Cheers
(1993)
Run Time: 21 min
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Sound: Stereo
Genre
- Comedy
- Drama
Seasons: 11
Episodes: 274
Overview
Cheers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, for 11 seasons and 275 episodes. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television and was created by the team of James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles. The show is set in the titular bar in Boston, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, socialize, and escape from their day to day issues. At the center of the show is the bar's owner and head bartender, Sam Malone, who is a womanizing former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
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1.
Give Me a Ring Sometime
Boston University student Diane and her fianc?, professor Sumner Sloane (Michael McGuire), plan to marry in Barbados. When he receives a telephone call from his ex-wife at the bar, Sumner returns to her and leaves an unsuspecting Diane behind. When she tries to change their flight reservations, Diane learns that Sumner and his ex-wife have already used the reservations. Owner and bartender Sam offers Diane a job as a waitress, which she initially refuses, but reluctantly accepts when she finds she can repeat verbatim a lengthy order from one table.
2.
Sam's Women
Diane confronts Sam for his serial dating of attractive yet unintelligent women. To prove he can date an intelligent woman, Sam uses his ex-wife as a dating charade, which becomes foiled when Diane sees that their opera pamphlet is from two years ago. Humiliated, Sam blames Diane for making him discontent with his womanizing ways, and assures her that he will not give up on winning an intelligent woman. A former customer, Leo (Donnelly Rhodes), comes to the bar seeking advice from Gus, the former owner. When Leo hears that Gus is dead, he reluctantly turns to Coach for help. Leo's son Ron has a fianc? Rick, an African-American man. Coach advises Leo to simply abandon Ron if he is "unhappy about it". However, Leo mistakes Coach's advice for deliberate reverse-psychology and leaves the bar as an accepting father.
3.
The Tortelli Tort
Carla attacks Big Eddie (Ron Karabatsos) for insulting the Boston Red Sox, including Sam. Confronted with a lawsuit threatening either Carla's losing her job or Sam's losing the bar, Carla tries to placate the issue by seeing an anger management counselor, Dr. Graham. When Big Eddie next encounters Carla in the bar, he is both frustrated and impressed by her self-control, and ultimately drops the lawsuit against Sam and Cheers. A tough patron who plays for the Boston Bruins has overheard Eddie's insulting comments about his sports team, and escorts Eddie from the bar?apparently to beat up Big Eddie, much to everybody's pleasure. However, Carla still apparently carries anger when she rudely throws the beer mug to a customer from the pool table room.
4.
Sam at Eleven
Sportscaster Dave Richards (Fred Dryer) wants to interview Sam because no better-known celebrities are available. Later, Dave shatters Sam's second bid for fame by leaving in the middle of the interview for a now-available celebrity. In the billiard room, Diane tries to convince Sam to take pride in his past but enjoy the present, which backfires when Sam tries to kiss Diane. Diane flips him onto the pool table, revealing her unexpected knowledge of judo. To cheer up Sam, she expresses further interest in Sam's baseball reminiscences. A con artist, Harry "the Hat" Gittes (Harry Anderson), makes his first appearance, conning people throughout the episode.
5.
Coach's Daughter
Coach's daughter Lisa (Allyce Beasley) arrives with her fianc? Roy (Philip Charles MacKenzie), who is rude and obnoxious. Coach tries to keep silent about his disapproval to make her happy, but Roy continues to insult others. Then Coach tells Lisa that she is too good for the likes of Roy. Lisa reluctantly agrees with her father and says that she will marry Roy only because she is ashamed of her own beauty, which resembles her mother's. However, Coach tells Lisa that she is more beautiful every day, like her mother. Feeling more self-confident, Lisa tells Roy off and ends their relationship and prepares to celebrate her freedom with her father. Diane draws sketches of people, but her efforts show no resemblance to their subjects.
6.
Any Friend of Diane's
Diane's university friend Rebecca Prout (Julia Duffy) tells her that she has dumped her fianc? Elliott, who has been unfaithful to her. In desperation, Rebecca wants to have sex with Sam. Diane tries to stop them but is unsuccessful, and Sam and Rebecca leave the bar. Later, Sam returns and tells Diane that nothing happened, and that he found Rebecca "boring, depressing, [and] long-winded," much to Diane's relief. However, Rebecca returns in tears and tells Diane that Sam abandoned and neglected her, which angers Diane. In response, Diane and Sam pretend to be in a relationship, which boosts Rebecca's self-esteem over the rejection. In an attempt to impress one of his clients[14] (Macon McCalman), Norm initially limits himself to one beer to avoid being seen as a barfly. However, his boss wants to drink more. Coach reluctantly lets Norm order a pitcher full of beer instead.
7.
