7th Daytime Emmy Awards
Appearance
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7th Daytime Emmy Awards | |
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Date | Wednesday, June 4, 1980 |
Location | Studio 8H, 30 Rockefeller Plaza |
Presented by | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
Hosted by | Ed McMahon and Susan Seaforth Hayes |
Highlights | |
Outstanding Drama Series | Guiding Light |
Outstanding Game Show | The $20,000 Pyramid and Hollywood Squares (tie) |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | NBC |
The 7th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1980 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1979). The seventh awards included a cameo appearance category, giving an award to a memorable soap cameo. Six awards were given.
The ceremony was telecast at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 4 on NBC. It preempted Another World, which was a 90-minute program at the time.
Winners in each category are in bold.
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series
[edit]Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
[edit]- James Mitchell (Palmer Cortlandt, All My Children)
- William Mooney (Paul Martin, All My Children)
- Douglass Watson (Mac Cory, Another World)
- Franc Luz (Dr. John Bennett, The Doctors)
- John Gabriel (Dr. Seneca Beaulac, Ryan's Hope)
- Michael Levin (Jack Fenelli, Ryan's Hope)
Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
[edit]- Julia Barr (Brooke English, All My Children)
- Kathleen Noone (Ellen Dalton, All My Children)
- Beverlee McKinsey (Iris Carrington, Another World)
- Kim Hunter (Nola Madison / Martha Cory), The Edge of Night)
- Leslie Charleson (Dr. Monica Quartermaine, General Hospital)
- Judith Light (Karen Wolek, One Life to Live)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
[edit]- Warren Burton (Eddie Dorrance, All My Children)
- Julius LaRosa (Renaldo, Another World)
- Vasili Bogazianos (Mickey Dials, The Edge of Night)
- Shepperd Strudwick (Professor Timothy McCauley, Love of Life)
- Ron Hale (Dr. Roger Coleridge, Ryan's Hope)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
[edit]- Francesca James (Kelly Cole Tyler, All My Children)
- Deidre Hall (Dr. Marlena Evans, Days of Our Lives)
- Lois Kibbee (Geraldine Whitney Saxon, The Edge of Night)
- Elaine Lee (Mildred Trumble, The Doctors)
- Valerie Mahaffey (Ashley Bennett, The Doctors)
- Louise Shaffer (Rae Woodard, Ryan's Hope)
Outstanding Cameo Appearance in a Daytime Drama Series
[edit]- Eli Mintz (Locksmith, All My Children)
- Hugh McPhillips (Hugh Pearson, Days of our Lives)
- Kathryn Harrow (Pat Reyerson, The Doctors)
- Sammy Davis Jr. (Chip Warren, One Life to Live)
- Joan Fontaine (Page Williams, Ryan's Hope)
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Writing
[edit]- All My Children: Agnes Nixon; Wisner Washam; Jack Wood; Caroline Franz; Mary K. Wells; Cathy Chicos; Clarice Blackburn; Anita Jaffe; Kenneth Harvey
- One Life to Live: Gordon Russell; Sam Hall; Peggy O'Shea; Don Wallace; Lanie Bertram; Cynthia Benjamin; Marisa Gioffre
- Ryan's Hope: Claire Labine; Paul Avila Mayer; Mary Munisteri; Judith Pinsker; Jeffrey Lane
- The Edge of Night: Henry Slesar; Steve Lehrman
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Directing
[edit]- All My Children: Henry Kaplan; Jack Coffey; Sherrell Hoffman; Jørn Winther
- General Hospital: Marlene Laird; Alan Pultz; Phil Sogard
- The Edge of Night: John Sedwick; Richard Pepperman
- Ryan's Hope: Lela Swift; Jerry Evans
- Another World: Ira Cirker; Melvin Bernhardt; Robert Calhoun; Barnet Kellman; Jack Hofsiss; Andrew D. Weyman
- Love of Life: Larry Auerbach; Robert Scinto
Outstanding Game Show
[edit]- The Hollywood Squares – A Heatter-Quigley Production for NBC
- The $20,000 Pyramid – A Bob Stewart Production for ABC
- Family Feud – A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production for ABC
Outstanding Game Show Host
[edit]- Peter Marshall (The Hollywood Squares)
- Richard Dawson (Family Feud)