Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Comedy
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{{Infobox award
| name = Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Comedy
| awarded_for = Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
| presenter = Writers Guild of America
| country = United States
| year = {{start date and age|1960}}
| holder = Lilla Zuckerman & Nora Zuckerman
Poker Face (2023)
| website = http://www.wga.org/
}}
The Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Comedy is an award presented by the Writers Guild of America to the best written comedy episodes of television series. It was first presented at the 13th annual Writers Guild of America awards in 1961 and has been presented annually since the 17th annual Writers Guild of America awards in 1965.
The years denote when the episode first aired. Though, due to the eligibility period, some nominees could have aired in a different year. The current eligibility period is December 1 to November 30. The winners are highlighted in gold.
Winners and nominees
=1960s=
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| colspan=5| Episodic, Longer Than 30 Minutes in Length |
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | 1960 {{small|(13th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| "Margaret's Old Flame" | Dorothy Cooper | CBS |
| The Danny Thomas Show
|"Linda Wants to Be a Boy" |Charles Stewart & Jack Elinson |CBS |
| My Three Sons
|"Chip off the Old Block" |ABC |
| colspan=5| Comedy/Variety, Any Length |
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | 1961 {{small|(14th)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.emmys.com/news/news/jack-elinson-comedy-writer-and-producer-more-five-decades |title=Jack Elinson, Comedy Writer and Producer for More Than Five Decades |author= |date= November 21, 2011 |website= Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |access-date= December 27, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"
|"The Manhunt" | Charles Stewart & Jack Elinson | CBS |
| The Art Carney Special
|"Everybody's Doin' It" |Herbert Sargent |rowspan=2|NBC |
| colspan=2|The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope
|Lester A. White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee and Norman Sullivan |
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | 1962 {{small|(15th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| "I Won't Go" | Nat Hiken and Gary Belkin | NBC |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show
|"Where Did I Come From?" |CBS |
| My Three Sons
|"Birds and Bees" |George Tibbles |ABC |
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | 1963 {{small|(16th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Barney's First Car" | Jim Fritzell & Everett Greenbaum | CBS |
| The Andy Griffith Show
|"Barney Mends a Broken Heart" |CBS |
| colspan=2|The Bob Hope Christmas Show
|Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, John Rapp, Lester A. White, Charles Lee, Norman Sullivan and Gig Henry |NBC |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show
|"It May Look Like a Walnut" |Carl Reiner |CBS |
| I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
|"A Small Matter of Being Fired" |Leonard B. Stern and Don Hinkley |rowspan=2|ABC |
| My Three Sons
|"When I Was Your Age" |Ernest Chambers |
| colspan=5| Episodic Comedy |
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1964 {{small|(17th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Shoplifters" | rowspan="2"|CBS |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "My Husband is the Best One" |
| The Danny Thomas Show
|"Bowling Partners" |Jerry Belson & Garry Marshall |rowspan=3|CBS |
| rowspan=2|The Dick Van Dyke Show
|"October Eve" |
| "Turtles, Ties and Toreadors" |
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1965 {{small|(18th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Br-room, Br-room" | Dale McRaven & Carl Kleinschmitt | CBS |
| The Beverly Hillbillies
|"Dash Riprock, You Cad" |ABC |
| rowspan=2|The Dick Van Dyke Show
|"4½" |rowspan=2|Garry Marshall & Jerry Belson |rowspan=2|CBS |
| "Romances, Roses and Rye Bread" |
| Dr. Kildare
|"Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House" |Boris Sobelman |NBC |
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 1966 {{small|(19th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "You Ought to Be in Pictures" | CBS |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show
|"Go Tell the Birds and the Bees" |Rick Mittleman |CBS |
| Gidget
|"The Great Kahuna" |{{StoryTeleplay|s=Frederick Kohner|t=Albert Mannheimer}} |ABC |
| Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
|"Opie Joins the Marines" |Aaron Ruben |CBS |
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 1967 {{small|(20th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| "Movies Are Better than Ever" | Marvin Marx, Walter Stone and Rod Parker | CBS |
| rowspan=2|Get Smart
|"Bronzefinger" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Where-What-Who Am I?"
