| Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series | |
| Awarded For: | Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series |
| Presenter: | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1955 |
| Holder: | Jesse Armstrong, Succession (2023) |
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It was first awarded at the 7th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, held in 1955 and it is given in honor of a writer or writers who produced an outstanding story or screenplay for an episode of a television drama series during the primetime network season. Undergoing several name changes, the award received its current title at the 48th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1996.
Since its inception, the award has been presented to 75 writers. Jesse Armstrong is the current recipient of the award for his work on the episode of HBO's Succession titled "Connor's Wedding". Rod Serling holds the record for most wins for this category at six. The Sopranos holds the record for most wins and nominations for this category at 6 and 21, respectively. Game of Thrones, Hill Street Blues and The Sopranos are the only shows that have been nominated in 7 different years.
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
| Indicates the winner |
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominee(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Written Dramatic Material[1] | ||||
| 1955 | Studio One | "Twelve Angry Men" | Reginald Rose | CBS |
| Climax! | "An Error in Chemistry" | David Dortort | CBS | |
| Four Star Playhouse | "The Answer" | Leonard Freeman | ||
| Medic | "White Is the Color" | James Moser | NBC | |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | Paddy Chayefsky | |||
| 1956 | ||||
| Best Original Teleplay Writing[2] | ||||
| Kraft Television Theatre | "Patterns" | Rod Serling | NBC | |
| Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse | "A Catered Affair" | Paddy Chayefsky | NBC | |
| "Thunder Over Washington" | David Davidson | |||
| The Philco Television Playhouse | "A Man Is Ten Feet Tall" | Robert Alan Aurthur | ||
| The United States Steel Hour | "Fearful Decision" | CBS | ||
| Best Television Adaptation[3] | ||||
| Ford Star Jubilee | "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" | Paul Gregory and Franklin J. Schaffner | CBS | |
| The 20th Century Fox Hour | "The Miracle on 34th Street" | John Monks | CBS | |
| "The Ox-Bow Incident" | David Dortort | |||
| Climax! | "The Champion" | Rod Serling | ||
| Producers' Showcase | "Our Town" | David Shaw | NBC | |
| 1957 | ||||
| Best Teleplay Writing – Half Hour or Less[4] | ||||
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | "Fog Closing In" | James P. Cavanagh | CBS | |
| Frontier | "Patrol" | NBC | ||
| The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | "The Buntime" | Dan Ullman | ABC | |
| The Loretta Young Show | "The Pearl" | Richard Morris | NBC | |
| Telephone Time | "Man with the Beard" | John Nesbitt | ABC | |
| Best Teleplay Writing – One Hour or More[5] | ||||
| Playhouse 90 | "Requiem for a Heavyweight" | Rod Serling | CBS | |
| Alcoa-Goodyear Playhouse | "Joey" | Louis Peterson | NBC | |
| "Tragedy in a Temporary Town" | Reginald Rose | |||
| Kraft Television Theatre | "A Night to Remember" | John Whedon and George Roy Hill | ||
| Playhouse 90 | "Sizeman and Son" | Elick Moll | CBS | |
| 1958 | ||||
| Best Teleplay Writing – Half Hour or Less[6] | ||||
| Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | "The Lonely Wizard" | Paul Monash | CBS | |
| Father Knows Best | "Margaret Hires a Gardener" | Roswell Rogers | NBC | |
