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

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.

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

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

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

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

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".

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The regular gang finds Sam and Diane's romance hard to believe, a view apparently shared by Diane, who throws Sam out of her apartment after only five minutes.

Carla goes on a maternity leave and is replaced by her supposedly shy and innocent sister.

Diane, angry at the implication that she couldn't hold a job anywhere but Cheers, leaves for better position and Norm leaves Vera.

Andy, the ex-con Sam arranged as a blind date for Diane, returns to Cheers to show off his acting ability.

Diane's intellectual former fiance returns to reclaim her and puts Sam into an anxiety attack when he tries to measure up by reading Tolstoy.

Carla rejects a man interested in her romantically, convinced that he must have some ""fatal flaw"" to find her attractive.

Sam's old buddy Dave Richards bets Sam he can break up his romance with Diane within 24 hours and it looks like a sure thing when Diane learns he still has his little black book.

Coach becomes a slave driver when he's put in charge of Little League team.

Sam and Diane go to work after Dick Cavett suggests that Sam's autobiography might sell and Norm confronts an old flame of Vera's who's interested in her again.

Sam casually tells Diane he loves her and sends her deep into an introspective analysis of their relationship.

Diane is at first incredulous then furious when it becomes apparent that Sam and her old school chum find each other very attractive.

Sam lets a dying man tend bar just for fun, but the man leaves the bar patrons $100,000 in a paper napkin will.

Not wanting to appear lonely and dateless whilst going to her ex-husband Nick's wedding ceremony to blonde bimbo Loretta, Carla asks Sam to accompany her.

Sam regrets asking Norm to do his taxes when the out of work accountant comes up with a five figure refund.

Sam and Diane want to spend some time alone together, but the lonely Coach keeps joining them, not realising he is spoiling things for them. Rather than hurt his feelings by asking him not to bother them, Sam and Diane decide to set him up with a woman so they will be left in piece.

Cliff's know-it-all attitude finally gets him into a fight with another patron.

Coach is conned into buying an old scale which also prints out fortunes, and the Cheers gang each see their fortunes - except for Diane, who thinks it is all a load of rubbish. Meanwhile, Norm and Vera make progress in their relationship.

Sam lies to Diane about the weekend he has planned chasing snow bunnies in Vermont.

An old friend of Coach has died and Coach decides to hold a memorial to him in the bar, inviting all their old friends. But then Coach discovers his late friend made a pass at his late wife.

The regulars push Norm into pursuing an attractive new client who seems to be interested in him.

Sam commissions a portrait of Diane from an artist so obnoxious that he soon forbids Diane to continue posing for him, an order Diane won't accept.

Sam commissions a portrait of Diane from an artist so obnoxious that he soon forbids Diane to continue posing for him, an order Diane won't accept.

Coach asks Diane to return to Cheers from her self-imposed ""vacation"" to help Sam, who has fallen off the wagon.

Coach asks Diane to return to Cheers from her self-imposed ""vacation"" to help Sam, who has fallen off the wagon.

Frasier asks Sam for some advice about his more intimate relationship with Diane and Cliff hides out from a vengeful fellow postal employee.

Cliff meets a woman during a costume party at Cheers that he likes very much, but he's afraid to see her again as himself.

Sam makes up an elaborate story to explain how he got shot in the rear end, not wanting to tell everyone the real reason - he was shot at by a jealous husband.

Coach falls in love with a woman who dumps him after she wins a big lottery while Sam strikes out with her daughter.

Coach falls in love with a woman who dumps him after she wins a big lottery while Sam strikes out with her daughter.

Diane meets Frasier's mother, who quietly threatens to kill Diane if she doesn't leave Frasier alone.

Nick returns and demands of Carla a more equitable division of their marital property: namely him getting custody of one of their kids, a demand to which Carla agrees.

Diane suffers a mysterious allergic reaction after moving in with Frasier.

Norm becomes aware of his own mortality and decides to throw it all in and take off for Bora Bora.