| Barry Blitzer & Ray Brenner |
| That Girl
|"Rain, Snow and Rice" |ABC |
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 1968 {{small|(21st)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Get Smart | "Viva Smart" | Bill Idelson, Sam Bobrick and Norman Paul | NBC |
| rowspan=3|He & She
|"Before You Bury Me, Can I Say Something?" |Jim Parker & Arnold Margolin |rowspan=3|CBS |
| "Knock, Knock...Who's There? Fernando!...Fernando Who?" |
| "The Old Man and the She"
|Leonard B. Stern & Arne Sultan |
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | 1969 {{small|(22nd)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Room 222 | "Funny Boy" | Allan Burns | ABC |
| The Bill Cosby Show
|"Growing, Growing, Grown" |Kenny Solms & Gail Parent |NBC |
| rowspan=2|Get Smart
|"The Apes of Rath" |Lloyd Turner & Gordon Whitey Mitchell |rowspan=3|CBS |
| "Ice Station Siegfried"
|Arne Sultan & Chris Hayward |
| The Jackie Gleason Show
|"Play it Again, Norton" |Walter Stone, Rod Parker & Robert Hilliard |
| My World and Welcome to It
|"Little Girls are Sugar & Spice, and Not Always Nice!" |Rick Mittleman |NBC |
=1970s=
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| width="5%" | Year
! width="30%" | Series ! width="30%" | Episode ! width="40%" | Winners/nominees ! width="10%" | Network |
|---|
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 1970 {{small|(23rd)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/20/archives/awards-presented-by-writers-guild.html |title=Awards Presented by Writers Guild |date= March 20, 1971 |website= The New York Times |access-date= December 9, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210002858/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/20/archives/awards-presented-by-writers-guild.html |archive-date= Dec 10, 2021 }} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Room 222 | "The Valedictorian" | Richard DeRoy | ABC |
| The Governor & J.J.
|"Check the Check" |Arne Sultan & Earl Barret |CBS |
| My World and Welcome to It
|"The Fourth Estate" |Lila Garrett & Bernie Kahn |NBC |
| Room 222
|"Funny Money" |Steve Pritzker |ABC |
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | 1971 {{small|(24th)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-may-22-la-me-passings-20100522-story.html |title=PASSINGS: Martin Cohan, David Durston |author=|date= May 22, 2010 |website= Los Angeles Times |access-date= December 19, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Mary Tyler Moore Show |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Martin Cohan |style="background:#FAEB86;"|CBS |
| rowspan=5|All in the Family
|"Christmas at the Bunkers" |rowspan=5|CBS |
| "Edith's Accident"
|{{StoryTeleplay|s=Tom & Helen August|t=Michael Ross & Bernie West}} |
| "Gloria has a Belly Full"
|Jerry Mayer |
| "Mike's Problem"
|{{StoryTeleplay|s=Alan J. Levitt & Phil Mishkin|t=Alan J. Levitt}} |
| "Oh, My Aching Back" |
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1972 {{small|(25th)}} {{cite web |url=https://awards.wga.org/awards/awards-recipients/honorary-service-awards/valentines-davies-award/larry-gelbart |title=Acclaimed Screen and TV Writer Larry Gelbart to Receive Valentine Davies Honor at 2007 Writers Guild Awards |date= January 3, 2007 |website= Writers Guild Awards |publisher=Writers Guild of America West |access-date= December 20, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| M*A*S*H | "Chief Surgeon Who?" | CBS |
| All in the Family
|"Edith's Problem" |{{StoryTeleplay|s=Burt Styler & Steve Zacharias|t=Burt Styler}} |rowspan=3|CBS |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show
|"The Good-Time News" |
| Maude
|"Flashback" |Alan J. Levitt |
| The Odd Couple
|"The Pen is Mightier Than the Pencil" |ABC |
