Year
|
Program
|
Episode
|
Nominee(s)
|
Network
|
1971 (23rd)
|
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation
|
The Andersonville Trial
|
Saul Levitt
|
PBS
|
Hamlet (Hallmark Hall of Fame)
|
John Barton
|
NBC
|
Vanished
|
Dean Riesner
|
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original
|
Tribes
|
Marvin Schwarz and Tracy Keenan Wynn
|
ABC
|
The Brotherhood of the Bell
|
David Karp
|
CBS
|
San Francisco International Airport
|
Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield
|
NBC
|
1972 (24th)
|
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation
|
Brian's Song
|
William Blinn
|
ABC
|
The Glass House
|
Tracy Keenan Wynn
|
CBS
|
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
|
Earl Hamner Jr.
|
The Snow Goose
|
Paul W. Gallico
|
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original
|
To All My Friends on Shore
|
Allan Sloane
|
CBS
|
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
|
Jack Sher
|
CBS
|
Thief
|
John D. F. Black
|
ABC
|
1973 (25th)
|
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation
|
The House Without a Christmas Tree
|
Eleanor Perry
|
CBS
|
Go Ask Alice
|
Ellen M. Violett
|
ABC
|
The Red Pony
|
Ron Bishop and Robert Totten
|
NBC
|
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original
|
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
|
Abby Mann
|
CBS
|
Hawkins on Murder
|
David Karp
|
CBS
|
That Certain Summer
|
Richard Levinson and William Link
|
ABC
|
1974 (26th)
|
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation
|
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
|
Tracy Keenan Wynn
|
CBS
|
The Execution of Private Slovik
|
Richard Levinson and William Link
|
NBC
|
Steambath
|
Bruce Jay Friedman
|
PBS
|
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original
|
Tell Me Where It Hurts
|
Fay Kanin
|
CBS
|
Cry Rape!
|
Will Lorin
|
CBS
|
The Migrants
|
Lanford Wilson
|
1975 (27th)
|
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Adaptation
|
Clarence Darrow
|
David W. Rintels
|
NBC
|
QB VII
|
"Parts 1 & 2"
|
Edward Anhalt
|
ABC
|
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Original
|
Love Among the Ruins
|
James Costigan
|
ABC
|
Hustling
|
Fay Kanin
|
ABC
|
The Law
|
Joel Oliansky and William Sackheim
|
NBC
|
The Missiles of October
|
Stanley R. Greenberg
|
ABC
|
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
|
Jerome Kass
|
CBS
|
1976 (28th)
|
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Adaptation
|
Fear on Trial
|
David W. Rintels
|
CBS
|
The Entertainer
|
Jeanne Houston, James D. Houston, and John Korty
|
NBC
|
Farewell to Manzanar
|
Barry Beckerman
|
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Original
|
Eleanor and Franklin
|
James Costigan
|
ABC
|
Babe
|
Joanna Lee
|
CBS
|
I Will Fight No More Forever
|
Jeb Rosebrook and Theodore Strauss
|
ABC
|
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
|
JP Miller
|
NBC
|
The Night That Panicked America
|
Nicholas Meyer and Anthony Wilson
|
ABC
|
1977 (29th)
|
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Adaptation
|
Sybil
|
Stewart Stern
|
NBC
|
A Circle of Children
|
Steve Gethers
|
CBS
|
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
|
Carol Sobieski
|
PBS
|
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
|
John McGreevey
|
NBC
|
The Man in the Iron Mask
|
William Bast
|
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Original
|
Tail Gunner Joe
|
Lane Slate
|
NBC
|
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
|
Douglas Day Stewart and Joe Morgenstern
|
ABC
|
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
|
James Costigan
|
Raid on Entebbe
|
Barry Beckerman
|
NBC
|
Victory at Entebbe
|
Ernest Kinoy
|
ABC
|
1978 (30th)
|
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Adaptation
|
Mary White
|
Caryl Ledner
|
ABC
|
Actor
|
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
|
PBS
|
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
|
Blanche Hanalis
|
NBC
|
Verna: USO Girl
|
Albert Innaurato
|
PBS
|
The War Between the Tates
|
Barbara Turner
|
NBC
|
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Original
|
The Last Tenant
|
George Rubino
|
ABC
|
Breaking Up
|
Loring Mandel
|
ABC
|
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
|
Bruce Feldman
|
CBS
|
The Gathering
|
James Poe
|
ABC
|
Something for Joey
|
Jerry McNeely
|
CBS
|
The Storyteller
|
Richard Levinson and William Link
|
1979 (31st)
|
The Jericho Mile
|
Michael Mann and Patrick J. Nolan
|
ABC
|
Backstairs at the White House
|
"Book One"
|
Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov
|
NBC
|
Friendly Fire
|
Fay Kanin
|
ABC
|
Roots: The Next Generations
|
"Chapter 1 – 1880s"
|
Ernest Kinoy
|
Summer of My German Soldier
|
Jane-Howard Hammerstein
|
NBC
|