Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama
{{Short description|American television award}}
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The Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series{{Nbsp}}– Drama{{Cite web |title=Golden Globe Awards Database |url=https://goldenglobes.com/awards-database/ |access-date=19 March 2024 |website=Golden Globes}} is one of the annual Golden Globe Awards, given to the best drama television series. Documentary series and mini-series are also eligible for this award. From 1962 to 1968, the category was Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series, and grouped musical, comedy and drama series in a single category. After 1968, musical and comedy series were given their own category, the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series{{Nbsp}}– Musical or Comedy.
1960s
| class="wikitable" | ||
| Year
! Program ! Network | ||
|---|---|---|
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | Best Television Series | ||
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | 1961 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | My Three Sons | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| style="background:#EEDD82;" | What's My Line? | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS | |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1962
! colspan="2" | Best Drama Series | ||
| style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Defenders | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS | |
| colspan="2" | Best Television Program | ||
| style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Dick Powell Show | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC | |
| colspan="3" | Best Drama Series | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1963 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Richard Boone Show | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| Bonanza | NBC | |
| The Defenders | CBS | |
| The Eleventh Hour | NBC | |
| Rawhide | CBS | |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | Best Television Series | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1964 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Rogues | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| 12 O'Clock High | ABC | |
| The Munsters | rowspan="2"|CBS | |
| The Red Skelton Hour | ||
| Wendy and Me | ABC | |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | Best Television Program | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1965 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music | rowspan="3"|NBC | |
| Get Smart | ||
| I Spy | ||
| My Name Is Barbra | CBS | |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | Best Television Series | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1966 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | I Spy | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| The Fugitive | ABC | |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | rowspan="2"|NBC | |
| Run For Your Life | ||
| That Girl | ABC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1967 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Mission: Impossible | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| The Carol Burnett Show | CBS | |
| The Dean Martin Show | NBC | |
| Garrison's Gorillas | ABC | |
| Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | NBC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1968 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| The Carol Burnett Show | rowspan="2"|CBS | |
| The Doris Day Show | ||
| Julia | rowspan="2"|NBC | |
| The Name of the Game | ||
| colspan="3" | Best Drama Series | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1969 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Marcus Welby, M.D. | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| Bracken's World | NBC | |
| The Mod Squad | ABC | |
| Mannix | CBS | |
| Room 222 | ABC |
1970s
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| Year
! Program ! Network | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1970 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Medical Center | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| The Bold Ones: The Senator | NBC | |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | rowspan="3"|ABC | |
| The Mod Squad | ||
| The Young Lawyers | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1971 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Mannix | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | ABC | |
| Medical Center | CBS | |
| The Mod Squad | ABC | |
| O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | CBS | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1972 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Columbo | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| America | BBC | |
| Mannix | rowspan="3"|CBS | |
| Medical Center | ||
| The Waltons | ||
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1973 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Waltons | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| Cannon | CBS | |
| Columbo | NBC | |
| Hawkins | rowspan="2"|CBS | |
| Mannix | ||
| Police Story | NBC | |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1974 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Upstairs, Downstairs | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ITV |
| Columbo | NBC | |
| Kojak | CBS | |
| Police Story | NBC | |
| The Streets of San Francisco | ABC | |
| The Waltons | CBS | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1975 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Kojak | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| Baretta | ABC | |
| Columbo | rowspan="3"|NBC | |
| Petrocelli | ||
| Police Story | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1976 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Rich Man, Poor Man | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| Captains and the Kings | NBC | |
| Charlie's Angels | rowspan="2"|ABC | |
| Family | ||
| Little House on the Prairie | NBC | |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1977 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Roots | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| Charlie's Angels | ABC | |
| Columbo | NBC | |
| Family | rowspan="2"|ABC | |
| Starsky and Hutch | ||
| Upstairs, Downstairs | ITV | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1978 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | 60 Minutes{{efn|Nomination refused by Don Hewitt}} | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| Battlestar Galactica | rowspan="2"|ABC | |
| Family | ||
| Holocaust | NBC | |
| Lou Grant | CBS | |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1979 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Lou Grant | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| Backstairs at the White House | rowspan="2"|NBC | |
| Centennial | ||
| Dallas | CBS | |
| The Rockford Files | NBC | |
| Roots: The Next Generations | ABC |
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1980s
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| Year
