37th Primetime Emmy Awards

37th Primetime Emmy Awards
37th Primetime Emmy Awards
Date	September 22, 1985 ; (Ceremony); September 21, 1985 ; (Creative Arts Awards);
Location	Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted by	John Forsythe
Highlights
Most awards	Cagney & Lacey (4)
Most nominations	Cheers (11)
Outstanding Comedy Series	The Cosby Show
Outstanding Drama Series	Cagney & Lacey
Outstanding Limited Series	The Jewel in the Crown
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program	Motown Returns to the Apollo
Television/radio coverage
Network	ABC
	← 36th; Primetime Emmy Awards; 38th →;

The 37th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 22, 1985. The ceremony was broadcast on ABC, from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California.

The Cosby Show defeated two-time reigning champion Cheers to win Outstanding Comedy Series, one of three major awards it won. Although it only took home one major award, Cheers did tie the then-record for most major nominations by a comedy series (11), set by The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1977. In the drama field Cagney & Lacey, en route to winning four major awards on the night, defeated presumed favorite Miami Vice to win Outstanding Drama Series, four-time defending champion Hill Street Blues still received nine major nominations, but only won one award. This was Hill Street Blues 18th and final major award, setting an Emmy record for a drama series that still stands and was later achieved by The Sopranos.

The ceremony also had a memorable unscripted moment involving the arrest of impersonator Barry Bremen for grand theft while attempting to accept the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series award on behalf of Betty Thomas, who would show up on the auditorium stage a few minutes late.

Winners and nominees

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Programs

Outstanding Comedy Series	Outstanding Drama Series
The Cosby Show, (NBC) Cheers, (NBC) Family Ties, (NBC) Kate & Allie, (CBS) Night Court, (NBC)	Cagney & Lacey, (CBS) Hill Street Blues, (NBC) Miami Vice, (NBC) Murder, She Wrote, (CBS) St. Elsewhere, (NBC)
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program	Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special
Motown Returns to the Apollo, (NBC) AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Gene Kelly, (CBS) Great Performances, (Episode: "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music"), (PBS) Late Night with David Letterman, (NBC) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, (NBC)	Do You Remember Love, (CBS) The Burning Bed, (NBC) Fatal Vision, (NBC) Heartsounds, (ABC) Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, (NBC)
Outstanding Limited Series
The Jewel in the Crown, (PBS) Ellis Island, (CBS) Robert Kennedy & His Times, (CBS) Space, (CBS) A Woman of Substance, (Syndicated)

Acting

Lead performances

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
*Robert Guillaume as Benson DuBois on Benson, (ABC)* Harry Anderson as Judge Harry T. Stone on Night Court, (NBC) Ted Danson as Sam Malone on Cheers, (NBC) Bob Newhart as Dick Loudon on Newhart, (CBS) Jack Warden as Harrison Fox, Sr. on Crazy Like a Fox, (CBS)	*Jane Curtin as Allison Lowell on Kate & Allie, (CBS)* Shelley Long as Diane Chambers on Cheers, (NBC) Phylicia Rashad as Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show, (NBC) Susan Saint James as Katherine McArdle on Kate & Allie, (CBS) Isabel Sanford as Louise Jefferson on The Jeffersons (CBS)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
*William Daniels as Dr. Mark Craig on St. Elsewhere, (NBC)* Ed Flanders as Dr. Donald Westphall on St. Elsewhere, (NBC) Don Johnson as Det. James Crockett on Miami Vice, (NBC) Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum on Magnum P.I., (CBS) Daniel J. Travanti as Capt. Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues, (NBC)	*Tyne Daly as Mary Beth Lacey on Cagney & Lacey, (Episode: "Who Said It's Fair?"), (CBS)* Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant on Fame, (Syndicated) Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote, (CBS) Sharon Gless as Christine Cagney on Cagney & Lacey, (CBS) Veronica Hamel as Joyce Davenport on Hill Street Blues, (NBC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
*Richard Crenna as Richard Beck on The Rape of Richard Beck, (ABC)* Richard Chamberlain as Raoul Wallenberg on Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, (NBC) James Garner as Harold Lear on Heartsounds (ABC) Richard Kiley as George Hollis on Do You Remember Love, (CBS) George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge on A Christmas Carol, (CBS)	*Joanne Woodward as Barbara Wyatt-Hollis on Do You Remember Love, (CBS)* Jane Alexander as Hedda Hopper on Malice in Wonderland, (CBS) Peggy Ashcroft as Barbie Batchelor on The Jewel in the Crown, (PBS) Farrah Fawcett as Francine Hughes on The Burning Bed, (NBC) Mary Tyler Moore as Martha Weinman Lear on Heartsounds, (ABC)

