- "The Mango" – Seinfeld (NBC) – Larry David, and Lawrence H. Levy
- "A Mid-Winter Night's Dream" – Frasier (NBC) – Chuck Ranberg, and Anne Flett-Giordano
- "A Stash from the Past" – Roseanne (CBS) – Kevin Abbott
- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" – Roseanne (CBS) – James Berg, Stan Zimmerman, and Michael Borkow
- "The Hamptons" – Seinfeld (NBC) – Peter Mehlman, and Carol Leifer
| - "Bop Gun" – (NBC) – David Simon, David Mills, and Tom Fontana
- "A Many Splendored Thing" – Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC) – Noel Behn, and Tom Fontana
- "Tempest in a C-Cup" – NYPD Blue (ABC) – Gardner Stern
- "Pilot" – NYPD Blue (ABC) – David Milch, and Steven Bochco
- "Hello, I Love You" – Northern Exposure (CBS) – Robin Green, and Mitchell Burgess
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- General Hospital (ABC) – Claire Labine, Matt Labine, Eleanor Mancusi, Ralph Ellis, Meg Bennett, Michele Val Jean, Stephanie Braxton, Lewis Arlt, Karen Harris
- Another World (NBC) – Peggy Sloane, Victor Miller, Lorraine Broderick, Craig Carlson, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Carolyn Culliton, Judith Pinsker, Janet Iacobuzio, Kathleen Klein, Mimi Leahey, Peter Brash, Kathleen Kennedy, Elizabeth Page, Sofia Landon Geier, Sharon Epstein
- Guiding Light (CBS) – Nancy Curlee, Stephen Demorest, Patrick Mulcahey, Millee Taggart, Nancy Williams Watt, Leah Laiman, Jane Atkins, James H. Brown, Michael Conforti, Barbara Esensten, Jeannie Glynn, Lynda Myles, Roger Newman, Courtney Simon
- One Life to Live (ABC) – Michael Malone, Josh Griffith, Jean Passanante, Susan Bedsow-Horgan, Christopher Whitesell, David Colson, Matthew T. Gannon, David Smilow, Becky Cole, Lloyd 'Lucky' Gold, Mike Cohen
| - Witness to the Execution (NBC) – Thomas Baum, Keith Pierce, and Priscilla Prestwidge
- Lily in Winter – Julie Moskowitz, Robert Elsele, Gary Stephens, and J. Michael Riva
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