List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series winners
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Nominees and winners
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| 1954 | "Crime at Blossoms" | Studio One | Jerome Ross | |
| 1955 | "The Long Goodbye" | Climax! | E. Jack Neuman | |
| 1955 | "Smoke" | Suspense Suspense (US TV series) Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City... |
Gore Vidal Gore Vidal Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality... |
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| 1956 | "A Taste of Honey" | Elgin Hour | Alvin Sapinsley Jr. | |
| 1956 | "Thin Air" | Climax! | Ben Starr | |
| 1957 | "The Fine Art of Murder" | Omnibus | Sidney Carroll Sidney Carroll Sidney Carroll was a film and television screenwriter. Although Carroll wrote most frequently for television, he is perhaps best remembered today for writing the screenplay for The Hustler for which he was nominated for an Academy Award... |
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| 1958 | "Mechanical Manhunt" | The Alcoa Hour The Alcoa Hour The Alcoa Hour is a live anthology television series sponsored by Alcoa and telecast in the United States from 1955 to 1957. The series was seen Sundays on NBC at 9pm.-Overview:... |
Harold Swanton | |
| 1958 | "The Trial of Lizzie Borden" | Omnibus | Omnibus staff | |
| 1959 | "The Edge of Truth" | Studio One | Adrian Spies | |
| 1959 | "Capital Punishment" | Omnibus | James Lee James Lee James Matthew Lee, PC was the 26th Premier Prince Edward Island . He was the leader of the PEI Progressive Conservative Party from 1981 to 1987.... |
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| 1961 | "The Case of the Burning Court" | Dow Hour of Great Mysteries Dow Hour of Great Mysteries The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries, was a series of seven television specials hosted by Joseph Nye Welch that were aired in 1960.-Episodes:*Episode 1: The Bat; Mary Roberts Rinehart; 31 March 1960*Episode 2: The Burning Court John Dickson Carr; 24 April 1960... |
Kelley Roos | |
| 1961 | "The Day of the Bullet" | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Bill Ballinger | |
| 1962 | "The Legend of Jim Riva" | The Defenders | John K. Butler, Boyd Correll | |
| 1962 | "Witness in the Dark" | Kraft Mystery Theater Kraft Television Theatre Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series that began May 7, 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. In January 1948, it moved to 9pm on Wednesdays, continuing in that timeslot until 1958. Initially produced by the J... |
John Lemont, Leigh Vance | |
| 1963 | "The Apostle" | The Defenders | Stanley R. Greenberg | |
| 1963 | "The Problem of Cell 13" | Kraft Mystery Theatre Kraft Television Theatre Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series that began May 7, 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. In January 1948, it moved to 9pm on Wednesdays, continuing in that timeslot until 1958. Initially produced by the J... |
A.A. Roberts | |
| 1963 | "Scene of the Crime" | U.S. Steel Hour | Sidney Carroll | |
| 1964 | "The End of the World Baby" | Kraft Suspense Hour Kraft Television Theatre Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series that began May 7, 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. In January 1948, it moved to 9pm on Wednesdays, continuing in that timeslot until 1958. Initially produced by the J... |
Luther Davis Luther Davis Luther Davis was an American play- and screenwriter. He attended Culver Academies, received a BA from Yale and rose to the rank of major in the US Air Force... |
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| 1964 | "To Bury Caesar" | Dupont Show of the Week | Berkely Mather | |
| 1966 | "Carry Me Back to Old Tsing Tao" | I, Spy | David Karp | |
| 1966 | "The Gray Lady" | Honey West | Richard Levinson, William Link | |
| 1966 | "Memorandum for a Spy" | Bob Hope Presents | Robert L. Joseph | |
| 1966 | "An Unlocked Window" | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | James Bridges James Bridges James Bridges was an American screenwriter and film director.Bridges was born in Paris, Arkansas. He got his start as a writer for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and one of his episodes, "An Unlocked Window", earned him a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode in a TV... |
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| 1967 | "After the Lion, Jackals" | Bob Hope Presents | Stanford Whitmore | |
| 1967 | "The Fatal Mistake" | Bob Hope Presents | Jacques Gillies, Oscar Millard | |
| 1967 | "Operation Rogesh" | Mission: Impossible Mission: Impossible Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in... |
Jerome Ross | |
| 1968 | "Tempest in a Texas Town" | Judd for Defense | Harold Gast, Leon Tokatyan | |
| 1969 | "Companions in Nightmare" | NBC World Premier Film | Robert L. Joseph | |
| 1969 | "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde" | ABC Special | Ian Hunter Ian Hunter (actor) Ian Hunter was a British character actor.Among dozens of film roles, his best-remembered appearances include That Certain Woman with Bette Davis, The Adventures of Robin Hood , The Little Princess and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... |
