Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama
| Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Writers Guild of America |
| First awarded | 1961 |
| Currently held by |
Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould Better Call Saul (2015) |
| Official website | http://www.wga.org/ |
The Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama is an award presented by the Writers Guild of America to the best written episodes of a dramatic television series. It has been presented annually since the 14th annual Writers Guild of America awards in 1962. The years denote when each episode first aired. Though, due to the eligibility period, some nominees could have aired in a different year. The current eligibility period is December 1 to November 30. The winners are highlighted in gold.
- † Episode won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
- * Episode nominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
1960s
| Year | Show | Episode | Writer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Naked City | "The Fault in Our Stars" | Barry Trivers | ABC |
| Have Gun – Will Travel | "The Fatalist" | Shimon Wincelberg | CBS | |
| The Law and Mr. Jones | "No Sale" | Palmer Thompson | ABC | |
| Rawhide | "The Incident of the Buffalo Soldier" | John Dunkel | CBS | |
| The Westerner | "Brown" | Bruce Geller | NBC | |
| 1962 | Naked City | "Today the Man Who Kills the Ants is Coming" | Kenneth Rosen & Howard Rodman | ABC |
| Ben Casey | "I Remember a Lemon Tree" | Jack Laird & Marcus W. Demian | ABC | |
| The Defenders | "The Benefactor" | Peter Stone | CBS | |
| Naked City | "The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish" | Ernest Kinoy | ABC | |
| Route 66 | "Goodnight, Sweet Blues" | Leonard Freeman & Will Lorin | CBS | |
| 1963 | Route 66 | "Man Out of Time" | Lawrence B. Marcus | CBS |
| Ben Casey | "A Cardinal Act of Mercy" | Norman Katkov | ABC | |
| The Defenders | "A Book for Burning" | William Woolfolk | CBS | |
| Empire | "Between Friday and Monday" | Kenneth Trevey | NBC | |
| Naked City | "The S.S. American Dream" | Frank R. Pierson | ABC | |
| 1964 | East Side/West Side | "Who Do You Kill?" | Arnold Perl | CBS |
| Channing | "Freedom is a Lovesome Thing God Wot!" | Jack R. Guss & Edmund Morris | ABC | |
| "Wave Goodbye to Our Fair-Haired Boy" | Kenneth Kolb | |||
| The Defenders | "The Non Violent" | Ernest Kinoy | CBS | |
| Gunsmoke | "Owney Tupper Had A Daughter" | Paul Savage | ||
| 1965 | Mr. Novak | "With a Hammer In His Hand, Lord, Lord!" | John D. F. Black | NBC |
| 12 O'Clock High | "Interlude" | Dean Riesner | ABC | |
| Ben Casey | "A Woods Full of Question Marks" | Ellis Marcus | ||
| Dr. Kildare | "Man is a Rock" | Christopher Knopf | NBC | |
| The Fugitive | "Men in a Chariot" | George Eckstein | ABC | |
| Slattery's People | "Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?" | William P. McGivern | CBS | |
| 1966 | The Trials of O'Brien | "No Justice for the Judge" | David Ellis | CBS |
| Court Martial | "Judge Them Gently" | Gerry Day | ABC | |
| The Fugitive | "When the Wind Blows" | Betty Langdon | ||
| Slattery's People | "Color Him Red" | Pat Fielder | CBS | |
| The Virginian | "The Horse Fighter" | Richard Fielder | NBC | |
| 1967 | Star Trek | "The City on the Edge of Forever" | Harlan Ellison | NBC |
| The Big Valley | "The Martyr" | Mel Goldberg | ABC | |
| Gunsmoke | "Fandango" | Don Ingalls | CBS | |
| Mission: Impossible | "Odd on Evil" | William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter | ||
| Star Trek | "The Return of the Archons" | Boris Sobelman & Gene Roddenberry | NBC | |
