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Gallery: 2008 Hall of Fame Honorees Inducted

18th Induction Gala Gallery 
December 2008

On December 9,2008 in Beverly Hills, California, the Television Academy inducted Beatrice Arthur, Larry Gelbart, Merv Griffin, Thomas S. Murphy and Daniel B. Burke, and Sherwood Schwartz into the Hall of Fame, aside just over one hundred entertainment legends.
  • Actresses Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury
  • Mark Allen Itkin, Hall of Fame Committee chair; gala host and actor James Denton; and Television Academy chair John Shaffner.
  • Hall of Fame honoree Sherwood Schwartz and actress Dawn Wells.
  • Actress Doris Roberts
  • Actress Florence Henderson, Hall of Fame Committee chair Mark Allen Itkin, actress Angela Lansbury, actress Bea Arthur and Television Academy chair John Shaffner.
  • Actor Christopher Knight
  • Producer/director Carl Reiner
  • 18th Hall of Fame Induction Gala
  • Actor James Denton
  • Actress Florence Henderson
  • Honoree Sherwood Schwartz
  • Television Academy chair John Shaffner reads one of two proclamations bestowed upon the Academy that evening, one from the City of Los Angeles and City of Beverly Hills.
  • Actress Angela Lansbury
  • Honoree Bea Arthur
  • President and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Robert Iger
  • Walt Disney Co. chief Robert Iger, honorees Thomas S. Murphy and J. Frank Burke (accepting for his father, Daniel B. Burke)
  • Actor Tony Griffin accepts for his father, Merv Griffin
  • Producer Norman Lear
  • Honoree Larry Gelbart
  • Honorees Thomas S. Murphy, Larry Gelbart, Bea Arthur, Sherwood Schwartz and Tony Griffin (accepting for his father Merv Griffin)
  • Producer Norman Lear and actor Robert Loggia
  • Actresses Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury
  • Honoree Thomas S. Murphy
Actresses Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury
Actresses Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury
All Photos: Mathew Imaging