The Humanitas Prize is a writing award for American television that was first given in 1975. In 1995, eligibility expanded to include the writers of feature films. Winners in bold.
Although the prize is awarded only to writers, this list includes only the title of the film or television show they wrote. Additionally, it does not cover all of the Humanitas Prize categories.
1970s
1976 (1st Humanitas Awards) Prizes were given out in 1975 on The Today Show.
30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Sunshine ("The Angel of Doom") (NBC) Good Times ("The Lunch Money Rip-Off") (CBS) Good Times ("My Girl Henrietta") (CBS) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television The Law ("Complaint Amended") (NBC) The Cay (NBC) The Waltons ("The Romance") (CBS) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Larry (CBS) ABC Theater, ("The Missiles of October") (ABC) NBC World Premiere Movie ("The Law") (NBC)
1977 (2nd Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television M*A*S*H ("The Interview") (CBS) DOC ("Oldies But Goodies") (CBS) M*A*S*H ("Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?") (CBS) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Family ("Pilot") (ABC) Family ("A Right and Proper Goodbye") (ABC) The Waltons ("The Sermon") (CBS) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television NBC World Premiere Movie ("Farewell to Manzanar") (NBC) Medical Story ("The Quality of Mercy") (NBC) My Father's House (ABC)
1978 (3rd Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television The Mary Tyler Moore Show ("Ted's Change of Heart") (CBS) All in the Family ("All in the Family, Part 2") (CBS) M*A*S*H ("Dear Sigmund") (CBS) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Roots ("Part IV") (ABC) Roots ("Part III") (ABC) The Waltons ("The Pony Cart") (CBS) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Green Eyes (ABC) Roots ("Part VIII") (ABC) Something for Joey (NBC) Special Award CBS Reports ("The Fire Next Door") (CBS)
1979 (4th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television All in the Family ("The Brother") (CBS) Barney Miller ("Goodbye, Mr. Fish: Part 2") (ABC) The Jeffersons ("984 W. 124th St., Apt. 5C") (CBS) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Family ("Annie Laurie") (ABC) Family ("The Princess in the Tower") (ABC) Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Taxi!!!") (NBC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Special Olympics (CBS) Breaking Up (ABC) The Other Side of Hell (NBC) Special Award CBS Reports ("The Aliens") (CBS)
1980s
1980 (5th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Taxi ("Blind Date") (ABC) All in the Family ("Edith Gets Fired") (CBS) M*A*S*H ("Point of View") (CBS) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Lou Grant ("Vet") (CBS) Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Stubby Pringle's Christmas") (NBC) Lou Grant ("Dying") (CBS) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Summer of My German Soldier (NBC) Friendly Fire (ABC) Like Normal People (ABC) Special Award Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (ABC)
1981 (6th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television M*A*S*H ("Dreams") (CBS) United States ("Uncle Charlie") (NBC) WKRP in Cincinnati ("God Talks to Johnny") (CBS) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Family ("Thanksgiving") (ABC) The Waltons ("The Remembrance") (CBS) The White Shadow ("The Death of Me Yet") (CBS) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (NBC) 'The Family Man' (CBS) The Gift (CBS) Special Award NBC White Paper ("We're Moving Up! The Hispanic Migration") (NBC)
1982 (7th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television WKRP in Cincinnati ("Venus Flytrap Explains") (CBS) Archie Bunker's Place ("Tough Love") (CBS) M*A*S*H ("Blood Brothers") (CBS) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Hill Street Blues ("Dressed to Kill") (NBC) Lou Grant ("Streets") (CBS) The White Shadow ("Reunion (Part 2)") (CBS) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television The Shadow Box (ABC) Leave 'Em Laughing (CBS) A Matter of Life and Death (CBS) Special Award NBC Reports ("The Migrants, 1980") (NBC)
1983 (8th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television M*A*S*H ("Where There's a Will, There's a War") (CBS) Archie Bunker's Place ("Relapse") (CBS) One Day at a Time ("Mrs. O'Leary's Kid") (CBS) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Lou Grant ("Hunger") (CBS) ABC Afterschool Special ("The Wave") (ABC) Hill Street Blues ("The World According to Freedom") (NBC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Divorce Wars: A Love Story (ABC) Bitter Harvest (NBC) The Marva Collins Story (CBS) Special Award America Works When America Works (NBC)
1984 (9th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television M*A*S*H ("Who Knew?") (CBS) Diff'rent Strokes ("Bicycle Man, Part 2") (NBC) It Takes Two ("Death Penalty") (ABC) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Hill Street Blues ("Trial By Fury") (NBC) Fame ("Solo Song") (NBC) St. Elsewhere ("Rain") (NBC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Special Bulletin (NBC) Benny's Place (ABC) Two of a Kind (CBS)
1985 (10th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Family Ties ("Not An Affair to Remember") (NBC) Family Ties ("Say Uncle") (NBC) Gimme a Break! ("Herbie") (NBC) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Hill Street Blues ("Doris in Wonderland") (NBC) St. Elsewhere ("All About Eve") (NBC) St. Elsewhere ("Ties That Bind") (NBC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Choices of the Heart (NBC) Memorial Day (CBS) Something About Amelia (ABC)