| 1968 | Judd, for the Defense | "To Kill a Madman" | Robert Lewin | ABC |
| Hawaii Five-O | "Pilot" | Leonard Freeman | CBS | |
| Judd, for the Defense | "The Commitment" | Paul Monash | ABC | |
| "No Law against Murder" | Harold Gast | |||
| Mannix | "The Name is Mannix" | Bruce Geller | CBS | |
| The Outcasts | "Take Your Lover in the Ring" | Anthony Lawrence | ABC | |
| Star Trek | "Return to Tomorrow" | John T. Dugan | NBC | |
| 1969 | Judd, for the Defense | "An Elephant in a Cigar Box" | Robert Lewin | ABC |
| Hawaii Five-O | "To Hell with Babe Ruth" | Anthony Lawrence | CBS | |
| The Mod Squad | "In This Corner -- Sol Alpert" | Rita Lakin & Harve Bennett | ABC | |
| "Keep the Faith, Baby" | Harve Bennett | |||
| Then Came Bronson | "Two Percent of Nothing" | D. C. Fontana | NBC | |
| The Virginian | "Black Jade" | Herb Meadow | ||
1970s
| Year | Show | Episode | Writer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | The Bold Ones: The Senator | "A Continual Roar of Musketry" | David W. Rintels | NBC |
| Bracken's World | "Infinity" | Cliff Gould | NBC | |
| "Meanwhile, Back at the Studio" | Joseph Bonaduce | |||
| Hawaii Five-O | "Trouble in Mind" | Mel Goldberg & Sasha Gilien | CBS | |
| The Young Lawyers | "The Glass Prison" | John W. Bloch | ABC | |
| 1971 | The Psychiatrist | "Par for the Course" | Thomas Y. Drake, Herb Bermann, Jerrold Freedman, and Bo May | NBC |
| The Bold Ones: The Lawyers | "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" | Jack B. Sowards & Brett Huggins | NBC | |
| The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | "Angry Man" | Arthur Dales | ||
| Columbo | "Murder By the Book" | Steven Bochco | ||
| Hawaii Five-O | "F.O.B. Honolulu" | Jerry Ludwig & Eric Eric Bercovici | CBS | |
| Ironside | "No Motive for Murder" | Sy Salkowitz | NBC | |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | "They Grow Up" | Dick Nelson | ABC | |
| Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law | "Until Proven Innocent" | Pat Fielder | ||
| 1972 | Kung Fu | "King of the Mountain" | Herman Miller | ABC |
| Columbo | "Etude in Black" | Steven Bochco, William Link, and Richard Levinson | NBC | |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | "Please Don't Send Flowers" | Bess Boyle | ABC | |
| McCloud | "The Barefoot Stewardess Caper" | Glen A. Larson & Michael Gleason | NBC | |
| "The New Mexican Connection" | Glen A. Larson | |||
| The Mod Squad | "Taps, Play It Louder" | Sandor Stern | ABC | |
| 1973 | The Starlost | "Phoenix without Ashes" | Harlan Ellison | Syndicated |
| Gunsmoke | "The Golden Land" | Hal Sitowitz | CBS | |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | "A Necessary End" | Norman Hudis | ABC | |
| The Streets of San Francisco | "The House on Hyde Street" | John Wilder & Cliff Osmond | ||
| The Waltons | "The Easter Story" | John McGreevey, & Earl Hamner | CBS | |
| "The Odyssey" | Joanna Lee | |||
| "The Roots" | Sheldon Stark | |||
| "The Thanksgiving Story" † | Joanna Lee & Earl Hamner | |||
| 1974 | Gunsmoke | "Thirty a Month and Found" | Jim Byrnes | CBS |
| McCloud | "The Colorado Cattle Caper" | Michael Gleason | NBC | |
| The New Land | "The Word Is: Growth" | William Blinn | ABC | |
| The Waltons | "The Conflict" | Jeb Rosebrook | CBS | |
| 1975 | The Law | "Prior Consent" | Arthur Ross & Stephen Kandel | NBC |
| Gunsmoke | "The Busters" | Jim Byrnes | CBS | |
| Kojak | "The Good Luck Bomber" | Raymond Brenner | ||
| The Streets of San Francisco | "Web of Lies" | Leonard Kantor | ABC | |
| The Waltons | "The Woman" | Hindi Brooks | CBS | |