Sam meets one of Diane's intense friends, who has her parents over to meet Sam, their future son-in-law, hours after their first date.

Frasier is devastated when he learns that his learned mentor has been dating Carla, who also has a little surprise of her own.

The guys take Frasier on a ""snipe"" hunt in the woods after Diane asks them to include the psychologist in their masculine pursuits.

Sam returns to the mound for a charity softball game against Playboy bunnies, but his competitive spirit ruins the day when he strikes them all out.

Sam and the Coach are taking the same night school course in geography, but while Coach studies, Sam dates the teacher.

Norm gets arrested when he finishes the route for an ill Cliff, but Cliff refuses to back up Norm's explanation to the authorities.

Sam stands to lose the bar to an old friend because of a bet that he would marry Jacqueline Bissett before a certain date.

Sam faces the ultimate challenge to his skills as a male animal; a lady reporter who has been investigating the Boston singles scene and has heard every line in the book.

After his second wife Loretta kicks him out, Carla's ex-husband Nick Tortelli comes to Cheers asking Carla to take him back.

Norm is promoted to company hatchet man because of his unique style for letting people go.

Diane announces that she's leaving Cheers to accompany Frasier to Italy and Sam throws her a going-away party.

Carla insists that Sam should hire an older woman to replace Diane but she doesn't reckon on Sam's attraction to the woman's daughter.

Carla calls together her former classmates from St. Clete's School for Wayward Girls to plot revenge on their former sadistic principal whom she spots drinking at Cheers.

Frasier proposes to Diane while they're in Italy and she makes an emergency call to Sam, hoping he'll talk her out of it.

After the sad passing away of Coach, Sam hires a new bartender in Woody Boyd, Coach's pen pal who has moved to Boston. Frasier arrives back from Europe with the news that Diane left him at the altar for six months of decadent living across Europe and is now seeking renewal in a Boston monastery.

The gang brings Woody's old girl friend to Boston to visit him and Frasier, still not yet confident about returning to psychiatry, decides to pay his bar bill by working as a janitor.

Diane fantasizes over an expensive coat left behind by a patron and agrees to go out with whoever claims it.

Carla asks Sam to tell her teenage son about the joys of bachelorhood and to discourage his urge to get married.

Diane spends a dark and stormy night worrying that Andy Schroeder has escaped and is out to kill her.

Sam has a weak moment and lends Diane $500 to buy a book reputedly signed by Ernest Hemingway.

Sam and the gang make up an answer to Carla's ad in the personal column to lift her spirits.

Norm fears Vera may be having an affair with his neighbor and Sam wastes his time as a radio sports commentator apologizing to Diane.

Sam has to convince Woody to help Cheers win a bowling match with Gary's Old Towne Tavern at a rival bar.

Cliff refuses to identify himself to his estranged father when the man comes to Cheers with an important message for his son.

Sam is happy to be the subject of Diane's psychology term paper until he learns just exactly what the Don Juan syndrome is.

Sam thinks he's doing Woody a favor by not placing a bet for the young man, but the long shot comes in and Sam has to pay off.

Sam's ego is crushed when no one bids on his old baseball jersey during a public television auction.

Diane arranges for a stranger to come into Cheers as part of an experiment in paranoid behavior, but then she provides an even better example as she waits for the gang to get back at her.

Diane and Sam try to rebuild Frasier's shattered ego when he starts drinking too much.

Cliff has two dates for the postman's ball-with Carla and Diane.

Frasier has been out on a date with a fellow psychiatrist, Dr Lilith Sternin, but things didn't go too well. Frasier feels depressed, so feeling sorry for him, Sam arranges a date between Frasier and a woman he knows named Candy. But Sam and Diane get a surprise when Frasier proposes to Candy after just one date.

Norm gets some dirt on his main competitor for a promotion but hesitates to use it.

After trying (and failing) to hit on a pretty female customer, Sam feels like he is over the hill and challenges Woody to a racquetball game. Unfortunately Sam ends up hurting himself and has to take a trip to the hospital.

