A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | CH | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay - Episodic Drama
...
| Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Writers Guild of America |
| First awarded | 1961 |
| Currently held by | Georgia Pritchett and Will Arbery Succession (2023) |
| Website | http://www.wga.org/ |
The Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama is an award presented by the Writers Guild of America to the best written episodes of a dramatic television series. It has been presented annually since the 14th annual Writers Guild of America awards in 1962. The years denote when each episode first aired. Though, due to the eligibility period, some nominees could have aired in a different year. The current eligibility period is December 1 to November 30. The winners are highlighted in gold.
Winners and nominees
1960s
| Year | Series | Episode | Winners/nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Episodic, Longer Than 30 Minutes in Length
| ||||
| 1960 (13th) | ||||
| The Untouchables | "The Unhired Assassin" | William Spier | ABC | |
| Bonanza | "The Last Hunt" | Donald S. Sanford | NBC | |
| Rawhide | "Incident of the Dry Drive" | John Dunkel | CBS | |
Episodic Drama
| ||||
| 1961 (14th) | ||||
| Naked City | "The Fault in Our Stars" | Barry Trivers | ABC | |
| Have Gun – Will Travel | "The Fatalist" | Shimon Wincelberg | CBS | |
| The Law and Mr. Jones | "No Sale" | Palmer Thompson | ABC | |
| Rawhide | "The Incident of the Buffalo Soldier" | John Dunkel | CBS | |
| The Westerner | "Brown" | Bruce Geller | NBC | |
| 1962 (15th) | ||||
| Naked City | "Today the Man Who Kills the Ants Is Coming" | Story by : Kenneth M. Rosen Teleplay by : Howard Rodman and Kenneth M. Rosen |
ABC | |
| Ben Casey | "I Remember a Lemon Tree" | Story by : Marcus W. Demian Teleplay by : Jack Laird |
ABC | |
| The Defenders | "The Benefactor" | Peter Stone | CBS | |
| Naked City | "The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish" | Ernest Kinoy | ABC | |
| Route 66 | "Goodnight, Sweet Blues" | Story by : Leonard Freeman and Will Lorin Teleplay by : Will Lorin |
CBS | |
| 1963 (16th) | ||||
| Route 66 | "Man Out of Time" | Lawrence B. Marcus | CBS | |
| Ben Casey | "A Cardinal Act of Mercy" | Norman Katkov | ABC | |
| The Defenders | "A Book for Burning" | William Woolfolk | CBS | |
| Empire | "Between Friday and Monday" | Kenneth Trevey | NBC | |
| Naked City | "The S.S. American Dream" | Frank Pierson | ABC | |
| 1964 (17th) | ||||
| East Side/West Side | "Who Do You Kill?" | Arnold Perl | CBS | |
| Channing | "Freedom is a Lovesome Thing God Wot!" | Jack R. Guss and Edmund Morris | ABC | |
| "Wave Goodbye to Our Fair-Haired Boy" | Kenneth Kolb | |||
| The Defenders | "The Non Violent" | Ernest Kinoy | CBS | |
| Gunsmoke | "Owney Tupper Had A Daughter" | Paul Savage | ||
| 1965 (18th) | ||||
| Mr. Novak | "With a Hammer In His Hand, Lord, Lord!" | John D. F. Black | NBC | |
| 12 O'Clock High | "Interlude" | Dean Riesner | ABC | |
| Ben Casey | "A Woods Full of Question Marks" | Ellis Marcus | ||
| Dr. Kildare | "Man is a Rock" | Christopher Knopf | NBC | |
| The Fugitive | "Men in a Chariot" | George Eckstein | ABC | |
| Slattery's People | "Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?" | William P. McGivern | CBS | |
| 1966 (19th) | ||||
| The Trials of O'Brien | "No Justice for the Judge" | David Ellis | CBS | |
| Court Martial | "Judge Them Gently" | Gerry Day | ABC | |
