Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay – Episodic Drama

This is the list of winners and nominees of the WGA Television Award for Best Writing for Drama Series - Episodic.

2000s

2000: The West Wing - Rick Cleveland/Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo"

• Once and Again - Richard Kramer for "Strangers and Brothers"
• The Sopranos - Mitchell Burgess/Robin Green for "The Knight in White Satin Armor"
• The Sopranos - Terence Winter for "Big Girls Don't Cry"
• The West Wing - Patrick Caddell/Rick Cleveland/Lawrence O'Donnell/Ron Osborn/Jeff Renofor "Enemies"
• The West Wing - Lawrence O'Donnell/Paul Redford/Aaron Sorkin for "Take This Sabbath Day"

2001: The Sopranos - Timothy Van Patten/Terence Winter for "Pine Barrens"

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Ann Donahue/Tish McCarthy for "Blood Drops"
• The Sopranos - David Chase for "Proshai, Livushka"
• The Sopranos - Mitchell Burgess/Robin Green for "Employee of the Month"
• The West Wing - Paul Redford/Aaron Sorkin for "Somebody's Going To Emergency, Somebody's Going To Jail"
• The West Wing - Aaron Sorkin for "Two Cathedrals"

2002: The Education of Max Bickford - Dawn Prestwich/Nicole Yorkin for "Pilot"

• ER - John Wells for "On the Beach"
• Resurrection Blvd. - Robert Eisele for "Nino Del Polvo"
• Six Feet Under - Christian Taylor for "In Place of Anger"
• The Sopranos - Mitchell Burgess/Robin Green for "Whoever Did This"
• The West Wing - Paul Redford/Aaron Sorkin for "Game On"

2003: 24 - Evan Katz for "7:00 PM - 8:00 PM"

• Law & Order - Michael S. Chernuchin for "Bounty"
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Tara Butters/Michele Fazekas for "Abomination"
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Tara Butters/Michele Fazekas for "Loss"
• The O.C. - Josh Schwartz for "Pilot"
• The West Wing - Alexa Junge/Lauren Schmidt for "Disaster Relief"

2004: The West Wing - Debora Cahn for "The Supremes"

• Six Feet Under - Craig Wright for "Falling Into Place"
• The Sopranos - Terence Winter for "Long Term Parking"
• The West Wing - Josh Singer/John Sacret Young for "Memorial Day"

2005: House - Lawrence Kaplow for "Autopsy"

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Carol Mendelsohn/Naren Shankar/Quentin Tarantino/Anthony E. Zuiker for "Grave Danger"
• Nip/Tuck - Jennifer Salt for "Rhea Reynolds"
• Six Feet Under - Scott Buck for "Singing for Our Lives"
• Veronica Mars - Rob Thomas for "Normal Is the Watchword"
• The West Wing - Carol Flint for "A Good Day"

2006: Big Love - Mark V. Olsen/Will Scheffer for "Pilot"

• Battlestar Galactica - Ronald D. Moore for "Occupation/Precipice"
• Lost - Christina M. Kim/Elizabeth Sarnoff for "Two for the Road"
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King - Lawrence D. Cohen for "The End of the Whole Mess"
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip - Aaron Sorkin for "Pilot"
• The West Wing - Eli Attie/John Wells for "Election Day: Part 2"

2007: The Sopranos - Terence Winter for "The Second Coming"

• The Closer - Michael Alaimo for "The Round File"
• Dexter - Timothy Schlattmann for "The Dark Defender"
• Lost - Drew Goddard/Damon Lindelof for "Flashes Before Your Eyes"
• Mad Men - Chris Provenzano for "The Hobo Code"
• The Wire - Ed Burns/David Simon for "Final Grades"

2008: Breaking Bad - Vince Gilligan for "The Pilot"

• Breaking Bad - Patty Lin for "Gray Matter"
• Burn Notice - Craig S. O'Neill and Jason Tracey for "Double Booked"
• Dexter - Scott Reynolds for "There's Something About Harry"
• Eli Stone - Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim for "The Pilot"
• House - Doris Egan and Leonard Dick for "Don't Ever Change"

2009: House - Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, David Foster and David Shore for "Broken" part 1 & 2

• Big Love - Melanie Marnich for "Come, Ye Saints"
• Breaking Bad - John Shiban for "Phoenix"
• Mad Men - Brett Johnson and Matthew Weiner for "The Grown Ups"
• Mad Men - Robin Veith and Matthew Weiner for "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency"
• True Blood - Nancy Oliver for "I Will Rise Up"