| rowspan=8 style="text-align:center" | 1973 {{small|(26th)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-23-me-29324-story.html |title=Robert Weiskopf; Wrote for Classic TV Sitcoms |author= Oliver, Myrna |date= February 23, 2001 |website= Los Angeles Times |access-date= December 19, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219083949/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-23-me-29324-story.html |archive-date=December 19, 2021 }} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Maude | "Walter's Problem" | CBS |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show
|"The Lars Affair" |rowspan=6|CBS |
| rowspan=5|M*A*S*H
|"Carry On, Hawkeye" |{{StoryTeleplay|s=Bernard Dilbert|t=Bernard Dilbert, Larry Gelbart and Laurence Marks}} |
| "The Incubator"
|Larry Gelbart & Laurence Marks |
| "Radar's Report"
|{{StoryTeleplay|s=Sheldon Keller|t=Laurence Marks}} |
| "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"
|Carl Kleinschmitt |
| "Tuttle"
|Bruce Shelly & David Ketchum |
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1974 {{small|(27th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| M*A*S*H | "O.R." | Larry Gelbart & Laurence Marks | CBS |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show
|"Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?" |Ed. Weinberger & Stan Daniels |rowspan=4|CBS |
| M*A*S*H
|"Private Charles Lamb" |Sid Dorfman |
| rowspan=2|Rhoda
|"Parents' Day" |Charlotte Brown |
| "You Can Go Home Again"
|Pat Nardo & Gloria Banta |
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | 1975 {{small|(28th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| M*A*S*H | "Welcome to Korea" | Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell and Larry Gelbart | CBS |
| All in the Family
|"Archie the Hero" |Lou Derman & Bill Davenport |rowspan=5|CBS |
| rowspan=2|The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| "Edie Gets Married" |
| M*A*S*H
|"Big Mac" |Laurence Marks |
| Rhoda
|"Ida's Doctor" |Coleman Mitchell & Geoffrey Neigher |
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | 1976 {{small|(29th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| M*A*S*H | "Dear Sigmund" | CBS |
| All in the Family
|"Joey's Baptism" |Milt Josefsberg, Mel Tolkin and Larry Rhine |CBS |
| Barney Miller
|"The Evacuation" |{{StoryTeleplay|s=Chris Hayward & Danny Arnold|t=Danny Arnold}} |ABC |
| rowspan=2|The Mary Tyler Moore Show
|"Mary's Insomnia" |David Lloyd |rowspan=3|CBS |
| "My Son, the Genius"
|Bob Ellison |
| M*A*S*H
|"Hawkeye, Get Your Gun" |{{StoryTeleplay|s=Gene Reynolds & Jay Folb|t=Jay Folb}} |
| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center" | 1977 {{small|(30th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"
| All in the Family | "Archie Get the Business" | Larry Rhine & Mel Tolkin | CBS |
| All in the Family
|"The Joys of Sex" |Erik Tarloff |CBS |
| rowspan=2|Barney Miller
|"Copy Cat" |Douglas Wyman & Tony Sheehan |rowspan=2|ABC |
| "Goodbye, Mr. Fish", Part 2 |
| rowspan=2|The Bob Newhart Show
|"A Girl in Her Twenties" |Laura Levine |rowspan=6|CBS |
| "A Jackie Story"
|Lloyd Garver |
| The Jeffersons
|"Once a Friend" |Michael S. Baser & Kim Weiskopf |
| rowspan=2|The Mary Tyler Moore Show
|"The Critic" |David Lloyd |
| "The Last Show"
|James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, Ed. Weinberger, Stan Daniels, David Lloyd and Bob Ellison |
| M*A*S*H
|"Fade Out, Fade In" |Jim Fritzell & Everett Greenbaum |
| rowspan=9 style="text-align:center" | 1978 {{small|(31st)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| M*A*S*H | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" | CBS |
| All in the Family
|"California, Here We Are" |Milt Josefsberg, Phil Sharp, Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf |CBS |
