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35th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 35th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 25, 1983. The ceremony was broadcast on NBC, from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California. It is remembered for the vulgar language during the ceremony, much of it from Joan Rivers who cohosted the ceremony with Eddie Murphy. Rivers also wore nine dresses throughout the ceremony. Despite being one of the lowest-rated shows of the season, the critically acclaimed first season of ''Cheers'' won Outstanding Comedy Series as well as three other major awards. For the third straight year, ''Hill Street Blues'' won Outstanding Drama Series, it received at least 14 major nominations for the third straight year, unprecedented at the time, and also received every nomination in the Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series field. ''Second City Television'' also garnered every nomination in a category, for Outstanding Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. NBC dominated the night, on the strength of the shows mention ...
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Pasadena Convention Center
The Pasadena Convention Center is a convention center in Pasadena, California, United States. It consists of three buildings. Pasadena Civic Auditorium The Civic Auditorium, one of the major structures in the Pasadena Civic Center District, was built in 1931 and is best known for being the home for the Emmy Awards from 1977 until 1997. It was designed by architects George Edwin Bergstrom, Cyril Bennett, and Fitch Haskell. It is the former home of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra. It has also been used for some episodes of '' American Idol''. It was used as the show's venue for "Hollywood Week" in seasons 1, 3 and 10. The 3,029-seat theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communi ... hosts musicals, operas and concerts, among other events, on its stage. The venue's the ...
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Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It was first awarded at the 7th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, held in 1955 and it is given in honor of a writer or writers who produced an outstanding story or screenplay for an episode of a television drama series during the primetime network season. Undergoing several name changes, the award received its current title at the 48th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1996. Since its inception, the award has been presented to 75 writers. Will Smith is the current recipient of the award for his work on the episode of Apple TV+'s '' Slow Horses'' titled "Negotiating with Tigers". Rod Serling holds the record for most wins for this category at six. ''The Sopranos'' holds the record for most wins and nominations for this category at 6 and 21, respectively. ''Game of Thrones'', '' Hill Street Blues'' and ''The Sopranos'' are the only shows that ...
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Little Gloria
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt * ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film *The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John Peterson ** ''The Littles'' (TV series), an American animated series based on the novels Places *Little, Kentucky, United States *Little, West Virginia, United States Other uses *Clan Little, a Scottish clan *Little (surname), an English surname *Little (automobile), an American automobile manufactured from 1912 to 1915 *Little, Brown and Company, an American publishing company * USS ''Little'', multiple United States Navy ships See also * * *Little Mountain (other) *Little River (other) *Little Island (other) Little Island can refer to: Geographical areas Australia * Little Island (South Australia) * Little Island (Tasmania) * Little Island (Western Australia) Canada * Little Island (Lake Kagawong), Ontario ...
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Special Bulletin
''Special Bulletin'' is a 1983 American drama television film directed by Edward Zwick and written by Marshall Herskovitz, based on a story by both. It was an early collaboration between the two, who would later produce such series as '' thirtysomething'' and '' My So-Called Life''. The film was first broadcast March 20, 1983 on NBC as part of '' NBC Sunday Night at the Movies''. In the film, a terrorist group brings a homemade atomic bomb aboard a tugboat in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina in order to blackmail the U.S. government into disabling its nuclear weapons, and the incident is caught live on television. It simulates a series of live news broadcasts on the fictional RBS Network. Synopsis The entirety of the film is portrayed through the perspective of a news broadcast from RBS News on the fictional RBS television network. It begins with promotional scenes from other RBS network shows. One is cut off by the announcement "We interrupt our regular programming t ...
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Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Made For Television Movie
This is a list of the winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie, which has been awarded since 1992. The category was originally called Outstanding Drama or Comedy Special. In 1991, Outstanding Drama or Comedy Special category was merged with Outstanding Miniseries category to form Outstanding Drama or Comedy Special and Miniseries and the number of nominations increased from five to six. For this year, two miniseries had competed with four "made for television movies". The following year, 1992, the new category was split to re-form the Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Made for Television Movie categories. In 2011, the category was merged with the Outstanding Limited Series category to create the Outstanding Miniseries or Movie category. However, in 2014, the decision was reversed, and the separate Miniseries and Television Movie categories were reinstated. Rules were also changed in 2019 requiring at least a 75-minute runtime for movie ...
