38th Primetime Emmy Awards

Outstanding Comedy Series

• The Golden Girls
  • Cheers
  • The Cosby Show
  • Family Ties
  • Kate & Allie

Outstanding Drama Series

• Cagney & Lacey
  • Hill Street Blues
  • Moonlighting
  • Murder, She Wrote
  • St. Elsewhere

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

• Michael J. Fox for playing "Alex P. Keaton" in Family Ties
  • Harry Anderson for playing "Judge Harry T. Stone" in Night Court
  • Ted Danson for playing "Sam Malone" in Cheers
  • Bob Newhart for playing "Dick Loudon" in Newhart
  • Jack Warden for playing "Harrison Fox, Sr" in Crazy Like a Fox

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

• William Daniels for playing "Dr. Mark Craig" in St. Elsewhere
• Ed Flanders for playing "Dr. Donald Westphall" in St. Elsewhere
• Tom Selleck for playing "Thomas Magnum" in Magnum, P.I.
• Bruce Willis for playing "David Addison, Jr." in Moonlighting
• Edward Woodward for playing "Robert McCall" in The Equalizer

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

• Betty White for playing "Rose Nylund" in The Golden Girls
  • Bea Arthur for playing "Dorothy Zbornak" in The Golden Girls
  • Shelley Long for playing "Diane Chambers" in Cheers
  • Rue McClanahan for playing "Blanche Devereaux" in The Golden Girls
  • Phylicia Rashad for playing "Clair Huxtable" in The Cosby Show

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

• Sharon Gless for playing "Christine Cagney" in Cagney & Lacey
  • Tyne Daly for playing "Mary Beth Lacey" in Cagney & Lacey
  • Angela Lansbury for playing "Jessica Fletcher" in Murder, She Wrote
  • Cybill Shepherd for playing "Madelyn Hayes" in Moonlighting
  • Alfre Woodard for playing "Dr. Roxanne Turner" in St. Elsewhere

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

• John Larroquette for playing "Dan Fielding" in Night Court
  • Tom Poston for playing "George Utley" in Newhart
  • John Ratzenberger for playing "Cliff Clavin" in Cheers
  • Malcolm-Jamal Warner for playing "Theodore Huxtable" in The Cosby Show
  • George Wendt for playing "Norm Peterson" in Cheers

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

• John Karlen for playing "Harvey Lacey" in Cagney & Lacey
  • Ed Begley Jr. for playing "Dr. Victor Ehrlich" in St. Elsewhere
  • John Hillerman for playing "Higgins" in Magnum, P.I.
  • Edward James Olmos for playing "Martin Castillo" in Miami Vice
  • Bruce Weitz for playing "Michael "Mick" Belker"in Hill Street Blues

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Rhea Perlman for playing "Carla Tortelli" in Cheers
  • Justine Bateman for playing "Mallory Keaton" in Family Ties
  • Lisa Bonet for playing "Denise Huxtable" in The Cosby Show
  • Julia Duffy for playing "Stephanie Vanderkellen" in Newhart
  • Estelle Getty for playing "Sophia Petrillo" in The Golden Girls
  • Keshia Knight Pulliam for playing "Rudy Huxtable" in The Cosby Show

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

• Bonnie Bartlett for playing "Ellen Craig" in St. Elsewhere
  • Allyce Beasley for playing "Agnes DiPesto" in Moonlighting
  • Christina Pickles for playing "Helen Rosenthal" in St. Elsewhere
  • Betty Thomas for playing "Lucille Bates" in Hill Street Blues

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series

• St. Elsewhere
  • Hill Street Blues
  • Moonlighting

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series

• Cagney & Lacey
  • Amazing Stories
  • Hill Street Blues
  • Moonlighting

Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series

• The Golden Girls
  • Cheers
  • The Cosby Show
  • Family Ties

Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series

• The Cosby Show
  • Cheers
  • The Golden Girls
  • Kate & Allie

External links

• Emmy Awards 1986 at Internet Movie Database