Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series 1988
40th Primetime Emmy Awards · held August 28, 1988 · 5 nominees
- Winner Thirtysomething · Marshall Herskovitz, Paul Haggis, Scott Winant
- Nominee Beauty and the Beast · Tony Thomas, Paul Junger Witt, George R. R. Martin, David Peckinpah
- Nominee L.A. Law · Rick Wallace, David E. Kelley
- Nominee Rumpole of the Bailey
- Nominee St. Elsewhere · John Tinker, Channing Gibson