Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series 1986
38th Primetime Emmy Awards · held September 21, 1986 · 5 nominees
- Winner John Tinker, Tom Fontana, John Masius · Time Heals from St. Elsewhere
- Nominee Charles H. Eglee, Channing Gibson · Haunted from St. Elsewhere
- Nominee Carl Sautter · The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice from Moonlighting
- Nominee Glenn Gordon Caron · Twas the Episode Before Christmas from Moonlighting
- Nominee Dick Wolf · What Are Friends For? from Hill Street Blues
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