The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 23, 1984. The ceremony was broadcast on CBS, from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California.

The top shows of the night were Cheers and Hill Street Blues. Cheers won its second straight Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, while Hill Street Blues made history. It became the first show to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series four times. This record still stands today, but has been tied by L.A. Law, The West Wing, Mad Men and Game of Thrones. Hill Street Blues also added to another streak. It received at least 14 major nominations for the fourth straight year, winning four. Cheers received the most nominations on the comedy side (10), winning three.

Sir Laurence Olivier won the last of his five career Emmys this evening. His win was also the last time a non-Network Syndicated performance won an Acting Award.

Winners and nominees

[http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1984 Emmys.com list of 1984 Nominees & Winners]

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Cheers (NBC)
Buffalo Bill (NBC)
Family Ties (NBC)
Kate & Allie (CBS)
Newhart (CBS)

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Something About Amelia (ABC)

Adam (NBC)

The Day After (ABC)

The Dollmaker (ABC)

A Streetcar Named Desire (ABC)

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The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (CBS)

The 38th Annual Tony Awards (CBS)

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Lillian Gish (CBS)

Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC)

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==Lead performances==

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John Ritter as Jack Tripper in Three's Company (ABC) (Episode: "Cupid Works Overtime")
Dabney Coleman as Bill Bittinger in Buffalo Bill (NBC)
Ted Danson as Sam Malone in Cheers (NBC)
Robert Guillaume as Benson DuBois in Benson (ABC)
Sherman Hemsley as George Jefferson in The Jeffersons (CBS)

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Jane Curtin as Allison Lowell in Kate & Allie (CBS)
Joanna Cassidy as Jo Jo White in Buffalo Bill (NBC)
Shelley Long as Diane Chambers in Cheers (NBC)
Susan Saint James as Katherine McArdle in Kate & Allie (CBS)
Isabel Sanford as Louise Jefferson in The Jeffersons (CBS)

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Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P.I. (CBS) (Episode: "Home From the Sea")

William Daniels as Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere (NBC)

Ed Flanders as Dr. Donald Westphall in St. Elsewhere (NBC) {{cite news | title=Boone, Mike. "The Emmy List: Here's the Best in Television| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19840921&id=72UxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oqUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1896,249399 | work=The Montreal Gazette |access-date=July 18, 2014}}

John Forsythe as Blake Carrington in Dynasty (ABC)

Daniel J. Travanti as Capt. Frank Furillo in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

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Tyne Daly as Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey (CBS) (Episode: "The Baby Broker")
Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant in Fame (Syndicated)
Joan Collins as Alexis Colby in Dynasty (ABC)
Sharon Gless as Christine Cagney in Cagney & Lacey (CBS)
Veronica Hamel as Joyce Davenport in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

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Laurence Olivier as King Lear in King Lear (Syndicated)

Ted Danson as Steven Bennett in Something About Amelia (ABC)

Louis Gossett Jr. as Anwar al-Sadat in Sadat (Syndicated)

Mickey Rooney as Bill Sackter in Bill: On His Own (CBS)

Daniel J. Travanti as John Walsh in Adam (NBC)

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Jane Fonda as Gertie Nevels in The Dollmaker (ABC)
Jane Alexander as Calamity Jane in Calamity Jane (CBS)
Ann-Margret as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (ABC)
Glenn Close as Gail Bennett in Something About Amelia (ABC)
JoBeth Williams as Reve Walsh in Adam (NBC)

==Supporting performances==

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Pat Harrington Jr. as Dwayne F. Schneider in One Day at a Time (CBS)
René Auberjonois as Clayton Runnymede Endicott III in Benson (ABC)
Nicholas Colasanto as Coach Ernie Pantusso in Cheers (NBC)
Tom Poston as George Utley in Newhart (CBS)
George Wendt as Norm Peterson in Cheers (NBC)

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Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli in Cheers (NBC)
Julia Duffy as Stephanie Vanderkellen in Newhart (CBS)
Marla Gibbs as Florence Johnston in The Jeffersons (CBS)
Paula Kelly as Liz Williams in Night Court (NBC)
Marion Ross as Marion Cunningham in Happy Days (ABC)

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Bruce Weitz as Det. Mick Belker in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

Ed Begley Jr. as Dr. Victor Ehrlich in St. Elsewhere (NBC)

Michael Conrad as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

John Hillerman as Higgins in Magnum, P.I. (CBS)

James Sikking as Lt. Howard Hunter in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

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Alfre Woodard as Doris Robson in Hill Street Blues (NBC) (Episode: "Doris in Wonderland")
Barbara Bosson as Fay Furillo in Hill Street Blues (NBC)
Piper Laurie as Fran Singleton in St. Elsewhere (NBC) (Episode: "Lust et Veritas")
Madge Sinclair as Nurse Ernestine Shoop in Trapper John, M.D. (CBS)
Betty Thomas as Sgt. Lucille Bates in Hill Street Blues (NBC)

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Art Carney as Tony in Terrible Joe Moran (CBS)

Keith Carradine as Foxy Funderburke in Chiefs (CBS)

John Gielgud as Lord Durrisdeer in The Master of Ballantrae (CBS)

John Lithgow as Joe Huxley in The Day After (ABC)

Randy Quaid as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell in A Streetcar Named Desire (ABC)

David Ogden Stiers as Dr. William Milligan Sloane in The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (NBC)

