The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Series is a retired award that was presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, this category and Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special were rearranged as Outstanding Period Costumes and Outstanding Contemporary Costumes.
Winners and nominations 1960s Outstanding Individual Achievement in the Visual Arts Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1969 The Carol Burnett Show Bob Mackie CBS Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey on Broadway Ray Aghayan ABC
1970s Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1970 Diana Ross and the Supremes and The Temptations on Broadway Bob Mackie NBC The Don Adams Special: Hooray for Hollywood George R. Whittaker CBS Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Michael Travis NBC 1971 Hamlet (Hallmark Hall of Fame) Martin Baugh, David Walker NBC The Andy Williams Show "Christmas Show" Ret Turner NBC Bing Crosby — Cooling It Robert Carlton They've Killed President Lincoln! Patricia Segnan 1972 Elizabeth R "The Lion's Club" Elizabeth Waller PBS The Fabulous Fordies Ret Turner NBC The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour "Art Carney" Bob Mackie, Ret Turner CBS 1973 The Julie Andrews Hour Jack Bear ABC Columbo "Dagger of the Mind" Grady Hunt NBC Cortez and Montezuma: Appointment with Destiny Christina Von Humboldt CBS Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Emma Porteous NBC Much Ado About Nothing Theoni V. Aldredge CBS 1974 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Sandy Stewart, Bruce Walkup CBS The New Treasure Hunt Barbara Murphy Syndicated The Snoop Sisters Grady Hunt NBC The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour "The Sonny and Cher Years" Bob Mackie, Ret Turner CBS War and Peace Charles Knode PBS 1975 The Legend of Lizzie Borden Guy Verhille ABC Love Among the Ruins Margaret Furse Cher "Bette Midler, Flip Wilson and Elton John" Bob Mackie CBS Queen of the Stardust Ballroom Bruce Walkup The Sonny Comedy Revue "McLean Stevenson and Joey Heatherton" Ret Turner ABC
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for a Drama or Comedy Series Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1976 Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill "Recovery" Jane Robinson, Jill Silverside PBS The Adams Chronicles "John Adams: Diplomat" Alvin Colt PBS Rich Man, Poor Man "Episode 1" Charles Waldo ABC 1977 The Pallisers "Episode 1" Raymond Hughes PBS The Adams Chronicles "Henry Adams: Historian" Alvin ColtPBS Madame Bovary "Episode 3" Joan Ellacott The Quest "Prairie Woman" Grady Hunt NBC Roots "Part 1" Jack Martell ABC 1978 Holocaust Peggy Farrell, Edith Almoslino NBC Quark "The Emperor's Quasi Norms, Part 2" Grady HuntNBC 79 Park Avenue Yvonne Wood Testimony of Two Men "Part 3" Bill Jobe Syndicated Wonder Woman "Anschluss '77" Donfeld CBS 1979 Battlestar Galactica "Furlon" Jean-Pierre Dorleac ABC Laverne & Shirley "The Third Annual Shotz Talent Show" Al Lehman ABC
1980s Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1980 The Big Show "Tony Randall and Hervé Villechaize" Pete Menefee NBC Buck Rogers in the 25th Century "Flight of the War Witch, Part 2" Al Lehman NBC Fantasy Island "Tattoo: The Love God/Magnolia Blossom" Grady HuntABC Galactica 1980 "Starbuck's Last Journey" Jean-Pierre Dorleac The Muppet Show "Beverly Sills" Calista Hendrickson Syndicated 1981 Shōgun "Part 5" Shin Nishida NBC Beulah Land "Part 3" Grady HuntNBC Buck Rogers in the 25th Century "The Dorian Secret" Al Lehman Masada "Part 4" Vittorio Nino Novarese ABC 1982 Outstanding Costume Design for a Regular or Limited Series Marco Polo "Part 3" Enrico Sabbatini NBC Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters "Brenda Lee and Paul Williams" Bill Hargate NBC Brideshead Revisited "Home and Abroad" Jane Robinson PBS Fantasy Island "La Liberatora/Mr. Nobody" Grady Hunt ABC Solid Gold "Andy Gibb and Marilyn McCoo" Rickie A. Hansen Syndicated Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Class Fame "The Strike" Marilyn Matthews NBC 1983 Wizards and Warriors "Dungeon of Death" Theadora Van Runkle CBS Dynasty "La Mirage" Nolan Miller ABC Filthy Rich "Town and Gown" Warden Neil CBS Mama's Family "Wedding, Part 2" Bob Mackie, Ret Turner NBC Tales of the Gold Monkey "Nakajima Kill" Jean-Pierre Dorléac ABC 1984 Dynasty "The Wedding" Nolan Miller ABC Mama's Family "Mama's Birthday" Bob Mackie, Ret Turner NBC 1985 Dallas "Swan Song" Travilla CBS Dynasty "Royal Wedding" Nolan Miller ABC Eye to Eye "The Dick and Tracy" Ret Turner Miami Vice "No Exit" Jodie Lynn Tillen NBC 1986 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series Murder, She Wrote "Widow, Weep for Me" Al Lehman CBS Dallas "Blast from the Past" Travilla CBS Dynasty "The Vendetta" Nolan Miller ABC The Golden Girls "Nice and Easy" Judy Evans NBC Moonlighting "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" Robert Turturice ABC Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costuming for a Series St. Elsewhere "Time Heals" Susan Smith, Robert M. Moore, Charles Drayman, Anne Hartley, Kathy O'Rear NBC Amazing Stories "Gather Ye Acorns" Joseph Roveto, Jane Ruhm, James Cullen, Fran Vega-Buck NBC "Ghost Train" Sanford Slepak, Carol Hybi, Daniel Grant North, Deahdra Scarano Night Court "Halloween, Too" Dan Frank, Molly Harris Campbell Scarecrow and Mrs. King "Welcome to America, Mr. Brand" Molly Harris Campbell, James Lapidus CBS 1987 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series Moonlighting "Atomic Shakespeare" Robert Turturice ABC Designing Women "Oh Suzannah" Cliff Chally CBS Mama's Family "The Love Letter" Bob Mackie, Ret Turner Syndicated Murder, She Wrote "Magnum on Ice" Al Lehman CBS My Sister Sam "Jingle Bell Rock Bottom" Bill Hargate Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costuming for a Series Fame "All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing" Nanrose Buchman Syndicated The Charmings "Modern Romance" Betsey Potter ABC L.A. Law "The Venus Butterfly" Shelly Levine, Loree Parral NBC Night Court "A Day in the Life" Dan Frank, Molly Harris Campbell 1988 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Big Goodbye" William Ware Theiss Syndicated Beauty and the Beast "The Alchemist" Judy Evans CBS Frank's Place "Frank Returns" Pat Welch Moonlighting "Here's Living with You, Kid" Robert Turturice ABC Murder, She Wrote "A Fashionable Way to Die" Al Lehman CBS Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costuming for a Series China Beach "Pilot" Paula Lynn Kaatz, Darryl Levine ABC Head of the Class "That'll Be The Day" Bridget Ostersehlte, Steve Sharp ABC L.A. Law "Full Marital Jacket" Shelly Levine, Loree Parral NBC thirtysomething "Pilot" Marilyn Matthews, Patrick R. Norris ABC "Whose Forest Is This?" Patrick R. Norris, Marjorie K. Chan, Anne Hartley, Julie Glick 1989 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series Beauty and the Beast "The Outsiders" Judy Evans CBS Designing Women "Come on and Marry Me, Bill" Cliff Chally CBS Murphy Brown "Soul Man" Bill Hargate Star Trek: The Next Generation "Elementary, Dear Data" William Ware Theiss, Durinda Wood Syndicated The Wonder Years "Birthday Boy" Scilla Andreen-Hernandez ABC Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costuming for a Series thirtysomething "We'll Meet Again" Patrick R. Norris, Julie Glick ABC China Beach "The World, Part 2" Paula Lynn Kaatz, Darryl Levine ABC L.A. Law "Urine Trouble Now" Shelly Levine, Loree Parral NBC
1990s