Carla asks Sam to partner her in a dance contest where their main competition is Nick and Loretta.

A flying daredevil that Diane barnstormed with across Europe takes her and Sam for a ride and dies at 20,000 feet up.

Diane feels depressed and left out of the gang's activities so Frasier organizes a day just for her-at the opera.

Woody fears for his job when Sam hires a second bartender.

Local councilwoman Janet Eldridge comes to Cheers as part of her re-election campaign, and Sam finds hismelf smitten with her. Janet and Sam become a couple, but a jealous Diane joins the opposition campaign fearing that if Janet wins the election, she will win Sam's heart as well. Meanwhile Frasier also joins the opposition campaign hoping to win Diane back.

Sam and Janet's relationship is getting stronger and stronger whilst Diane gets more jealous. Janet suggests that Sam fire iane to sever all ties with his past, but Diane overhears and quits before he can fire her. Vera's sister Donna is visiting the Petersons and Norm is worried that Donna will flirt with him like she did on her last visit.

Janet has won the electiopn and is hosting her press conference at Cheers. Diane turns up to apologize to Sam but ends up asking Janet some personal questions which causes Sam to throw her out of the bar. Later Sam and Janet talk and realise their relationship won't work, so break it off. Sam then picks up the telephone, rings someone and then asks them to marry him..... Meanwhile Vera has been called away, so Donna is left alone with Norm, much to his horror.

We finally found out who Sam's telephone proposal at the end of the last episode was to - Diane! But Diane fears that Sam is meerely on the rebound after breaking up with Janet, so asks him to repeat the proposal in a more romantic occasion, but when he does (on a boat), she refuses, causing Sam to make her walk the plank. Later Diane says she does want to get married, but Sam has now retracted the proposal.

Diane follows Sam to Cape Cod in an effort to ruin his weekend with another woman.

Cliff's ecstatic when his mother decides to marry a wealthy man until the groom decides to give it all away to charity.

Diane tries to help Lilith, the lady psychologist attracted to Frasier, to soften her appearance and surprise Frasier during their television debate.

Cliff finds a reasonably priced older home for Carla to buy that turns out to be haunted.

The gang insists on getting in on Norm's new business investment then complains bitterly when it looks like a washout.

Stung by Diane's attitude, Sam tries to impress her by getting reservations at the most exclusive restaurant in Boston.

Cliff prods a reluctant Norm to join his lodge and Sam thinks Diane has invented a suitor to make him jealous.

The gang gathers at Carla's house for a Thanksgiving dinner of frozen turkey and overdone peas.

Diane becomes obsessed with tracking down a poem she's sure Sam plagiarized and had published in a literary magazine that has repeatedly turned her work down.

Woody delves into Sam's legendary black book to find a date to impress his former girl friend, who is coming to Cheers to introduce her fiancé.

Frasier's effort to lighten a dance instructor's harsh criticism of Diane's efforts backfires when she decides to audition for the Boston Ballet.

Sam proposes to Diane again and ends up charged with assault and battery when she turns him down again.

Sam regrets trying to buy Diane an engagement ring that is a cheap imitation.

Nick vows to take Diane away from Sam when Sam defends Loretta's efforts to ditch Nick and start her own singing career.

Carla falls for Eddie, a hockey goalie; meanwhile, Diane is foreman of a jury in an attempted murder trial.

Eddie's career was red-hot until he started dating Carla. The defendant in Diane's murder case comes to the bar.

Diane gives Sam 24 hours for a final fling before their wedding.

Cliff is thinking lawsuit after a dog bites him while delivering the mail, until he meets the dog's beautiful and cooperative owner.

Frasier and Lilith invite Sam and Diane over for dinner to celebrate their first week of cohabitation. But things start going wrong when Lilith finds out Frasier and Diane were engaged, and she locks herself in the bathroom. Then Sam and Diane have an argument as well. Meanwhile Cliff agrees to babysit Carla's kids.

Diane badgers a noted British marriage counselor into seeing her and Sam for a pre-nuptial session, then refuses to heed his advice.