| Barney Miller
|"The Ghost" |Reinhold Weege |ABC |
| M*A*S*H
|"Point of View" |CBS |
| Mork & Mindy
|"Pilot" |Dale McRaven |ABC |
| Rhoda
|"Rhoda vs. Ida" |Bob Ellison |CBS |
| rowspan=2|Taxi
|"Blind Date" |rowspan=2|ABC |
| "Memories of Cab 804" |
| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center" | 1979 {{small|(32nd)}} {{cite web |url=https://awards.wga.org/awards/awards-recipients/honorary-service-awards/morgan-cox-award/dan-wilcox |title=M*A*S*H TV Writer Dan Wilcox to Receive WGAW's 2017 Morgan Cox Award for Guild Service |date= January 10, 2017 |website= WGA Awards |publisher=Writers Guild of America West |access-date= December 20, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220084719/https://awards.wga.org/awards/awards-recipients/honorary-service-awards/morgan-cox-award/dan-wilcox |archive-date= December 20, 2021 }} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| M*A*S*H | "Are You Now, Margaret?" | CBS |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Taxi | "The Reluctant Father" | ABC |
| Barney Miller
|"The Indian" |{{StoryTeleplay|s=Richard William Beban, Judith Anne Nielsen and Reinhold Weege|t=Reinhold Weege}} |ABC |
| rowspan=3|M*A*S*H
|"Goodbye, Radar" |Ken Levine & David Isaacs |rowspan=3|CBS |
| "Period of Adjustment"
|Jim Mulligan & John Rappaport |
| "The Young and the Restless" |
| rowspan=2|Mork & Mindy
|"Dr. Morkenstein" |Bruce Kalish & Philip John Taylor |rowspan=4|ABC |
| "Mork's Mixed Emotions"
|Tom Tenowich & Ed Scharlach |
| rowspan=2|Taxi
|"Elaine's Secret Admirer" |Barry Kemp |
| "Honor Thy Father" |
=1980s=
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! width="30%" | Series ! width="30%" | Episode ! width="40%" | Winners/nominees ! width="10%" | Network |
|---|
| rowspan=9 style="text-align:center" | 1980 {{small|(33rd)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| M*A*S*H | "Heal Thyself" | {{StoryTeleplay|s=Dennis Koenig and Gene Reynolds|t=Dennis Koenig}} | CBS |
| The Associates
|"The Censors" |Stan Daniels & Ed. Weinberger |rowspan=2|ABC |
| Barney Miller
|"The Child Stealers" |Frank Dungan & Jeff Stein |
| rowspan=2|M*A*S*H
|"Bottle Fatigue" |Thad Mumford & Dan Wilcox |rowspan=2|CBS |
| "Morale Victory"
|John Rappaport |
| rowspan=2|Taxi
|"Alex Jumps Out of an Airplane" |rowspan=2|ABC |
| "Art Work" |
| United States
|"Sometimes" |Larry Gelbart & Everett Greenbaum |NBC |
| rowspan=9 style="text-align:center" | 1981 {{small|(34th)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/03/05/Writers-Guild-announce-TV-and-radio-nominations/8559384152400/ |title=Writers Guild announce TV and radio nominations |author= |date= March 5, 1982 |website= United Press International |access-date= December 16, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Barney Miller | "Stormy Weather" | Nat Mauldin | ABC |
| Barney Miller
|"Field Associate" |Jordan Moffet |rowspan=2|ABC |
| The Greatest American Hero
|"Pilot" |
| rowspan=2|M*A*S*H
|"No Sweat" |John Rappaport |rowspan=3|CBS |
| "A War for All Seasons"
|Dan Wilcox & Thad Mumford |
| Park Place
|"Crazy Judge" |
| rowspan=2|Taxi
|"The Boss' Wife" |Ken Estin |rowspan=2|ABC |
| "Tony's Sister and Jim" |
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | 1982 {{small|(35th)}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Barney Miller | "Hunger Strike" | {{StoryTeleplay|s=Tony Sheehan & Stephen Neigher|t=Tony Sheehan}} | ABC |
| Best of the West
|"The Calico Kid Returns" |ABC |
| M*A*S*H
|"The Birthday Girls" |rowspan=2|CBS |
| Making the Grade
|"Pilot" |
| Open All Night
|"Terry Runs Away" |rowspan=2|ABC |
| Taxi
|"Elegant Iggy" |Ken Estin |
