The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series was established in 1952. The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series winners are listed below.
Recipients
edit1950s
edit| Year | Episode | Series | Writers | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | — | The Web | Franklin Heller | Winner | |
| 1953 | — | Dragnet | Jack Webb | Winner | |
| 1954 | "Crime at Blossoms" | Studio One | Jerome Ross | Winner | [1] |
| 1955 | "Smoke" | Suspense | Gore Vidal | Winner | |
| "The Long Goodbye" | Climax! | E. Jack Neuman, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler | Shortlist | ||
| 1956 | "Sting of Death" | The Elgin Hour | Alvin Sapinsley Jr., based on the novel A Taste for Honey by H. F. Heard | Winner | |
| "Thin Air" | Climax! | Ben Starr | Shortlist | ||
| 1957 | "The Fine Art of Murder" | Omnibus | Sidney Carroll | Winner | |
| 1958 | "Mechanical Manhunt" | The Alcoa Hour | Harold Swanton | Winner | |
| "The Trial of Lizzie Borden" | Omnibus | Omnibus staff | Shortlist | ||
| 1959 | "The Edge of Truth" | Studio One | Adrian Spies | Winner | |
| "Capital Punishment" | Omnibus | James Lee | Winner |
1960s
edit1970s
edit| Year | Episode | Series | Writers | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | "Daughter of the Mind" | ABC Movie of the Week | Luther Davis | Winner | |
| "In This Corner - Sol Albert" | The Mod Squad | Harve Bennett and Rita Lakin | Shortlist | ||
| "The Sound of Darkness" | Mannix | Barry Trivers | Shortlist | ||
| 1971 | "Berlin Affair" | NBC Movie of the Week | E. Jack Neuman and Richard Alan Simmons | Winner | |
| The Other Man | NBC Movie of the Week | Eric Bercovici and Michael Blankfort | Shortlist | ||
| The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | ABC Movie of the Week | Luther Davis | Shortlist | ||
| "To Taste of Death But Once" | The Bold Ones: The Senator | Joel Oliansky | Shortlist | ||
| 1972 | "A Step in Time" | Mannix | Mann Rubin | Winner | |
| "Company Town" | Cade's County | Cliff Gould | Shortlist | ||
| "Murder by the Book" | Columbo | Steven Bochco | Shortlist | ||
| "Somebody's Out To Get Jennie" | McCloud | Robert Presnell Jr. | Shortlist | ||
| 1973 | "The New Mexico Connection" | McCloud | Glen A. Larson | Winner | |
| "A Date with Death" | Banyon | Morton Fine, Milton S. Gelman | Shortlist | ||
| "Bait Once, Bait Twice" | Hawaii Five-O | Will Lorin | Shortlist | ||
| "The Crimson Halo" | Mannix | Shimon Wincelberg | Shortlist | ||
| "Victim in Shadow" | Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | Richard Bluel | Shortlist | ||
| 1974 | "Requiem for an Informer" | Police Story | Sy Salkowitz | Winner | |
| 1975 | "Requiem For C.Z. Smith" | Police Story | Robert L. Collins | Winner | |
| 1976 | "No Immunity for Murder" | Kojak | Joe Gores | Winner | |
| 1977 | "Requiem for Murder" | The Streets of San Francisco | James Johnson Sweeney | Winner | |
| 1978 | "The Thighbone Is Connected To The Knee Bone" | Quincy M.E. | Tony Lawrence and Lou Shaw | Winner | |
| 1979 | "Murder Under Glass" | Columbo | Robert van Scoyk | Winner |
1980s
edit| Year | Episode | Series | Writers | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | "Skin" | Tales of the Unexpected | Robin Chapman and Roald Dahl | Winner | |
| 1981 | "China Doll" | Magnum, P.I. | Donald P. Bellisario and Glen A. Larson | Winner | |
| 1982 | "Hill Street Station" | Hill Street Blues | Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll | Winner | |
| 1983 | "In the Steele of the Night" | Remington Steele | Joel Steiger | Winner | |
| 1984 | "The Pencil" | Philip Marlowe, Private Eye | Jo Eisinger | Winner | |
| 1985 | "Deadly Lady" | Murder, She Wrote | Peter S. Fischer | Winner | |
| 1986 | "The Amazing Falsworth" | Amazing Stories | Mick Garris | Winner | |