Supporting performances

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
*John Larroquette as Dan Fielding on Night Court, (Episode: "Dan's Parents or Married Alive"), (NBC)* Nicholas Colasanto (posthumously) as Coach Ernie Pantusso on Cheers, (NBC) Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties, (NBC) John Ratzenberger as Cliff Clavin on Cheers, (NBC) George Wendt as Norm Peterson on Cheers, (NBC)	*Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli on Cheers, (NBC)* Selma Diamond as Selma Hacker on Night Court, (NBC) Julia Duffy as Stephanie Vanderkellen on Newhart, (CBS) Marla Gibbs as Florence Johnston on The Jeffersons, (CBS) Inga Swenson as Gretchen Wilomena Kraus on Benson, (ABC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
*Edward James Olmos as Martin Castillo on Miami Vice* (Episode: "Golden Triangle"), (NBC)** Ed Begley Jr. as Dr. Victor Ehrlich on St. Elsewhere, (NBC) John Hillerman as Higgins on Magnum, P.I., (CBS) John Karlen as Harvey Lacey on Cagney & Lacey, (CBS) Bruce Weitz as Det. Mick Belker on Hill Street Blues, (NBC)	*Betty Thomas as Sgt. Lucille Bates on Hill Street Blues,* (NBC)** Barbara Bosson as Fay Furillo on Hill Street Blues, (NBC) Christina Pickles as Nurse Helen Rosenthal on St. Elsewhere, (NBC) Doris Roberts as Mildred Krebs on Remington Steele, (NBC) Madge Sinclair as Nurse Ernestine Shoop on Trapper John, M.D., (CBS)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
*Karl Malden as Freddy Kassab on Fatal Vision, (NBC)* Richard Burton as Sen. Phipps Ogden on Ellis Island, (CBS) John Gielgud as Theodore Woodward on Romance on the Orient Express, (NBC) Richard Masur as Aryon Greydanus on The Burning Bed, (NBC) Rip Torn as Lewis Slaton on The Atlanta Child Murders, (CBS)	*Kim Stanley as Big Mama on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, (PBS)* Penny Fuller as Mae on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, (PBS) Ann Jillian as Nellie Byfield on Ellis Island, (CBS) Deborah Kerr as Emma Harte on A Woman of Substance, (Syndicated) Alfre Woodard as Claudie Sills on Words by Heart, (PBS)

Directing

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series
*Jay Sandrich for The Cosby Show,* (Episode: "The Younger Woman"), (NBC)** James Burrows for Cheers, (Episode: "Cheerio"), (NBC) Robert Butler for Moonlighting, (Episode: "Pilot"), (ABC) Marc Daniels, for Alice, (Episode: "Tommy's Lost Weekend"), (CBS) Bill Persky for Kate & Allie, (Episode: "Landlady"), (CBS)	*Karen Arthur for Cagney & Lacey,* (Episode: "Heat"), (CBS)** Georg Stanford Brown for Hill Street Blues, (Episode: "El Capitan"), (NBC) Thomas Carter for Hill Street Blues, (Episode: "The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall"), (NBC) Paul Michael Glaser for Miami Vice, (Episode: "Smuggler's Blues"), (NBC) Lee H. Katzin for Miami Vice, (Episode: "Cool Runnin"), (NBC)
Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music Program	Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special
*Terry Hughes for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,* (PBS)** Hal Gurnee for Late Night with David Letterman, (Episode: "3rd Anniversary Special"), (NBC) Clark Jones for Night of 100 Stars II, (ABC) Don Mischer for Motown Returns to the Apollo, (PBS)	*Lamont Johnson for Wallenberg: A Hero's Story,* (NBC)** Jeff Bleckner for Do You Remember Love, (CBS) Gilbert Cates for Consenting Adult, (ABC) Robert Greenwald for The Burning Bed, (NBC) Christopher Morahan, Jim O'Brien for The Jewel in the Crown, (Episode: "Crossing the River"), (PBS)

Writing

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series	Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series
*Ed. Weinberger, Michael Leeson for The Cosby Show, (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC)* Peter Casey, David Lee for Cheers, (Episode: "I Call Your Name"), (NBC) Glen Charles, Les Charles for Cheers, (Episode: "Rebound, Part II"), (NBC) David Lloyd for Cheers, (Episode: "Sam Turns the Other Cheek"), (NBC) Earl Pomerantz for The Cosby Show, (Episode: "Good-Bye Mr. Fish"), (NBC)	*Patricia Green for Cagney & Lacey, (Episode: "Who Said It's Fair, Part II"), (CBS)* Deborah Arakelian for Cagney & Lacey, (Episode: "Child Witness"), (CBS) Jacob Epstein, Michael I. Wagner for Hill Street Blues, (Episode: "The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall"), (NBC) Tom Fontana, John Masius, Steve Bello for St. Elsewhere, (Episode: "Murder, She Rote"), (NBC) Tom Fontana, John Masius for St. Elsewhere, (Episode: "Sweet Dreams"), (NBC) Anthony Yerkovich for Miami Vice, (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC)
Outstanding Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Program	Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special
Late Night with David Letterman, (Episode: "Christmas with the Lettermans"), (NBC) Motown Returns to the Apollo, (NBC) Late Night with David Letterman, (Episode: "The Late Night Morning Show"), (NBC) Late Night with David Letterman, (Episode: "Late Night in Los Angeles"), (NBC) AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Gene Kelly, (CBS)	*Vickie Patik for Do You Remember Love, (CBS)* John Gay for Fatal Vision, (NBC) Rose Leiman Goldemberg for The Burning Bed, (NBC) Gerald Green for Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, (NBC) Ken Taylor for The Jewel in the Crown, (Episode: "Crossing the River"), (PBS)

Most major nominations

By network ^{[note 1]}

NBC – 66
CBS – 37
PBS – 10

By program

Cheers (NBC) – 11
Hill Street Blues (NBC) – 9
Cagney & Lacey (CBS) / St. Elsewhere (NBC) – 7
Miami Vice (NBC) – 6

Most major awards

By network ^{[note 1]}

NBC – 12
CBS – 8
PBS – 3
ABC – 2

By program

Cagney & Lacey (CBS) – 4
The Cosby Show (NBC) / Do You Remember Love (CBS) – 3

Notes

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

References

^ Emmys.com list of 1985 Nominees & Winners

External links

[MW_Note-2] "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.

[Winners/Nominees-1] Emmys.com list of 1985 Nominees & Winners

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