The Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Drama Series is an award presented annually at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. The award is given to recognise an outstanding Australian drama series. The winner and nominees of this award are chosen by television industry juries.
It was first awarded at the 3rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1961 as Best Australian Drama. The award was renamed many times in subsequent ceremonies; Best Australian TV Drama Series (1962), Best Drama (1963, 1966–1967), Best Australian Drama Series (1965, 1970), Best Drama Series (1968), and Best Drama Show (1969). This award category was eliminated in 1977.
At the 33rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards in 1991, an industry voted award for drama returned, originally called Most Outstanding Single Drama or Miniseries. It has also been known as Most Outstanding Series (1992–1993, 1998), Most Outstanding Achievement in Drama Production (1994–1997) and Most Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie (2007–2012). It was known as the Most Outstanding Drama Series from 2013-2022 before changing to Most Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie in 2023.
Homicide held the record for the most wins of the original award, with seven and Number 96 had three. SeaChange, The Secret Life of Us and Love My Way also had three wins each, followed by Phoenix, Underbelly, Redfern Now and Division 4 with two wins.
Winners and nominees Key Meaning Indicates the winning program
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year for Best Australian Drama.
Year Program NetworkRef 1961 Shadow of a Pale Horse 1962 Consider Your Verdict 1963 The One Day of the Year 1965 Homicide 1966 Homicide 1967 Homicide 1968 Homicide 1969 Homicide 1970 Division 4 1971 Homicide 1972 Division 4 1973 Homicide 1974 Number 96 1975 Number 96 1976 Number 96
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for Most Outstanding Drama Series.
Year Program NetworkRef 1991 Come in Spinner 1992 G.P. 1993 Phoenix 1994 Phoenix II 1995 Janus 1996 Blue Murder 1997 Water Rats 1998 Frontline Good Guys, Bad Guys Water Rats 1999 SeaChange Blue Heelers Water Rats Wildside 2000 SeaChange All Saints Water Rats Wildside 2001 SeaChange All Saints Stingers Water Rats 2002 The Secret Life of Us All Saints Always Greener Love Is a Four Letter Word Stingers 2003 The Secret Life of Us All Saints Always Greener MDA Stingers White Collar Blue 2004 The Secret Life of Us All Saints Always Greener Grass Roots McLeod's Daughters 2005 Love My Way Love Bytes Fireflies Stingers The Secret Life of Us 2006 Love My Way All Saints McLeod's Daughters MDA The Surgeon 2007 Love My Way Answered by Fire RAN Remote Area Nurse The Silence The Society Murders 2008 Curtin City Homicide East West 101 The King Satisfaction 2009 Underbelly Bed of Roses Packed to the Rafters Rush Scorched 2010 East West 101 A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne Packed to the Rafters Tangle Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities 2011 Underbelly: The Golden Mile Hawke Packed to the Rafters Rake Rush Sisters of War 2012 The Slap Cloudstreet Offspring Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo Underbelly: Razor 2013 Redfern Now Offspring Puberty Blues Rake Tangle 2014 Redfern Now A Place to Call Home Offspring The Time of Our Lives Wentworth 2015 Wentworth The Code Janet King Puberty Blues Rake 2016 Glitch 800 Words A Place to Call Home Love Child Wentworth 2017 A Place to Call Home Cleverman Rake The Code Wentworth 2018 Wentworth A Place to Call Home Doctor Doctor Harrow Top of the Lake: China Girl 2019 Wentworth Doctor Doctor Mystery Road Neighbours Secret City: Under The Eagle 2022 The Newsreader Bump Love Me RFDS Wentworth - The Final Sentence 2023 The Twelve Black Snow Five Bedrooms In Our Blood Mystery Road: Origin Significant Others 2024 RFDS Love Me NCIS: Sydney The Newsreader The Tourist Total Control 2025 Return to Paradise Bump Heartbreak High Territory The Newsreader The Twelve
Multiple wins Number Program Wins SeaChange The Secret Life of Us Love My Way3Wentworth Phoenix Underbelly Redfern Now
See also Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy Program Logie Award for Most Outstanding Comedy Program
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