Friends, Romans, Accountants
Accountant Norm Peterson chooses a toga theme, suggested by Diane, and Cheers for the annual office party as an effort to impress his boss Herbert Sawyer (James Read). When Norm arrives wearing a toga, the party turns out to be moribund and lifeless, leaving Norm humiliated, disappointed, and the only person wearing a toga. Desperate, Norm begs Diane to be his boss's date for the evening, but she refuses until Sawyer turns out to be attractive. In the billiard room, Sawyer tries to seduce Diane. When she rejects his advances, Herbert begins attempting to sexually assault her. Norm sees Sawyer attacking Diane and saves her by grabbing Sawyer, who fires Norm. Norm is unhappy about losing his job, but then everyone finds out that Norm stood up to Herbert, causing everyone to celebrate.
8.
Truce or Consequences
Sam intervenes in a conflict between Diane and Carla, who cannot stand each other. He warns them about losing their jobs and orders them to patch things up. After Sam leaves the bar, Carla confesses to Diane that Gino, one of her children, is Sam's child, and commands Diane to keep this a secret. The next day, Diane inadvertently reveals Carla's secret to Coach. Then Coach tells her that Sam and Carla have only known each other for five years and Gino is seven and a half, exposing Carla's confession to be a lie. When another conflict between the two waitresses ensues, Sam drags them into the office to settle the matter. When they tell Sam the whole situation, and Carla shows a picture of Gino, all of them burst into laughter. Carla and Diane make a truce with a handshake.
9.
Coach Returns to Action
The weather in Boston is very cold. Coach has a crush on his new neighbor Nina (Murphy Cross), who comes into the bar because the heater in her apartment is not working, but Coach is too shy to ask her out. When Coach has almost given up asking Nina out, Diane and Carla cheer him up by telling him that, even old in age, he is still attractive to woman. As she is about to leave, Coach finally asks Nina out, but Nina kindly rejects his offer. Coach purposely falls down the stairs and feigns injury, and Nina takes him back to her apartment to nurse him back to health. An unhappy tour guide (Bill Wiley) repeatedly brings tourists into the bar until Sam kicks him out.
10.
Endless Slumper
After Sam gives a struggling baseball player Rick (Christopher McDonald) his lucky bottle cap to improve Rick's struggling baseball career, Sam experiences bad luck as his bartending skills deteriorate. Sam admits to Diane that the cap prevents him from relapsing into alcoholism, as it was from the last beer he ever drank. Sam calls Rick, who tells Sam that he lost the bottle cap a week ago in Kansas City. Shocked, Sam pours beer into a mug and then resists drinking it, and claims the new bottle cap as his lucky charm.
11.
One for the Book
"Shy, serious-minded" young man Kevin (Boyd Bodwell), planning to enter a monastery, comes to the bar for a one-time visit. Kevin mistakes Diane's positive compliments about his physique as flirtation and tries to kiss her, upsetting Diane. Feeling bad about it, Kevin figures that he is unfit for the monastery and would rather go decadent. Kevin puts a coin in the coin-operated piano that has not worked for twenty years. When it "miraculously" works, he believes that he has healed the piano and will become a monk. After Kevin leaves, Coach reveals that he had the piano fixed "a couple days ago". An elderly World War I veteran Buzz (Ian Wolfe) enters the bar for another reunion with his former troops. However, no others arrive, devastating him. Nevertheless, all employees and Norm sing 'Mademoiselle from Armenti?res' to cheer him up. Diane writes down quotes from bar customers that appeal to her. Sam learns that she was uninspired by his quotes and then omitted them. Frustrated, he angrily calls Diane a phony and says, "What does a stuffed shirt know about blue-collar poetry?", which Diane happily writes down.
12.
The Spy Who Came In for a Cold One
Stranger "Eric Finch" (Ellis Rabb) enters the bar and claims to be a spy, impressing barflies. When Diane sees through his stories, he shamefully admits that he is really just a boring man who writes poetry. Diane is impressed with his poetry until Coach recites a poem that Eric simultaneously recites, which turns out to be from another author, destroying Diane's faith in him. Eric then claims to be millionaire "Thomas Hilliard III", who wants to buy the bar from Sam with a $2?million check. Angry and betrayed, Diane tears up the check and expresses no regret until a chauffeur enters and calls the man "Mr. Hilliard". To cheer her up, Sam assures Diane that he will never sell the bar.
13.
Now Pitching, Sam Malone
Sam flirts with Lana (Barbara Babcock), an advertising agent, and then becomes her client. As a result, Sam appears in a beer commercial, but he is not happy about the arrangement. Sam confesses to Diane about the affair, so she tries to help figure out what to do. When Coach threatens to kick Sam's butt, Sam reluctantly ends his relationship with Lana and his contract with her.
14.
