• Barney Miller (ABC)

• M*A*S*H (CBS)

• Soap (ABC)

• WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS)

• Dallas (CBS)

• Lou Grant (CBS)

• Quincy, M.E. (NBC)

• The White Shadow (CBS)

• Evita Peron (NBC)

• Fallen Angel (CBS)

• The Shadow Box (ABC)

• The Women's Room (ABC)

• East of Eden (ABC)

• Masada (ABC)

• Rumpole of the Bailey (PBS)

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (PBS)

• AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Fred Astaire (CBS)

• The Benny Hill Show (Syndicated)

• The Muppet Show (Syndicated)

• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC)

• Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (CBS)

• Hal Linden as Capt. Barney Miller in Barney Miller (ABC)

• Richard Mulligan as Burt Campbell in Soap (ABC)

• John Ritter as Jack Tripper in Three's Company (ABC)

• Eileen Brennan as Mrs. McKenzie in Taxi (ABC) (Episode: "Thy Boss's Wife")

• Cathryn Damon as Mary Campbell in Soap (ABC)

• Katherine Helmond as Jessica Tate in Soap (ABC)

• Lynn Redgrave as Ann Atkinson in House Calls (CBS)

• Edward Asner as Lou Grant in Lou Grant (CBS)

• Jim Davis as Jock Ewing in Dallas (CBS)

• Louis Gossett Jr. as Bessie's Father in Palmerstown, U.S.A. (CBS) (Episode: "Future City")

• Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing in Dallas (CBS)

• Pernell Roberts as Dr. John 'Trapper' McIntyre in Trapper John, M.D. (CBS)

• Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie Ewing in Dallas (CBS)

• Linda Gray as Sue Ellen Ewing in Dallas (CBS)

• Veronica Hamel as Joyce Davenport in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

• Michael Learned as Mary Benjamin in Nurse (CBS)

• Stefanie Powers as Jennifer Hart in Hart to Hart (ABC)

• Richard Chamberlain as Anjin-san in Shōgun (NBC)

• Toshirô Mifune as Lord Yoshi Toranaga in Shōgun (NBC)

• Peter O'Toole as General Cornelius Flavius Silva in Masada (ABC)

• Peter Strauss as Eleazar ben Yair in Masada (ABC)

• Ellen Burstyn as Jean Harris in The People vs. Jean Harris (NBC)

• Catherine Hicks as Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn: The Untold Story (ABC)

• Yôko Shimada as Lady Toda Buntaro in Shōgun (NBC)

• Joanne Woodward as Elizabeth Huckaby in Crisis at Central High (CBS)

• Howard Hesseman as Johnny Caravella in WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS)

• Steve Landesberg as Sgt. Arthur Dietrich in Barney Miller (ABC)

• Harry Morgan as Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (CBS)

• David Ogden Stiers as Charles Emerson Winchester III in M*A*S*H (CBS)

• Loni Anderson as Jennifer Marlowe in WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS)

• Anne Meara as Veronica Rooney in Archie Bunker's Place (CBS)

• Marla Gibbs as Florence Johnston in The Jeffersons (CBS)

• Loretta Swit as Margaret Houlihan in M*A*S*H (CBS)

• Mason Adams as Charlie Hume in Lou Grant (CBS)

• Charles Haid as Officer Andy Renko in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

• Robert Walden as Joe Rossi in Lou Grant (CBS)

• Bruce Weitz as Det. Mick Belker in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

• Barbara Barrie as Evelyn Stoller in Breaking Away (ABC)

• Barbara Bosson as Fay Furillo in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

• Linda Kelsey as Billie Newman in Lou Grant (CBS)

• Betty Thomas as Sgt. Lucille Bates in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

• Andy Griffith as Ash Robinson in Murder in Texas (NBC)

• Yūki Meguro as Omi in Shōgun (NBC)

• Anthony Quayle as Rubrius Gallus in Masada (ABC)

