Year |
Program |
Episode |
Nominee(s) |
Network |
1980 (32nd) [31] |
Lou Grant |
"Cop" |
Seth Freeman |
CBS |
Lou Grant |
"Brushfire" | Allan Burns and Gene Reynolds |
CBS |
"Lou" | Michele Gallery |
Skag |
"Pilot" |
Abby Mann | NBC |
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe | Stephen J. Cannell | ABC |
1981 (33rd) [32] |
Hill Street Blues |
"Hill Street Station" |
Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll |
NBC |
American Dream | "Pilot" | Ronald M. Cohen, Barbara Corday and Ken Hecht | ABC |
Hill Street Blues | "Jungle Madness" | Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll and Anthony Yerkovich | NBC |
Lou Grant |
"Rape" | Seth Freeman |
CBS |
"Strike" | April Smith |
1982 (34th) [33] |
Hill Street Blues |
"Freedom's Last Stand" |
Story by : Michael Kozoll and Steven Bochco Teleplay by : Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich, Jeffrey Lewis and Michael Wagner |
NBC |
Hill Street Blues |
"Personal Foul" | Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich, Jeffrey Lewis and Michael Wagner |
NBC |
"The Second Oldest Profession" | Story by : Michael Kozoll, Steven Bochco and Anthony Yerkovich Teleplay by : Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich and Robert Crais |
"The World According to Freedom" | Michael Wagner |
Lou Grant | "Blacklist" | Seth Freeman | CBS |
1983 (35th) [34] |
Hill Street Blues |
"Trial by Fury" |
David Milch |
NBC |
Hill Street Blues | "Eugene's Comedy Empire Strikes Back" | Story by : Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich and Jeff Lewis Teleplay by : Anthony Yerkovich, David Milch and Karen Hall |
NBC |
"A Hair of the Dog" | Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich and Jeffrey Lewis |
"No Body's Perfect" | Story by : Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich and Jeffrey Lewis Teleplay by : Michael I. Wagner and David Milch |
"Officer of the Year" | Karen Hall |
1984 (36th) [35] |
St. Elsewhere |
"The Women" |
Story by : John Masius and Tom Fontana Teleplay by : John Ford Noonan |
NBC |
Hill Street Blues |
"Doris in Wonderland" | Story by : Steven Bochco, Jeffrey Lewis and David Milch Teleplay by : Peter Silverman |
NBC |
"Grace Under Pressure" | Story by : Steven Bochco, Jeffrey Lewis and David Milch Teleplay by : Jeffrey Lewis, Michael I. Wagner, Karen Hall and Mark Frost |
St. Elsewhere |
"All About Eve" | John Masius and Tom Fontana |
"Newheart" | John Masius, Tom Fontana, Garn Stephens and Emilie R. Small |
"Qui Transulit Sustinet" | Story by : John Masius and Tom Fontana Teleplay by : John Tinker & Mark Tinker |
1985 (37th) [36] |
Cagney & Lacey |
"Who Said It's Fair, Part 2" |
Patricia Green |
CBS |
Cagney & Lacey | "Child Witness" | Deborah Arakelian | CBS |
Hill Street Blues | "The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall" | Story by : Michael I. Wagner Teleplay by : Jacob Epstein |
NBC |
Miami Vice | "Pilot" | Anthony Yerkovich |
St. Elsewhere |
"Murder, She Rote" | John Masius, Tom Fontana and Steve Bello |
"Sweet Dreams" | John Masius and Tom Fontana |
1986 (38th) [37] |
St. Elsewhere |
"Time Heals" |
John Tinker, Tom Fontana and John Masius |
NBC |
Hill Street Blues | "What Are Friends For?" | Dick Wolf | NBC |
Moonlighting |
"The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" | Debra Frank and Carl Sautter |
ABC |
"Twas the Episode Before Christmas" | Glenn Gordon Caron |
St. Elsewhere | "Haunted" | Story by : John Masius and Tom Fontana Teleplay by : John Tinker, Charles H. Eglee and Channing Gibson | NBC |
1987 (39th) [38] |
L.A. Law |
"The Venus Butterfly" |
Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher |
NBC |
Cagney & Lacey | "Turn, Turn, Turn, Part 1" | Georgia Jeffries | CBS |
Hill Street Blues | "It Ain't Over Till It's Over" | Jeffrey Lewis, David Milch and John Romano |
NBC |
L.A. Law | "Sidney the Dead-Nosed Reindeer" | William M. Finkelstein |
Moonlighting |
"I Am Curious... Maddie" | Story by : Ron Osborn, Karen Hall, Roger Director and Charles H. Eglee Teleplay by : Jeff Reno and Glenn Gordon Caron |
ABC |
"Atomic Shakespeare" | Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn |
St. Elsewhere | "Afterlife" | Tom Fontana, John Tinker and John Masius | NBC |
1988 (40th) [39] |
Thirtysomething |
"Business as Usual" |
Paul Haggis and Marshall Herskovitz |
ABC |
Beauty and the Beast |
"Pilot" | Ron Koslow | CBS |
China Beach | John Sacret Young | ABC |
L.A. Law | "Beauty and Obese" | Terry Louise Fisher and David E. Kelley |
NBC |
"Full Martial Jacket" | Story by : Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher Teleplay by : Terry Louise Fisher and David E. Kelley |
St. Elsewhere | "The Last One" | Story by : Tom Fontana, John Tinker and Channing Gibson Teleplay by : Bruce Paltrow and Mark Tinker |
1989 (41st) [40] |
Thirtysomething |
"First Day/Last Day" |
Joseph Dougherty |
ABC |
L.A. Law | "His Suit Is Hirsute" | Steven Bochco, David E. Kelley, Michele Gallery and William M. Finkelstein |
NBC |
"I'm in the Nude for Love" | David E. Kelley |
"Urine Trouble Now" | David E. Kelley, William M. Finkelstein, Michele Gallery and Judith Parker |
Thirtysomething | "The Mike Van Dyke Show" | Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick | ABC |