| Frontiers of Faith | "A Chassidic Tale" | Morton Wishengrad | ||
| Gunsmoke | "Born to Hang" | John Meston | CBS | |
| Leave It to Beaver | "Beaver Gets 'Spelled" | Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher | ||
| Best Teleplay Writing – One Hour or More[7] | ||||
| Playhouse 90 | "The Comedian" | Rod Serling | CBS | |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | "The Green Pastures" | Marc Connelly | NBC | |
| Omnibus | "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | James Lee | ||
| Playhouse 90 | "The Miracle Worker" | William Gibson | CBS | |
| Studio One | "No Deadly Medicine" | Arthur Hailey | ||
| 1959 | ||||
| Best Writing of a Single Program of a Dramatic Series - Less Than One Hour[8] | ||||
| Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre | "Eddie" | Alfred Brenner and Ken Hughes | NBC | |
| Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre | "The Loudmouth" | Christopher Knopf | NBC | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | "Lamb to the Slaughter" | Roald Dahl | CBS | |
| General Electric Theater | "One is a Wanderer" | Samuel A. Taylor | ||
| Peter Gunn | "The Kill" | NBC | ||
| Best Writing of a Single Dramatic Program - One Hour or Longer[9] | ||||
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Little Moon of Alban" | James Costigan | NBC | |
| Playhouse 90 | "Child of Our Time" | Irving G. Neiman | CBS | |
| "Days of Wine and Roses" | JP Miller | |||
| "Old Man" | Horton Foote | |||
| "A Town Has Turned to Dust" | Rod Serling | |||
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominee(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama | ||||
| 1960 [10] | The Twilight Zone | Rod Serling | CBS | |
| Ford Startime | "The Turn of the Screw" | James Costigan | NBC | |
| Playhouse 90 | "Project Immortality" | CBS | ||
| 1961 [11] | The Twilight Zone | Rod Serling | CBS | |
| DuPont Show of the Month | "The Lincoln Murder Case" | Dale Wasserman | CBS | |
| NBC Sunday Showcase | "Sacco-Vanzetti Story" | NBC | ||
| 1962 [12] | ||||
| The Defenders | Reginald Rose | CBS | ||
| Alcoa Premiere | "People Need People" | Henry F. Greenberg | ABC | |
| Ben Casey | "I Remember a Lemon Tree" | |||
| The Dick Powell Show | "The Price of Tomatoes" | NBC | ||
| The Twilight Zone | Rod Serling | CBS | ||
| 1963 [13] | ||||
| The Defenders | "The Madman" | Robert Thom and Reginald Rose | CBS | |
| Ben Casey | "A Cardinal Act of Mercy" | Norman Katkov | ABC | |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | "Big Deal in Laredo" | Sidney Carroll | NBC | |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | "The Invincible Mr. Disraeli" | James Lee | ||
| Premiere, Presented by Fred Astaire | "The Voice of Charlie Pont" | Halsted Welles | ABC | |
| 1964 | ||||
| Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama – Original[14] | ||||
| The Defenders | "Blacklist" | Ernest Kinoy | CBS | |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | "Something About Lee Wiley" | NBC | ||
| Breaking Point | "And James Was a Very Small Snail" | ABC | ||
| Dr. Kildare | "What's God to Julius?" | NBC | ||
| East Side/West Side | "Who Do You Kill?" | CBS | ||
| Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama – Adaptation[15] | ||||
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | "It's Mental Work" | Rod Serling | NBC | |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | "The Jar" | CBS | ||
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | "The Patriots" | Robert Hartung | NBC | |
| The Richard Boone Show | "The Hooligan" | Walter Newman | ||
| Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment – Writers[16] | ||||
| 1965 | The Defenders | "The 700-Year-Old Gang" | David Karp | CBS |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Never Bathe on Sunday" | CBS | ||
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | "The Magnificent Yankee" | Robert Hartung | NBC | |
| That Was the Week That Was | William Boardman, Dee Caruso, Robert Emmett, David Frost, Gerald Gardner, Buck Henry, Joseph Hurley, Thomas Meehan, Herb Sargent, Larry Siegel, Gloria Steinem, Jim Stevenson, Calvin Trillin and Saul Turteltaub | |||
| The Wonderful World of Burlesque | Arnie Rosen and Coleman Jacoby | |||
| Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama | ||||
| 1966 [17] | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Eagle in a Cage" | Millard Lampell | NBC |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | "The Game" | S. Lee Pogostin | NBC | |
| I Spy | "A Cup of Kindness" | Morton Fine and David Friedkin | ||
| 1967 [18] | Mission: Impossible | "Pilot" | Bruce Geller | CBS |
| CBS Playhouse | "The Final War of Olly Winter" | CBS | ||
| I Spy | "The War Lord" | NBC | ||
| 1968 [19] | ||||
| CBS Playhouse | "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" | Loring Mandel | CBS | |
| CBS Playhouse | "Dear Friends" | Reginald Rose | CBS | |
| Mission: Impossible | "The Seal" | William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter | CBS | |
| NBC World Premiere Movie | "Ironside" | NBC | ||
| 1969 [20] | ||||
| CBS Playhouse | "The People Next Door" | JP Miller | CBS | |
| CBS Playhouse | "The Experiment" | Ellen M. Violett | CBS | |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Teacher, Teacher" | Allan Sloane | NBC | |
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominee(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama | ||||
| 1970 [21] | ||||
| NBC World Premiere Movie | "My Sweet Charlie" | Richard Levinson and William Link | NBC | |
| The ABC Wednesday Night Movie | "Marcus Welby, M.D." | ABC | ||
| CBS Playhouse | "Sadbird" | George Bellak | CBS | |
| 1971 [22] | ||||
| "To Taste of Death but Once" | Joel Oliansky | NBC | ||
| The Bold Ones: The Senator | "A Continual Roar of Musketry" | David W. Rintels | NBC | |
| Four in One | "The Psychiatrist" | Jerrold Freedman | ||
| 1972 [23] | ||||
| Columbo | "Death Lends a Hand" | Richard Levinson and William Link | NBC | |
| Columbo | "Murder by the Book" | Steven Bochco | NBC | |
| "Suitable for Framing" | Jackson Gillis | |||
| 1973 [24] | ||||
| The Waltons | "The Scholar" | John McGreevey | CBS | |
| Columbo | "Etude in Black" | NBC | ||
| The Waltons | "The Love Story" | CBS | ||
| Best Writing in Drama | ||||
| 1974 [25] | ||||
| The Waltons | "The Thanksgiving Story" | Joanna Lee | CBS | |
| Kojak | "Death Is Not a Passing Grade" | Gene R. Kearney | CBS | |
| The Waltons | "The Easter Story" | John McGreevey | ||
| Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series | ||||
| 1975 [26] | ||||
| Benjamin Franklin | "The Ambassador" | Howard Fast | CBS | |
| Benjamin Franklin | "The Whirlwind" | CBS | ||
| Police Story | "Robbery: 48 Hours" | Robert L. Collins | NBC | |
| Upstairs, Downstairs | "The Bolter" | John Hawkesworth | PBS | |
| "Miss Forrest" | Alfred Shaughnessy | |||
| 1976 [27] | ||||
| The Adams Chronicles | "John Adams and Lawyer" | Sherman Yellen | PBS | |
| "Lady Randolph" | PBS | |||
| The Law | "Complaint Amended" | Joel Oliansky | NBC | |
| Rich Man, Poor Man | "Part I" | ABC | ||
| Upstairs, Downstairs | "Another Year" | Alfred Shaughnessy | PBS | |
| 1977 [28] | ||||
