The 15th annual Tony Award presentations for distinguished contributions to the theater is broadcast. Phil Silvers is host. Announcer is Art Hannes.                                                    

Bob Hope makes his 13th appearance as host of the Academy Award ceremonies. Those presenting awards include Julie Christie, Lee Marvin, Shelley Winters, Sidney Poitier, Fred Astaire, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Ginger Rogers, and Patricia Neal.             

The 24th annual Tony Awards are telecast from the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. 

Hosts: Julie Andrews, Shirley McLaine, and Walter Matthau.             

October 1, 1962-March 29, 1963 (NBC); 1965-1969 (Syndicated); August 18, 1969-February 11, 1972 (CBS); 1972-1986 (Syndicated).

Patricia Neal and Garson Kanin are the guests.                                                   

 The contributions of noted American women over the past 200 years are depicted through dramatizations and newsreel footage. Patricia Neal narrates.
  Women profiled include Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pioneer suffragettes; Harriet Tubman, who helped free hundreds of slaves; and Margret Sanger, who established the first birth control clinic in the U.S.