Let Me Count the Ways
Diane's cat Elizabeth Barrett Browning has recently died, and no one is consoling her for grieving over the pet. When she breaks down in tears, Sam takes Diane into the office to calm her down and orders her to discuss the cat. Diane relates how she had been close to Elizabeth; the pair enjoyed each other's mutual support, especially when Diane's parents separated. Sam and Diane almost embrace until Diane interrupts and accuses him of taking advantage of her grief for sex. They argue and insult each other, and decide not to hug each other again in order to avoid sexual tension. Coach and Sam win their secret bet on the Boston Celtics losing the basketball game?based on Marshall Lipton's (Mark King) book of cybernetics.
15.
Father Knows Last
Carla is pregnant with a fifth child and tells nerdy MIT teacher Marshall that he is the father. When Marshall tells Diane that he and Carla dated only once, Diane suspects Carla is lying and confronts her. Carla admits that the child's father is her ex-husband Nick and refuses to tell Marshall this. Diane taunts Carla by repeatedly making "boom-boom" sounds from The Tell-Tale Heart, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Still bothered by Diane's antics, Carla tells Marshall the truth, which ends his relationship with her. The Cheers gang volunteers to help Carla support the baby.
16.
The Boys in the Bar
Sam supports the coming out of his former baseball teammate (Alan Autry), to the annoyance of the bar's patrons, including Norm, who fear that Cheers will become a gay bar. The next day, Diane reveals that "there are two gay men" in this bar. The customers suspect that three male newcomers are gay and want them to leave the bar. However, when three men congratulate Sam for his support the day before, Sam decides not to eject them and to avoid turning Cheers into a discriminative place. Norm and other patrons announce last call for drinks at 7:00pm and escort the men from the bar. Diane reveals the three men are not gay, and that two gay men are still inside. The two men in question kiss Norm on his cheeks.
17.
Diane's Perfect Date
Diane arranges a blind date for Sam with an intellectual woman. Sam assumes that Diane is his "date" and does not arrange one for Diane. Diane introduces Sam to Gretchen (Gretchen Corbett). Panicked, Sam randomly chooses Andy (Derek McGrath), an ex-convict. During their dates, Andy stuns others with his murderous behavior, frightening Gretchen away. When their dates leave, Sam admits his actions and clears up the misunderstandings and tells Diane that she may be a perfect match for him. Diane infuriates Sam by teasing him for admitting his romantic feelings for her. The bar patrons debate the relationship.
18.
No Contest
Diane finds out that without her knowledge, Sam has registered her into the 45th Annual Miss Boston Barmaid contest, a beauty pageant representing bar waitresses of Boston, which Diane considers "degrading to women". While going to decline her registration, she discovers that reporters and interviewers will be present so continues with the contest. While she is preparing to denounce the contest, Diane becomes overwhelmingly excited by winning two tickets to Bermuda and other prizes. When Sam promises to be a 'perfect gentleman', Diane declines to take him to Bermuda.
19.
Pick a Con... Any Con
Coach loses $8,000 savings to George Wheeler (Reid Shelton) in rounds of gin rummy, a card game. Sam bails out con artist Harry the Hat from jail and fronts him $5,000 to get the money back from George. That night, George plays poker with Harry and with others, including Sam. George wins every round when his opponents, including Harry, fold. Coach and Sam discover that, in a recent round, Harry's four 3s in his hand (four of a kind) would have beaten George's straight hand. George and Harry confess that they have been teaming together to cheat the bar patrons the whole night. George threatens to report them to the police for gambling if they try anything. However, Coach begs for another round with Harry and George alone. At the final round, Coach rubs his nose as a sign that George could beat Harry with three Queens. Harry wins with four 3s and exits the bar. When George leaves, Harry re-enters from the back room and admits that he teamed up with Coach to retrieve the $8,000 by cheating George.
20.
Someone Single, Someone Blue
When Diane's mother Helen (Glynis Johns) is about to lose her wealth unless, under her father's will, Diane marries by the following day. Diane and her mother pick Sam to be Diane's groom, as suggested by Carla, and Sam reluctantly plays along. During the wedding in the bar, while exchanging vows, Sam looks at another woman, angering Diane. Then Sam and Diane argue, prompting Helen to halt the wedding. Although the fortune is gone, Helen's chauffeur Boggs (Duncan Ross) reveals he has been embezzling from the Chambers family for years. He then proposes to Helen, who accepts.
21.
Showdown, Part 1
Sam's brother, Derek (an unseen character, voiced by George Ball), who exceeds Sam in success, education, talent, and looks, arrives to Boston with his private jet. Derek entertains bar patrons with his talents. He teaches Coach to speak Spanish for a coaching job in Venezuela and offers Norm a job. Derek and Diane begin dating, making Sam jealous.
22.
Showdown, Part 2
Norm is fired from the job that Derek offered last week, the corporation having committed tax fraud. Coach loses the coaching job to someone else, putting the Spanish lessons to waste. Sam and Diane confess their feelings for each other putting Derek out of their picture. However, when Diane resists Sam's advances, Sam and Diane end up arguing, then spewing bad remarks about each other, and passionately kiss.