Emmy Award

Television Academy

The 32nd Primetime Emmy Awards

September 7, 1980  •  Pasadena Civic Auditorium  •  Hosted by Johnny Carson

4
Lou Grant wins
1
Actor present at ceremony
Powers Boothe sole actor to attend — accepted his Emmy during the actors’ strike
Lou Grant won Outstanding Drama Series for its fourth season
Taxi won Outstanding Comedy Series for the second consecutive year
Drama
Outstanding Drama Series
Winner
Lou Grant
CBS — Season 4
Dallas
The Rockford Files
Knots Landing
Family
Lead Actor — Drama
Winner
Ed Asner
Lou Grant — as Lou Grant
James Garner — The Rockford Files
Karl Malden — Streets of San Francisco
Powers Boothe — Guyana Tragedy
John Forsythe — Dynasty
Lead Actress — Drama
Winner
Barbara Bel Geddes
Dallas — as Miss Ellie Ewing
Natalie Wood — From Here to Eternity
Sada Thompson — Family
Tyne Daly — Chips
Lindsay Wagner — The Bionic Woman
Supporting Actor — Drama
Winner
Stuart Margolin
The Rockford Files — Angel Martin
Supporting Actress — Drama
Winner
Nancy Marchand
Lou Grant — Margaret Pynchon (3rd win)
Comedy
Outstanding Comedy Series
Winner
Taxi
ABC — Season 2, second consecutive win
Barney Miller
M*A*S*H
One Day at a Time
Soap
Lead Actor — Comedy
Winner
Richard Mulligan
Soap — as Burt Campbell
Alan Alda — M*A*S*H
Judd Hirsch — Taxi
Jack Klugman — Quincy M.E.
Carroll O'Connor — All in the Family
Lead Actress — Comedy
Winner
Cathryn Damon
Soap — as Mary Campbell
Polly Holliday — Flo
Katherine Helmond — Soap
Linda Lavin — Alice
Dinah Manoff — Soap
Supporting Actor — Comedy
Winner
Harry Morgan
M*A*S*H — Col. Sherman T. Potter (2nd win)
Supporting Actress — Comedy
Winner
Loretta Swit
M*A*S*H — Maj. Margaret Houlihan
Limited Series & Movie
Outstanding Limited Series
Winner
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
ITV / ABC — Edward VIII abdication drama
Studs Lonigan
Moviola
Beggarman Thief
Lead Actor — Limited/Movie
Winner
Powers Boothe
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones — CBS
Lead Actress — Limited/Movie
Winner
Patty Duke
The Miracle Worker — NBC television remake