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Fame (1982 TV Series)
''Fame'' is an American musical drama television series based on the 1980 film of the same name. It followed the lives of the students and faculty at New York City's High School of Performing Arts. Most interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood, California. In all seasons except the third, the show filmed several exterior scenes on location in New York City. The popularity of the series around the world, most notably in the United Kingdom, led to several hit records and live concert tours by the cast. Despite its success, few of the actors maintained high-profile careers after the series was cancelled. Several of the cast members were seen again briefly in ''Bring Back...Fame'', a reunion special made for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 2008. Episodes Cast Cast timeline ;Cast notes Main cast *Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant, dance teacher and choreographer, reprising her role from the original film * Lee Curreri as Bruno Martelli (seasons 1–3; guest season 6), music ma ...
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Cagney & Lacey
''Cagney & Lacey'' is an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25, 1982, to May 16, 1988. The show is about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). The pilot movie had Loretta Swit in the role of Cagney, while the first six episodes had Meg Foster in the role. When the show was revived for a full-season run, Gless portrayed the role for six consecutive years. Each year during that time, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak matched only once since in any major category by a show. Development Producer Barney Rosenzweig was influenced by the feminist move ...
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Taxi (TV Series)
''Taxi'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 12, 1978, to May 6, 1982, and on NBC from September 30, 1982, to June 15, 1983. It focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher. For most of the run of the show, the ensemble cast consisted of taxi drivers Alex Reiger ( Judd Hirsch), Bobby Wheeler ( Jeff Conaway), Elaine Nardo (Marilu Henner), Tony Banta (Tony Danza), and "Reverend" Jim Ignatowski ( Christopher Lloyd), along with dispatcher Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito) and mechanic Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman). ''Taxi'' was produced by the John Charles Walters Company, in association with Paramount Network Television, and was created by James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, David Davis, and Ed. Weinberger, all of whom were brought on board after working on ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (which ended in 1977). The show was a critical and commercial success and is widely regarded as one of t ...
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Newhart
''Newhart'' is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from October 25, 1982, to May 21, 1990, with a total of 184 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons. The series stars Bob Newhart and Mary Frann as an author and his wife, respectively; who own and operate the Stratford Inn in rural Vermont. The small town is home to many eccentric characters. ''TV Guide'', TV Land, and A&E named the ''Newhart'' series finale as one of the most memorable in television history. The theme music for ''Newhart'' was composed by Henry Mancini. Premise Bob Newhart plays Dick Loudon, an author of do-it-yourself and travel books. He and his wife Joanna move from New York City to a small town in rural Vermont to operate the 200-year-old Stratford Inn. Dick and Joanna initially run the inn with the help of sweet-natured but simple handyman George Utley and Leslie Vanderkellen, a bright, cheerful Dartmouth College student and heiress who takes a job as a maid to find out what it is like ...
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Buffalo Bill (TV Series)
''Buffalo Bill'' is an American sitcom television series that featured the misadventures of an egotistical talk show host, played by Dabney Coleman, and his staff (including Geena Davis and Joanna Cassidy) at WBFL-TV, a small TV station in Buffalo, New York. It premiered June 1, 1983, on NBC and ran for two seasons (1983–84). It was also shown on the then-new UK fourth TV channel Channel 4. Characters * Dabney Coleman as "Buffalo" Bill Bittinger, raging egocentric local talk show host * Joanna Cassidy as Joanna "Jo-Jo" White, no-nonsense producer of the talk show, in an on-again, off-again relationship with Bill * Max Wright as Karl Shub, WBFL's station manager who suffers from an inability to inhibit Bill's bad behavior * John Fiedler as Woodrow "Woody" Deschler, stage manager who is independently wealthy yet seems to enjoy working for Bill * Geena Davis as Wendy Killian, a diligent but naive production assistant * Charlie Robinson (actor), Charlie Robinson as Newdell Springs, ...
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26th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 26th Emmy Awards, later known as the 26th Primetime Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 28, 1974. Johnny Carson hosted the ceremony. Winners are listed in bold and networks are in parentheses. The top shows of the night were '' M*A*S*H'' and '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. ''M*A*S*H'' and ''The Waltons'' had the most major nominations with nine. '' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman'' and ''The Carol Burnett Show'' led the night with four major wins apiece. For this ceremony, individual awards dubbed "Super Emmys" were given out in addition to the traditional categories. The individual categories were dropped the following year and have yet to return since. Winners and nominees Programs Acting Lead performances Supporting performances Directing Writing Super Emmys The Primetime Super Emmy Award was a set of 14 awards that were given in conjunction with the traditional Emmy Awards at the 1974 ceremony. Winners of a traditional Emmy would then compete against th ...
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