Emmy Award

Television Academy

The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards

September 23, 1984  •  Pasadena Civic Auditorium  •  Hosted by Eddie Murphy & Robin Williams

4
Consecutive Hill St. wins
2
Consecutive Cheers wins
Hill Street Blues won a record fourth consecutive Outstanding Drama Series
Tom Selleck won Lead Actor Drama for Magnum P.I. after multiple nominations
Jane Fonda won Lead Actress Limited for The Dollmaker
Drama
Outstanding Drama Series
Winner
Hill Street Blues
NBC — Season 4, fourth and final consecutive win
Cagney & Lacey
St. Elsewhere
Dallas
Knots Landing
Lead Actor — Drama
Winner
Tom Selleck
Magnum P.I. — CBS — as Thomas Magnum
Daniel J. Travanti — Hill Street Blues
Ed Flanders — St. Elsewhere
John Forsythe — Dynasty
William Daniels — St. Elsewhere
Lead Actress — Drama
Winner
Tyne Daly
Cagney & Lacey — Det. Mary Beth Lacey (2nd consecutive win)
Sharon Gless — Cagney & Lacey
Veronica Hamel — Hill Street Blues
Jane Wyman — Falcon Crest
Linda Evans — Dynasty
Supporting Actor — Drama
Winner
Bruce Weitz
Hill Street Blues — as Det. Mick Belker
Supporting Actress — Drama
Winner
Alfre Woodard
Hill Street Blues — guest role as Doris
Comedy
Outstanding Comedy Series
Winner
Cheers
NBC — Season 2, second consecutive win
Kate & Allie
Buffalo Bill
Newhart
Family Ties
Lead Actor — Comedy
Winner
John Ritter
Three's Company — ABC — as Jack Tripper, in show's final season
Ted Danson — Cheers
Bob Newhart — Newhart
Judd Hirsch — Taxi
Tony Danza — Who's the Boss?
Lead Actress — Comedy
Winner
Jane Curtin
Kate & Allie — CBS — as Kate McArdle
Shelley Long — Cheers
Cybill Shepherd — Moonlighting
Isabel Sanford — The Jeffersons
Phyllis George — Something for Joey
Supporting Actor — Comedy
Winner
Pat Harrington Jr.
One Day at a Time — as Dwayne Schneider
Supporting Actress — Comedy
Winner
Rhea Perlman
Cheers — Carla Tortelli (2nd consecutive win)
Limited Series & Movie
Outstanding Limited Series
Winner
Something About Amelia
ABC — groundbreaking drama about incest starring Ted Danson
The Winds of War: War and Remembrance
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Robert Kennedy and His Times
Lead Actor — Limited/Movie
Winner
Ted Danson
Something About Amelia — ABC
Lead Actress — Limited/Movie
Winner
Jane Fonda
The Dollmaker — ABC — as Gertie Nevels