| Roots | "Part II" | Ernest Kinoy and William Blinn | ABC | |
| The Adams Chronicles | "Charles Francis Adams: Minister to Great Britain" | Roger O. Hirson | PBS | |
| "John Quincy Adams: President" | Tad Mosel | |||
| Roots | "Part V" | James Lee | ABC | |
| "Part VIII" | M. Charles Cohen | |||
| 1978 [29] | ||||
| Holocaust | Gerald Green | NBC | ||
| The Dain Curse | Robert W. Lenski | CBS | ||
| King | Abby Mann | NBC | ||
| Meeting of Minds | Steve Allen | PBS | ||
| The Norman Conquests | Alan Ayckbourn | |||
| 1979 [30] | ||||
| Lou Grant | "Dying" | Michele Gallery | CBS | |
| Lou Grant | "Marathon" | Gene Reynolds | CBS | |
| "Vet" | Leon Tokatyan | |||
| The Paper Chase | "The Late Mr. Hart" | James Bridges | ||
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominee(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 [31] | ||||
| Lou Grant | "Cop" | Seth Freeman | CBS | |
| Lou Grant | "Brushfire" | Allan Burns and Gene Reynolds | CBS | |
| "Lou" | Michele Gallery | |||
| Skag | "Pilot" | NBC | ||
| Tenspeed and Brown Shoe | ABC | |||
| 1981 [32] | ||||
| Hill Street Blues | "Hill Street Station" | Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll | NBC | |
| American Dream | "Pilot" | Ronald M. Cohen, Barbara Corday and Ken Hecht | ABC | |
| Hill Street Blues | "Jungle Madness" | NBC | ||
| Lou Grant | "Rape" | Seth Freeman | CBS | |
| "Strike" | April Smith | |||
| 1982 [33] | ||||
| Hill Street Blues | "Freedom's Last Stand" | NBC | ||
| Hill Street Blues | "Personal Foul" | Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich, Jeffrey Lewis and Michael Wagner | NBC | |
| "The Second Oldest Profession" | ||||
| "The World According to Freedom" | Michael Wagner | |||
| Lou Grant | "Blacklist" | Seth Freeman | CBS | |
| 1983 [34] | ||||
| Hill Street Blues | "Trial by Fury" | David Milch | NBC | |
| Hill Street Blues | "Eugene's Comedy Empire Strikes Back" | NBC | ||
| "A Hair of the Dog" | Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich and Jeffrey Lewis | |||
| "No Body's Perfect" | ||||
| "Officer of the Year" | Karen Hall | |||
| 1984 [35] | ||||
| St. Elsewhere | "The Women" | NBC | ||
| Hill Street Blues | "Doris in Wonderland" | NBC | ||
| "Grace Under Pressure" | ||||
| St. Elsewhere | "All About Eve" | John Masius and Tom Fontana | ||
| "Newheart" | John Masius, Tom Fontana, Garn Stephens and Emilie R. Small | |||
| "Qui Transulit Sustinet" | ||||
| 1985 [36] | ||||
| Cagney & Lacey | "Who Said It's Fair, Part 2" | Patricia Green | CBS | |
| Cagney & Lacey | "Child Witness" | Deborah Arakelian | CBS | |
| Hill Street Blues | "The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall" | NBC | ||
| Miami Vice | "Pilot" | Anthony Yerkovich | ||
| St. Elsewhere | "Murder, She Rote" | John Masius, Tom Fontana and Steve Bello | ||
| "Sweet Dreams" | John Masius and Tom Fontana | |||
| 1986 [37] | ||||
| St. Elsewhere | "Time Heals" | John Tinker, Tom Fontana and John Masius | NBC | |
| Hill Street Blues | "What Are Friends For?" | NBC | ||
| Moonlighting | "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" | Debra Frank and Carl Sautter | ABC | |
| "Twas the Episode Before Christmas" | Glenn Gordon Caron | |||
| St. Elsewhere | "Haunted" | NBC | ||
| 1987 [38] | ||||
| L.A. Law | "The Venus Butterfly" | Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher | NBC | |
| Cagney & Lacey | "Turn, Turn, Turn, Part 1" | Georgia Jeffries | CBS | |
| Hill Street Blues | "It Ain't Over Till It's Over" | Jeffrey Lewis, David Milch and John Romano | NBC | |
| L.A. Law | "Sidney the Dead-Nosed Reindeer" | William M. Finkelstein | ||