| 1976 | Carl Sandburg's Lincoln | "Crossing Fox River" | Loring Mandel | NBC |
| Baa Baa Black Sheep | "Flying Misfits" | Stephen J. Cannell | NBC | |
| City of Angels | "The November Plan" | Roy Huggins & Stephen J. Cannell | ||
| Rich Man, Poor Man Book II | Millard Lampell | ABC | ||
| The Rockford Files | "So Help Me God" | Juanita Bartlett | NBC | |
| 1977 | Police Story | "Pressure Point" | Mark Rodgers | NBC |
| Eight Is Enough | "The Gipper Caper" | William Blinn | ABC | |
| Lou Grant | "Christmas" | David Lloyd | CBS | |
| "Housewarming" | Leonora Thuna | |||
| Police Woman | "Merry Christmas, Waldo" | E. Arthur Kean | NBC | |
| The Rockford Files | "Beamer's Last Case" | Stephen J. Cannell, Booker Bradshaw, and Calvin Kelly | ||
| "Quickie Nirvana" | David Chase | |||
| 1978 | Lou Grant | "Prisoner" | Seth Freeman | CBS |
| Columbo | "The Conspirators" | Howard Berk | NBC | |
| Lou Grant | "Murder" | Gary David Goldberg | CBS | |
| The Rockford Files | "The House on Willis Avenue" | Stephen J. Cannell | NBC | |
| The Waltons | "The Captive" | Ray Cunneff | CBS | |
| "The Illusion" | John McGreevey | |||
| 1979 | Lou Grant | "Vet" | Leon Tokatyan | CBS |
| Eischied | "The Demon" | Mark Rodgers | NBC | |
| Lou Grant | "Exposé" | David Lloyd | CBS | |
| "Home" | Gary David Goldberg | |||
| "Slammer" | Johnny Dawkins | |||
| The Rockford Files | "Some Things You Can Tell Yourself" | David Chase | NBC | |
| The Waltons | "The Burden" | E. F. Wallengren | CBS | |
1980s
| Year | Show | Episode | Writer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Tenspeed and Brown Shoe | "Pilot" * | Stephen J. Cannell | ABC |
| Little House on the Prairie | "Second Spring" | John T. Dugan | NBC | |
| Lou Grant | "Blackout" | Steve Kline | CBS | |
| "Brushfire" * | Allan Burns & Gene Reynolds | |||
| "Inheritance" * | April Smith | |||
| M*A*S*H | "Dreams" | Alan Alda & James Ray Rubinfier | ||
| Skag | "Pilot" * | Abby Mann | NBC | |
| 1981 | Hill Street Blues | "Hill Street Station" † | Michael Kozoll & Steven Bochco | NBC |
| Hill Street Blues | "Film at Eleven" | Anthony Yerkovich | NBC | |
| Lou Grant | "Campesinos" | Michael Vittes | CBS | |
| "Strike" * | April Smith | |||
| M*A*S*H | "Bless You, Hawkeye" | Dan Wilcox & Thad Mumford | ||
| Palmerstown, USA | "Future City" | Ronald Rubin | ||
| 1982 | Hill Street Blues | "The World According to Freedom" * | Michael Wagner | NBC |
| Darkroom | "Closed Circuit" | Alan Brennert | ABC | |
| Fame | "A Special Place" | Parke Perine | NBC | |
| Hill Street Blues | "Fruits of the Poisonous Tree" | Jeffrey Lewis | ||
| Lou Grant | "Review" | Jeffrey Lane | CBS | |
| 1983 | Hill Street Blues | "Trial by Fury" † | David Milch | NBC |
| Cagney & Lacey | "Jane Doe #37" | Peter Lefcourt | CBS | |
| Hill Street Blues | "Eugene's Comedy Empire Strikes Back" * | Anthony Yerkovich, David Milch, Karen Hall, Steven Bochco, and Jeffrey Lewis | NBC | |
| "Gung Ho!" | David Milch, Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Wagner | |||
| St. Elsewhere | "Addiction" | John Masius & Tom Fontana | ||
| Two Marriages | "Pilot" | Carol Sobieski | ABC | |
| 1984 | Hill Street Blues | "Grace Under Pressure" * | Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Wagner, Karen Hall, Mark Frost, Steven Bochco, and David Milch |
NBC |
| Cagney & Lacey | "Victimless Crime" | Peter Lefcourt | CBS | |
| Hill Street Blues | "Death by Kiki" | David Milch & Mark Frost | NBC | |
| "Parting is Such Sweep Sorrow" | Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Wagner, David Milch, Mark Frost, and Steven Bochco | |||
