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Edgar Allan Poe Awards: 1980

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Best Motion Picture


Winner:
	First Great Train Robbery, The (1979) - Michael Crichton
Other Nominees:
	Murder by Decree (1979) - John Hopkins (I) Time After Time (1979) - Nicholas Meyer

Best Television Episode


Winner:
	"Tales of the Unexpected" (1979) - Robin Chapman (I); Roald Dahl - For episode "Skin".
Other Nominees:
	"Eischied" (1979) - Mark Rodgers (I) - For episode "Only the Pretty Girls Die". "Lou Grant" (1977) - Michele Gallery - For episode "A Hollywood Whodunit". "Stone" (1980) - Stephen J. Cannell - For episode "Stone".

Best Television Feature or Miniseries


Winner:
	Murder by Natural Causes (1979) (TV) - Richard Levinson (I); William Link
Other Nominees:
	Nero Wolfe (1979) (TV) - Frank D. Gilroy Salem's Lot (1979) (TV) - Paul Monash