‘Wonder Years’ Writers Lead Guild Nominations

Three writers from “The Wonder Years” have been nominated for best comedy script of the 1989-90 season by the Writers Guild of America, while the drama series nominations featured two each for “thirtysomething,” “China Beach” and “L.A. Law.”

Winners of the guild’s 43rd annual awards for TV, movie and radio writing will be announced in ceremonies March 20. Film nominees will be named Tuesday.

The full list of TV and radio nominees:

* Episodic comedy: Bob Brush, “The Wonder Years: Goodbye,” ABC; David M. Stern, “The Wonder Years: The Powers That Be,” ABC; Bob Stevens, “The Wonder Years: Rock ‘n’ Roll,” ABC; Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, “The Seinfeld Chronicles: The Stake Out,” NBC; Diane English, “Murphy Brown: Brown Like Me,” CBS; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, “Designing Women: The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century,” CBS.

* Episodic drama: Martin M. Goldstein, Nel Baer, Dottie Dartland, “China Beach: Warriors,” ABC; David E. Kelley, Bryce Zabel, “L.A. Law: Justice Swerved,” NBC; David E. Kelley, William M. Finkelstein, “L.A. Law: Bang . . . Zoom . . . Zap,” NBC; Winnie Holzman, “thirtysomething: I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” ABC; John Sacret Young, “China Beach: Souvenirs,” ABC; Richard Kramer, “thirtysomething: Strangers,” ABC.

* Original long form: Michael Lazarou, “Heatwave,” TNT; Daniel Freudenberger, “Do You Know the Muffin Man?” CBS; Michael Norell, James Norell, “The Incident,” CBS.

* Adapted long form: Roger O. Hirson, “The Old Man and the Sea,” NBC; William Hanley, “The Kennedys of Massachusetts, Part 2,” ABC; E. Jack Neuman, “Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase, Part 1,” ABC.

* Anthology episode/single program: Shelley List, Jonathan Estrin, “Sisters,” CBS; Frank Darabont, “Tales from the Crypt: The Ventriloquist’s Dummy,” HBO; J. Michael Straczynski, “Nightmare Classicis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Showtime.

* Children’s script: Josef Anderson, “The Perfect Date,” ABC; Cynthia A. Cherbak, Elizabeth Hansen, Herb Stein, “American Eyes,” CBS; Harry Longstreet, Renee Longstreet, “The Frog Girl: The Jennifer Graham Story,” CBS.

* Daytime serials: Agnes Nixon, Lorraine Broderick, Wisner Washam, Megan McTavish, Mary K. Wells, Susan Kirshenbaum, Karen Lewis, Elizabeth Smith, Kathleen Klein, Gillian Spencer, Michelle Patrick, Maggie DePriest, Victor Miller, Elizabeth Page, “All My Children,” ABC; Charles Pratt Jr., Shari Anderson, Sam Ratcliffe, Maralyn Thoma, Sam Hall, Josh Griffith, Patrick Mulcahey, Robert Guza Jr., Courtney Simon, Lynda Myles, Gary Tomlin, Frank Salisbury, Libby Beers, David J. Ross, “Santa Barbara,” NBC.

* Variety--musical, award, tribute, special event: Armyan Bernstein, Richard Baskin, Neal Marshall, Rocco Urbisci, Marc Abraham, Vince Calandra Jr., Barry Douglas, David Field, Barra Grant, Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarnar, Peter Torokvei. Sketches written by: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, Marc Sotkin, Robert Bruce, Marty Weiss, Marc Cherry, Jamie Wooten, Jim Vallely, Mitchell Hurwitz, Herb Sargent, Jerry Juhl, Bill Prady, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Barry Levinson, David Steinberg, John Markus, Carmen Finestra, Gary Kott, Ron Leavitt, Michael Moye, Marcy Vosburgh, Sandy Sprung, Katherine Green, Ellen Fogle, Arthur Silver, Kevin Curran, Cheri Eichen, Bill Steinkellner, Phoef Sutton, Brian Pollack, Mart Rich, Dan O’Shannon, Tom Anderson, Dan Staley, Rob Long, “Time Warner Presents the Earth Day Special,” ABC; Matt Neuman, Larry Arnstein, Steve Kerper, David Kolin, Glenn Rabney, Lane Sarasohn, Rich Hall, “Not Necessarily the News: Reunion,” HBO; Buz Kohan, George Schlatter, “Sammy Davis Jr. 60th Anniversay Celebration,” ABC.

* Documentary--current events: Paula DiPema, “Outrage at Valdez,” TBS; Richard Ellison, Bob Abernethy, “Stalin’s Ghost,” NBC; Thomas Lennon, Shelby Steele, “Seven Days in Bensonhurst,” WGBH; Robert Thurber, “Teacher, Teacher,” PBS.

* Documentary--other than current events: Irv Drasnin, “Forever Baseball,” PBS; Edward Gray, Mark Obenhaus, “Mr. Sears’ Catalogue,” PBS; David Grubin, “The Great Air Race of 1924,” PBS; Carole Lucia Satrina, Eugene Mamer, “Reals of Light: The Baroque,” PBS; Theodore Thomas, “Roots of Resistance--A Story of the Underground Railroad,” PBS.

* Television spot news script: Jerry Cipriano, Paul Fischer, John Mosedale, Paul Enger, Hugh Heckman, Thomas Phillips, “Persian Gulf Crisis,” CBS; Jim Driscoll, Kate Begley, Chris Long, Dick Brennan, Adrian Meppen, Ed Freeman, “Channel 9 News at 10,” WWOR; Chris Long, Kate Begley, Jim Discoll, Joyce Hanley, Bill Rubens, Alan Levine, “Crash of Avianca Flight 52,” WWOR; Alan Prieto, “Jim Henson,” ABC.

* Radio spot news: Les Blatt, “Peter Jennings Journal,” ABC; Bill Seamans, “Shamir’s Gambit,” ABC; Bruce Kauffman, “Saddam Hussein,” CBS.

* Radio documentary: Evalyn Lee, Jill Landes, Pam Rauscher, “Poems, Poets & Song,” CBS; Richard Stapleton, Christopher Dinan, “Waves of the Future: Water and the Environment,” CBS; David P. Ysais, “L.A.’s Hispanics: A New Manana,” CBS.

* Radio drama/comedy: Tom Carr, Heidi Oringer, “Morning Show Prep Script Service,” ABC; Sarit Catz, Gloria Ketterer, “Produced Comedy,” ABC.

* Television graphic art: Suzanne Allison, news graphics, ABC; Steve Bottorff, S&L; Crisis/Banks, ABC; Monika Hofelich, news graphics, ABC.

* Television graphic animation: Suzanne Allison, San Francisco earthquake, ABC; Anne Cadel, Joanne Dominick, Fourth of July, CBS.

* On-air promotion: Joe DiPietro, CBS; Susan Meredity Lay, WNET/PBS; Clayton Shaw, WNET/PBS.