! Program ! Network | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1980 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Shōgun | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| Dallas | CBS | |
| Hart to Hart | ABC | |
| Lou Grant | CBS | |
| Moviola | NBC | |
| Vega$ | CBS | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1981 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Hill Street Blues | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| Dallas | CBS | |
| Dynasty | rowspan="2"|ABC | |
| Hart to Hart | ||
| Lou Grant | CBS | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1982 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Hill Street Blues | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| Dallas | CBS | |
| Dynasty | rowspan="2"|ABC | |
| Hart to Hart | ||
| Magnum, P.I. | CBS | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1983 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Dynasty | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| Cagney & Lacey | rowspan="2"|CBS | |
| Dallas | ||
| Hart to Hart | ABC | |
| Hill Street Blues | NBC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1984 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Murder, She Wrote | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| Cagney & Lacey | CBS | |
| Dynasty | ABC | |
| Hill Street Blues | rowspan="2"|NBC | |
| St. Elsewhere | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1985 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Murder, She Wrote | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| Cagney & Lacey | CBS | |
| Dynasty | ABC | |
| Miami Vice | rowspan="2"|NBC | |
| St. Elsewhere | ||
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1986 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | L.A. Law | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| Cagney & Lacey | CBS | |
| Dynasty | ABC | |
| Miami Vice | NBC | |
| Murder, She Wrote | CBS | |
| St. Elsewhere | NBC | |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1987 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | L.A. Law | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| Beauty and the Beast | rowspan="2"|CBS | |
| Murder, She Wrote | ||
| St. Elsewhere | NBC | |
| thirtysomething | ABC | |
| A Year in the Life | NBC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1988 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | thirtysomething | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| Beauty and the Beast | CBS | |
| L.A. Law | NBC | |
| Murder, She Wrote | rowspan="2"|CBS | |
| Wiseguy | ||
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1989 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | China Beach | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| In the Heat of the Night | rowspan="2"|NBC | |
| L.A. Law | ||
| Murder, She Wrote | CBS | |
| thirtysomething | ABC | |
| Wiseguy | CBS |
1990s
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| Year
! Program ! Network | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1990 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Twin Peaks | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| China Beach | ABC | |
| In the Heat of the Night | rowspan="2"|NBC | |
| L.A. Law | ||
| thirtysomething | ABC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1991 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Northern Exposure | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| Beverly Hills, 90210 | Fox | |
| I'll Fly Away | rowspan="3"|NBC | |
| L.A. Law | ||
| Law & Order | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1992 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Northern Exposure | style="background:#EEDD82;" | CBS |
| Beverly Hills, 90210 | Fox | |
| Homefront | ABC | |
| I'll Fly Away | rowspan="2"|NBC | |
| Sisters | ||
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1993 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NYPD Blue | style="background:#EEDD82;" |ABC |
| Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | CBS | |
| Law & Order | NBC | |
| Northern Exposure | rowspan="2"|CBS | |
| Picket Fences | ||
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | ABC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1994 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The X-Files | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Fox |
| Chicago Hope | CBS | |
| ER | NBC | |
| NYPD Blue | ABC | |
| Picket Fences | CBS | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1995 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Party of Five | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Fox |
| Chicago Hope | CBS | |
| ER | NBC | |
| Murder One | rowspan="2"|ABC | |
| NYPD Blue | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1996 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The X-Files | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Fox |
| Chicago Hope | CBS | |
| ER | NBC | |
| NYPD Blue | ABC | |
| Party of Five | Fox | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1997 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The X-Files | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Fox |
| Chicago Hope | CBS | |
| ER | rowspan="2"|NBC | |
| Law & Order | ||
| NYPD Blue | ABC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1998 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Practice | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| ER | NBC | |
| Felicity | The WB | |
| Law & Order | NBC | |
| The X-Files | Fox | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1999 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Sopranos | style="background:#EEDD82;" | HBO |
| ER | NBC | |
| Once and Again | rowspan="2"|ABC | |
| The Practice | ||
| The West Wing | NBC |
2000s
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| Year
! Program ! Network | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2000 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The West Wing | style="background:#EEDD82;" | NBC |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CBS | |
| ER | NBC | |
| The Practice | ABC | |
| The Sopranos | HBO | |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2001 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Six Feet Under | style="background:#EEDD82;" | HBO |
| 24 | Fox | |
| Alias | ABC | |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CBS | |
| The Sopranos | HBO | |
| The West Wing | NBC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2002 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Shield | style="background:#EEDD82;" | FX |
| 24 | Fox | |
| Six Feet Under | rowspan="2"|HBO | |
| The Sopranos | ||
| The West Wing | NBC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2003 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | 24 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Fox |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CBS | |
| Nip/Tuck | FX | |
| Six Feet Under | HBO | |
| The West Wing | NBC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2004 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Nip/Tuck | style="background:#EEDD82;" | FX |
