Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series explained

The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series was established in 1952. The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series winners are listed below.

Recipients

1950s

Year	Episode	Series	Writers	Result
1952	—			Winner
1953	—	Dragnet		Winner
1954	"Crime at Blossoms"	Studio One		Winner	^[1]
1955	"Smoke"	Suspense		Winner
		Climax!	, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler	Shortlist
1956	"Sting of Death"		, based on the novel A Taste for Honey by H. F. Heard	Winner
	"Thin Air"	Climax!		Shortlist
1957		Omnibus		Winner
1958	"Mechanical Manhunt"			Winner
		Omnibus	Omnibus staff	Shortlist
1959		Studio One		Winner
	"Capital Punishment"	Omnibus		Winner

1960s

Year	Episode	Series	Writers	Result
1960				Winner
		Peter Gunn		Shortlist
1961		Dow Hour of Great Mysteries	(Audrey Roos and William Roos)	Winner	^[2]
		Alfred Hitchcock Presents		Shortlist
1962	"Witness in the Dark"	Kraft Mystery Theater	and Leigh Vance	Winner
			and Boyd Correll	Shortlist
1963		Kraft Mystery Theatre		Winner
				Shortlist
	"Scene of the Crime"			Shortlist
1964		Kraft Suspense Hour		Winner
	—			Shortlist
	"To Bury Caesar"			Shortlist
1965	—			Winner
1966		Alfred Hitchcock Hour		Winner
	"Carry Me Back to Old Tsing Tao"	I, Spy		Shortlist
		Honey West	and William Link	Shortlist
	"Memorandum for a Spy"	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		Shortlist
1967	"Operation Rogesh"	Mission: Impossible		Winner
	"After the Lion, Jackals"	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		Shortlist
		Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	and Oscar Millard	Shortlist
1968	"Tempest in a Texas Town"	Judd, for the Defense	and Leon Tokatyan	Winner
1969		ABC Special		Winner
	"Companions in Nightmare"	NBC World Premier Film		Shortlist

1970s

Year	Episode	Series	Writers	Result
1970	"Daughter of the Mind"	ABC Movie of the Week		Winner
	"In This Corner - Sol Albert"		and Rita Lakin	Shortlist
		Mannix		Shortlist
1971		NBC Movie of the Week	and Richard Alan Simmons	Winner
		NBC Movie of the Week	and Michael Blankfort	Shortlist
		ABC Movie of the Week		Shortlist
	"To Taste of Death But Once"			Shortlist
1972		Mannix		Winner
	"Company Town"	Cade's County		Shortlist
	"Murder by the Book"	Columbo		Shortlist
	"Somebody's Out To Get Jennie"	McCloud		Shortlist
1973		McCloud		Winner
	"A Date with Death"	Banyon	Morton Fine, Milton S. Gelman	Shortlist
	"Bait Once, Bait Twice"	Hawaii Five-O	Will Lorin	Shortlist
	"The Crimson Halo"	Mannix	Shimon Wincelberg	Shortlist
	"Victim in Shadow"	Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law	Richard Bluel	Shortlist
1974	"Requiem for an Informer"	Police Story		Winner
1975	"Requiem For C.Z. Smith"	Police Story		Winner
1976	"No Immunity for Murder"	Kojak		Winner
1977	"Requiem for Murder"			Winner
1978		Quincy M.E.	and Lou Shaw	Winner
1979	"Murder Under Glass"	Columbo		Winner

1980s

Year	Episode	Series	Writers	Result
1980	"Skin"	Tales of the Unexpected	and Roald Dahl	Winner
1981	"China Doll"	Magnum, P.I.	and Glen A. Larson	Winner
1982	"Hill Street Station"	Hill Street Blues	and Michael Kozoll	Winner
1983	"In the Steele of the Night"	Remington Steele		Winner
1984		Philip Marlowe, Private Eye		Winner
1985	"Deadly Lady"	Murder, She Wrote		Winner
1986		Amazing Stories		Winner
1987				Winner
1988		Masterpiece Mystery		Winner
1989		Masterpiece Mystery		Winner

1990s

Year	Episode	Series	Writers	Result
1990	"White Noise"	Wiseguy	and Alfonse Ruggiero	Winner
1991	"Good Night, Dear Heart"	Quantum Leap		Winner
	"Gabriel's Fire"	Gabriel's Fire	Coleman Luck, Jacqueline Zambrano	Shortlist
	"Happily Ever After"	Law & Order	David Black, Robert Stuart Nathan	Shortlist
	"Justice Swerved"	L.A. Law	David E. Kelley, Bryce Zabel	Shortlist
1993	"Conspiracy"	Law & Order	Rene Balcer, Michael S. Chernuchin	Winner

