Since the 1960s, the Golden Globes have honored the finest in television…usually.

Once seen as a second-rate version of the Oscars, combined with a second-rate version of the Emmys, the stature of the Golden Globes has risen in recent years, with highly rated TV telecasts hosted by Ricky Gervais, and Tina Fey with Amy Poehler. It’s still a strange awards ceremony – attendees can drink alcohol throughout the ceremony, and the awards themselves are voted by entertainment journalists from outside of the United States. Result: some headscratching nominations (and even wins).

• In 1978, the long-running TV news magazine 60 Minutes actually won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Series, beating out scripted dramas like Lou Grant and the miniseries Holocaust. 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt had actually refused the nomination, but the show remained on the ballot anyway.

• In 1977, Dinah Shore was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy TV Series. The show for which she was noticed: Dinah!, her daytime TV talk show.

• In 1991 and 1992, the cheesy (but extremely popular) teen soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210 was nominated for Best Drama Series. Star Jason Priestly was nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series in the latter year, but lost to Sam Waterston of I’ll Fly Away.

• Do you remember the corny, short-lived sitcom Sister Kate? It was about a kindly nun who presided over an orphanage full of precocious, wisecracking kids. It was cancelled by NBC due to low ratings after just 15 episodes had aired in the 1989-1990 season. It was also critically savaged, but star Stephanie Beacham still managed to earn a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

• Despite the existence of a Best Miniseries or Television Film category, the miniseries Shogun won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Series in 1980. Even weirder is that it beat out The Scarlett O’Hara War, a made-for-TV movie about the making of Gone With the Wind.