| - "Turn, Turn, Turn: Part 1" – Cagney & Lacey (CBS) – Georgia Jeffries
- "It's a Wonderful Job" – Moonlighting (ABC) – Debra Frank, and Carl Sautter
- "More Skinned Against Than Skinning" – Hill Street Blues (NBC) – David Black
- "Fathers and Guns" – Hill Street Blues (NBC) – Jeffrey Lewis, and Jerry Patrick Brown
- "The Venus Butterfly" – L.A. Law (NBC) – Steven Bochco, and Terry Louise Fisher
- "Fry Me to the Moon" – L.A. Law (NBC) – Jacob Epstein, Marshall Goldberg, and David E. Kelley
- "Big Man on Mulberry Street" – Moonlighting (ABC) – Karen Hall
- "Atomic Shakespeare" – Moonlighting (ABC) – Ron Osborn, and Jeff Reno
- "A Room with a View" – St. Elsewhere (NBC) – Channing Gibson, John Masius, and Tom Fontana
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- Ryan's Hope (ABC) – Claire Labine, Eleanor Mancusi, William Burritt, Madeline B. David, Steve Lehrman, David Appel
- Days of Our Lives (NBC) – Sheri Anderson, Leah Laiman, Anne Schoettle, Thom Racina, M.M. Shelly Moore, Dena Higley, Richard J. Allen, Linda Campanelli, Maralyn Thoma, Michelle Poteet Lisanti, Peggi Schibi, Penina Spiegel, Ted Kubiak
| - There Were Times, Dear – Harry Cauley
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| - Will Rogers: Look Back in Laughter – Bennet Tramer
- 19th Annual NAACP Image Award – Daryl G. Nickens, Rita Cash, and Royce Osborn Jr.
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