Cheers

1980s tv sitcom

Season 1  - Cheers tv sitcom episodes guide
Season 1  - Cheers tv sitcom episodes guide
Season 1  - Cheers tv sitcom episodes guide

Old bar in Boston called Cheers is runned by former professional baseball player Sam Malone with help of his old coach. His new waitress, Diane, have to get used to the atmosphere of that place - all the regular customers spend their evenings there talking about every unimportant thing in the world.



Cheers Season 1 (1982)


1

Give Me a Ring Sometime

Boston University student Diane and her fiancé, 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 mocks Sam for flirting with Brandee (Angela Aames), 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 (Donna McKechnie) 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 (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 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.

3

The Tortelli Tort

Carla attacks Big Eddie (Ron Karabatsos) for insulting the Boston 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.

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 forgive 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 fiancé Roy (Philip Charles MacKenzie), 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.

6

Any Friend of Diane’s

Diane’s university friend Rebecca Prout (Julia Duffy) 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 (Macon McCalman), but ends up drinking too much beer, which repulses Mr. Stabell.

7

Friends, Romans, Accountants

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 (James Read). 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.

8

Truce or Consequences

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.

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 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 (Bill Wiley), who brings tourists into the bar.

10

Endless Slumper

A struggling baseball player, Rick Walker (Christopher McDonald), 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.

11

One for the Book

A "shy, serious-minded" young man Kevin (Boyd Bodwell), 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 (Ian Wolfe), 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.

12

The Spy Who Came In for a Cold One

A stranger "Eric Finch" (Ellis Rabb) 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 (Robert Evan Collins) calls the man "Mr. Hillian". 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 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.

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. 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 (Mark King) book of cybernetics.

15

Father Knows Last

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.

16

The Boys in the Bar

Sam supports the coming out of his former baseball teammate Tom Kenderson (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. As a result, the evening with their respective dates turns into a disaster. Sam is not pleased with Gretchen’s uptight attitude, use of jargon and long-winded speeches, and Andy stuns others with his murderous behavior. 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 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 (Paul Vaughn) until both apologize to each other.

19

Pick a Con... Any Con

Coach loses $8,000 bar savings to George Wheeler (Reid Shelton) in rounds of gin rummy, a card game. Therefore, Sam bails out a con artist Harry the Hat from jail and pays him $5,000 to get the money back from George. At night, George plays poker with Harry and with other players, 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. Then 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 in poker 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 preparing to lose her wealth unless, under her father’s will, Diane marries 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, Sam looks at another woman who just arrives, angering Diane. 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. Then he 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 and 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.




Seasons of Cheers

1982 Season 1
1983 Season 2
1984 Season 3
1985 Season 4
1986 Season 5
1987 Season 6
1988 Season 7
1989 Season 8
1990 Season 9
1991 Season 10
1992 Season 11


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