| rowspan=8 style="text-align:center" | 1983 {{small|(34th)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/04/06/Writers-Honor-Four-Oscar-Contenders/4033450075600/ |title=Writers Honor Four Oscar Contenders |author=|date= April 6, 1982 |website= United Press International |access-date= December 17, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
|rowspan=2 |Cheers | Ken Levine & David Isaacs |rowspan=2 |NBC |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Give Me a Ring Sometime" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Glen and Les Charles |
| rowspan=2|Cheers
|"Let Me Count the Ways" |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One" |
| M*A*S*H
|"Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" |Alan Alda, Burt Metcalfe, John Rappaport, Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford, Elias Davis, David Pollock and Karen Hall |CBS |
| rowspan=2|Taxi
|"Jim's Inheritance" |Ken Estin |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Scenskees from a Marriage"
|Howard Gewirtz & Ian Praiser |
| rowspan=9 style="text-align:center" | 1984 {{small|(37th)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-22-ca-29975-story.html |title=ROBINSON, ALLEN SHARE WRITERS GUILD AWARD |author= London, Michael |date= March 22, 1985 |website= Los Angeles Times |access-date= December 7, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Cheers | "Sumner's Return" | NBC |
| AfterM*A*S*H
|"Night Shift" |Everett Greenbaum & Elliott Reid |CBS |
| rowspan=2|Cheers
|"Affairs of the Heart" |Heide Perlman |rowspan=5|NBC |
| "Old Flames" |
| The Duck Factory
|"Goodbye Buddy, Hello Skip" |
| Family Ties
|"Not an Affair to Remember" |Gary David Goldberg & Ruth Bennett |
| Night Court
|"Once in Love with Harry" |Reinhold Weege |
| Too Close for Comfort
|"Ship Mates" |Arne Sultan & Earl Barret |ABC |
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | 1985 {{small|(38th)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-24-ca-200-story.html |title=WRITERS GUILD SALUTES 'PRIZZI,' 'WITNESS' |author= Matthews, Jack |date= March 24, 1986 |website= Los Angeles Times |access-date= December 8, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| "Pilot" | ABC |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Steambath |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Madison Avenue Madness" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|David Pollock & Elias Davis |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Showtime |
| rowspan=2|Cheers
|"The Executive's Executioner" |Heide Perlman |rowspan=3|NBC |
| "Fairy Tales Can Come True" |
| The Cosby Show |
| Webster
|"The Uh-Oh Feeling" |Steven Sunshine & Madeline Sunshine |ABC |
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | 1986 {{small|(39th)}} {{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/473fb0555bd2323b22a4c5601aa218f5 |title=Writers Guild Names Television Awards Nominees |author=|date= February 27, 1987 |website= Associated Press |access-date= December 8, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| "Allie's Affair" | Bob Randall | CBS |
| All Is Forgiven
|"I Can't Say No" |Ian Praiser & Howard Gewirtz |rowspan=4|NBC |
| The Cosby Show
|"Theo's Holiday" |John Markus, Carmen Finestra & Matt Williams |
| The Golden Girls
|"Rose's Mother" |
| Night Court
|"Best of Friends" |Howard Ostroff |
| rowspan=8 style="text-align:center" | 1987 {{small|(40th)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-04-ca-146-story.html |title=Writers Guild TV Nominees |author=|date= March 4, 1988 |website= Los Angeles Times |access-date= December 9, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | "Here's Why Cosmetics Should Come in Unbreakable Bottles" |rowspan=3|NBC |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|Family Ties |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"A, My Name is Alex" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Gary David Goldberg & Alan Uger |
