39th Primetime Emmy Awards

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39th Primetime Emmy Awards
Date
  • September 20, 1987
    (Ceremony)
  • September 12, 1987
    (Creative Arts Awards)
Location Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Presented by Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted by Bruce Willis
Highlights
Most awards Promise (5)
Most nominations L.A. Law (13)
Outstanding Comedy Series The Golden Girls
Outstanding Drama Series L.A. Law
Outstanding Miniseries A Year in the Life
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program 41st Tony Awards
Television/radio coverage
Network Fox
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The 39th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 20, 1987. The ceremony was broadcast on Fox for the first time, as the network premiered a year earlier from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California.

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For the second straight year, The Golden Girls won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. The winner for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series was L.A. Law , which, for its first season, won four major awards, and led all shows, with 13 major nominations. The winner for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special, Promise , set a new record, with five major wins. This record still stands for TV movies, though it was tied by Temple Grandin in 2010. The Tracey Ullman Show received three major nominations on the night, making it the first ceremony in which the network Fox received a major nomination. This was the only time that Hill Street Blues wasn't nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, in its seventh and last season; also, no males actors of Hill Street Blues were nominated (even with 20 previous nominations). Only Betty Thomas for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series was nominated, and did not win, making her the only one in the cast to be nominated in all seasons.

NBC continued its dominance of the field, becoming the first network to gain over eighty major nominations (82). Its résumé was highlighted by gaining all five nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series. This had been done only once before (in 1977, but with a field of only four shows), and has not been matched in either field since.

Winners and nominees

[1]

Programs

Programs

Acting

Lead performances

Acting

Supporting performances

Guest performances

  • John Cleese as Dr. Simon Finch-Royce in Cheers (NBC) (Episode: "Simon Says")
    • Art Carney as James "Weasel" Cavanaugh in The Cavanaughs (CBS) (Episode: "He Ain't Heavy")
    • Herb Edelman as Stan Zbornak in The Golden Girls (NBC) (Episode: "The Stan Who Came To Dinner")
    • Lois Nettleton as Jean in The Golden Girls (NBC) (Episode: "Isn't It Romantic?")
    • Nancy Walker as Angela in The Golden Girls (NBC) (Episode: "Long Day's Journey Into Marinara")
  • Alfre Woodard as Adrian Moore in L.A. Law (NBC) (Episode: "Pilot")
    • Steve Allen as Lech Osoranski in St. Elsewhere (NBC) (Episode: "Visiting Daze")
    • Jeanne Cooper as Gladys Becker on L.A. Law (NBC) (Episode: "Fry Me to the Moon")
    • Edward Herrmann as Father Joseph McCabe on St. Elsewhere (NBC) (Episode: "Where There's Hope, There's Crosby")
    • Jayne Meadows as Holga Oseransky in St. Elsewhere (NBC) (Episode: "Visiting Daze")

Individual performances

Directing

Directing

Writing

Writing
  • Family Ties (NBC): "A, My Name is Alex" – Gary David Goldberg and Alan Uger
    • Cheers (NBC): "Abnormal Psychology" – Janet Leahy
    • The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (NBC): "Here's Why Cosmetics Should Come in Unbreakable Bottles" – Jay Tarses
    • The Golden Girls (NBC): "Isn't It Romantic?" – Jeffrey Duteil
    • Newhart (CBS): "Co-Hostess Twinkie" – David Mirkin
  • Late Night with David Letterman Fifth Anniversary Special (NBC)
    • The 41st Annual Tony Awards (CBS)
    • Saturday Night Live (NBC)
    • The Tracey Ullman Show (Fox): "Girl on a Ledge"
    • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC)

Most major nominations

Networks with multiple major nominations [note 1]
NetworkNumber of
Nominations
NBC82
CBS36
ABC15
Programs with multiple major nominations
ProgramCategoryNetworkNumber of
Nominations
L.A. LawDramaNBC11
The Golden GirlsComedy10
St. ElsewhereDrama
CheersComedy8
MoonlightingDramaABC7
Cagney & LaceyCBS6
Nutcracker: Money, Madness and MurderMiniseriesNBC
PromiseSpecialCBS
Family TiesComedyNBC5
NewhartCBS
The 41st Annual Tony AwardsVariety4
Escape from SobiborSpecial
The Tracey Ullman ShowVarietyFox
The Two Mrs. GrenvillesMiniseriesNBC
LBJ: The Early YearsSpecial3
Night CourtComedy
Pack of LiesSpecialCBS
Unnatural CausesNBC
Anastasia: The Mystery of AnnaMiniseries2
The Cosby ShowComedy
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Hill Street BluesDrama
Late Night with David Letterman Fifth Anniversary SpecialVariety
Liberty WeekendABC
Murder, She WroteDramaCBS
Saturday Night LiveVarietyNBC
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
A Year in the LifeMiniseries

Most major awards

Networks with multiple major awards [note 1]
NetworkNumber of
Awards
NBC15
CBS9
ABC3
Programs with multiple major awards
ProgramCategoryNetworkNumber of
Awards
PromiseSpecialCBS5
L.A. LawDramaNBC4
The Golden GirlsComedy3
Family Ties2
Notes
  1. 1 2 "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. It does not include the technical categories.

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