Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series 1981
33rd Primetime Emmy Awards · held September 13, 1981 · 7 nominees
- Winner James Burrows · Elaine's Strange Triangle from Taxi
- Nominee Jerry Paris · Hello, Mrs. Arcola from Happy Days
- Nominee Noam Pitlik · Liquidation from Barney Miller
- Nominee Burt Metcalfe · No Laughing Matter from M*A*S*H
- Nominee Alan Alda · The Life You Save from M*A*S*H
- Nominee Linda Day · Tough Love from Archie Bunker's Place
- Nominee Rod Daniel · Venus Flytrap Explains the Atom from WKRP in Cincinnati
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