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| 1970 | "Daughter of the Mind Daughter of the Mind Daughter of the Mind is a made-for-television suspense film starring Don Murray, Ray Milland and Gene Tierney. It was first broadcast on ABC on December 9, 1969 as the ABC Movie of the Week.-Plot:... " |
ABC Movie of the Week ABC Movie of the Week The ABC Movie of the Week is a weekly television anthology series, featuring made-for-TV movies, that aired on the ABC network in various permutations from 1969 to 1975.-History:... |
Luther Davis Luther Davis Luther Davis was an American play- and screenwriter. He attended Culver Academies, received a BA from Yale and rose to the rank of major in the US Air Force... |
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| 1971 | "Berlin Affair" | NBC Movie of the Week | E. Jack Neuman & Richard Alan Simmons | |
| 1972 | "A Step in Time" | Mannix Mannix Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors... |
Mann Rubin | |
| 1991 | "Good Night, Dear Heart Good Night, Dear Heart "Good Night, Dear Heart" is a 1990 episode of the American science fiction television series Quantum Leap. Lead character Sam Beckett "leaps" into the body of a mortician investigating the death of a young German immigrant woman. What at first appears to be a suicide by drowning turns out to be... " |
Quantum Leap | Paul Brown | |
| 2006 | "911" | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Patrick Harbinson | |
| 2006 | "Amulet" | Sea of Souls Sea of Souls Sea of Souls is a BBC paranormal drama series, based around the fictional activities of a group of investigators into psychic and other paranormal events. Produced in-house by BBC Scotland, initially in association with Sony Pictures Television International, the series debuted on BBC One in the UK... |
Ed Whitmore Ed Whitmore Ed Whitmore is a British screenwriter. He has written for a number of successful British TV series such as Waking the Dead. In 2003 he wrote the Waking The Dead episode Multistory, directed by Robert Bierman, which won the show an Emmy for Best International Drama Series... |
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| 2006 | "A Bullet Runs Through It, Parts 1 and 2" | CSI | Richard Catalani, Carol Mendelsohn | |
| 2006 | "Grave Danger" | CSI | Carol Mendelsohn, Naren Shankar, Quentin Tarantino, Anthony Zuiker | |
| 2006 | "Redemption" | Wire in the Blood | Guy Burt | |
| 2007 | "Blue Blood" | The Closer | James Duff & Mike Berchem | |
| 2007 | "Clueless" | House | Thomas L. Moran | |
| 2007 | "Crocodile" | Dexter | Clyde Phillips | |
| 2007 | "Episode 1 Series 1: Episode 1 (Life on Mars) The first episode of the first series of the British time travel police procedural television series, Life on Mars, was first broadcast on 9 January 2006. The episode, known erroneously as "The Crash", was produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One.... " |
Life on Mars Life on Mars (TV series) Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between January 2006 and April 2007. The series combines elements of science fiction and police procedural.... |
Matthew Graham Matthew Graham Matthew Graham is a British television writer, and the co-creator of the BBC/Kudos Film and Television science fiction series Life on Mars, which debuted in 2006 on BBC One and has received international critical acclaim.... |
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| 2007 | "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink" | Monk | Hy Conrad | |
| 2008 | "It's Alive" | Dexter | Daniel Cerone | |
| 2008 | "Pie-Lette" | Pushing Daisies | Bryan Fuller | |
| 2008 | "Pilot Pilot (Burn Notice) Pilot is the first episode of Burn Notice, an American television drama series created for the USA Network.A spy kicked out of the agency is stuck in Miami, where he helps locals who can not rely on the police. In the opener, Michael Westen finds himself cut off from his contacts and his cash, so... " |
Burn Notice Burn notice A burn notice is an official statement issued by one intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an individual or a group is unreliable for one or more reasons... |
Matt Nix Matt Nix Matthew E. "Matt" Nix is an American writer, producer, and director. He is best known for creating the USA Network television series Burn Notice and the now defunct cult favorite Fox series The Good Guys.-Biography:... |
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| 2008 | "Senseless" | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Warren Leight & Siobhan Byrne O'Connor, Julie Martin & Siobhan Byrne O'Connor | |
| 2008 | "Yahrzeit" | Waking the Dead | Declan Croghan | |
| 2009 | "Burn Card" | Law & Order | Ed Zuckerman and David Wilcox | |
| 2009 | "Prayer of the Bone" | Wire in the Blood | Patrick Harbinson | |
| 2009 | "Signature" | Law & Order: SVU | Judith McCreary | |
| 2009 | "Streetwise" | Law & Order: SVU | Paul Grellong | |
| 2009 | "You May Now Kill the Bride" | CSI: Miami | Barry O'Brien | |
| 2010 | "Place of Execution" | Place of Execution | Patrick Harbinson | |
| 2011 | "Episode 1" | Luther | Neil Cross |
See also
- Edgar AwardEdgar AwardThe Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
- Mystery Writers of AmericaMystery Writers of AmericaMystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
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