1986 (11th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television The Cosby Show ("Theo & the Joint") (NBC) Family Ties ("Hotline Fever") (NBC) Family Ties ("Remembrance of Things Past, Part 2") (NBC) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television St. Elsewhere ("Bye, George") (NBC) Cagney & Lacey ("An Unusual Occurrence") (CBS) Hill Street Blues ("Watt a Way to Go") (NBC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television The Dollmaker (ABC) Not My Kid (CBS) Surviving (ABC) Children's Animation Television Jim Henson's Muppet Babies ("Eight Take Away One Equals Panic") (CBS) CBS Storybreak ("Zucchini") (CBS) Children's Live Action Television CBS Schoolbreak Special ("The Day the Senior Class Got Married") (CBS) CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story") (CBS) Pryor's Place ("Home Free") (CBS) Special Award NBC White Paper ("Vietnam, Lessons of a Lost War") (NBC)
1987 (12th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television The Cosby Show ("Denise's Friend") (NBC) The Cosby Show ("An Early Spring") (NBC) The Cosby Show ("Truth or Consequences") (NBC) Mr. Sunshine ("Pilot") (CBS) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Cagney & Lacey ("Ordinary Hero") (CBS) Moonlighting ("Every Daughter's Father is a Virgin") (ABC) St. Elsewhere ("Sanctuary") (NBC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Do You Remember Love (CBS) Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Love Is Never Silent") (CBS) Love, Mary (CBS) Children's Live Action Television ABC Afterschool Special ("No Greater Gift") (ABC) ABC Afterschool Special ("Don't Touch") (ABC) CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Have You Tried Talking to Patty?") (CBS) Special Award CBS Reports ("The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America") (CBS)
1988 (13th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Kate & Allie ("Jennie & Jason") (CBS) The Cosby Show ("The March") (NBC) Family Ties ("My Back Pages") (NBC) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Family Ties ("A, My Name is Alex"") (special two-part episode) (NBC) St. Elsewhere ("A Room With A View") (NBC) St. Elsewhere ("Where There's Hope, There's Crosby") (NBC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Hallmark Hall of Fame ("Promise") (CBS) Alex: The Life of a Child (ABC) Miles To Go... (CBS) Children's Animation Television The Smurfs ("The Lure of the Orb") (NBC) The Berenstain Bears ("Forget Their Manners") (CBS) Galaxy High School ("The Brain Blaster") (CBS) Children's Live Action Television CBS Schoolbreak Special ("The Day They Came To Arrest the Book") (CBS) ABC Afterschool Special ("Teen Father") (ABC) CBS Schoolbreak Special ("What If I'm Gay?") (CBS) Special Award Mainstreet (NBC)
1989 (14th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television Frank's Place ("The Bridge") (CBS) Kate & Allie ("Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?") (CBS) The Wonder Years ("Pilot") (ABC) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television thirtysomething ("Business As Usual") (ABC) Cagney & Lacey ("Don't I Know You") (CBS) Cagney & Lacey ("Turn, Turn, Turn: Part 2") (CBS) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television A Gathering of Old Men (CBS) Proud Men (ABC) Children's Animation Television The Flintstone Kids ("Rocky's Rocky Road") (ABC) Jim Henson's Muppet Babies ("My Muppet Valentine") (CBS) Little Clowns of Happytown ("Goodbye Grandma") (ABC) Children's Live Action Television ABC Afterschool Special ("The Kid Who Wouldn't Quit: The Brad Silverman Story") (ABC) ABC Afterschool Special ("Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story") (ABC) CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Never Say Goodbye") (CBS) Special Award ABC News Closeup ("They Have Souls Too") (ABC)
1990s
1990 (15th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television The Wonder Years ("Pottery Will Get You Nowhere") (ABC) Baby Boom ("Guilt") (NBC) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television China Beach ("Promised Land") (ABC) China Beach ("Lost and Found, Part 2") (ABC) thirtysomething ("Elliot's Dad") (ABC) thirtysomething ("In Re: The Marriage of Weston") (ABC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television God Bless the Child (ABC) Children's Animation Television The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ("Find Her, Keep Her") (ABC) The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy ("The Little Chicken Adventure") (CBS) The Chipmunks ("A Special Kind of Champion") (NBC) Children's Live Action Television CBS Schoolbreak Special ("My Past Is My Own") (CBS) ABC Afterschool Special ("Date Rape") (ABC) ABC Afterschool Special ("Taking a Stand") (ABC) Special Award Destined to Live (NBC)
1991 (16th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television The Wonder Years ("Square Dance") (ABC) Why, Charlie Brown, Why? (CBS) The Wonder Years ("The Powers That Be") (ABC) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television thirtysomething ("The Other Shoe") (ABC) China Beach ("Dear China Beach") (ABC) China Beach ("How to Stay Alive in Vietnam Part 2") (ABC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Common Ground (CBS) Hallmark Hall of Fame ("My Name Is Bill W.") (CBS) No Place Like Home (CBS) Children's Animation Television Dink, the Little Dinosaur ("Badge of Courage") (CBS) Dink, the Little Dinosaur ("Crusty's Baby") (CBS) Jim Henson's Muppet Babies ("Romancing the Weirdo") (CBS) Children's Live Action Television ABC Afterschool Special ("A Town's Revenge") (ABC) CBS Schoolbreak Special ("American Eyes") (CBS) CBS Schoolbreak Special ("The Frog Girl: The Jenifer Graham Story") (CBS) Special Award Raising Good Kids in Bad Times ("See Dick and Jane Lie, Cheat and Steal: Teaching Morality to Kids") (NBC)
1992 (17th Humanitas Awards) 30 Minute Network or Syndicated Television The Wonder Years ("Good-bye") (ABC) Doogie Howser, M.D. ("To Live and Die in Brentwood") (ABC) The Wonder Years ("The Ties That Bind") (ABC) 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television thirtysomething ("Second Look") (ABC) China Beach ("One Small Step") (ABC) thirtysomething ("Fighting the Cold") (ABC) 90 Minute or Longer Network or Syndicated Television Lucky Day (ABC) Extreme Close-Up (NBC) Separate but Equal ("Parts I and II") (ABC) Children's Animation Television