34th Primetime Emmy Awards

34th Primetime Emmy Awards
Date	September 19, 1982 (Ceremony) September 12, 1982 (Creative Arts Awards)
Location	Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Hosts	John Forsythe Marlo Thomas
Television/Radio coverage
Network	ABC

The 34th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 19, 1982. The ceremony was broadcast on ABC. It was hosted by John Forsythe and Marlo Thomas.

In its eighth and final season, Barney Miller finally won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, it had been nominated and lost the previous six seasons. On the drama side, it was once again all about Hill Street Blues. It set multiple records on the night, including receiving 16 major nominations (winning four), breaking the long-held record (subsequently broken) of 14 for a comedy or drama set by Playhouse 90 in 1959. It also received nine acting nominations for regular cast members, this has since been tied by L.A. Law, and The West Wing. Included in those acting nominations was another milestone, Hill Street Blues received every nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, this achievement has not been duplicated by a comedy or drama in a major acting category since. Another milestone was set by Andrea Martin, who became the first actor from a variety series, in this case Second City Television, to be nominated in the comedy acting field since the categories merged in 1979.

Winners and nominees

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Programs

Outstanding Comedy Series	Outstanding Drama Series
Barney Miller, (ABC) Love, Sidney, (NBC) M*A*S*H, (CBS) Taxi, (ABC) WKRP in Cincinnati, (CBS)	Hill Street Blues, (NBC) Dynasty, (ABC) Fame, (NBC) Lou Grant, (CBS) Magnum P.I., (CBS)
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program	Outstanding Drama Special
Night of 100 Stars, (ABC) AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Frank Capra, (CBS) Ain't Misbehavin', (NBC) Baryshnikov in Hollywood, (CBS) Second City Television, (NBC)	A Woman Called Golda, (Syndicated) Bill, (CBS) The Elephant Man, (ABC) Inside the Third Reich, (ABC) Skokie, (CBS)
Outstanding Limited Series
Marco Polo, (NBC) Brideshead Revisited, (PBS) Flickers, (PBS) Oppenheimer, (PBS) A Town Like Alice, (PBS)

Acting

Lead performances

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Where There's a Will, There's a War"), (CBS) Judd Hirsch as Alex Reiger on Taxi, (ABC) Hal Linden as Capt. Barney Miller on Barney Miller, (ABC) Robert Guillaume as Benson DuBois on Benson, (ABC) Leslie Nielsen as Lieutenant Frank Drebin on Police Squad!, (ABC)	Carol Kane as Simka Dahblitz on Taxi, (Episode: "Simka Returns"), (ABC) Nell Carter as Nell Harper on Gimme A Break!, (NBC) Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano on One Day at a Time, (CBS) Swoosie Kurtz as Laurie Morgan on Love, Sidney, (NBC) Charlotte Rae as Edna Garrett on The Facts of Life, (NBC) Isabel Sanford as Louise Jefferson on The Jeffersons (CBS)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Daniel J. Travanti as Captain Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues, (NBC) Edward Asner as Lou Grant on Lou Grant, (CBS) John Forsythe as Blake Carrington on Dynasty, (ABC) James Garner as Bret Maverick on Bret Maverick, (NBC) Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum on Magnum P.I., (CBS)	Michael Learned as Mary Benjamin on Nurse, (CBS) Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant on Fame, (NBC) Veronica Hamel as Joyce Davenport on Hill Street Blues, (NBC) Michele Lee as Karen Fairgate on Knots Landing, (CBS) Stefanie Powers as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart (ABC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
Mickey Rooney as Bill Sackter on Bill, (CBS) Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyte on Brideshead Revisited (PBS) Philip Anglim as John Merrick on The Elephant Man, (ABC) Anthony Hopkins as Quasimodo on The Hunchback of Notre Dame, (CBS) Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder on Brideshead Revisited, (PBS)	Ingrid Bergman as Golda Meir on A Woman Called Golda, (Syndicated) Glenda Jackson as Patricia Neal on The Patricia Neal Story, (CBS) Ann Jillian as Mae West on Mae West, (ABC) Jean Stapleton as Eleanor Roosevelt on Eleanor, First Lady of the World, (CBS) Cicely Tyson as Marva Collins on Hallmark Hall of Fame, (Episode: "The Marva Collins Story"), (CBS)

