Cheers

Episodes

Season 1 · 22 episodes

• E1 Give Me a Ring Sometime
  Sep 30, 1982 25 min

  Cheers is a small bar in Boston, MA. As owner Sam Malone opens up, a couple enter the bar. Professor Sumner Sloane and his fiance Diane Chambers are to go to Barbados to be married, but Sumner's ex-wife still has the wedding ring. Sumner asks Sam to keep an eye on Diane for him whilst he goes and fetches it. Sam tries chatting up Diane but she's not interested. The other employees at Cheers arrive for work - waitress and single mom Carla Tortelli, and bartender Ernie "Coach" Pantusso, who was Sam's baseball coach back in the days when Sam was a relief pitcher for the Red Sox. As the bar gets busier and more people wonder who she is, Diane hopes Sumner will return eventually. Sumner comes back a few hours later and says he hasn't got the ring, but then his ex-wife calls and says she's got it, so he once again leaves Diane in Cheers whilst he goes to fetch it. He asks Diane to call the airport and put their flight back a bit. Once again he is gone a long time, and Diane starts to worry t

• E2 Sam's Women
  Oct 7, 1982 25 min

  Diane's teasing about his airhead women sends Sam looking for a date of a higher cerebral plane and an old customer insists he must see the former owner to discuss his personal problems.

• E3 The Tortelli Tort
  Oct 14, 1982 25 min

  Carla's fiery temper almost costs Sam the bar when she attacks an obnoxious Yankees fan.

• E4 Sam at Eleven
  Oct 21, 1982 25 min

  Sam realizes how much he misses his former sports celebrity status when a local newscaster asks to interview him again.

• E5 Coach's Daughter
  Oct 28, 1982 25 min

  Coach's daughter brings the obnoxious lout she plans to marry to meet her father.

• E6 Any Friend of Diane's
  Nov 4, 1982 25 min

  Diane becomes upset when Sam hits on an old friend of hers who's on the rebound from an unhappy love affair.

• E7 Friends, Romans, Accountants
  Nov 11, 1982 25 min

  Norm tries to make points with the boss by planning the annual office party at Cheers and arranging for Diane to be the old man's "date".

• E8 Truce or Consequences
  Nov 18, 1982 25 min

  Diane and Carla decide to bury the hatchet over after work drinks, which lead to a startling confession from Carla about her youngest child.

• E9 Coach Returns to Action
  Nov 25, 1982 25 min

  Coach and Sam become unlikely romantic rivals for Coach's new neighbor.

• E10 Endless Slumper
  Dec 2, 1982 25 min

  Rick Walker, a friend of Sam, seeks his advice on how to end a losing streak.

• E11 One for the Book
  Dec 9, 1982 25 min

  While Diane keeps notes on bar conversation, a novice comes in for one final fling before entering a monastery and a World War I doughboy shows up for a very small reunion.

• E12 The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One
  Dec 16, 1982 25 min

  The bar patrons are all enthralled by the mysterious gentleman who claims to be a secret agent.

• E13 Now Pitching, Sam Malone
  Jan 6, 1983 25 min

  Sam lets the sexy appeal of an agent and the glamour of the public spotlight lure him into being a TV pitchman.

• E14 Let Me Count the Ways
  Jan 13, 1983 25 min

  Diane looks to her friends for comfort when her cat dies, but finds everyone too enthralled by a Celtics game to notice.

• E15 Father Knows Last
  Jan 20, 1983 25 min

  Carla has a secret that's about to be revealed:she's five months pregnant.

• E16 The Boys in the Bar
  Jan 27, 1983 25 min

  Cheers' regulars fear the place may become a gay hangout after an old friend of Sam's reveals his homosexuality on TV.

• E17 Diane's Perfect Date
  Feb 10, 1983 25 min

  Sam and Diane dare each other to find the other's perfect date, but Sam's last minute choice doesn't quite measure up.

• E18 No Contest
  Feb 17, 1983 25 min

  Sam enters Diane in the "Miss Boston Barmaid" contest without telling her.

• E19 Pick a Con... Any Con
  Feb 24, 1983 25 min

  Sam enlists Harry the conman to help fleece a card shark who cheated Coach out of a lot of money.

• E20 Someone Single, Someone Blue
  Mar 3, 1983 25 min

  Diane's mother turns up at Cheers with the news that Diane must marry before the next day or her mother will lose her share of Diane's father's estate.

• E21 Showdown (1)
  Mar 24, 1983 25 min

  Diane's fascination with Sam's older brother brings their long simmering relationship to a boil when the sibling asks Diane to go to Paris with him.

• E22 Showdown (2)
  Mar 31, 1983 25 min

  Diane is still involved with Sam's brother, but she confesses that she is in love with Sam. So she returns to the bar to give him one last chance to admit that he loves her too.