Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Oustanding Music Composition for a Series.

Award Winners and Nominees

1970s

1975:
* "Benjamin Franklin" - Billy Goldenberg; CBS - For episode "The Rebel"
** "The Streets of San Francisco" - Patrick Williams; ABC - For episode "One Last Shot"

1976:
* "Rich Man, Poor Man" - Alex North; ABC
** "Bronk" - Jacques Urbont; CBS - For episode "Next of Kin"
** "Kojak" - John Cacavas; CBS - For episode "A Question of Answers"
** "Little House on the Prairie" - David Rose; NBC - For episode "Remember Me, Parts I and II"

1977:
* "Roots" - Quincy Jones, Gerald Fried; ABC - For Part I
** "Bronk" - Jacques Urbont; CBS - For episode "The Vigilante"
** "Captains and the Kings" - Elmer Bernstein; NBC - For Chapter 8
** "Police Story" - Dick DeBenedictis; NBC - For episode "Monster Manor"
** "Roots" - Gerald Fried; ABC - For Part VIII

1978:
* "King" - Billy Goldenberg; NBC
** "The Awakening Land" - Fred Karlin; NBC
** "Holocaust" - Morton Gould; NBC
** "Wheels" - Morton Stevens; NBC
** "Columbo: Try and Catch Me" - Patrick Williams; NBC

1979:
* "Little House on the Prairie" - David Rose; NBC - For episode "The Craftsman"
** "Dear Detective" - Dick DeBenedictis; Dean DeBenedictis; CBS
** "Lou Grant" - Patrick Williams; CBS - For episode "Prisoner"
** "The Paper Chase" - Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel; CBS - For episode "A Day in the Life"

1980s

1980:
*"Lou Grant" (1977) - Patrick Williams; CBS - For episode "Hollywood"
** "Dallas" (1978) - Bruce Broughton; CBS - For episode "The Lost Child"
** "Eischied" (1979) - John Cacavas; NBC - For episode "Only The Pretty Girls Die, Part II"
** "Paris" - Fred Karlin; CBS - For episode "Decisions"
** "Skag" - Billy Goldenberg; NBC - For the pilot episode

1981:
*"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" - Bruce Broughton; NBC - For episode "The Satyr"
** "The Gangster Chronicles" - Billy Goldenberg; NBC - For episode "Chapter 1"
** "Hill Street Blues" - Mike Post; NBC - For premiere episode "Hill Street Station"
** "Little House on the Prairie" - David Rose; NBC - For episode "The Lost Ones, Part I"
** "Lou Grant" - Patrick Williams; CBS - For episode "Stroke"

1982:
* "Little House on the Prairie" - David Rose; NBC - For episode "He Was Only Twelve, Part II"
** "Dallas" - Bruce Broughton; CBS - For episode "The Search"
** "The Incredible Hulk" - Joe Harnell; CBS - For episode "Triangle"
** "Lou Grant" - Patrick Williams; CBS - For episode "Hometown"

1983:
* "Dallas" - Bruce Broughton; CBS - For episode "The Ewing Blues"
** "The Devlin Connection" - Nan Schwartz Mishkin; NBC - For episode "Ring of Kings, Ring of Thieves"
** "Fame" - William Goldstein; NBC - For episode "Not in Kansas Anymore"
** "Father Murphy" - David Rose; NBC - For episode "Sweet Sixteen"
** "Knots Landing" - Jerrold Immel; CBS - For episode "Loss of Innocence"

1984:
* "Dallas" - Bruce Broughton; CBS - For episode "The Letter"
** "Emerald Point N.A.S." - Angela Morley; CBS - For episode "The Homecoming"
** "Mr. Smith" - Patrick Williams; NBC - For episode "Mr. Smith Falls in Love"
** "St. Elsewhere" - J.A.C. Redford; NBC- For episode "In Sickness and in Health"
** "Trapper John, M.D." - John Carl Parker; CBS - For episode "Send in the Clowns"

1985:
* "Murder, She Wrote" - John Addison; CBS - For episode "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes"
** "Cagney & Lacey" - Nan Schwartz Mishkin; CBS - For episode "Organized Crime"
** "Dynasty" - Angela Morley; ABC - For episode "Triangles"
** "Highway to Heaven" - David Rose; NBC - For episode "Thoroughbreds"
** "Miami Vice" - Jan Hammer; NBC - For episode "Evan"
** "St. Elsewhere" - J.A.C. Redford; NBC - For episode "Fade To White"

1986:
* "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" - Arthur B. Rubinstein; CBS - For episode "We're Off to See the Wizard"
** "Dynasty" - Angela Morley; ABC- For episode "The Subpoenas"
** "Miami Vice" - Jan Hammer; NBC - For episode "Bushido"
** "Moonlighting" - Alf Clausen; ABC - For episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice".