| Moonlighting | "I Am Curious... Maddie" | ABC | ||
| "Atomic Shakespeare" | Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn | |||
| St. Elsewhere | "Afterlife" | Tom Fontana, John Tinker and John Masius | NBC | |
| 1988 [39] | ||||
| Thirtysomething | "Business as Usual" | Paul Haggis and Marshall Herskovitz | ABC | |
| Beauty and the Beast | "Pilot" | Ron Koslow | CBS | |
| China Beach | ABC | |||
| L.A. Law | "Beauty and Obese" | Terry Louise Fisher and David E. Kelley | NBC | |
| "Full Martial Jacket" | ||||
| St. Elsewhere | "The Last One" | |||
| 1989 [40] | ||||
| Thirtysomething | "First Day/Last Day" | Joseph Dougherty | ABC | |
| L.A. Law | "His Suit Is Hirsute" | Steven Bochco, David E. Kelley, Michele Gallery and William M. Finkelstein | NBC | |
| "I'm in the Nude for Love" | David E. Kelley | |||
| "Urine Trouble Now" | David E. Kelley, William M. Finkelstein, Michele Gallery and Judith Parker | |||
| Thirtysomething | "The Mike Van Dyke Show" | ABC |
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominee(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 [41] | L.A. Law | "Blood, Sweat & Fears" | David E. Kelley | NBC |
| L.A. Law | "Bang... Zoom... Zap" | William M. Finkelstein and David E. Kelley | NBC | |
| Thirtysomething | "The Go Between" | Joseph Dougherty | ABC | |
| Twin Peaks | "Pilot" | Mark Frost and David Lynch | ||
| "Episode 3" | Harley Peyton | |||
| 1991 [42] | L.A. Law | "On the Toad Again" | David E. Kelley | NBC |
| L.A. Law | "Lie Harder" | Judith Feldman and Sarah Woodside Gallagher | NBC | |
| "Mutinies on the Banzai" | Alan Brennert, Patricia Green and David E. Kelley | |||
| Northern Exposure | "Pilot" | CBS | ||
| Thirtysomething | "Second Look" | ABC | ||
| 1992 [43] | Northern Exposure | "Seoul Mates" | Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider | CBS |
| China Beach | "Hello-Goodbye" | ABC | ||
| I'll Fly Away | "Master Magician" | NBC | ||
| Northern Exposure | "Burning Down the House" | Robin Green | CBS | |
| "Democracy in America" | Jeff Melvoin | |||
| 1993 [44] | "Three Men and Adena" | Tom Fontana | NBC | |
| Homefront | "The Lacemakers" | ABC | ||
| Law & Order | "Manhood" | NBC | ||
| Northern Exposure | "Kaddish for Uncle Manny" | Jeff Melvoin | CBS | |
| "Midnight Sun" | Geoffrey Neigher | |||
| 1994 [45] | NYPD Blue | "Steroid Roy" | Ann Biderman | ABC |
| NYPD Blue | "NYPD Lou" | Ted Mann | ABC | |
| "Personal Foul" | ||||
| "Pilot" | ||||
| "Tempest in a C-Cup" | Gardner Stern | |||
| 1995 [46] | ER | "Love's Labor Lost" | Lance Gentile | NBC |
| ER | "24 Hours" | NBC | ||
| My So-Called Life | "Pilot" | Winnie Holzman | ABC | |
| NYPD Blue | "Simone Says" | |||
| The X-Files | "Duane Barry" | Fox | ||
| 1996 [47] | The X-Files | "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" | Darin Morgan | Fox |
| ER | "The Healers" | John Wells | NBC | |
| "Hell and High Water" | Neal Baer | |||
| Murder One | "Chapter One" | ABC | ||
| NYPD Blue | "The Backboard Jungle" | |||
| 1997 [48] | NYPD Blue | "Where's 'Swaldo?" | Stephen Gaghan, Michael R. Perry and David Milch | ABC |
| ER | "Faith" | John Wells | NBC | |
| "Whose Appy Now?" | Neal Baer | |||
| NYPD Blue | "Taillight's Last Gleaming" | David Mills | ABC | |
| The X-Files | "Memento Mori" | Fox | ||
| 1998 [49] | NYPD Blue | "Lost Israel, Part 2" | ABC | |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | "Subway" | James Yoshimura | NBC | |
| NYPD Blue | "Lost Israel, Part 1" | ABC | ||
| The Practice | "Betrayal" | David E. Kelley | ||
| The X-Files | "The Post-Modern Prometheus" | Chris Carter | Fox | |
