Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Writing

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The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Writing is an Emmy award honoring writing in special television programming. Both series and specials are eligible for this category. [1]

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Winners and Nominees

Winners in bold

Outstanding Writing for a Daytime Special Program

1970s

1974

1975

1976

  • Audrey Davis Levin - First Ladies Diaries ("Edith Wilson") (NBC)
    • Ethel Frank - First Ladies Diaries ("Martha Washington") (NBC)

Outstanding Achievement in Coverage of Special Events - Writing

1980s

1981

1982

Special Classification of Outstanding Individual Achievement - Writers

1980s

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

  • Helen Marmor - Hong Kong on Borrowed Time (NBC)
  • Team - Breakaway (SYN)
  • Team - One to Grow On (NBC)

1986

  • Catherine Faulconer - Chagall's Journey (NBC)
    • Jane Paley - ABC Notebook ("War In The Family") (ABC)
    • Peter Restivo - Soap Opera Special (SYN)
    • Team - Jeopardy! (SYN)
    • Team - One to Grow On (NBC)

1987

1988

Outstanding Special Class Writing

1980s

1989

  • Scott J.T. Frank and Tom Avitabile - When I Grow Up (CBS)
  • David Forman and Barry Adelman - Soap Opera Digest Awards (NBC)

1990s

1990

  • Robert Kirk - Remembering World War II ("Pearl Harbour") (SYN)
  • Glenn Kirschbaum - Remembering World War II ("Hitler: Man & Myth") (SYN)

1991

1992

  • Kerry Millerick, Julie Engleman, and Neal Rogin - Spaceship Earth: Our Global Environment (Disney Channel)
    • Team - Jeopardy! (SYN)
    • Joan Rivers, Hester Mundis, and Toem Perew - The Joan Rivers Show (SYN)
    • Robert Thornton - The Streets (ABC)

1993

  • Victoria Costello - This Island Earth (Disney Channel)

1994

  • Team - Jeopardy! (SYN)
    • Robert Thornton - Northern Lights (ABC)

1995

  • Bob Carruthers - Dinosaurs Myths & Reality (Disney Channel)
    • Team - Jeopardy! (SYN)
    • Robert Thornton - Wings as Eagles (ABC)
    • Rosser Mcdonald - Nicaragua: Finding Peace (NBC)

1996

  • Team - Jeopardy! (SYN)
    • Rosser Mcdonald - Haiti: Mountains and Hopes (NBC)
    • Brad Gyori, Stan Evans, and Mark Tye Turner - Talk Soup (E!)

1997

1998

1999

2000s

2000

2001

2002

2003

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2009

2010s

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2018

2020s

2021

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  1. "Overview" . Retrieved 29 July 2014.