Supporting performances

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Variety or Music Series	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Variety or Music Series
Christopher Lloyd as Jim Ignatowski on Taxi, (Episode: "Elegant Iggy"), (ABC) Danny DeVito as Louie De Palma on Taxi, (ABC) Ron Glass as Det. Ron Harris on Barney Miller, (ABC) Steve Landesberg as Sgt. Arthur Dietrich on Barney Miller, (ABC) Harry Morgan as Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H, (CBS) David Ogden Stiers as Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H, (CBS)	Loretta Swit as Margaret Houlihan on M*A*S*H, (Episode: "The Birthday Girls"), (CBS) Eileen Brennan as Doreen Lewis on Private Benjamin, (CBS) Marla Gibbs as Florence Johnston on The Jeffersons, (CBS) Andrea Martin as Various Characters on Second City Television, (NBC) Anne Meara as Veronica Rooney on Archie Bunker's Place, (Episode: "Relapse"), (CBS) Inga Swenson as Gretchen Wilomena Kraus on Benson, (ABC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Michael Conrad as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues (NBC) Taurean Blacque as Det. Neal Washington on Hill Street Blues, (NBC) Charles Haid as Officer Andy Renko on Hill Street Blues, (NBC) Michael Warren as Officer Bobby Hill on Hill Street Blues, (NBC) Bruce Weitz as Detective Mick Belker on Hill Street Blues, (NBC)	Nancy Marchand as Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant, (Episode: "Review"), (CBS) Barbara Bosson as Fay Furillo on Hill Street Blues, (NBC) Julie Harris as Lilimae Clements on Knots Landing, (CBS) Linda Kelsey as Billie Newman on Lou Grant, (CBS) Betty Thomas as Sgt. Lucille Bates on Hill Street Blues, (NBC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
Laurence Olivier as Lord Marchmain on Brideshead Revisited, (Episode: "Brideshead Revisited"), (PBS) Jack Albertson as Poppa MacMahon on My Body, My Child, (ABC) John Gielgud as Edward Ryder on Brideshead Revisited, (Episode: "Et in Arcadia Ego"), (PBS) Derek Jacobi as Adolf Hitler on Inside the Third Reich, (ABC) Leonard Nimoy as Morris Meyerson on A Woman Called Golda, (Syndicated)	Penny Fuller as Mrs. Kendal on The Elephant Man, (ABC) Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain on Brideshead Revisited, (Episode: "Sebastian Against the World"), (PBS) Judy Davis as Young Golda on A Woman Called Golda, (Syndicated) Vicki Lawrence as Thelma "Mama" Harper on Eunice, (CBS) Rita Moreno as Rosella DeLeon on Portrait of a Showgirl, (CBS)

Directing

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series
Alan Rafkin for One Day at a Time, (Episode: "Barbara's Crisis"), (CBS) Alan Alda for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Where There's a Will, There's a War"), (CBS) Hy Averback for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Sons and Bowlers"), (CBS) James Burrows, for Taxi, (Episode: "Jim the Psychic"), (ABC) Charles S. Dubin for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Pressure Points"), (CBS) Burt Metcalfe, for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Picture This"), (CBS)	Harry Harris for Fame, (Episode: "To Soar and Never Falter"), (NBC) Jeff Bleckner for Hill Street Blues, (Episode: "The World According to Freedom"), (NBC) Robert Butler for Hill Street Blues, (Episode: "The Second Oldest Profession"), (NBC) Gene Reynolds for Lou Grant, (Episode: "Hometown"), (CBS) Robert Scheerer for Fame, (Episode: "Musical Bridge"), (NBC)
Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music Program	Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special
Dwight Hemion for Goldie and Kids: Listen to Us, (ABC) Clark Jones for Night of 100 Stars, (ABC) Don Mischer for Baryshnikov in Hollywood, (CBS) Marty Pasetta for The 54th Annual Academy Awards, (ABC) Robert Scheerer for Live from Lincoln Center, (PBS)	Marvin J. Chomsky for Inside the Third Reich, (ABC) Lee Philips for Mae West, (ABC) Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg for Brideshead Revisited, (Episode: "Et in Arcadia Ego"), (PBS) Herbert Wise for Skokie, (CBS)

Writing

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series
Ken Estin for Taxi, (Episode: "Elegant Iggy"), (ABC) Alan Alda for M*A*S*H, (Episode: "Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead"), (CBS) Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein, Tony Sheehan for Barney Miller, (Episode: "Landmark, part III"), (ABC) Barry Kemp, Holly Holmberg Brooks, Burt Metcalfe for Taxi, (Episode: "Jim the Psychic"), (ABC) David Zucker, Jim Abrahams for Police Squad!, (Episode: "A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)"), (ABC)	Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich, Jeff Lewis, Michael I. Wagner, Michael Kozoll for Hill Street Blues, (Episode: "Freedom's Last Stand"), (NBC) Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich, Robert Crais, Michael Kozoll, for Hill Street Blues, (Episode: "The Second Oldest Profession"), (NBC) Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich, Jeff Lewis, Michael I. Wagner for Hill Street Blues, (Episode: "Personal Foul"), (NBC) Seth Freeman for Lou Grant, (Episode: "Blacklist"), (CBS) Michael I. Wagner for Hill Street Blues, (Episode: "The World According to Freedom"), (NBC)
Outstanding Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Program	Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special
Second City Television, (Episode: "Moral Majority Show"), (NBC) I Love Liberty, (ABC) Second City Television, (Episode: "Cycle Two, Show Two"), (NBC) Second City Television, (Episode: "Christmas Show"), (NBC) Second City Television, (Episode: "Tony Bennett"), (NBC)	Corey Blechman, Barry Morrow for Bill, (CBS) Oliver Hailey for Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend, (NBC) Ernest Kinoy for Skokie, (CBS) John Mortimer for Brideshead Revisited, (Episode: "Et in Arcadia Ego"), (PBS) Peter Prince for Oppenheimer, (Episode: "Part V"), (PBS)

Most major nominations

By network ^{[note 1]}

• CBS – 43
• ABC / NBC – 34
• PBS – 13

By program

• Hill Street Blues (NBC) – 16
• M*A*S*H (CBS) – 10
• Brideshead Revisited (PBS) / Taxi (ABC) – 8
• Lou Grant (CBS) / Second City Television (NBC) – 6
• Barney Miller (ABC) – 5

Most major awards

By network ^{[note 1]}

• ABC – 8
• CBS / NBC – 7

By program

• Hill Street Blues (NBC) – 4
• Taxi (ABC) – 3
• Bill (CBS) / M*A*S*H (CBS) / A Woman Called Golda (Syndicated) – 2

Notes

1. "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

References

1. "1982 Primetime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved April 19, 2013.

External links

• Emmys.com list of 1982 Nominees & Winners
• 1982 Emmy Awards at the Internet Movie Database