Viewers for Quality Television (also called "VQT") was an American nonprofit organization (under 501(c)(3)) founded in 1984 to advocate network television series that members of the organization voted to be of the "highest quality.
The group's founder Dorothy Swanson started VQT to save the television show Cagney and Lacey from cancellation.
Elsewhere, Designing Women, Frank's Place, Quantum Leap, Sports Night, and Party of Five.
With the low membership and lack of funding, VQT was not able to put on its annual "Q" awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
The Story of Viewers for Quality Television: Grassroots to Prime Time (Syracuse University Press, 2000).