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Roxana Zal as Amelia Bennett in Something About Amelia (ABC)
Beverly D'Angelo as Stella DuBois Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (ABC)
Patty Duke as Martha Washington in George Washington (CBS)
Cloris Leachman as Mary Kovacs in Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (ABC)
Tuesday Weld as Margie Young-Hunt in The Winter of Our Discontent (CBS)

==Individual performances==

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Cloris Leachman – The Screen Actors Guild 50th Anniversary Celebration (CBS)
Debbie Allen – Live...And in Person (NBC)
George Burns – George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business (NBC)
Eddie Murphy – Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Joe Piscopo – Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Lily Tomlin – Live...And in Person (NBC)

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Kate & Allie (CBS): "The Very Loud Family" – Bill Persky
AfterMASH (CBS): "Fall Out" – Larry Gelbart
Buffalo Bill (NBC): "Jo-Jo's Problem, Part 2" – Ellen Falcon
Cheers (NBC): "Old Flames" – James Burrows

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Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" – Corey Allen
Fame (Syndicated): "Sheer Will" – Robert Scheerer
Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Doris in Wonderland" – Arthur Allan Seidelman
Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Midway to What?" – Thomas Carter

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Here's Television Entertainment (NBC) – Dwight Hemion

The 38th Annual Tony Awards (CBS) – Clark Jones

Burnett Discovers Domingo (CBS) – Marty Pasetta

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (CBS) – Don Mischer

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Concealed Enemies (PBS): "Part III" – Jeff Bleckner
The Day After (ABC) – Nicholas Meyer
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (ABC) – Lamont Johnson
Something About Amelia (ABC) – Randa Haines
A Streetcar Named Desire (ABC) – John Erman

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Cheers (NBC): "Old Flames" – David Angell
Buffalo Bill (NBC): "Jo-Jo's Problem, Part 2" – Jay Tarses
Buffalo Bill (NBC): "Wilkinson's Sword" – Tom Patchett
Cheers (NBC): "Homicidal Ham" – David Lloyd
Cheers (NBC): "Power Play" – Glen Charles and Les Charles

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St. Elsewhere (NBC): "The Women" – {{StoryTeleplay|s=John Masius and Tom Fontana|t=John Ford Noonan}}
Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Doris in Wonderland" – {{StoryTeleplay|s=Steven Bochco, Jeffrey Lewis and David Milch|t=Peter Silverman}}
Hill Street Blues (NBC): "Grace Under Pressure" – {{StoryTeleplay|s=Steven Bochco, Jeffrey Lewis and David Milch|t=Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Wagner, Karen Hall and Mark Frost}}
St. Elsewhere (NBC): "All About Eve" – John Masius and Tom Fontana
St. Elsewhere (NBC): "Newheart" – John Masius, Tom Fontana, Garn Stephens and Emilie R. Small
St. Elsewhere (NBC): "Qui Transulit Sustinet" – {{StoryTeleplay|s=John Masius and Tom Fontana|t=John Tinker and Mark Tinker}}

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Late Night with David Letterman (NBC): "Episode 312"

The 38th Annual Tony Awards (CBS)

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Lillian Gish (CBS)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (CBS)

Late Night with David Letterman (NBC): "Episode 285"

Late Night with David Letterman (NBC): "Episode 291"

Saturday Night Live (NBC): "Billy Crystal, Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Don Novello and Betty Thomas"

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Something About Amelia (ABC) – William Hanley
Adam (NBC) – Allan Leicht
The Day After (ABC) – Edward Hume
The Dollmaker (ABC) – Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (ABC) – April Smith

Most major nominations

Network	Number of Nominations
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NBC	53
CBS	37
ABC	27

Program	Category	Network	Number of Nominations
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Hill Street Blues	Drama	rowspan="4"\|NBC	14
Cheers	Comedy	10
St. Elsewhere	Drama	9
Buffalo Bill	Comedy	rowspan="2"\|6
Something About Amelia	rowspan="4"\|Special	rowspan="2"\|ABC
A Streetcar Named Desire	5
Adam	NBC	rowspan="4"\|4
The Day After	ABC
Kate & Allie	Comedy	CBS
Late Night with David Letterman	rowspan="2"\|Variety	NBC
The 38th Annual Tony Awards	rowspan="2"\|CBS	rowspan="10"\|3
Cagney & Lacey	Drama
The Dollmaker	rowspan="2"\|Special	rowspan="2"\|ABC
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
Fame	Drama	Syndicated
The Jeffersons	Comedy	rowspan="4"\|CBS
The Kennedy Center Honors	Variety
Magnum, P.I.	Drama
Newhart	Comedy
Saturday Night Live	rowspan="2"\|Variety	NBC
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Lillian Gish	CBS	rowspan="7"\|2
Benson	Comedy	ABC
Chiefs	rowspan="2"\|Limited	CBS
Concealed Enemies	PBS
Dynasty	Drama	ABC
George Washington	CBS
Live...And in Person	Variety	NBC

Most major awards

Network	Number of Awards
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NBC	10
CBS	7
ABC	5

Program	Category	Network	Number of Awards
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Hill Street Blues	Drama	rowspan="2"\|NBC	4
Cheers	Comedy	rowspan="2"\|3
Something About Amelia	Special	ABC
Concealed Enemies	Miniseries	PBS	rowspan="2"\|2
Kate & Allie	Comedy	CBS

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References

External links

[http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1984 Emmys.com list of 1984 Nominees & Winners]
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