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The 41st Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 17, 1989. The ceremony was broadcast on Fox from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. The ceremony saw the guest acting categories double, as they were now based on gender as well as genre. Two networks, Lifetime, and USA, received their first major nominations this year.
After being nominated and losing the previous four years Cheers regained the title of Outstanding Comedy Series. L.A. Law also won Outstanding Drama Series after losing the previous year. For the second straight year, L.A. Law received 15 major nominations, making it the first show ever to receive more than 14 major nominations multiple times. With nine main cast acting nominations, L.A. Law tied the record set by Hill Street Blues in 1982.
Meshach Taylor as Anthony Bouvier on Designing Women (Episodes: "Hard Hats and Lovers" + "Tyrone" + "One Sees, the Other Doesn't"), (CBS)
George Wendt as Norm Peterson on Cheers (Episodes: "Norm, Is That You?" + "Jumping Jerks" + "Don't Paint Your Chickens"), (NBC)
Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli on Cheers (Episodes: "Swear to God" + "Those Lips, Those Ice" + "I Kid You Not"), (NBC)
Julia Duffy as Stephanie Vanderkellen on Newhart, (CBS)
Faith Ford as Corky Sherwood on Murphy Brown (Episodes: "Devil with a Blue Dress On" + "It's How You Play the Game" + "The Morning Show"), (CBS)
Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (Episodes: "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo" + "Sophia's Wedding" + "Two Rode Together"), (NBC)
Katherine Helmond as Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (Episodes: "Double Dump" + "Your Grandmother's a Bimbo" + "Party Double"), (ABC)