The 34th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 19, 1982. The ceremony was broadcast on ABC. It was hosted by John Forsythe and Marlo Thomas. 25 awards were presented.

In its eighth and final season, Barney Miller finally won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, it had been nominated and lost the previous six seasons. On the drama side, it was once again all about Hill Street Blues. It set multiple records on the night, including receiving 16 major nominations (winning four), breaking the long-held record (subsequently broken) of 14 for a comedy or drama set by Playhouse 90 in 1959. It also received nine acting nominations for regular cast members, this has since been tied by L.A. Law, The West Wing and Game of Thrones. Included in those acting nominations was another milestone, Hill Street Blues received every nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, this achievement has not been duplicated by a comedy or drama in a major acting category since. Another milestone was set by Andrea Martin, who became the first actor from a variety series, in this case Second City Television, to be nominated in the comedy acting field since the categories merged in 1979.

Ingrid Bergman won her final award posthumously, for A Woman Called Golda. It was not only the fourth posthumous acting award in Emmy history, but also the second performance ever to have won from a non-Network Syndicated show.

Winners and nominees Emmys.com list of 1982 Nominees & Winners

Programs + Barney Miller (ABC) Love, Sidney (NBC) M*A*S*H (CBS) Taxi (ABC) WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS) | style="vertical-align:top;" | Hill Street Blues (NBC) Dynasty (ABC) Fame (NBC) Lou Grant (CBS) Magnum, P.I. (CBS) |- | style="vertical-align:top;" | A Woman Called Golda (Syndicated) Bill (CBS) The Elephant Man (ABC) Inside the Third Reich (ABC) Skokie (CBS) | style="vertical-align:top;" | Marco Polo (NBC) Brideshead Revisited (PBS) Flickers (PBS) Oppenheimer (PBS) A Town Like Alice (PBS) |- | style="vertical-align:top;" colspan="2"| Night of 100 Stars (ABC)''' AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Frank Capra (CBS) Ain't Misbehavin (NBC) Baryshnikov in Hollywood (CBS) Second City Television'' (NBC)

Acting

Lead performances + Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (CBS) (Episode: "Where There's a Will, There's a War") Robert Guillaume as Benson DuBois in Benson (ABC) Judd Hirsch as Alex Reiger in Taxi (ABC) Hal Linden as Capt. Barney Miller in Barney Miller (ABC) Leslie Nielsen as Lieutenant Frank Drebin in Police Squad! (ABC) Carol Kane as Simka Dahblitz in Taxi (ABC) (Episode: "Simka Returns") Nell Carter as Nell Harper in Gimme a Break! (NBC) Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano in One Day at a Time (CBS) Swoosie Kurtz as Laurie Morgan in Love, Sidney (NBC) Charlotte Rae as Edna Garrett in The Facts of Life (NBC) Isabel Sanford as Louise Jefferson in The Jeffersons (CBS) Daniel J. Travanti as Captain Frank Furillo in Hill Street Blues (NBC) Edward Asner as Lou Grant in Lou Grant (CBS) John Forsythe as Blake Carrington in Dynasty (ABC) James Garner as Bret Maverick in Bret Maverick (NBC) Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P.I. (CBS) Michael Learned as Mary Benjamin in Nurse (CBS) Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant in Fame (NBC) Veronica Hamel as Joyce Davenport in Hill Street Blues (NBC) Michele Lee as Karen Fairgate in Knots Landing (CBS) Stefanie Powers as Jennifer Hart in Hart to Hart (ABC) Mickey Rooney as Bill Sackter in Bill (CBS) Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (PBS) Philip Anglim as John Merrick in The Elephant Man (ABC) Anthony Hopkins as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (CBS) Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited (PBS) Ingrid Bergman as Golda Meir in A Woman Called Golda (Syndicated) Glenda Jackson as Patricia Neal in The Patricia Neal Story (CBS) Ann Jillian as Mae West in Mae West (ABC) Jean Stapleton as Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor, First Lady of the World (CBS) Cicely Tyson as Marva Collins in The Marva Collins Story (CBS)