| 1987 | "The Cup" | The Equalizer | David Jackson | Winner | |
| 1988 | "The Musgrave Ritual" | Masterpiece Mystery | Jeremy Paul | Winner | |
| 1989 | "The Devil's Foot" | Masterpiece Mystery | Gary Hopkins | Winner |
1990s
edit| Year | Episode | Series | Writers | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | "White Noise" | Wiseguy | David J. Burke and Alfonse Ruggiero | Winner | |
| 1991 | "Good Night, Dear Heart" | Quantum Leap | Paul Brown | Winner | |
| "Gabriel's Fire" | Gabriel's Fire | Coleman Luck, Jacqueline Zambrano | Shortlist | ||
| "Happily Ever After" | Law & Order | David Black, Robert Stuart Nathan | Shortlist | ||
| "Justice Swerved" | L.A. Law | David E. Kelley, Bryce Zabel | Shortlist | ||
| 1993 | "Conspiracy" | Law & Order | Rene Balcer, Michael S. Chernuchin | Winner |
2000s
edit| Year | Episode | Series | Writers | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | "Limitations" | Law & Order: SVU | Michael R. Perry | Winner | |
| 2003 | "Waste" | Law & Order: SVU | Dawn DeNoon and Lisa Marie Petersen | Winner | |
| "Ho Down" | NYPD Blue | Nicholas Wootton and Bill Clark | Shortlist | ||
| "Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation" | Monk | Hy Conrad | Shortlist | ||
| "The Target" | The Wire | David Simon (teleplay/story), Ed Burns (story) | Shortlist | ||
| "Tuxedo Hill" | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | René Balcer | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | "Goodbye" | The Practice | Peter Blake and David E. Kelley | Winner | |
| "Coerced" | Law & Order: SVU | Jonathan Greene | Shortlist | ||
| "Mr. Monk and the 12th Man" | Monk | Michael Angeli | Shortlist | ||
| "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man" | Monk | Daniel Dratch | Shortlist | ||
| "Probability" | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Gerry Conway and René Balcer (story) | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | "Want" | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Elizabeth Benjamin (teleplay/story) and René Balcer (story) | Winner | |
| "Consumed" | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Warren Leight (teleplay/story), René Balcer (story) | Shortlist | ||
| "Conscience" | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Gerry Conway (teleplay/story) and René Balcer (story) | Shortlist | ||
| "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf" | Monk | Hy Conrad | Shortlist | ||
| "Pas De Deux" | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Warren Leight (teleplay/story) and René Balcer (story) | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | "Amulet" | Sea of Souls | Ed Whitmore | Winner | |
| "911" | Law & Order: SVU | Patrick Harbinson | Shortlist | ||
| "A Bullet Runs Through It, Parts 1 and 2" | CSI | Richard Catalani and Carol Mendelsohn | Shortlist | ||
| "Grave Danger" | CSI | Carol Mendelsohn, Naren Shankar, Quentin Tarantino, and Anthony Zuiker | Shortlist | ||
| "Redemption" | Wire in the Blood | Guy Burt | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | "Episode 1" | Life on Mars | Matthew Graham | Winner | |
| "Blue Blood" | The Closer | James Duff and Mike Berchem | Shortlist | ||
| "Clueless" | House | Thomas L. Moran | Shortlist | ||
| "Crocodile" | Dexter | Clyde Phillips | Shortlist | ||
| "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink" | Monk | Hy Conrad | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | "Pilot" | Burn Notice | Matt Nix | Winner | [3] |
| "It's Alive!" | Dexter | Daniel Cerone | Shortlist | ||
| "Pie-lette" | Pushing Daisies | Bryan Fuller | Shortlist | ||
| "Senseless" | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Warren Leight, Siobhan Byrne O'Connor, and Julie Martin | Shortlist | ||
| "Yahrzeit" | Waking the Dead | Declan Croghan | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | "Prayer of the Bone" | Wire in the Blood | Patrick Harbinson | Winner | |
