En İyi Drama Dizisi Primetime Emmy Ödülü
Kazananlar ve Adaylar > 1980'ler

| Yıl | Program | Yapımcılar | Kanal |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
1980 (32.) : 
| 1980 (32.)  | Lou Grant | Gene Reynolds | CBS |
| 1980 (32.)  | Dallas | Philip Capice ve Lee Rich | CBS |
| 1980 (32.)  | Family | Leonard Goldberg ve Aaron Spelling | ABC |
| 1980 (32.)  | The Rockford Files | Juanita Bartlett | NBC |
| 1980 (32.)  | The White Shadow | Bruce Paltrow ve Mark Tinker | CBS |
1981 (33.) : 
| 1981 (33.)  | Hill Street Blues | Steven Bochco ve Gregory Hoblit | NBC |
| 1981 (33.)  | Dallas | Philip Capice ve Leonard Katzman | CBS |
| 1981 (33.)  | Lou Grant | Gene Reynolds | CBS |
| 1981 (33.)  | Quincy, M.E. | David Moessinger | NBC |
| 1981 (33.)  | The White Shadow | Bruce Paltrow ve Mark Tinker | CBS |
1982 (34.) : 
| 1982 (34.)  | Hill Street Blues | Steven Bochco, David Anspaugh ve Anthony Yerkovich | NBC |
| 1982 (34.)  | Dynasty | Douglas S. Cramer ve Aaron Spelling | ABC |
| 1982 (34.)  | Fame | William Blinn ve Gerald I. Isenberg | NBC |
| 1982 (34.)  | Lou Grant | Gene Reynolds | CBS |
| 1982 (34.)  | Magnum, P.I. | Donald P. Bellisario | CBS |
1983 (35.) : 
| 1983 (35.)  | Hill Street Blues | Steven Bochco ve Gregory Hoblit | NBC |
| 1983 (35.)  | Cagney & Lacey | Barney Rosenzweig ve Terry Louise Fisher | CBS |
| 1983 (35.)  | Fame | William Blinn | NBC |
| 1983 (35.)  | Magnum, P.I. | Donald P. Bellisario | CBS |
| 1983 (35.)  | St. Elsewhere | Bruce Paltrow, Joshua Brand, John Falsey, John Masius ve Mark Tinker | NBC |
1984 (36.) : 
| 1984 (36.)  | Hill Street Blues | Steven Bochco ve Gregory Hoblit | NBC |
| 1984 (36.)  | Cagney & Lacey | Barney Rosenzweig ve Peter Lefcourt | CBS |
| 1984 (36.)  | Fame | William Blinn ve Ken Ehrlich | NBC |
| 1984 (36.)  | Magnum, P.I. | Donald P. Bellisario | CBS |
| 1984 (36.)  | St. Elsewhere | Bruce Paltrow ve Mark Tinker | NBC |
1985 (37.) : 
| 1985 (37.)  | Cagney & Lacey | Barney Rosenzweig, Terry Louise Fisher ve Peter Lefcourt | CBS |
| 1985 (37.)  | Hill Street Blues | Steven Bochco ve Gregory Hoblit | NBC |
| 1985 (37.)  | Miami Vice | Michael Mann ve Anthony Yerkovich | NBC |
| 1985 (37.)  | Murder, She Wrote | Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson ve William Link | CBS |
| 1985 (37.)  | St. Elsewhere | Bruce Paltrow ve Mark Tinker | NBC |
1986 (38.) : 
| 1986 (38.)  | Cagney & Lacey | Barney Rosenzweig | CBS |
| 1986 (38.)  | Hill Street Blues | Jeff Lewis | NBC |
| 1986 (38.)  | Moonlighting | Glenn Gordon Caron | ABC |
| 1986 (38.)  | Murder, She Wrote | Peter S. Fischer | CBS |
| 1986 (38.)  | St. Elsewhere | Bruce Paltrow | NBC |
1987 (39.) : 
| 1987 (39.)  | L.A. Law | Steven Bochco | NBC |
| 1987 (39.)  | Cagney & Lacey | Barney Rosenzweig | CBS |
| 1987 (39.)  | Moonlighting | Glenn Gordon Caron | ABC |
| 1987 (39.)  | Murder, She Wrote | Peter S. Fischer | CBS |
| 1987 (39.)  | St. Elsewhere | Bruce Paltrow | NBC |
1988 (40.)  : 
| 1988 (40.)   | thirtysomething | Marshall Herskovitz ve Edward Zwick | ABC |
| 1988 (40.)   | Güzel ve Çirkin | Tony Thomas ve Paul Junger Witt | CBS |
| 1988 (40.)   | L.A. Law | Steven Bochco, Gregory Hoblit ve Rick Wallace | NBC |
| 1988 (40.)   | Rumpole of the Bailey | Rebecca Eaton | PBS |
| 1988 (40.)   | St. Elsewhere | Bruce Paltrow ve Mark Tinker | NBC |
1989 (41.) : 
| 1989 (41.)  | L.A. Law | Steven Bochco ve Rick Wallace | NBC |
| 1989 (41.)  | Güzel ve Çirkin | Ron Koslow, Tony Thomas ve Paul Junger Witt | CBS |
| 1989 (41.)  | China Beach | John Sacret Young ve Patricia Green | ABC |
| 1989 (41.)  | thirtysomething | Marshall Herskovitz ve Edward Zwick | ABC |
| 1989 (41.)  | Wiseguy | Stephen J. Cannell | CBS |