- 1970: Patty Duke – My Sweet Charlie
- Edith Evans - David Copperfield
- Shirley Jones - Silent Night, Lonely Night
- 1971: Lee Grant – The Neon Ceiling
- Colleen Dewhurst - The Price
- Lee Grant - Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man
- 1972 - Single Performance: Glenda Jackson – "Shadow in the Sun" episode of Elizabeth R
- Glenda Jackson - "The Lion's Cub" episode of Elizabeth R
- Helen Hayes - Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
- Patricia Neal - The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
- Susannah York - Jane Eyre
(Note: Glenda Jackson also wins in the Lead Actress in a Dramatic Series category for Elizabeth R)
- 1973 - Single Performance: Cloris Leachman – A Brand New Life
- Lauren Bacall - Applause
- Hope Lange - That Certain Summer
- 1973 - Limited Series: Susan Hampshire – Vanity Fair
- Vivien Heilbron - The Moonstone
- Margaret Tyzack - Cousin Bette
- 1974 - TV Movie: Cicely Tyson – The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Carol Burnett - 6 Rms Riv Vu
- Katharine Hepburn - The Glass Menagerie
- Cloris Leachman - The Migrants
- Elizabeth Montgomery - A Case of Rape
- 1974 - Limited Series: Mildred Natwick – The Snoop Sisters
- Helen Hayes - The Snoop Sisters
- Lee Remick - The Blue Knight
- 1975 - TV Movie: Katharine Hepburn – Love Among the Ruins
- Jill Clayburgh - Hustling
- Elizabeth Montgomery - The Legend of Lizzie Borden
- Diana Rigg - In This House of Brede
- Maureen Stapleton - Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
- 1975 - Limited Series: Jessica Walter – Amy Prentiss
- Susan Saint James - McMillan & Wife
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- 1976 - TV Movie: Susan Clark – Babe
- Jane Alexander - Eleanor and Franklin
- Colleen Dewhurst - A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Sada Thompson - The Entertainer
- 1976 - Limited Series: Rosemary Harris – Notorious Woman
- Susan Blakely - Rich Man, Poor Man
- Jean Marsh - Upstairs, Downstairs
- Lee Remick - Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
- 1977 - TV Movie: Sally Field – Sybil
- Jane Alexander - Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
- Susan Clark - Amelia Earhart
- Julie Harris - The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
- Joanne Woodward - Sybil
- 1977 - Limited Series: Patty Duke – Captains and the Kings
- Dori Brenner - Seventh Avenue
- Susan Flannery - Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
- Eva Marie Saint - How the West Was Won
- Jane Seymour - Captains and the Kings
- 1978 - TV Movie: Joanne Woodward – See How She Runs
- Helen Hayes - A Family Upside Down
- Eva Marie Saint - Taxi!!!
- Maureen Stapleton - The Gathering
- Sada Thompson - Our Town
- 1978 - Limited Series: Meryl Streep – Holocaust
- Rosemary Harris - Holocaust
- Elizabeth Montgomery - The Awakening Land
- Lee Remick - Wheels
- Cicely Tyson - King
- 1979: Bette Davis – Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
- Carol Burnett - Friendly Fire
- Olivia Cole - Backstairs at the White House
- Katharine Hepburn - The Corn is Green
- Mary Tyler Moore - First, You Cry
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