35th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 35th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 25, 1983. The ceremony was broadcast on NBC, from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California.

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Cheers
  • Buffalo Bill
  • M*A*S*H
  • Newhart
  • Taxi

Outstanding Drama Series

• Hill Street Blues
  • Cagney & Lacey
  • Fame
  • Magnum, P.I.
  • St. Elsewhere

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

• Judd Hirsch for playing "Alex Reiger" in Taxi
  • Alan Alda for playing "Capt. Benjamin Franklin Pierce" in M*A*S*H
  • Dabney Coleman for playing "Bill Bittinger" in Buffalo Bill
  • Ted Danson for playing "Sam Malone" in Cheers
  • Robert Guillaume for playing "Benson DuBois" in Benson

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

• Ed Flanders for playing "Dr. Donald Westphall" in St. Elsewhere
  • William Daniels for playing "Dr. Mark Craig" in St. Elsewhere
  • John Forsythe for playing "Blake Carrington" in Dynasty
  • Tom Selleck for playing "Thomas Magnum" in Magnum, P.I.
  • Daniel J. Travanti for playing "Capt. Frank Furillo" in Hill Street Blues

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

• Shelley Long for playing "Diane Chambers" in Cheers
  • Nell Carter for playing "Nell Harper" in Gimme a Break!
  • Mariette Hartley for playing "Jennifer Barnes" in Goodnight, Beantown
  • Swoosie Kurtz for playing "Laurie Morgan" in Love, Sidney
  • Rita Moreno for playing "Violet Newstead" in Nine to Five
  • Isabel Sanford for playing "Louise Jefferson" in The Jeffersons

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

• Tyne Daly for playing "Mary Beth Lacey" in Cagney & Lacey
  • Debbie Allen for playing "Lydia Grant" in Fame
  • Linda Evans for playing "Krystle Carrington" in Dynasty
  • Sharon Gless for playing "Christine Cagney" in Cagney & Lacey
  • Veronica Hamel for playing "Joyce Davenport" in Hill Street Blues

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

• Christopher Lloyd for playing "Jim Ignatowski" on Taxi
  • Nicholas Colasanto for playing "Ernie Pantusso" in Cheers
  • Danny DeVito for playing "Louie De Palma" in Taxi
  • Harry Morgan for playing "Sherman T. Potter" in M*A*S*H
  • Eddie Murphy for playing "Various" in Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

• James Coco for playing "Arnie" in St. Elsewhere
  • Ed Begley Jr. for playing "Dr. Victor Ehrlich" in St. Elsewhere
  • Michael Conrad for playing "Phil Esterhaus" in Hill Street Blues
  • Joe Spano for playing "Det. Henry Goldblume" in Hill Street Blues
  • Bruce Weitz for playing "Michael "Mick" Belker"in Hill Street Blues

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Carol Kane for playing "Simka Dahblitz-Gravas" in Taxi
  • Eileen Brennan for playing "Doreen Lewis" in Private Benjamin
  • Marla Gibbs for playing "Florence Johnston" in The Jeffersons
  • Rhea Perlman for playing "Carla Tortelli" in Cheers
  • Loretta Swit for playing "Margaret Houlihan" in M*A*S*H

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

• Doris Roberts for playing "Cora" in St. Elsewhere
  • Barbara Bosson for playing "Fay Furillo" in Hill Street Blues
  • Christina Pickles for playing "Nurse Helen Rosenthal" in St. Elsewhere
  • Madge Sinclair for playing "Ernestine Shoop" in Trapper John, M.D.
  • Betty Thomas for playing "Lucille Bates" in Hill Street Blues

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series

• Hill Street Blues

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series

• Hill Street Blues
  • Fame
  • The Mississippi

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

• Cheers
  • Buffalo Bill
  • Taxi

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series

• Cheers
  • Buffalo Bill
  • The Love Boat
  • M*A*S*H

External links

• Emmy Awards 1983 at Internet Movie Database