Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Dramatic Special 1987
39th Primetime Emmy Awards · held September 20, 1987 · 5 nominees
- Winner Ken Blackwell, Richard Friedenberg · Promise
- Nominee Reginald Rose · Escape from Sobibor
- Nominee Hugh Whitemore · Pack of Lies
- Nominee William Hanley · Part II from Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder
- Nominee Joshua Brand, John Falsey · The First Christmas from A Year in the Life