Contenders in this year’s Emmy derby include...

Contenders in this year’s Emmy derby include “Gore Vidal’s Lincoln” (which starred Sam Waterston); Edward Woodward (of “The Equalizer”), JoBeth Williams (in “Baby M”), Ted Danson (of “Cheers”); “The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story” (starring Lindsay Wagner); “The Golden Girls” (starring Betty White, Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan); “Foxfire” (starring Jessica Tandy, John Denver, Hume Cronyn); Blair Brown (of “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd”), and “The Murder of Mary Phagan” (starring Jack Lemmon). In some cases, nominations went to both the performers and their shows.