| 24 | Fox | |
| Deadwood | HBO | |
| Lost | ABC | |
| The Sopranos | HBO | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2005 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Lost | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| Commander in Chief | rowspan="2"|ABC | |
| Grey's Anatomy | ||
| Prison Break | Fox | |
| Rome | HBO | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2006 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Grey's Anatomy | style="background:#EEDD82;" | ABC |
| 24 | Fox | |
| Big Love | HBO | |
| Heroes | NBC | |
| Lost | ABC | |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2007 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Mad Men | style="background:#EEDD82;" | AMC |
| Big Love | HBO | |
| Damages | FX | |
| Grey's Anatomy | ABC | |
| House | Fox | |
| The Tudors | Showtime | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2008 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Mad Men | style="background:#EEDD82;" | AMC |
| Dexter | Showtime | |
| House | Fox | |
| In Treatment | rowspan="2"|HBO | |
| True Blood | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2009 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Mad Men | style="background:#EEDD82;" | AMC |
| Big Love | HBO | |
| Dexter | Showtime | |
| House | Fox | |
| True Blood | HBO |
2010s
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| Year
! Program ! Network | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2010 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Boardwalk Empire | style="background:#EEDD82;" | HBO |
| Dexter | Showtime | |
| The Good Wife | CBS | |
| Mad Men | rowspan="2"|AMC | |
| The Walking Dead | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2011 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Homeland | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Showtime |
| American Horror Story | FX | |
| Boardwalk Empire | HBO | |
| Boss | Starz | |
| Game of Thrones | HBO | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2012 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Homeland | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Showtime |
| Boardwalk Empire | HBO | |
| Breaking Bad | AMC | |
| Downton Abbey | PBS | |
| The Newsroom | HBO | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2013 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Breaking Bad | style="background:#EEDD82;" | AMC |
| Downton Abbey | PBS | |
| The Good Wife | CBS | |
| House of Cards | Netflix | |
| Masters of Sex | Showtime | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2014 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Affair | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Showtime |
| Downton Abbey | PBS | |
| Game of Thrones | HBO | |
| The Good Wife | CBS | |
| House of Cards | Netflix | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2015 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Mr. Robot | style="background:#EEDD82;" | USA |
| Empire | Fox | |
| Game of Thrones | HBO | |
| Narcos | Netflix | |
| Outlander | Starz | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2016 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Crown | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Netflix |
| Game of Thrones | HBO | |
| Stranger Things | Netflix | |
| This Is Us | NBC | |
| Westworld | HBO | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2017 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Handmaid's Tale | style="background:#EEDD82;" | Hulu |
| The Crown | Netflix | |
| Game of Thrones | HBO | |
| Stranger Things | Netflix | |
| This Is Us | NBC | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2018 | style="background:#EEDD82;" | The Americans | style="background:#EEDD82;" | FX |
| | Bodyguard | BBC | |
| Homecoming | Amazon Prime Video | |
| Killing Eve | BBC America | |
| Pose | FX | |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2019 | style="background:#EEDD82;" |Succession | style="background:#EEDD82;" | HBO |
| | Big Little Lies | HBO | |
| The Crown | Netflix | |
| Killing Eve | BBC America | |
| The Morning Show | Apple TV+ |
2020s
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| Year
! Program ! Network | ||
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2020 | style="background-color:#EEDD82;"|The Crown | style="background-color:#EEDD82;"|Netflix |
| Lovecraft Country | HBO | |
| The Mandalorian | Disney+ | |
| Ozark | rowspan="2"|Netflix | |
| Ratched | ||
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |2021
| style="background:#EEDD82;" |Succession | style="background:#EEDD82;" |HBO | ||
| Lupin
| Netflix | ||
| The Morning Show | ||
| Pose
| FX | ||
| Squid Game
| Netflix | ||
| rowspan="5"|2022
| style="background:#EEDD82;" | House of the Dragon | style="background:#EEDD82;" | HBO | ||
| Better Call Saul
| AMC | ||
| The Crown
| rowspan="2" | Netflix | ||
| Ozark | ||
| Severance
| Apple TV+ | ||
| rowspan="6"|2023
| style="background:#EEDD82;" |Succession | style="background:#EEDD82;" |HBO | ||
| 1923 | ||
| The Crown
| rowspan="2" | Netflix | ||
| The Diplomat | ||
| The Last of Us
| HBO | ||
| The Morning Show
| Apple TV+ | ||
| rowspan="6"|2024
| style="background:#EEDD82;"|Shōgun | style="background:#EEDD82;"|FX/Hulu | ||
| The Day of the Jackal
| Peacock | ||
| The Diplomat
| Netflix | ||
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | ||
| Slow Horses
| Apple TV+ | ||
| Squid Game
| Netflix |
Series with multiple wins
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3 wins
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2 wins
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Series with multiple nominations
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7 nominations
6 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations
- Cagney & Lacey
- Chicago Hope
- Hart to Hart
- Hill Street Blues
- Law & Order
- Lou Grant
- Mad Men
- Mannix
- St. Elsewhere
- thirtysomething
- The X-Files
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3 nominations
- Big Love
- Boardwalk Empire
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Dexter
- Downton Abbey
- Family
- The Good Wife
- Grey's Anatomy
- House
- Lost
- Marcus Welby, M.D.
- Medical Center
- The Mod Squad
- The Morning Show
- Northern Exposure
- Police Story
- The Practice
- Six Feet Under
- Succession
- The Waltons
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2 nominations
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beverly Hills, 90210
- Breaking Bad
- Charlie's Angels
- China Beach
- The Diplomat
- Homeland
- House of Cards
- I'll Fly Away
- In the Heat of the Night
- I Spy
- Kojak
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Miami Vice
- Nip/Tuck
- Ozark
- Party of Five
- Pose
- Squid Game
- Stranger Things
- This Is Us
- True Blood
- Upstairs, Downstairs
- Wiseguy
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Total awards by network
See also
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
- Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Series
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References
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