| St. Elsewhere | "Hello and Goodbye" | John Masius & Tom Fontana | ||
| "The Women" † | John Ford Noonan, John Masius, and Tom Fontana | |||
| Trauma Center | "Turnaround" | Harry Longstreet & Renee Longstreet | ABC | |
| 1985 | Cagney & Lacey | "An Unusual Occurrence" | Georgia Jeffries | CBS |
| Miami Vice | "Brother's Keeper" | Anthony Yerkovich | NBC | |
| Cagney & Lacey | "Child Witness" * | Deborah Arakelian | CBS | |
| "Who Said It's Fair?" (Part II) † | Patricia Green | |||
| Call to Glory | "A Wind from the East" | Josef Anderson | ABC | |
| Hill Street Blues | "Watt a Way to Go" | David Milch, Roger Director, Steven Bochco, and Jeffrey Lewis | NBC | |
| St. Elsewhere | "Sweet Dreams" * | John Masius & Tom Fontana | ||
| 1986 | Moonlighting | "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" * | Debra Frank & Carl Sautter | ABC |
| St. Elsewhere | "Remembrance of Things Past" | John Masius, Bruce Paltrow, and Tom Fontana | NBC | |
| Hill Street Blues | "Remembrance of Hits Past" | Walon Green, Jeffrey Lewis, and David Milch | NBC | |
| "What Are Friends For?" * | Dick Wolf | |||
| Moonlighting | "Every Daughter's Father is a Virgin" | Bruce Franklin Singer | ABC | |
| 1987 | Cagney & Lacey | "Turn, Turn, Turn" (Part 1) * | Georgia Jeffries | CBS |
| Moonlighting | "It's a Wonderful Job" | Debra Frank & Carl Sautter | ABC | |
| Hill Street Blues | "Fathers and Guns" | Jeffrey Lewis & Jerry Patrick Brown | NBC | |
| "More Skinned Against than Skinning" | David Black | |||
| L.A. Law | "Fry Me to the Moon" | Jacob Epstein, Marshall Goldberg, and David E. Kelley | ||
| "The Venus Butterfly" † | Steven Bochco & Terry Louise Fisher | |||
| Moonlighting | "Atomic Shakespeare" * | Ron Osborn & Jeff Reno | ABC | |
| "Big Man on Mulberry Street" | Karen Hall | |||
| St. Elsewhere | "A Room with a View" | John Masius, Tom Fontana, Channing Gibson | NBC | |
| 1988 | thirtysomething | "Pilot" | Marshall Herskovitz & Edward Zwick | ABC |
| "Therapy" | Susan Shilliday | |||
| China Beach | "Home" | William Broyles, Jr. | ABC | |
| L.A. Law | "Full Marital Jacket" * | Terry Louise Fisher, David E. Kelley, and Steven Bochco | NBC | |
| St. Elsewhere | "Moon for the Misbegotten" | Tom Fontana, John Tinker, and Channing Gibson | ||
| thirtysomething | "Nice Work if You Can Get it" | Paul Haggis & Jean Vallely | ABC | |
| 1989 | TV 101 | "Rolling" | Karl Schaefer | CBS |
| CBS Summer Playhouse | "Elysian Fields" | Joan Tewkesbury | CBS | |
| China Beach | "Where the Boys Are" | Alan Brennert | ABC | |
| "Xmas/CHNBCH VN '67" | John Wells | |||
| L.A. Law | "His Suite is Hirsute" * | Steven Bochco, David E. Kelley, Michele Gallery, William M. Finkelstein | NBC | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | "The Measure of a Man" | Melinda M. Snodgrass | Syndicated | |
1990s
| Year | Show | Episode | Writer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | China Beach | "Souvenirs" | John Sacret Young | ABC |
| China Beach | "Warriors" | Martin M. Goldstein, Neal Baer, and Dottie Dartland | ABC | |
| L.A. Law | "Bang...Zoom...Zap" * | David E. Kelley & William M. Finkelstein | NBC | |
| "Justice Swerved" | David E. Kelley & Bryce Zabel | |||
| thirtysomething | "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" | Winnie Holzman | ABC | |
| "Strangers" | Richard Kramer | |||
| 1991 | thirtysomething | "Photo Opportunity" | Racelle Rosett Schaefer | ABC |
| China Beach | "Escape" | Paris Qualles, John Sacret Young, John Wells, Carol Flint, and Lydia Woodward | ABC | |
| "Hello Goodbye" * | John Sacret Young, John Wells, Carol Flint, and Lydia Woodward | |||
