Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Dramatic Special 1977
29th Primetime Emmy Awards · held September 11, 1977 · 10 nominees
- Winner Stewart Stern · Sybil
- Winner Lane Slate · Tail Gunner Joe
- Nominee Steve Gethers · A Circle of Children
- Nominee John McGreevey · Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
- Nominee Carol Sobieski · Plain Speaking
- Nominee Barry Beckerman · Raid on Entebbe
- Nominee Joe Morgenstern, Douglas Day Stewart · The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
- Nominee William Bast · The Man in the Iron Mask
- Nominee James Costigan · The White House Years from Eleanor and Franklin
- Nominee Ernest Kinoy · Victory at Entebbe