1987:
* "Knots Landing" - Joel Rosenbaum; CBS - For episode "Cement the Relationship"
** "Dallas" - Angela Morley; CBS - For episode "A Death in the Family".
** "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" - Patrick Williams; NBC - For episode "Here's Why You Should Never Wear High Heels to the Bank"
** "Jack and Mike" - Nan Schwartz Mishkin; ABC - For episode "Come Together"
** "Matlock" - Dick DeBenedictis; NBC - For episode "The Chef"
** "Moonlighting" - Alf Clausen; ABC - For episode "Atomic Shakespeare"

1988:
* "Beauty and the Beast" - Lee Holdridge; CBS - For the pilot episode.
** "Beauty and the Beast" - Don Davis; CBS - For episode "To Reign In Hell".
** "Dallas" - Angela Morley; CBS - For episode "Hustling"
** "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" - Patrick Williams; NBC - For episode "Here's Why You Shouldn't Get Too Attached to Your Cat".
** "Moonlighting" - Alf Clausen; ABC - For episode "Here's Living With You, Kid".

1989:
* "Falcon Crest" - Joel Rosenbaum; CBS - For episode "Dust To Dust"
** "Blue Skies" - Angela Morley; CBS - For episode "The White Horse"
** "Moonlighting" - Alf Clausen; ABC - For episode "A Womb With A View"
** "" - Dennis McCarthy; Syndicated - For episode "The Child"
** "Columbo: Murder, Smoke, and Shadows" - Patrick Williams; ABC

1990s

1990:
* "Beauty and the Beast" - Don Davis; CBS - For episode "A Time to Heal"
** "Matlock" - Bruce Babcock; NBC - For episode "The Clown"
** "" - Dennis McCarthy; Syndicated - For episode "Yesterday's Enterprise"
** "Twin Peaks" - Angelo Badalamenti; ABC - For episode #002

1991:
* "The Young Riders" - John Debney; ABC - For episode "Kansas"
** "Father Dowling Mysteries" - Bruce Babcock; ABC - For episode "The Consulting Detective Mystery"
** "Jake and the Fatman" - Joel Rosenbaum; CBS - For episode "God Bless The Child"
** "My Life and Times" - Don Davis; ABC - For episode "The Collapse of '98"
** "" - Dennis McCarthy; Syndicated - For episode "Half A Life"

1992:
* "Matlock" - Bruce Babcock; NBC - For episode "The Strangler"
** "In the Heat of the Night" - Nan Schwartz Mishkin; NBC - For episode "Family Reunion"
** "The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Treehouse Of Horror II"
** "" - Dennis McCarthy; Syndicated - For episode "Unification I"

1993:
* "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" - Joel McNeely; ABC - For episode "Young Indiana Jones And The Scandal Of 1920"
** "Murder, She Wrote" - Bruce Babcock; CBS - For episode "Wind Around the Tower"
** "Quantum Leap" - Velton Ray Bunch; NBC - For episode "Lee Harvey Oswald, Part I"
** "The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Treehouse of Horror III"
** "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" - Laurence Rosenthal; ABC - For episode "Vienna, 1908".

1994:
* "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" - Laurence Rosenthal; ABC - For episode "Ireland, 1916"
** "Christy" - Ron Ramin; CBS - For the pilot episode
** "SeaQuest DSV" - Don Davis; NBC - For episode "Whale Song"
** "The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Cape Feare"
** "" - Dennis McCarthy; Syndicated - For episode "All Good Things..."

1995:
* "SeaQuest DSV" - Don Davis; NBC - For episode Daggers
** "Murder, She Wrote" - Bruce Babcock; CBS - For episode "Murder In High C"
** "The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Treehouse Of Horror V"
** "" - Dennis McCarthy; UPN - For episode "Heroes & Demons"
** "" - Jay Chattaway; UPN - For episode "Caretaker"

1996:
* "Picture Windows" - Hummie Mann; Showtime - For episode "Language of the Heart"
** "Diagnosis Murder" - Dick DeBenedictis; CBS - For episode "Mind Over Murder".
** "SeaQuest DSV" - Russ Landau; NBC - For episode "Brave New World".
** "" - Shirley Walker; FOX - For episode "The River of Stars"
** "" - Jay Chattaway; Syndicated - For episode "Our Man Bashir"

1997:
* "The Cape" - Louis Febre, John Debney; "Syndicated" - For the pilot episode
** "Early Edition" - W.G. Snuffy Walden; CBS - For episode "The Choice"
** "Orleans" - David Hamilton; CBS - For the pilot episode
** "The X-Files" - Mark Snow; FOX - For episode "Paper Hearts"
** "" - Joseph LoDuca; Syndicated - For episode "Destiny"