| style="background:#FAEB86;"
|style="background:#FAEB86;"|The Golden Girls |style="background:#FAEB86;"|"Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas" |style="background:#FAEB86;"|Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan |
| Cheers
|"Never Love a Goalie, Part I" |Ken Levine & David Isaacs |rowspan=4|NBC |
| Family Ties
|"My Back Pages" |Ruth Bennett |
| The Golden Girls
|"A Piece of Cake" |Kathy Speer, Terry Grossman, Mort Nathan and Barry Fanaro |
| Night Court
|"Contempt of Courting" |Tom Straw |
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | 1988 {{small|(41st)}} {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-21-ca-366-story.html |title=ROBINSON, ALLEN SHARE WRITERS GUILD AWARD |author= Weinstein, Steve |date= March 21, 1989 |website= Los Angeles Times |access-date= December 9, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| "My Father's Office" | ABC |
| Family Ties
|"The Way We Were" |Gary David Goldberg |rowspan=3|NBC |
| The Golden Girls
|"Old Friends" |Kathy Speer & Terry Grossman |
| Night Court
|"No Hard Feelings" |Tom Straw |
| The Slap Maxwell Story
|"Pilot" |Jay Tarses |rowspan=2|ABC |
| The Wonder Years
|"Pilot" |Neal Marlens & Carol Black |
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | 1989 {{small|(42nd)}} {{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/a1dc81cc7ac22acc24418a1064960d1d |title=Woody Allen, Alfred Uhry Take Writers Guild Awards |author= |date= March 19, 1990 |website= Associated Press |publisher=Associated Press |access-date= December 9, 2021}} |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| The Wonder Years | "Coda" | ABC |
| rowspan=2|Cheers
|"Jumping Jerks" |Ken Levine & David Isaacs |rowspan=2|NBC |
| "Please, Mr. Postman"
|Brian Pollack & Mert Rich |
| The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
|"Here's Why You Order From the Spanish Side of the Menu" |
| Murphy Brown
|"Respect" |CBS |
| The Wonder Years
|"Pottery Will Get You Nowhere" |ABC |
=1990s=
=2000s=
=2010s=
=2020s=
Total awards
- NBC – 25
- CBS – 20
- ABC – 11
- Fox – 2
- Showtime – 2
- HBO – 2
- FX – 1
- Netflix – 1
- Peacock – 1
Writers with multiple awards
{{col-begin}}
{{col-break}}
;4 awards
- Robert Carlock
;3 awards
- Larry Gelbart
{{col-break}}
;2 awards
- Sam Bobrick
- Bob Daily
- Larry David
- Diane English
- Jim Fritzell
- Gary David Goldberg
- Everett Greenbaum
- Bill Idelson
- David Isaacs
- Joe Keenan
- Ken Levine
- Steven Levitan
- Christopher Lloyd
{{col-end}}
Programs with multiple awards
{{col-begin}}
{{col-break}}
;7 awards
- M*A*S*H (CBS)
;6 awards
- Frasier (NBC)
;4 awards
- 30 Rock (NBC)
- Seinfeld (NBC)
{{col-break}}
;3 awards
- Cheers (NBC)Cheers' double win in 1983 is counted as only one win.
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
- Modern Family (ABC)
;2 awards
- Barney Miller (ABC)
- Hacks (HBO Max/Max)
- Murphy Brown (CBS)
- The Office (NBC)
- The Wonder Years (ABC)
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Writers with multiple nominations
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;7 nominations
- David Isaacs
- Ken Levine
;6 nominations
- Robert Carlock
- Cindy Chupack
- Larry David
- Larry Gelbart
- Gary David Goldberg
;5 nominations
- Allan Burns
- Ken Estin
- Everett Greenbaum
- Steven Levitan
- David Lloyd
- Laurence Marks
- Reinhold Weege
;4 nominations
- Bob Ellison
- Diane English
- Matt Hubbard
- Jenji Kohan
- Thad Mumford
- John Rappaport
- Arne Sultan
- Ed. Weinberger
- Dan Wilcox
;3 nominations
- Jerry Belson
- Jenny Bicks
- James L. Brooks
- Glen Charles
- Les Charles
- Stan Daniels
- Elias Davis
- Jim Fritzell
- Chris Hayward
- Joe Keenan
- Paul Lieberstein
