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- Cheers_(season_1) abstract "The first season of Cheers is an American television situation comedy series that originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 30, 1982, and March 31, 1983, in 22 episodes. The show was created and produced by director James Burrows and writers Glen and Les Charles, who previously worked on Taxi, another sitcom. Cheers was produced by Charles Burrows Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television. The concept and production design of the show were inspired by a public house in Boston, the Bull & Finch, which is now called Cheers Beacon Hill.When it was first broadcast, critics praised the series as intelligent, sophisticated, cleverly written, well-cast, and well-timed. However, the Nielsen ratings for its original runs were very low. Typically, low ratings result a show's cancellation, but before the season finale aired, the network renewed it for another season. Reruns of season 1 scored higher ratings than its first airing and the series earned award recognitions, including five Emmy Award wins in 1983. In later years, this season has still elicited positive reviews and is currently available on DVD.".
- Cheers_(season_1) firstAirDate "1982-09-30".
- Cheers_(season_1) network NBC.
- Cheers_(season_1) numberOfEpisodes "22".
- Cheers_(season_1) wikiPageExternalLink cocatalog.loc.gov.
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- Cheers_(season_1) caption "Region 1 DVD edition".
- Cheers_(season_1) country "United States".
- Cheers_(season_1) directedby "James Burrows".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodeList List_of_Cheers_episodes.
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "1".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "10".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "11".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "12".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "13".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "14".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "15".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "16".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "17".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "18".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "19".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "2".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "20".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "21".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "22".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "3".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "4".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "5".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "6".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "7".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "8".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "9".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "S01".
- Cheers_(season_1) episodenumber "S02".
- Cheers_(season_1) firstAired "1982-09-30".
- Cheers_(season_1) footer "Exterior and interior of the Bull & Finch Pub, now Cheers Beacon Hill, that inspired the show's bar stage set.".
- Cheers_(season_1) hasPhotoCollection Cheers_(season_1).
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- Cheers_(season_1) lastAired "1983-03-31".
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- Cheers_(season_1) network NBC.
- Cheers_(season_1) nextSeason Cheers_(season_2).
- Cheers_(season_1) numEpisodes "22".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-09-30".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-10-07".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-10-14".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-10-21".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-10-28".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-11-04".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-11-11".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-11-18".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-11-25".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-12-02".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-12-09".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1982-12-16".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-01-06".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-01-13".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-01-20".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-01-27".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-01-30".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-02-10".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-02-17".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-02-24".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-03-03".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-03-24".
- Cheers_(season_1) originalairdate "1983-03-31".
- Cheers_(season_1) region "2003-05-20".
- Cheers_(season_1) seasonName "Cheers".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "--02-03".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "3.0".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "A "shy, serious-minded" young man Kevin , who plans to join a monastery, comes to the bar for a single visit. Kevin mistakes Diane's positive comments about his physique as a flattery and tries to kiss her, which upsets Diane. Feeling bad about it, Kevin is convinced that he rather belongs to the atmosphere filled with "booze, seated degenerates, and cheap dames" and is unfit for a monastery. Kevin puts a coin in the coin-operated piano that has been not worked for twenty years. When it "miraculously" works, he believes that he has healed the piano and that he will achieve a priesthood. After Kevin leaves, it is revealed that Coach fixed the piano "a couple days ago". An elderly World War I veteran, Buzz , enters the bar for another reunion with his former troops. When no others arrive, he realizes that he is the last surviving veteran of his group. Nevertheless, all employees and Norm sing a military song to cheer him up. Diane writes down quotes from bar customers that are "natural" and "spontaneous" to her. Sam learns that she omits his quotes as she finds them less than inspiring. He is disappointed and frustrated, angrily calls Diane a phony, and says, "What does a stuffed shirt know about blue-collar poetry?", motivating Diane to write it down.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "A 13-minute playlet, produced by the United States Department of Treasury and starring the whole cast of Cheers: Danson, Long, Perlman, Colasanto, Wendt, and Ratzenberger, was used to promote sales of U.S. Savings Bonds.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "A stranger "Eric Finch" enters the bar and claims to be a spy. When Diane makes corrections, Eric admits that he is not. When he pulls out poems, claiming them as his own, Diane sees him as an aspiring poet and decides to give him another chance. However, 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 a millionaire "Thomas Hillian III", who wants to buy the bar from Sam for $2 million in check. Angry and betrayed, Diane rips the check into pieces and feels no regret until a chauffeur calls the man "Mr. Hillian". Sam assures Diane that he will never sell the bar.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "A struggling baseball player, Rick Walker , visits the bar to seek advice on improving his game from Sam, a former player, whom he never met. After the bar regulars unsuccessfully try to help Rick improve his career, Sam gives Rick his lucky bottle cap. Later, while Rick's baseball career improves, Sam experiences bad luck as his bartending skills deteriorate. Sam admits to Diane that the cap prevents him from relapsing into alcoholism. 