30th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 30th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 17, 1978. The ceremony was broadcast on CBS, from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California.

Outstanding Comedy Series

• All in the Family (CBS)
  • Barney Miller (ABC)
  • M*A*S*H (CBS)
  • Soap (ABC)
  • Three's Company (ABC)

Outstanding Drama Series

• The Rockford Files (NBC)
  • Columbo (NBC)
  • Family (ABC)
  • Lou Grant (CBS)
  • Quincy, M.E. (NBC)

Outstanding Limited Series

• Holocaust
  • King
  • Washington: Behind Closed Doors
  • Anna Karenina
  • I, Claudius

Outstanding Variety Series

• The Muppet Show (Syndicated)
  • America 2-Night (Syndicated)
  • The Carol Burnett Show (CBS)
  • Evening at Pops (PBS)
  • Saturday Night Live (NBC)

Outstanding Children's Special

• Halloween Is Grinch Night
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • The Fat Albert Christmas Special
  • Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
  • Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Outstanding Program Achievement

• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
  • The American Film Institute Salute to Bette Davis
  • The American Film Institute Salute to Henry Fonda
  • The Dick Cavett Show
  • NBC: The First Fifty Years - A Closer Look

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

• Carroll O'Connor for playing "Archie Bunker" on All in the Family
  • Alan Alda for playing "Capt. Benjamin Franklin Pierce" on M*A*S*H
  • Hal Linden for playing "Capt. Barney Miller" on Barney Miller
  • John Ritter for playing "Jack Tripper" on Three's Company
  • Henry Winkler for playing "Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli" in Happy Days

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

• Edward Asner for playing "Lou Grant" on Lou Grant
  • James Broderick for playing "Doug Lawrence" on Family
  • Peter Falk for playing "Columbo" on Columbo
  • James Garner for playing "Jim Rockford" on The Rockford Files
  • Jack Klugman for playing "Dr. R. Quincy" on Quincy, M.E.
  • Ralph Waite for playing "John Walton, Sr." on The Waltons

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series

• Michael Moriarty for playing "Erik Dorff" in Holocaust
  • Hal Holbrook for playing "Portius Wheeler" in The Awakening Land
  • Jason Robards for playing "President Richard Monckton" in Washington: Behind Closed Doors
  • Fritz Weaver for playing "Dr. Josef Weiss" in Holocaust
  • Paul Winfield for playing "Martin Luther King, Jr." in King

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

• Jean Stapleton for playing "Edith Bunker" on All in the Family
  • Bea Arthur for playing "Maude Findlay" on Maude
  • Cathryn Damon for playing "Mary Campbell" on Soap
  • Valerie Harper for playing "Rhoda Morgenstern" on Rhoda
  • Katherine Helmond for plaing "Jessica Tate" on Soap
  • Suzanne Pleshette for playing "Emily Hartley" on The Bob Newhart Show

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

• Sada Thompson for playing "Kate Lawrence" on Family
  • Melissa Sue Anderson for playing "Mary Ingalls" on Little House on the Prairie
  • Fionnula Flanagan for playing "Molly Culhane" on How the West Was Won
  • Kate Jackson for playing "Sabrina Duncan" on Charlie's Angels
  • Michael Learned for playing "Olivia Walton" on The Waltons
  • Susan Sullivan for playing "Dr. Julie Farr" on Having Babies

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series

• Meryl Streep for playing "Inga Helms-Weiss" in Holocaust
  • Rosemary Harris for playing "Berta Palitz Weiss" in Holocaust
  • Elizabeth Montgomery for playing "Sayward Luckett Wheeler" in The Awakening Land
  • Lee Remick for playing "Erica Trenton" in Wheels
  • Cicely Tyson for playing "Coretta Scott King" in King

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

• Rob Reiner for playing "Michael Stivic" on All in the Family
  • Tom Bosley for playing "Howard Cunningham" on Happy Days
  • Gary Burghoff for playing "Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly" on M*A*S*H
  • Harry Morgan for playing "Colonel Sherman T. Potter" on M*A*S*H
  • Vic Tayback for playing "Mel Sharples" on Alice

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

• Robert Vaughn for playing "Willie Lawrence" in Washington: Behind Closed Doors
  • Ossie Davis for playing "Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr." in King
  • Will Geer for playing "Grandfather" on The Waltons
  • Sam Wanamaker for playing "Moses Weiss" in Holocaust
  • David Warner for playing "Heydrich" in Holocaust

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Variety Series or Special

• Tim Conway for The Carol Burnett Show
  • Dan Aykroyd for Saturday Night Live
  • John Belushi for Saturday Night Live
  • Louis Gossett, Jr. for The Sentry Collection Presents Ben Vereen: His Roots
  • Peter Sellers for The Muppet Show

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Julie Kavner for playing "Brenda Morgenstern" on Rhoda
  • Polly Holliday for playing "Florence Jean Castleberry" on Alice
  • Sally Struthers for playing "Gloria Bunker Stivic" on All in the Family
  • Loretta Swit for playing "Margaret Houlihan" on M*A*S*H
  • Nancy Walker for playing "Ida Morgenstern" on Rhoda

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

• Nancy Marchand for playing "Margaret Pynchon" on Lou Grant
  • Meredith Baxter for playing "Nancy Lawrence Maitland" on Family
  • Tovah Feldshuh for playing "Helena Slomova" in Holocaust
  • Linda Kelsey for playing "Billie Newman" on Lou Grant
  • Kristy McNichol for playing "Letitia Lawrence" on Family

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Variety Series or Special

• Gilda Radner for Saturday Night Live
  • Bea Arthur for Laugh-In
  • Jane Curtin for Saturday Night Live
  • Dolly Parton for Cher... Special
  • Bernadette Peters for The Muppet Show

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

• Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf, Harve Brosten, Barry Harman for All in the Family - "Cousin Liz"
  • Alan Alda for M*A*S*H - "Fallen Idol"
  • Mel Tolkin, Larry Rhine, Erik Tarloff for All in the Family - "Edith's Crisis of Faith - Part II"
  • Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf for All in the Family - "Edith's 50th Birthday"

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series

• Gerald Green for Holocaust
  • Steve Allen for Meeting of Minds
  • Alan Ayckbourn for The Norman Conquests: Living Together
  • Robert W. Lenski for The Dain Curse
  • Abby Mann for King

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series

• Paul Bogart for All in the Family - "Edith's 50th Birthday"
  • Hal Cooper for Maude - "Vivian's Decision"
  • Burt Metcalfe, Alan Alda for M*A*S*H - "Comrades in Arms - Part I"
  • Jerry Paris for Happy Days - "Richie Almost Dies"
  • Jay Sandrich for Soap - "#24"

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series

• Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust
  • Abby Mann for King
  • Gary Nelson for Washington: Behind Closed Doors
  • E.W. Swackhamer for The Dain Curse
  • Herbert Wise for I, Claudius

References

• Emmy Awards on imdb
• Emmy Awards on YouTube