| The Fugitive | "When the Wind Blows" | Betty Langdon | ||
| Slattery's People | "Color Him Red" | Pat Fielder | CBS | |
| The Virginian | "The Horse Fighter" | Richard Fielder | NBC | |
| 1967 (20th) [1] | ||||
| Star Trek | "The City on the Edge of Forever" | Harlan Ellison | NBC | |
| The Big Valley | "The Martyr" | Mel Goldberg | ABC | |
| Gunsmoke | "Fandango" | Don Ingalls | CBS | |
| Mission: Impossible | "Odds on Evil" | William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter | ||
| Star Trek | "The Return of the Archons" | Story by : Gene Roddenberry Teleplay by : Boris Sobelman |
NBC | |
| 1968 (21st) [2][better source needed] | ||||
| Judd, for the Defense | "To Kill a Madman" | Robert Lewin | ABC | |
| Hawaii Five-O | "Pilot" | Leonard Freeman | CBS | |
| Judd, for the Defense | "The Commitment" | Paul Monash | ABC | |
| "No Law Against Murder" | Harold Gast | |||
| Mannix | "The Name is Mannix" | Bruce Geller | CBS | |
| The Outcasts | "Take Your Lover in the Ring" | Anthony Lawrence | ABC | |
| Star Trek | "Return to Tomorrow" | John T. Dugan | NBC | |
| 1969 (22nd) [2][better source needed] | ||||
| Judd, for the Defense | "An Elephant in a Cigar Box" | Robert Lewin | ABC | |
| Hawaii Five-O | "To Hell with Babe Ruth" | Anthony Lawrence | CBS | |
| The Mod Squad | "In This Corner -- Sol Alpert" | Rita Lakin and Harve Bennett | ABC | |
| "Keep the Faith, Baby" | Harve Bennett | |||
| Then Came Bronson | "Two Percent of Nothing" | D. C. Fontana | NBC | |
| The Virginian | "Black Jade" | Herb Meadow | ||
1970s
| Year | Series | Episode | Winners/nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 (23rd) [3] | ||||
| The Bold Ones: The Senator | "A Continual Roar of Musketry" | David W. Rintels | NBC | |
| Bracken's World | "Infinity" | Cliff Gould | NBC | |
| "Meanwhile, Back at the Studio" | Joseph Bonaduce | |||
| Hawaii Five-O | "Trouble in Mind" | Mel Goldberg and Sasha Gilien | CBS | |
| The Young Lawyers | "The Glass Prison" | John W. Bloch | ABC | |
| 1971 (24th) | ||||
| The Psychiatrist | "Par for the Course" | Story by : Thomas Y. Drake Teleplay by : Herb Bermann, Thomas Y. Drake, Jerrold Freedman and Bo May |
NBC | |
| The Bold Ones: The Lawyers | "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" | Story by : Bret Huggins Teleplay by : Jack B. Sowards |
NBC | |
| The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | "Angry Man" | Arthur Dales | ||
| Columbo | "Murder by the Book" | Steven Bochco | ||
| Hawaii Five-O | "F.O.B. Honolulu" | Jerry Ludwig & Eric Bercovici | CBS | |
| Ironside | "No Motive for Murder" | Sy Salkowitz | NBC | |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | "They Grow Up" | Dick Nelson | ABC | |
| Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law | "Until Proven Innocent" | Pat Fielder | ||
| 1972 (25th) | ||||
| Kung Fu | "King of the Mountain" | Herman Miller | ABC | |
| Columbo | "Etude in Black" | Story by : Richard Levinson & William Link Teleplay by : Steven Bochco |
NBC | |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | "Please Don't Send Flowers" | Bess Boyle | ABC | |
| McCloud | "The Barefoot Stewardess Caper" | Story by : B. W. Sandefur Teleplay by : Michael Gleason and Glen A. Larson |
NBC | |
| "The New Mexican Connection" | Glen A. Larson | |||
| The Mod Squad | "Taps, Play It Louder" | Sandor Stern | ABC | |
| 1973 (26th) | ||||
| The Starlost | "Phoenix without Ashes" | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Screenplay_-_Episodic_Drama