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. Diane is developing facial tics.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Accountant Norm Peterson chooses the toga theme, requested by Diane, and Cheers for the annual office party as an effort to please his boss Herbert Sawyer . As Norm arrives wearing a toga, the party turns out to be moribund and without a mood for togas, leaving Norm humiliated, disappointed, and the only person wearing a toga. Desperate, Norm begs Diane to seduce him, but she refuses until Herbert turns out to be attractive and about the same age as Diane. Later at the billiard room, Herbert tries to seduce Diane, but she tries to reject his advances without success. Suddenly, Norm sees Sawyer attacking Diane and saves her by grabbing Herbert, who fires Norm. Although Norm is unhappy about losing his job, everyone finds out that Norm stood up to Herbert, causing everyone to celebrate.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Boston University student Diane and her fiancé, professor Sumner Sloane , 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.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Carla attacks Big Eddie for insulting the Red Sox. Confronted by a lawsuit threatening either Carla's loss of her job or Sam's loss of the bar, Carla attempts to placate the issue by attending anger management counseling. When Big Eddie next confronts Carla in the bar, he is both frustrated and impressed by her self-control, ultimately dropping the lawsuit against Sam and Cheers. Ironically, a tough patron has overheard Eddie's insulting comments about another sports team, and escorts him from the bar—apparently to beat up Big Eddie, much to everybody's pleasure.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Carla is pregnant with a fifth child and tells Marshall that he is the father. When Coach tells Diane that Carla and Marshall have never had sex, Diane realizes 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 that Diane has read. Still bothered by Diane's antics, Carla tells Marshall the truth, which ends his relationship with her. Fortunately, she receives charity from everyone in the bar. ---- (Rhea Perlman was pregnant while this season was filmed.)".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Coach's daughter Lisa arrives with her fiancé Roy , who is rude and obnoxious. Coach tries to keep silent about his manner to make her happy, but Roy keeps insulting others. In the office, 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.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Diane finds out that against her will, 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. Although her plans to denounce the contest have failed, Diane takes someone other than Sam to Bermuda. Cliff argues with another bar patron Paul until both apologize to each other.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Diane mocks Sam for flirting with Brandee , a less-than-bright but flirtatious blonde. Sam and Diane argue about Sam's serial dating of attractive yet unintelligent women, while impatient Brandee leaves the bar with someone else, much to Diane's delight. Later, he uses his ex-wife Debra as a dating charade, which becomes unsuccessful. 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. Sam wins the argument by tricking Diane to fall for him after he compliments her blue eyes, although Diane quickly denies her potential affection for him. A former customer, Leo , 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 fiancé Rick, an African-American man. Coach advises Leo to simply abandon Ron if he is "unhappy about it". However, Leo mistakes Coach's advises for deliberate reverse-psychology and leaves the bar as an accepting father. ---- (Gus from the 11th season episode, "The Last Picture Show" , is not the deceased former owner of the same name.)".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "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. In her story, Diane 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 book of cybernetics.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Diane's university friend Rebecca Prout tell her that she has dumped her fiancé Elliott, who has been unfaithful to her. In desperation, Rebecca wants to have sex with Sam, an ordinary yet attractive bartender. 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. Therefore, Diane and Sam pretend to be in a relationship, which helps boost Rebecca's self-esteem over the rejection, much to their relief. Norm wants to impress his accounting boss, Darrell Stabell , but ends up drinking too much beer, which repulses Mr. Stabell.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "In this sketch located at Cheers, the bar patrons meet sportscaster Pete Axthelm, whom Diane mocks. She also mocks football, and the patrons scorn her for her prejudice and lack of knowledge. The patrons and Diane argue, while Axthelm concludes his coverage in Boston. This sketch was the producers' attempt to increase ratings; other NBC shows Remington Steele, Taxi, and The A-Team also produced sketches for that year's Super Bowl pre-game segment. This sketch is not available on home video.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "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 and putting Derek out of their picture. However, when they try to resist temptation for a conversation, Sam and Diane end up arguing and then spewing bad remarks about each other. After failed attempts to resist, they passionately kiss.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Sam flirts with Lana , an advertising agent, and then becomes her client. As a result, Sam appears in a beer commercial, but he is not happy about it. Sam confesses to Diane about the affair, so Diane gossips the information to Coach. When Coach threatens to kick Sam's butt for lacking the courage to dump Lana, Sam reluctantly ends his relationship with Lana and his contract with her.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Sam intervenes in a conflict between Diane and Carla, who cannot abide 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. When Coach tells her that Sam and Carla have only known each other for five years and Gino is seven and a half, Carla's confession is shown 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.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Sam supports the coming out of his former baseball teammate Tom Kenderson , 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.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Sam's brother, Derek , 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.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "Sportscaster Dave Richards 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 forgive Sam, she expresses further interest in Sam's baseball reminiscences. A con artist, Harry "the Hat" Gittes , makes his first appearance, conning people throughout the episode.".
- Cheers_(season_1) shortsummary "The weather in Boston is very cold. Coach has a crush on his new neighbor Nina , 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 at old age, he is still attractive to woman. Nina receives a telephone call telling her that her heater is fixed. 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 to win her over, so Nina helps his "injuries" in her apartment. Carla fixes plumbing in the men's restroom. Sam bans an unhappy tour guide , who brings tourists into the bar.".