Drama
Outstanding Drama Series
Dallas
Quincy M.E.
Lou Grant
The Gangster Chronicles
Lead Actor — Drama
Winner
Daniel J. Travanti
Hill Street Blues — as Capt. Frank Furillo
Ed Asner — Lou Grant
Karl Malden — Streets of San Francisco
John Forsythe — Dynasty
James Garner — Bret Maverick
Lead Actress — Drama
Winner
Barbara Babcock
Hill Street Blues — as Grace Gardner
Tyne Daly — Cagney & Lacey
Veronica Hamel — Hill Street Blues
Linda Evans — Dynasty
Stefanie Powers — Hart to Hart
Supporting Actor — Drama
Winner
Michael Conrad
Hill Street Blues — Sgt. Phil Esterhaus
Supporting Actress — Drama
Winner
Nancy Marchand
Lou Grant — Margaret Pynchon (4th and final win)
Comedy
Outstanding Comedy Series
Barney Miller
M*A*S*H
The Associates
Soap
Lead Actor — Comedy
Winner
Judd Hirsch
Taxi — as Alex Reiger
Alan Alda — M*A*S*H
Robert Guillaume — Benson
Jack Klugman — Quincy M.E.
Carroll O'Connor — Archie Bunker's Place
Lead Actress — Comedy
Winner
Isabel Sanford
The Jeffersons — as Louise Jefferson — first Black woman to win Lead Actress Comedy Emmy
Katherine Helmond — Soap
Cathryn Damon — Soap
Polly Holliday — Flo
Linda Lavin — Alice
Supporting Actor — Comedy
Winner
Danny DeVito
Taxi — as Louie De Palma
Supporting Actress — Comedy
Winner
Eileen Brennan
Private Benjamin — ABC
Limited Series & Movie
Outstanding Limited Series
Masada
Beulah Land
Moviola: This Year's Blonde
Lead Actress — Limited/Movie
Winner
Vanessa Redgrave
Playing for Time — CBS — played Fania Fenelon, a Jewish musician who survived Auschwitz by performing for the Nazis