Emmy Award

Television Academy

The 37th Primetime Emmy Awards

September 22, 1985  •  Pasadena Civic Auditorium  •  Hosted by John Forsythe & Heather Locklear

3
Consecutive Cheers wins
3
Tyne Daly wins
Cagney & Lacey won Drama Series after fans campaigned to save it from cancellation
Tyne Daly won her third consecutive Lead Actress Drama Emmy
Ving Rhames was part of the The Golden Girls era that began in 1985
Drama
Outstanding Drama Series
Winner
Cagney & Lacey
CBS — police procedural starring Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless
Hill Street Blues
St. Elsewhere
Cheers
Magnum P.I.
Lead Actor — Drama
Winner
William Daniels
St. Elsewhere — as Dr. Mark Craig
Tom Selleck — Magnum P.I.
Daniel J. Travanti — Hill Street Blues
Ed Flanders — St. Elsewhere
John Forsythe — Dynasty
Lead Actress — Drama
Winner
Tyne Daly
Cagney & Lacey — Det. Mary Beth Lacey (3rd consecutive win)
Sharon Gless — Cagney & Lacey
Veronica Hamel — Hill Street Blues
Linda Evans — Dynasty
Jane Wyman — Falcon Crest
Supporting Actor — Drama
Winner
John Hillerman
Magnum P.I. — as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III
Supporting Actress — Drama
Winner
Betty Thomas
Hill Street Blues — as Det. Lucy Bates
Comedy
Outstanding Comedy Series
Winner
Cheers
NBC — Season 3, third consecutive win
The Cosby Show
Kate & Allie
Family Ties
Newhart
Lead Actor — Comedy
Winner
Robert Guillaume
Benson — ABC — as Benson DuBois
Ted Danson — Cheers
John Ritter — Three's Company
Bob Newhart — Newhart
Tony Danza — Who's the Boss?
Lead Actress — Comedy
Winner
Jane Curtin
Kate & Allie — as Kate McArdle (2nd consecutive win)
Shelley Long — Cheers
Cybill Shepherd — Moonlighting
Phylicia Rashad — The Cosby Show
Isabel Sanford — The Jeffersons
Supporting Actor — Comedy
Winner
John Larroquette
Night Court — as Dan Fielding (1st of four consecutive wins)
Supporting Actress — Comedy
Winner
Rhea Perlman
Cheers — Carla Tortelli (3rd consecutive win)
Limited Series & Movie
Outstanding Limited Series
Winner
The Jewel in the Crown
PBS — Granada Television’s acclaimed Raj drama
Lace
Robert Kennedy and His Times
The Thorn Birds: Missing Years
Lead Actor — Limited/Movie
Winner
Richard Crenna
The Rape of Richard Beck — ABC
Lead Actress — Limited/Movie
Winner
Joanne Woodward
Do You Remember Love — CBS — as a professor with Alzheimer’s disease