• John Rhys-Davies as Vasco Rodrigues in Shōgun (NBC)

• Colleen Dewhurst as Val in The Women's Room (ABC)

• Patty Duke as Lily in The Women's Room (ABC)

• Shirley Knight as Frau Lagerfuhrerin Maria Mandel in Playing for Time (CBS)

• Piper Laurie as Magda Goebbels in The Bunker (CBS)

• Archie Bunker's Place (CBS): "Tough Love" – Linda Day

• Barney Miller (ABC): "Liquidation" – Noam Pitlik

• Happy Days (ABC): "Hello, Mrs. Arcola" – Jerry Paris

• M*A*S*H (CBS): "The Life You Save" – Alan Alda

• M*A*S*H (CBS): "No Laughing Matter" – Burt Metcalfe

• WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS): "Venus Flytrap Explains the Atom" – Rod Daniel

• American Dream (ABC): "Pilot" – Mel Damski

• Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Jungle Madness" – Corey Allen

• Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Up in Arms" – Georg Stanford Brown

• Lou Grant (CBS): "Pack" – Burt Brinckerhoff

• Lou Grant (CBS): "Strike" – Gene Reynolds

• The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (ABC) – Marty Pasetta

• Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (NBC) – Bob Henry

• Great Performances: "Dance in America" (PBS) – Emile Ardolino

• Linda in Wonderland (CBS) – Dwight Hemion

• Musical Comedy Tonight II (PBS) – Tony Charmoli

• Bitter Harvest (NBC) – Roger Young

• Masada (ABC): "Part IV" – Boris Sagal

• The Shadow Box (ABC) – Paul Newman

• Shōgun (NBC): "Part 5" – Jerry London

• The Greatest American Hero (ABC): "Pilot" – Stephen J. Cannell

• M*A*S*H (CBS): "Death Takes a Holiday" –

• Taxi (ABC): "Elaine's Strange Triangle" – David Lloyd

• Taxi (ABC): "Going Home" – Glen Charles and Les Charles

• American Dream (ABC): "Pilot" – Ronald M. Cohen, Barbara Corday and Ken Hecht

• Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Jungle Madness" – Michael Kozoll, Steven Bochco and Anthony Yerkovich

• Lou Grant (CBS): "Rape" – Seth Freeman

• Lou Grant (CBS): "Strike" – April Smith

• AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Fred Astaire (CBS)

• Lily: Sold Out (CBS)

• Musical Comedy Tonight II (PBS)

• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC): "18th Anniversary Show"

• Bitter Harvest (NBC) – Richard Friedenberg

• Masada (ABC): "Part IV" – Joel Oliansky

• The Shadow Box (ABC) – Michael Cristofer

• Shōgun (NBC): "Part 5" – Eric Bercovici

Network

Number ofNominations

CBS

52

ABC

40

NBC

32

Program

Category

Network

Number ofNominations

Hill Street Blues

Drama

NBC

14

Lou Grant

CBS

10

M*A*S*H

Comedy

8

Shōgun

Miniseries

NBC

Taxi

Comedy

ABC

Masada

Miniseries

7

Dallas

Drama

CBS

5

Playing for Time

Special

Barney Miller

Comedy

ABC

4

Soap

WKRP in Cincinnati

CBS

The Shadow Box

Special

ABC

3

The Women's Room

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Fred Astaire

Variety

CBS

2

American Dream

Drama

ABC

Archie Bunker's Place

Comedy

CBS

Bitter Harvest

Special

NBC

The Bunker

CBS

The Jeffersons

Comedy

Lily: Sold Out

Variety

The Muppet Show

Syndicated

Musical Comedy Tonight II

PBS

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

NBC

Network

Number ofAwards

CBS

10

NBC

8

ABC

6

Program

Category

Network

Number ofAwards

Hill Street Blues

Drama

NBC

6

Taxi

Comedy

ABC

5

Playing for Time

Special

CBS

4