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8th Daytime Emmy Awards

Field	Value
name	8th Daytime Emmy Awards
date	May 21, 1981
location	Grand Hyatt New York
presenter	National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
host	Dick Clark
award1_type	Outstanding Drama Series
award1_winner	General Hospital
award2_type	Outstanding Game Show
award2_winner	The $20,000 Pyramid
network	ABC
previous	7th
main	Daytime Emmy Awards
next	9th

The 8th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, May 21, 1981, to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from March 6, 1980 to March 5, 1981. The eighth awards did not include the cameo category from the previous year, so only five awards were given, like in previous years.

The ceremony was telecast from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on ABC, preempting General Hospital and The Edge of Night.

Winners in each category are in bold.

Outstanding Daytime Drama Series

All My Children
General Hospital
Ryan's Hope

Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series

James Mitchell (Palmer Cortlandt, All My Children)
Douglass Watson (Mac Cory, Another World)
Larry Bryggman (John Dixon, As the World Turns)
Henderson Forsythe (David Stewart, As the World Turns)
Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer, General Hospital)

Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series

Julia Barr (Brooke English, All My Children)
Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children)
Judith Light (Karen Wolek, One Life to Live)
Robin Strasser (Dorian Lord, One Life to Live)
Helen Gallagher (Maeve Ryan, Ryan's Hope)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series

Matthew Cowles (Billy Clyde Tuggle, All My Children)
William Mooney (Paul Martin, All My Children)
Justin Deas (Tom Hughes, As the World Turns)
Richard Backus (Barry Ryan, Ryan's Hope)
Larry Haines (Stu Bergman, Search for Tomorrow)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series

Elizabeth Lawrence, (Myra Sloane, All My Children)
Lois Kibbee, (Geraldine Whitney Saxon, The Edge of Night)
Jane Elliot (Tracy Quartermaine, General Hospital)
Randall Edwards (Delia Ryan, Ryan's Hope)
Jacklyn Zeman (Bobbie Spencer, General Hospital)

Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Writing

Guiding Light: Douglas Marland, Robert Dwywer, Nancy Franklin & Harding Lemay
All My Children: Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Jack Wood
General Hospital
One Life to Live

Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Directing

All My Children
General Hospital
One Life to Live

Outstanding Game Show

The $20,000 Pyramid – A Bob Stewart Production for ABC
Family Feud – A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production for ABC
The Hollywood Squares – A Heatter-Quigley Production for NBC

Outstanding Game Show Host

Peter Marshall (The Hollywood Squares)
Dick Clark (The $20,000 Pyramid)
Richard Dawson (Family Feud)

References

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