Emmy Outstanding Drama Series winners
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Order by the year each show first won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series (ceremony year). Drag or tap it onto the line
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Emmy Outstanding Drama Series winners
Order by the year each show first won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series (ceremony year). You place all 36 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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How to play the Emmy best drama winners timeline game
Every card is a show that won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, ordered by the ceremony year of its first win in that category. The network that aired it is printed under the title. A single winner is already dated on the line when you start. For each new show, pick the slot you think fits: before everything, after everything, or somewhere in between. A good pick reveals the year. A bad one still moves the show to its proper place and costs you one of your three lives, though ten good picks in a row bring a lost life back.
The winners begin with live anthology plays and westerns and move through police procedurals, hospital and legal dramas, and the prestige cable era to streaming epics. Only a show's first win counts, so a series that collected the award several times is placed by its first trophy, often a season or two after it debuted. The network line is a handy clue: the broadcast networks own the early part of the line, while cable and streaming services arrive later. Award years trail the seasons they honor, so a show can win a year after the season you remember.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 36 cards you might be dealt, with 8 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Studio One CBS
- Dragnet NBC
- Gunsmoke CBS
- Playhouse 90 CBS
- The Fugitive ABC
- Mission: Impossible CBS
- Marcus Welby, M.D. ABC
- Upstairs, Downstairs PBS
- Police Story NBC
- The Rockford Files NBC
- Lou Grant CBS
- Cagney & Lacey CBS
- L.A. Law NBC
- thirtysomething ABC
- Picket Fences CBS
- NYPD Blue ABC
- ER NBC
- Law & Order NBC
- The West Wing NBC
- The Sopranos HBO
- Lost ABC
- Mad Men AMC
- Homeland Showtime
- Breaking Bad AMC
- Game of Thrones HBO
- Succession HBO
- The Crown Netflix
- Shōgun FX
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