2000s

Year	Episode	Series	Writers	Result
2001	"Limitations"	Law & Order: SVU		Winner
2003	"Waste"	Law & Order: SVU	and Lisa Marie Petersen	Winner
	"Ho Down"	NYPD Blue	and Bill Clark	Shortlist
	"Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation"	Monk		Shortlist
			(teleplay/story), Ed Burns (story)	Shortlist
	"Tuxedo Hill"			Shortlist
2004	"Goodbye"		and David E. Kelley	Winner
	"Coerced"	Law & Order: SVU		Shortlist
	"Mr. Monk and the 12th Man"	Monk		Shortlist
	"Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man"	Monk		Shortlist
	"Probability"		and René Balcer (story)	Shortlist
2005	"Want"		(teleplay/story) and René Balcer (story)	Winner
	"Consumed"		(teleplay/story), René Balcer (story)	Shortlist
	"Conscience"		(teleplay/story) and René Balcer (story)	Shortlist
	"Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf"	Monk		Shortlist
	"Pas De Deux"		(teleplay/story) and René Balcer (story)	Shortlist
2006	"Amulet"	Sea of Souls		Winner
	"911"	Law & Order: SVU		Shortlist
		CSI	and Carol Mendelsohn	Shortlist
	"Grave Danger"	CSI	, Naren Shankar, Quentin Tarantino, and Anthony Zuiker	Shortlist
	"Redemption"	Wire in the Blood		Shortlist
2007	"Episode 1"	Life on Mars		Winner
	"Blue Blood"		and Mike Berchem	Shortlist
	"Clueless"	House		Shortlist
	"Crocodile"	Dexter		Shortlist
	"Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink"	Monk		Shortlist
2008	"Pilot"	Burn Notice		Winner	^[3]
	"It's Alive!"	Dexter		Shortlist
	"Pie-lette"	Pushing Daisies		Shortlist
	"Senseless"		, Siobhan Byrne O'Connor, and Julie Martin	Shortlist
	"Yahrzeit"	Waking the Dead		Shortlist
2009	"Prayer of the Bone"	Wire in the Blood		Winner
	"Burn Card"	Law & Order	and David Wilcox	Shortlist	^[4]
	"Signature"	Law & Order: SVU		Shortlist
	"Streetwise"	Law & Order: SVU		Shortlist
	"You May Now Kill the Bride"			Shortlist

2010s

Year	Episode	Series	Writers	Result
2010	"Place of Execution"	Place of Execution		Winner
2011	"Episode 1"	Luther		Winner
2012	"Pilot"	Homeland	, Howard Gordon, and Gideon Raff	Winner	^[5]
	"Innocence"	Blue Bloods		Shortlist
		Justified		Shortlist
	"Part 1"	Whitechapel	and Caroline Ip	Shortlist
	"Mask"	Law & Order: SVU		Shortlist
2013		Sherlock		Winner
2014	"Episode 1"			Winner
	"Episode 3"	Luther		Shortlist	^[6]
	"Legitimate Rape"	Law & Order: SVU	and Peter Blauner	Shortlist
	"Variations Under Domestication"	Orphan Black		Shortlist
	"Pilot"			Shortlist
2015	"Episode 1"	Happy Valley		Winner	^[7] ^[8] ^[9]
		Sherlock		Shortlist
	"Unfinished Business"	Blue Bloods		Shortlist
	"Dream Baby Dream"			Shortlist
	"Episode 6"	The Game		Shortlist
2016	"Gently with the Women"	Inspector George Gently		Winner	^[10] ^[11]
2017		Penny Dreadful		Winner	^[12]
2018	"Somebody to Love"	Fargo		Winner	^[13]
	"Episode 1"	The Loch	Stephen Brady	Shortlist
	"Something Happened"	Law & Order: SVU	Michael Chernuchin	Shortlist
	"Gentley and the New Age"	George Gentley	Robert Murphy	Shortlist
	"The Blanket Mire	Vera	Paul Matthew Thompson and Martha Hillier	Shortlist
2019			and Donald Joh	Winner	^[14]