Supporting performances

Christopher Lloyd as Jim Ignatowski in Taxi (ABC) (Episode: "Elegant Iggy") Danny DeVito as Louie De Palma in Taxi (ABC) Ron Glass as Det. Ron Harris in Barney Miller (ABC) Steve Landesberg as Sgt. Arthur Dietrich in Barney Miller (ABC) Harry Morgan as Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (CBS) David Ogden Stiers as Charles Emerson Winchester III in M*A*S*H (CBS) Loretta Swit as Margaret Houlihan in M*A*S*H (CBS) (Episode: "The Birthday Girls") Eileen Brennan as Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin (CBS) Marla Gibbs as Florence Johnston in The Jeffersons (CBS) Andrea Martin as Various Characters in Second City Television (NBC) Anne Meara as Veronica Rooney in Archie Bunker's Place (CBS) (Episode: "Relapse") Inga Swenson as Gretchen Wilomena Kraus in Benson (ABC) Michael Conrad as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus in Hill Street Blues (NBC) Taurean Blacque as Det. Neal Washington in Hill Street Blues (NBC) Charles Haid as Officer Andy Renko in Hill Street Blues (NBC) Michael Warren as Officer Bobby Hill in Hill Street Blues (NBC) Bruce Weitz as Detective Mick Belker in Hill Street Blues (NBC) Nancy Marchand as Margaret Pynchon in Lou Grant (CBS) (Episode: "Review") Barbara Bosson as Fay Furillo in Hill Street Blues (NBC) Julie Harris as Lilimae Clements in Knots Landing (CBS) Linda Kelsey as Billie Newman in Lou Grant (CBS) Betty Thomas as Sgt. Lucille Bates in Hill Street Blues (NBC) Laurence Olivier as Lord Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited (PBS) (Episode: "Brideshead Revisited") Jack Albertson as Poppa MacMahon in My Body, My Child (ABC) John Gielgud as Edward Ryder in Brideshead Revisited (PBS) (Episode: "Et in Arcadia Ego") Derek Jacobi as Adolf Hitler in Inside the Third Reich (ABC) Leonard Nimoy as Morris Meyerson in A Woman Called Golda (Syndicated) Penny Fuller as Mrs. Kendal in The Elephant Man (ABC) Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited (PBS) (Episode: "Sebastian Against the World") Judy Davis as Young Golda in A Woman Called Golda (Syndicated) Vicki Lawrence as Thelma "Mama" Harper in Eunice (CBS) Rita Moreno as Rosella DeLeon in Portrait of a Showgirl (CBS)

Directing + One Day at a Time (CBS): "Barbara's Crisis" – Alan Rafkin M*A*S*H (CBS): "Picture This" – Burt Metcalfe M*A*S*H (CBS): "Pressure Points" – Charles S. Dubin M*A*S*H (CBS): "Sons and Bowlers" – Hy Averback M*A*S*H (CBS): "Where There's a Will, There's a War" – Alan Alda Taxi (ABC): "Jim the Psychic" – James Burrows Fame (NBC): "To Soar and Never Falter" – Harry Harris Fame (NBC): "Musical Bridge" – Robert Scheerer Hill Street Blues (NBC): "The Second Oldest Profession" – Robert Butler Hill Street Blues (NBC): "The World According to Freedom" – Jeff Bleckner Lou Grant (CBS): "Hometown" – Gene Reynolds Goldie and Kids: Listen to Us (ABC) – Dwight Hemion The 54th Annual Academy Awards (ABC) – Marty Pasetta Baryshnikov in Hollywood (CBS) – Don Mischer Live from Lincoln Center: "An Evening with Danny Kaye and the New York Philharmonic" (PBS) – Robert Scheerer Night of 100 Stars (ABC) – Clark Jones Inside the Third Reich (ABC) – Marvin J. Chomsky Brideshead Revisited (PBS): "Et in Arcadia Ego" – Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg Mae West (ABC) – Lee Philips Skokie (CBS) – Herbert Wise

Writing + Taxi (ABC): "Elegant Iggy" – Ken Estin Barney Miller (ABC): "Landmark, Part III" – Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein and Tony Sheehan M*A*S*H (CBS): "Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead" – Alan Alda Police Squad! (ABC): "A Substantial Gift" – Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker Taxi (ABC): "Jim the Psychic" – Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Freedom's Last Stand" – Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Personal Foul" – Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich, Jeffrey Lewis and Michael Wagner Hill Street Blues (NBC): "The Second Oldest Profession" – Hill Street Blues (NBC): "The World According to Freedom" – Michael Wagner Lou Grant (CBS): "Blacklist" – Seth Freeman Second City Television (NBC): "Moral Majority Show" I Love Liberty (ABC) Second City Television (NBC): "Christmas Show" Second City Television (NBC): "Cycle Two, Show Two" Second City Television (NBC): "Tony Bennett" Bill (CBS) – Brideshead Revisited (PBS): "Et in Arcadia Ego" – John Mortimer Oppenheimer (PBS): "Part V" – Peter Prince Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend (NBC) – Oliver Hailey Skokie (CBS) – Ernest Kinoy

Most major nominations +Networks with multiple major nominations"Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories. Network Number ofNominations CBS 43 ABC 34 NBC PBS 13

+Programs with multiple major nominations Program Category Network Number ofNominations Hill Street Blues Drama NBC 16 M*A*S*H Comedy CBS 10 Brideshead Revisited Miniseries PBS 8 Taxi Comedy ABC Lou Grant Drama CBS 6 Second City Television Variety NBC Barney Miller Comedy ABC 5 A Woman Called Golda Special Syndicated Bill CBS 3 The Elephant Man ABC Inside the Third Reich Skokie CBS Baryshnikov in Hollywood Variety 2 Benson Comedy ABC Dynasty Drama The Jeffersons Comedy CBS Knots Landing Drama Love, Sidney Comedy NBC Mae West Special ABC Magnum, P.I. Drama CBS Night of 100 Stars Variety ABC One Day at a Time Comedy CBS Oppenheimer Limited PBS Police Squad! Comedy ABC

Most major awards +Networks with multiple major awards"Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories. Network Number ofAwards ABC 8 CBS 7 NBC Syndicated 2

+Programs with multiple major awards Program Category Network Number ofAwards Hill Street Blues Drama NBC 4 Taxi Comedy ABC 3 Bill Special CBS 2 M*A*S*H Comedy A Woman Called Golda Special Syndicated

Notes

References

External links Emmys.com list of 1982 Nominees & Winners