Sam's goddaughter Joyce Pantusso (the late Coach's niece) has come to Boston for a visit. Not wanting her to get into trouble, Sam asks Woody to help her out and show her around - but Woody and Joyce have a surprise for Sam when they get engaged!

Norm elaborates on his new position with a top CPA firm and is caught in his little white lies when the gang decides to surprise him at work. Meanwhile Cliff finds a $20 note - and Woody has lost one.

The gang tries to reassure a nervous Mr. and Mrs. Boyd back in Indiana that Woody is fine and has wonderful friends in Boston by making a home movie of an average day at Cheers.

Diane is haunted by the memories of the couple who lived a long and happy life together in the home she and Sam have purchased.

Dr. Sumner Sloane returns to Cheers on Diane and Sam's wedding day to tell her that a publisher is interested in one of her class manuscripts if she can go to work immediately on rewrites.

Sam returns to Cheers six months after he sold it to a large corporation to pursue a life of leisure on board a new boat. Now the boat has sunk and he's looking for a job.

Sam tries to dodge his bar duties so he can fill in for a friend as a sports broadcaster.

Carla and Eddie plan to get married if they can get past superstition, Eddie's mother, Carla's children, and Rebecca's nerves as she waits for her boss to show up at the bar.

Carla and Eddie plan to get married if they can get past superstition, Eddie's mother, Carla's children, and Rebecca's nerves as she waits for her boss to show up at the bar.

The gang tries to convince Frasier that Rebecca desires him after he quarrels with Lilith and Rebecca replaces Sam's picture with one of Robert Urich.

Norm gets to know Rebecca better when he paints her office as a way of paying off his bar tab.

Cliff is opposed to selling out the family home so a convenience store can be built there, but his mother is all for the idea. Meanwhile, the gang tries to find out about Rebecca's college knickname- ""Backseat Becky"".

Sam and Woody are up for bids at a charity auction but less than thrilled at their new ""owners.""

Woody meets an elderly woman while wearing his makeup for the role of Mark Twain, and begins dating her.

Rebecca asks an eager Sam to escort her to a company function to correct a false impression held by her boss.

Cliff helps his girl friend improve her appearance then regrets it when all sorts start to hit on her, including Sam.

Christmas Eve is depressing at Cheers as Sam rushes to find Rebecca a gift, Rebecca makes everyone work late, and Norm's Santa Claus buddies gather to celebrate the end of the season.

Woody tries to convince his friends that he got a small part on Spenser: For Hire and Cliff and Norm quarrel about a practical joke involving a chimpanzee.

Woody takes responsibility for a vase broken by Rebecca at a company party, and winds up pals with the big boss.

Annie Tortelli fills in for Carla at Cheers and Mr. Drake makes Rebecca turn green by personally hiring a pretty young woman to work at Cheers.

Rebecca thinks she's finally got a shot at Evan Drake when he invites her and Sam for a weekend aboard his yacht.

Frasier's bachelor party turns out depressing and bleak while Lilith's shower threatens to burst into flames.

Rebecca moons over Evan Drake's bedroom as Norm repaints it, but she's caught when the man returns unexpectedly.

Carla tries to conquer her fear of flying with Frasier's help and Rebecca waits tensely for a visit from a restaurant critic.

Rebecca is hurt and jealous when Sam's promoted to corporate headquarters until she finds out why he was moved up.

Rebecca decides to take Woody's suggestion of raffling off a Caribbean vacation to get the bar out of a slump.

Lilith and Rebecca throw a teenage slumber party to cheer up Carla after she learns she's soon going to be a grandmother.

The gang at Cheers declares war when rival bar, Gary's Old Town Tavern, steals the trophy celebrating their one and only sporting victory in a bowling tournament.

Sam and Woody wager over who can be the first to plant a three-second kiss on Rebecca.

A desperate Rebecca goes to extraordinary lengths for a moment alone with Evan Drake as he prepares to move to Japan.