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Outstanding Drama Series — Every Emmy Winner

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Every Primetime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series — the small-screen drama canon, newest first.

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Every winner of the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, newest first. Source: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (award results are facts).

unmatched

8.7

The Pitt

2025

8.4

Shōgun

2024

8.3

Succession

2023

8.3

Succession

2022

8.2

The Crown

2021

8.3

Succession

2020

8.5

Game of Thrones

2019

8.5

Game of Thrones

2018

8.2

The Handmaid's Tale

2017

8.5

Game of Thrones

2016

8.5

Game of Thrones

2015

8.9

Breaking Bad

2014

8.9

Breaking Bad

2013

7.6

Homeland

2012

8.1

Mad Men

2011

8.1

Mad Men

2010

8.1

Mad Men

2009

8.1

Mad Men

2008

8.7

The Sopranos

2007

7.8

2006

8.0

Lost

2005

8.7

The Sopranos

2004

8.3

The West Wing

2003

8.3

The West Wing

2002

8.3

The West Wing

2001

8.3

The West Wing

2000

7.7

The Practice

1999

7.7

The Practice

1998

7.3

Law & Order

1997

7.8

1996

7.0

NYPD Blue

1995

7.5

Picket Fences

1994

7.5

Picket Fences

1993

7.8

Northern Exposure

1992

7.1

L.A. Law

1991

7.1

L.A. Law

1990

7.1

L.A. Law

1989

6.3

thirtysomething

1988

7.1

L.A. Law

1987

6.9

Cagney & Lacey

1986

6.9

Cagney & Lacey

1985

7.6

Hill Street Blues

1984

7.6

Hill Street Blues

1983

7.6

Hill Street Blues

1982

7.6

Hill Street Blues

1981

7.3

Lou Grant

1980

7.3

Lou Grant

1979

7.6

The Rockford Files

1978

7.8

Upstairs, Downstairs

1977

7.0

Police Story

1976

7.8

Upstairs, Downstairs

1975

7.8

Upstairs, Downstairs

1974

7.2

The Waltons

1973

7.5

Elizabeth R

1972

4.7

The Bold Ones: The Senator

1971

6.6

Marcus Welby, M.D.

1970

NET Playhouseseason 3

1969 · unmatched

7.6

Mission: Impossible

1968

7.6

Mission: Impossible

1967

7.3

The Fugitive

1966

8.4

My Name Is Barbra

1965

New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts

1965

7.6

The Dick Van Dyke Show

1965

5.9

The Magnificent Yankee

1965

6.3

The Defenders

1964

6.3

The Defenders

1963

6.3

The Defenders

1962

8.8

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1961

7.6

Playhouse 90

1960

7.0

Alcoa Theatre

1959

6.9

Maverick

1959

7.6

Playhouse 90

1959

6.7

Gunsmoke

1958

7.6

Playhouse 90

1958

7.0

Caesar's Hour

1957

7.1

The Phil Silvers Show

1957

Disneyland

1956

Producers' Showcase

6.8

Producers' Showcase

1956

6.5

Dragnet

1955

7.2

Stories of the Century

1955

6.3

The United States Steel Hour

1955

6.1

Dragnet

1954

6.3

The United States Steel Hour

1954

6.5

Dragnet

1953

6.0

Robert Montgomery Presents

1953

5.4

Studio One

1952

Pulitzer Prize Playhouse

10.0

Pulitzer Prize Playhouse

1951