($30,000,000)
#11 - Yours, Mine And OUrs ($25,912,624)
#12 - The Lion In Winter ($22,276,975)
#13 - The Green Beret ($21,707,027)
#14 - Blackbeard's Ghost ($21,540,050)
#15 - The Fox ($19,146,711)
#16 - Charly ($19,125,000)
#17 - The Boston Strangler ($17,810,894)
#18 - Candy ($16,408,286)
#19 - The Thomas Crown Affair ($14,000,000)
#20 - The Detective ($13,000,000)
The Top 20 TV Shows, 1968, Nielsen Ratings:
# 1 - Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (NBC)
# 2 - Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)
# 3 - Bonanza (NBC)
# 4 - Mayberry, R.F.D. (CBS)
# 5 - Family Affair (CBS)
# 6 - Gunsmoke (CBS)
# 7 - Julia (NBC)
# 8 - The Dean Martin Show (NBC)
# 9 - Here's Lucy (CBS)
#10 - The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)
#11 - Mission: Impossible (CBS)
#12 - Bewitched (ABC)
#13 - The Red Skelton Hour (CBS)
#14 - My Three Sons (CBS)
#15 - The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (CBS)
#16 - Ironside (NBC)
#17 - The Virginian (NBC)
#18 - The F.B.I. (ABC)
#19 - Green Acres (CBS)
#20 - Dragnet (NBC)
Wow, talk about your television domination ...
CBS had HALF of The Top 20 shows ... ABC managed only two showings (and their first "winner" doesn't appear until you hit #12). NBC had the top rated show of the season ... plus seven other hits. (Aren't you a little bit surprised to see "Bonanza" still up there at #3 in 1968???)
"Laugh-In" would also win the Emmy for Outstanding Musical or Variety Series for the 1968 television season. Best Comedy went to "Get Smart" ... Best Drama to "NET Playhouse," neither of which placed in The Top 20.
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Dramatic Series ... Carl Betz for "Judd For The Defense"
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Series ... Barbara Bain for "Mission: Impossible"
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series ... Don Adams for "Get Smart"
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series ... Hope Lange for "The Ghost And Mrs. Muir" (seriously???)
And there you have it ... the "Best In Show" for Movies and Television, 1968.