| 1999 [50] | The Sopranos | "College" | James Manos Jr. and David Chase | HBO |
| NYPD Blue | "Hearts and Souls" | ABC | ||
| The Sopranos | "Isabella" | Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess | HBO | |
| "Nobody Knows Anything" | Frank Renzulli | |||
| "The Sopranos" | David Chase |
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominee(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 [51] | The West Wing | "In Excelsis Deo" | Aaron Sorkin and Rick Cleveland | NBC |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | "Hush" | The WB | ||
| The Sopranos | "Funhouse" | David Chase and Todd A. Kessler | HBO | |
| "The Knight in White Satin Armor" | Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess | |||
| The West Wing | "Pilot" | Aaron Sorkin | NBC | |
| 2001 [52] | The Sopranos | "Employee of the Month" | Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess | HBO |
| The Sopranos | "Amour Fou" | HBO | ||
| "Pine Barrens" | ||||
| "Second Opinion" | Lawrence Konner | |||
| The West Wing | "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen" | Aaron Sorkin | NBC | |
| 2002 [53] | 24 | "" | Robert Cochran and Joel Surnow | Fox |
| Alias | "Truth Be Told" | ABC | ||
| ER | "On the Beach" | NBC | ||
| The Shield | "Pilot" | FX | ||
| The West Wing | "Posse Comitatus" | Aaron Sorkin | NBC | |
| 2003 [54] | The Sopranos | "Whitecaps" | Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess and David Chase | HBO |
| Six Feet Under | "Twilight" | Craig Wright | HBO | |
| The Sopranos | "Eloise" | Terence Winter | ||
| "Whoever Did This" | Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess | |||
| The West Wing | "Twenty Five" | Aaron Sorkin | NBC | |
| 2004 [55] | The Sopranos | "Long Term Parking" | Terence Winter | HBO |
| Deadwood | "Deadwood" | David Milch | HBO | |
| The Sopranos | "Irregular Around the Margins" | Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess | ||
| "Unidentified Black Males" | Matthew Weiner and Terence Winter | |||
| "Where's Johnny?" | Michael Caleo | |||
| 2005 [56] | House | "Three Stories" | David Shore | Fox |
| Lost | "Pilot" | ABC | ||
| " align=center | Walkabout" | David Fury | ||
| Rescue Me | "Guts" | FX | ||
| The Wire | "Middle Ground" | HBO | ||
| 2006 [57] | The Sopranos | "Members Only" | Terence Winter | HBO |
| Grey's Anatomy | "Into You Like a Train" | Krista Vernoff | ABC | |
| "It's the End of the World" & "As We Know It" | Shonda Rhimes | |||
| Lost | "The 23rd Psalm" | Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof | ||
| Six Feet Under | "Everyone's Waiting" | HBO | ||
| 2007 [58] | The Sopranos | "Made in America" | David Chase | HBO |
| Battlestar Galactica | "Occupation" & "Precipice" | Sci Fi | ||
| Lost | "Through the Looking Glass" | Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof | ABC | |
| The Sopranos | "Kennedy and Heidi" | Matthew Weiner and David Chase | HBO | |
| "The Second Coming" | Terence Winter | |||
| 2008 [59] | Mad Men | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" | Matthew Weiner | AMC |
| Battlestar Galactica | "Six of One" | Sci Fi | ||
| Damages | "Get Me a Lawyer" | FX | ||
| Mad Men | "The Wheel" | AMC | ||
| The Wire | "–30–" | HBO | ||
| 2009 [60] | Mad Men | "Meditations in an Emergency" | Matthew Weiner and Kater Gordon | AMC |
| Lost | "The Incident" | Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof | ABC | |
| Mad Men | "The Jet Set" | Matthew Weiner | AMC | |
| "A Night to Remember" | Robin Veith and Matthew Weiner | |||
| "Six Month Leave" | Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton and Matthew Weiner |