2020s

Year	Episode	Series	Writers	Result
2020	Season 5, Episode 4	Line of Duty		Winner	^[15] ^[16]
2021	"Episode 1, Photochemistry"	Dead Still		Winner	^[17]
	"Episode 1, The Stranger"			Shortlist	^[18]
	"Episode 1, Open Water"			Shortlist
	"Episode 1"	Des		Shortlist
	"What I Know"			Shortlist
2022	"Boots on the Ground"			Winner	^[19]
2023	"Episode 1"	Magpie Murders		Winner	^[20]
	"One Mighty and Strong"	Under the Banner of Heaven	Brandon Boyce	Shortlist
2024	"Escape from Shit Mountain"	Poker Face	and Lilla Zuckerman	Winner	^[21]
	"Time of the Monkey"	Poker Face	and Charlie Peppers	Shortilst
	"I'm a Pretty Observant Guy"	Will Trent		Shortilst
	"Dead Man's Hand"	Poker Face		Shortilst
	"Hózhó Náhásdlii (Beauty is Restore)"	Dark Winds		Shortilst

External links

• The official website of Edgar Awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: Best Episode in a TV Series . 2009-04-18 . 2018-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180927165310/http://www.theedgars.com/edgarsDB/index.php . dead .
2. News: Audrey Kelley Roos, a Writer Of Mystery Novels and Plays. The New York Times. December 12, 1982. 52. May 7, 2024. February 2, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180202072136/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/12/obituaries/audrey-kelley-roos-a-writer-of-mystery-novels-and-plays.html. live.
3. http://www.theedgars.com/nominees08_2.html#episode 2008 Edgar Nominees
4. Web site: 2009 Edgar Nominees . 2009-04-18 . 2009-08-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090819101601/http://theedgars.com/nominees2.html#episode . dead .
5. Web site: Cogdill . Oline . 2012 Edgar Award Winners . 2022-12-15 . . 2022-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220712211000/https://www.mysteryscenemag.com/blog-article/2559-2012-edgar-award-winners . live .
6. Web site: The 2014 Edgar Award Nominations and Winners . 2022-12-15 . Heights Libraries . 2022-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221210043916/https://heightslibrary.org/the-2014-edgar-award-nominations/ . live .
7. Web site: 2015 Nominees and Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151108155610/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html . 2015-11-08 . Edgar Awards.
8. Web site: May 1, 2015 . Awards: Edgar Winners; Ridenhour Book . 2022-12-10 . . 2022-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220921232035/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2498 . live .
9. Web site: 2015 Edgar Award Winners . 2022-12-14 . Mystery Scene Magazine . 2024-05-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240506001032/https://www.mysteryscenemag.com/blog-article/4874-2015-edgar-award-winners . live .
10. Web site: 2016 Nominees and Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161105001852/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html . 2016-11-05 . Edgar Awards.
11. Web site: May 2, 2016 . Awards: Edgar Winners . 2022-12-11 . . 2022-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220915213833/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2744 . live .
12. Web site: 2017 Nominees and Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107133154/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html . 2017-11-07 . Edgar Awards.
13. Web site: 2018 Nominees and Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20181110031229/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html . 2018-11-10 . Edgar Awards.
14. Web site: 2019 Nominees and Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190818102836/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html . 2019-08-18 . Edgar Awards.
15. Web site: Edgar Award Nominees . 2020-05-05 . www.theedgars.com . 2012-11-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121103021135/http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html . dead .
16. Web site: 2020-05-05 . Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2020 winners announced . 2020-05-05 . Books+Publishing . en-AU . 2020-05-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200506234347/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/05/05/149977/edgar-allan-poe-awards-2020-winners-announced/ . live .
17. Web site: 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners . Mystery Writers of America . 2024-05-07 . 2021-04-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210429182947/https://mysterywriters.org/2021-edgar-allan-poe-award-winners/ . live .
18. Web site: 2021-04-29 . Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 Edgar Awards . 2022-12-14 . CrimeReads . en-US . 2021-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210621044205/https://crimereads.com/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-2021-edgar-awards/ . live .
19. Web site: 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners . Mystery Writers of America . 2024-05-07 . 2024-05-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240506175516/https://mysterywriters.org/2022-edgar-allan-poe-award-winners-announced/ . live .
20. Web site: MWA Announces 2023 Edgar Award Winners . Mystery Writers of America . 2024-05-07 . 2023-05-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230501202421/https://mysterywriters.org/mwa-announces-2023-edgar-award-winners/ . live .
21. News: 2024 . Best Television Episode Teleplay . The 3rd Degree . . 5 . 2024-05-07 . 2024-05-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240502174228/https://mysterywriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EdWinners2024.pdf . live .