1998:
* "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - Christophe Beck; WB" - For episode "Becoming, Part I"'
** "Roar" - Jon Ehrlich; FOX - For the pilot episode
** "The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Treehouse Of Horror VIII"
** "Stargate SG-1" - Joel Goldsmith; Showtime - For episode "The Nox"
** "The X-Files" - Mark Snow; FOX - For episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus"

1999:
* "Invasion America" - Carl Johnson; Warner Bros. Television - For episode "Final Mission"
** "Fantasy Island" - John Ottman; ABC - For the pilot episode
** "The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Treehouse of Horror IX"
** "The X-Files" - Mark Snow; FOX - For episode "S.R. 819"
** "" - Joseph LoDuca; Syndicated - For episode "Devi"

2000s

2000:
*' - Joseph LoDuca; Syndicated - For episode "Fallen Angel"'
** "Falcone" - Jay Gruska; CBS - For episode "Lealta".
** "Felicity" - Danny Pelfrey, W.G. Snuffy Walden; Warner Bros. Television - For episode "Help For The Lovelorn"
** "" - Jay Chattaway; UPN - For episode "Spirit Folk".
** "The X-Files" - Mark Snow; FOX - For episode "Theef"

2001:
*' - Jay Chattaway; UPN - For episode "Endgame"'
** "The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Simpson Safari"
** "" - Dennis McCarthy; UPN - For episode "Workforce, Part I"
** "The West Wing" - W.G. Snuffy Walden; NBC - For episode "In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen"
** "" - Joseph LoDuca; Syndicated - For episode "The Rheingold"

2002:
*"The Blue Planet" - George Fenton; Discovery Channel - For episode "Seas of Life: Ocean World"
** "24" - Sean Callery; FOX - For episode "7:00 A.M - 8:00 A.M."
** "JAG" - Steven Bramson; CBS - For episode "Adrift, Part 2"
** "The X-Files" - Mark Snow; FOX - For episode "The Truth"
** "" - Joseph LoDuca ; Syndicated - For episode "A Friend in Need II"

2003:
*"24" - Sean Callery; FOX - For episode "10:00 PM - 11:00 PM"
** "The Agency" (2001) - Jon Ehrlich, Jason Derlatka; CBS - For episode "The Great Game"
** "" - Dennis McCarthy; UPN - For episode "The Expanse"
** "JAG" - Steven Bramson; CBS - For episode "Need To Know".
** "Odyssey 5" - Laura Karpman; Showtime - For the pilot episode.

2004:
*' - Velton Ray Bunch; UPN - For episode "Similitude"'
** "24" - Sean Callery; FOX - For episode "6:00 AM - 7:00 AM"
** "Dead Like Me" - Stewart Copeland; Showtime - For the pilot episode
** "Line of Fire" - Larry Groupé; ABC - For episode "Eminence Front"
** "Pandemic: Facing AIDS" - Philip Glass; HBO - For episode "Uganda/Thailand"
** "The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Treehouse Of Horror XIV"

2005:
*"Lost" - Michael Giacchino; ABC
** "24" - Sean Callery; FOX - For episode "2:00 AM - 3:00 AM"
** "Carnivàle" - Jeff Beal; HBO - For episode "Lincoln Highway"
** "House, M.D." - Christopher Hoag; FOX - For the pilot episode
** "The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Treehouse of Horror XV"

2006:
*"24" - Sean Callery; FOX - For episode "6:00 AM - 7:00 AM"
** "Masters of Horror" - Richard Band; Showtime - For episode "Dreams In The Witch House"
** "Rome" - Jeff Beal; HBO - For episode "Triumph"
** "" - Joel Goldsmith; Sci-Fi Channel - For episode "Grace Under Pressure"
** "Supernatural" - Christopher Lennertz; WB - For episode "Pilot"

2007:
*"Planet Earth" - George Fenton; Discovery Channel - For episode "Pole To Pole"
** "24" - Sean Callery; FOX
** "" - John M. Keane; CBS - For episode "Law Of Gravity"
** "Ghost Whisperer" - Mark Snow; CBS - For episode "Love Never Dies"
** "Kidnapped" - W.G. Snuffy Walden; NBC - For the pilot episode
** "Rome" - Jeff Beal; HBO

2008:
*"Pushing Daisies" - Jim Dooley; ABC - For episode "Pigeon"
**"Family Guy" - Ron Jones; FOX - For episode "Lois Kills Stewie"
**"House, M.D. - Jon Elhrich, Jason Derlatka; FOX - For episode "Guardian Angels"
**"Little People, Big World" - Joey Newman; TLC - For episode "Roloff Road Trip: Grand Canyon"
**"Lost" - Michael Giacchino; ABC - For episode "The Constant"
**"The Simpsons" - Alf Clausen; FOX - For episode "Treehouse of Horror XVIII"

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