| "Burn Card" | Law & Order | Ed Zuckerman and David Wilcox | Shortlist | [4] | |
| "Signature" | Law & Order: SVU | Judith McCreary | Shortlist | ||
| "Streetwise" | Law & Order: SVU | Paul Grellong | Shortlist | ||
| "You May Now Kill the Bride" | CSI: Miami | Barry O'Brien | Shortlist |
2010s
edit| Year | Episode | Series | Writers | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | "Place of Execution" | Place of Execution | Patrick Harbinson | Winner | |
| 2011 | "Episode 1" | Luther | Neil Cross | Winner | |
| 2012 | "Pilot" | Homeland | Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, and Gideon Raff | Winner | [5] |
| "Innocence" | Blue Bloods | Siobhan Byrne O'Connor | Shortlist | [5] | |
| “The Life Inside” | Justified | Benjamin Cavell | Shortlist | [5] | |
| "Part 1" | Whitechapel | Ben Court and Caroline Ip | Shortlist | [5] | |
| "Mask" | Law & Order: SVU | Speed Weed | Shortlist | [5] | |
| 2013 | "A Scandal in Belgravia" | Sherlock | Steven Moffat | Winner | |
| 2014 | "Episode 1" | The Fall | Allan Cubitt | Winner | |
| "Episode 3" | Luther | Neil Cross | Shortlist | [6] | |
| "Legitimate Rape" | Law & Order: SVU | Kevin Fox and Peter Blauner | Shortlist | [6] | |
| "Variations Under Domestication" | Orphan Black | Will Pascoe | Shortlist | [6] | |
| "Pilot" | The Following | Kevin Williamson | Shortlist | [6] | |
| 2015 | "Episode 1" | Happy Valley | Sally Wainwright | Winner | [7][8][9] |
| “The Empty Hearse” | Sherlock | Mark Gatiss | Shortlist | [9] | |
| "Unfinished Business" | Blue Bloods | Siobhan Byrne O'Connor | Shortlist | [9] | |
| "Dream Baby Dream" | The Killing | Sean Whitesell | Shortlist | [9] | |
| "Episode 6" | The Game | Toby Whithouse | Shortlist | [9] | |
| 2016 | "Gently with the Women" | Inspector George Gently | Peter Flannery | Winner | [10][11] |
| 2017 | "A Blade of Grass" | Penny Dreadful | John Logan | Winner | [12] |
| 2018 | "Somebody to Love" | Fargo | Noah Hawley | Winner | [13] |
| "Episode 1" | The Loch | Stephen Brady | Shortlist | [13] | |
| "Something Happened" | Law & Order: SVU | Michael Chernuchin | Shortlist | [13] | |
| "Gentley and the New Age" | George Gentley | Robert Murphy | Shortlist | [13] | |
| "The Blanket Mire | Vera | Paul Matthew Thompson and Martha Hillier | Shortlist | [13] | |
| 2019 | "The One That Holds Everything" | The Romanoffs | Matthew Weiner and Donald Joh | Winner | [14] |
2020s
edit| Year | Episode | Series | Writers | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Season 5, Episode 4 | Line of Duty | Jed Mercurio | Winner | [15][16] |
| 2021 | "Episode 1, Photochemistry" | Dead Still | John Morton | Winner | [17] |
| "Episode 1, The Stranger" | The Stranger | Danny Brocklehurst | Shortlist | [18] | |
| "Episode 1, Open Water" | The Sounds | Sarah-Kate Lynch | Shortlist | [18] | |
| "Episode 1" | Des | Luke Neal | Shortlist | [18] | |
| "What I Know" | The Boys | Rebecca Sonnenshine | Shortlist | [18] | |
| 2022 | "Boots on the Ground" | Narcos: Mexico | Iturri Sosa | Winner | [19] |
| 2023 | "Episode 1" | Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz | Winner | [20] |
| "One Mighty and Strong" | Under the Banner of Heaven | Brandon Boyce | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | "Escape from Shit Mountain" | Poker Face | Nora Zuckerman and Lilla Zuckerman | Winner | [21] |
| "Time of the Monkey" | Poker Face | Wyatt Cain and Charlie Peppers | Shortilst | [21] | |
| "I'm a Pretty Observant Guy" | Will Trent | Liz Heldens | Shortilst | [21] | |
| "Dead Man's Hand" | Poker Face | Rian Johnson | Shortilst | [21] | |
| "Hózhó Náhásdlii (Beauty is Restore)" | Dark Winds | Graham Roland and John Wirth | Shortilst | [21] |
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