- David Mandel
- Garry Marshall
- Tony McNamara
- Heidi Perlman
- David Pollock
- Jeffrey Richman
- Julie Rottenberg
- Jay Tarses
- Neil Thompson
- Elisa Zuritsky
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;2 nominations
- Alan Alda
- Lucia Aniello
- Jenna Bans
- Earl Barret
- Jake Bender
- Ruth Bennett
- Alec Berg
- James Berg
- Carol Black
- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
- Sam Bobrick
- Jack Burditt
- Joanna Calo
- Paul Corrigan
- Bob Daily
- Greg Daniels
- Paul W. Downs
- Zach Dunn
- Jack Elinson
- Barry Fanaro
- Liz Feldman
- Tina Fey
- Maya Forbes
- Bryan Fuller
- Greg Garcia
- Lila Garrett
- Howard Gewirtz
- Charlie Grandy
- Rob Greenberg
- Terry Grossman
- Karen Hall
- Sterlin Harjo
- John Hoffman
- Bill Idelson
- Milt Josefsberg
- Bernie Kahn
- Barry Kemp
- Michael Patrick King
- Jon Kinnally
- Carl Kleinschmitt
- Elaine Ko
- Mort Lachman
- Bill Larkin
- Bill Lawrence
- Charles Lee
- Michael Leeson
- Alan J. Levitt
- Christopher Lloyd
- Chuck Lorre
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- Mitch Markowitz
- Neal Marlens
- John Markus
- Dale McRaven
- Peter Mehlman
- Rick Mittleman
- Gary Murphy
- Kevin Murphy
- Mort Nathan
- B. J. Novak
- Dan O'Shannon
- Rod Parker
- Tracy Poust
- Ian Praiser
- John Rapp
- Carl Reiner
- Gene Reynolds
- Larry Rhine
- John Riggi
- Aaron Ruben
- Bob Schiller
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Michael Schur
- Garry Shandling
- Tony Sheehan
- Amy Sherman-Palladino
- Kathy Speer
- Jen Statsky
- Leonard B. Stern
- Charles Stewart
- Walter Stone
- Christopher Storer
- Tom Straw
- Norman Sullivan
- George Tibbles
- Peter Tolan
- Mel Tolkin
- Rob Ulin
- Brad Walsh
- Bob Weiskopf
- Lester A. White
- Jack Winter
- Alan Yang
- Stan Zimmerman
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Programs with multiple nominations
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;26 nominations
- M*A*S*H (CBS)
;14 nominations
- Seinfeld (NBC)
;13 nominations
- Cheers (NBC)
- Modern Family (ABC)
;12 nominations
- The Office (NBC)
- Sex and the City (HBO)
- Taxi (ABC), (NBC)
;11 nominations
- 30 Rock (NBC)
- All in the Family (CBS)
;10 nominations
- Frasier (NBC)
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)
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;9 nominations
- Barney Miller (ABC)
;8 nominations
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
;7 nominations
- Malcolm in the Middle (Fox)
- The Wonder Years (ABC)
;6 nominations
- The Larry Sanders Show (HBO)
;5 nominations
- Get Smart (NBC), (CBS)
- The Golden Girls (NBC)
- Orange is the New Black (Netflix)
;4 nominations
- The Bear (FX on Hulu)
- Family Ties (NBC)
- Murphy Brown (CBS)
- Night Court (NBC)
- Rhoda (CBS)
- Roseanne (ABC)
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;3 nominations
- The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (NBC), (Lifetime)
- Desperate Housewives (ABC)
- Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
- The Great (Hulu)
- He & She (CBS)
- Mork & Mindy (ABC)
- My Name Is Earl (NBC)
- Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu)
- Room 222 (ABC)
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
- Veep (HBO)
;2 nominations
- The Bob Newhart Show (CBS)
- The Cosby Show (NBC)
- The Danny Thomas Show (CBS)
- Dead to Me (Netflix)
- Dharma & Greg (ABC)
- Ellen (ABC)
- Friends (NBC)
- Hacks (HBO Max/Max)
- The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS)
- Mad About You (NBC)
- Maude (CBS)
- My World and Welcome to It (NBC)
- Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
- Parks and Recreation (NBC)
- Weeds (Showtime)
- What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
- Will & Grace (NBC)
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