| Law & Order | "Everybody's Favorite Bagman" | Dick Wolf | NBC | |
| Quantum Leap | "The Leap Home" (Part 1) | Donald P. Bellasario | ||
| thirtysomething | "Guns and Roses" | Liberty Godshall | ABC | |
| 1992 | I'll Fly Away | "Amazing Grace" | Henry Bromell | NBC |
| I'll Fly Away | "Coming Home" | Kevin Arkadie | NBC | |
| Northern Exposure | "Burning Down the House" * | Robin Green | CBS | |
| "Seoul Mates" † | Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider | |||
| 1993 | Homicide: Life on the Street | "Night of the Dead Living" | Tom Fontana & Frank Pugliese | NBC |
| Homicide: Life on the Street" | "Gone for Goode" | Paul Attanasio | NBC | |
| I'll Fly Away | "Comfort and Joy" | Barbara Hall | ||
| Life Goes On | "Last Wish" | Toni Graphia | ABC | |
| Picket Fences | "Thanksgiving" | David E. Kelley | CBS | |
| Reasonable Doubts | "Thank God It's Friday" | Ed Zuckerman | NBC | |
| TriBeCa | "The Box" | David J. Burke & Hans Tobeason | Fox | |
| 1994 | Homicide: Life on the Street | "Bop Gun" | David Simon, David Mills, and Tom Fontana | NBC |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | "A Many Splendored Thing" | Noel Behn & Tom Fontana | NBC | |
| Northern Exposure | "Hello, I Love You" | Robin Green & Mitchell Burgess | CBS | |
| NYPD Blue | "Pilot" * | Steven Bochco & David Milch | ABC | |
| "Tempest in a C-Cup" * | Gardner Stern | |||
| 1995 | ER | "Love's Labor Lost" † | Lance A. Gentile | NBC |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | "Fits Like a Glove" | Bonnie Mark, Tom Fontana, and Julie Martin | NBC | |
| Picket Fences | "Saint Zack" | Nicholas C. Harding & David E. Kelley | CBS | |
| The X-Files | "Duane Barry" * | Chris Carter | Fox | |
| 1996 | NYPD Blue | "Girl Talk" | Bill Clark & Theresa Rebeck | ABC |
| Law & Order | "Aftershock" | Michael S. Chernuchin & Janis Diamond | NBC | |
| "Savages" | Morgan Gendel, Barry M. Schkolnick, and Michael S. Chernuchin | |||
| "Trophy" | Jeremy R. Littman & Ed Zuckerman | |||
| Murder One | "Chapter One" * | David Milch, Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, and Channing Gibson | ABC | |
| Party of Five | "Falsies" | Mark B. Perry | Fox | |
| The X-Files | "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" † | Darin Morgan | ||
| 1997 | Law & Order | "Entrapment" | Rene Balcer & Richard Sweren | NBC |
| ER | "Who's Appy Now?" * | Neal Baer | NBC | |
| Law & Order | "Deadbeat" | Ed Zuckerman & I.C. Rapoport | ||
| 1998 | Nothing Sacred | "Proofs for the Existence of God" | Paul Leland | ABC |
| ER | "Exodus" | Walon Green & Joe Sachs | NBC | |
| From the Earth to the Moon | "Apollo One" | Graham Yost | HBO | |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | "Finnegan's Wake" | David Mills, James Yoshimura, and David Simon | NBC | |
| "Saigon Rose" | Eric Overmyer | |||
| "Subway" * | James Yoshimura | |||
| Law & Order | "Burned" | Siobhan Byrne | ||
| The Practice | "Betrayal" * | David E. Kelley | ABC | |
| Rescuers: Stories of Courage | "The Marie Taquet Story" | Malka Drucker, Cy Chermak, and Francine Carroll | Showtime | |
| 1999 | The Sopranos | "Meadowlands" | Jason Cahill | HBO |
| ER | "The Storm" (Part 1) | John Wells | NBC | |
| Law & Order | "DWB" | Rene Balcer | ||
| Oz | "U.S. Male" | Tom Fontana & Bradford Winters | HBO | |
2000s
2010s
Total awards
- NBC – 20
- ABC – 14
- CBS – 11
- AMC – 6
- HBO – 4
- Fox – 3
- Syndicated – 1
- Showtime –1
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Footnotes
- ↑ thirtysomething's double win in 1988 is counted as only one win.
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