Episode guide
Cheers
273 episodes · 11 seasons · 1982–1993 · NBC
Season
Season 1
22 episodes
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S01E01 Give Me a Ring Sometime Stuffy & sophisticated Diane Chambers is dumped by her fiance in a blue collar Boston bar where she meets baseball star-turned-bar owner Sam Malone.
Pilot note — From the desk: Cheers opens its catalog run with “Give Me a Ring Sometime” (1982-09-30). Bar as workplace family; multi-cam peak craft. Shelley Long exit lore and the Sam/Diane industrial complex.
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S01E02 Sam's Women Diane's teasing about the airheaded women Sam dates sends him looking for a date of a higher cerebral plane. Also, an old customer insists he must see the former owner to discuss his personal problems.
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S01E03 The Tortelli Tort Carla's fiery temper almost costs Sam the bar when she attacks an obnoxious Yankees fan. Diane offers to help by suggesting Carla seek anger management.
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S01E04 Sam at Eleven Sam realizes how much he misses his former sports celebrity status when a local newscaster asks to interview him again.
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S01E05 Coach's Daughter Coach's daughter brings the obnoxious lout she plans to marry to meet her father.
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S01E06 Any Friend of Diane's Diane becomes upset when Sam hits on an old friend of hers who's on the rebound from an unhappy love affair.
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S01E07 Friends, Romans, Accountants 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."
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S01E08 Truce or Consequences Diane and Carla decide to bury the hatchet over after-work drinks, which lead to a startling confession from Carla about her youngest child.
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S01E09 Coach Returns to Action Coach and Sam become unlikely romantic rivals for Coach's new neighbor.
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S01E10 Endless Slumper Sam gets a phone call from an old baseball friend, Rick Walker, who has been having a lousy season. He wonders what he should do, and Sam tries to help but can't think of what to do. He suggests getting a lucky charm, and Coach says that Sam used to have one. It turns out Sam still does - a bottle cap, which he says he found. Sam lends Rick the cap and Rick's performance improves greatly - whilst Sam goes through a period of very bad luck. When Sam find out that Rick lost the bottle cap, he gets depressed, as Diane finds out that it was in fact the cap off the last bottle of beer Sam ever drank.
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S01E11 One for the Book Two unlikely customers enter the bar: One is an 80+ year old who is the only arrival for his WWI squad's reunion, and the other is an awkward virgin looking for a night of drinking and fun before he becomes a monk.
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S01E12 The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One An Englishman visits Cheers and tells tale tales of being a WWII spy.
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S01E13 Now Pitching, Sam Malone Sam lets the sexy appeal of an agent and the glamour of the public spotlight lure him into being a TV pitchman.
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S01E14 Let Me Count the Ways Diane looks to her friends for comfort when her cat dies, but finds everyone too enthralled by a Celtics game to notice.
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S01E15 Father Knows Last Carla reveals she's pregnant but fools another man into thinking he's the father.
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S01E16 The Boys in the Bar Cheers' regulars fear the place may become a gay hangout after an old friend and teammate of Sam's reveals his homosexuality in a tell-all book.
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S01E17 Diane's Perfect Date Sam and Diane dare each other to find the other's perfect date, but Sam's last minute choice doesn't quite measure up.
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S01E18 No Contest Sam enters Diane in the annual Miss Boston Barmaid contest.
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S01E19 Pick a Con ... Any Con Sam enlists Harry the conman to help fleece a card shark who cheated Coach out of a lot of money.
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S01E20 Someone Single, Someone Blue 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.
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S01E21 Showdown Sam becomes jealous when his impressive older brother Derek drops by the bar and charms everyone including a smitten Diane.
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S01E22 Showdown 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..
Season
Season 2
22 episodes
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S02E01 Power Play 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.
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S02E02 Little Sister Don't Cha Carla goes on a maternity leave and is replaced by her supposedly shy and innocent sister.
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S02E03 Personal Business Diane, angry at the implication that she couldn't hold a job anywhere but Cheers, leaves for better position and Norm leaves Vera.
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S02E04 Homicidal Ham Andy, the ex-con Sam arranged as a blind date for Diane, returns to Cheers to show off his acting ability.
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S02E05 Sumner's Return 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.
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S02E06 Affairs of the Heart Carla rejects a man interested in her romantically, convinced that he must have some "fatal flaw" to find her attractive.
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S02E07 Old Flames 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.
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S02E08 Manager Coach Coach becomes a slave driver when he's put in charge of Little League team.
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S02E09 They Called Me Mayday 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.
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S02E10 How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Call You Back Sam casually tells Diane he loves her and sends her deep into an introspective analysis of their relationship.
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S02E11 Just Three Friends Diane's good friend moves to town and makes a move on Sam.
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S02E12 Where There's a Will... Sam lets a dying man tend bar just for fun, but the man leaves the bar patrons $100,000 in a paper napkin will.
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S02E13 Battle of the Exes 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.
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S02E14 No Help Wanted Sam regrets asking Norm to do his taxes when the out of work accountant comes up with a five figure refund.
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S02E15 And Coachie Makes Three Sam and Diane want to spend some time alone together, but the lonely Coach keeps joining them, not realizing 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 peace.
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S02E16 Cliff's Rocky Moment Thug Vic Shapone can't stand Cliff's constant chatter and avowed expertise on every subject. After a verbal confrontation, the pair decides to step outside to settle their differences, but Cliff surprises his pals when he ducks out the back.
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S02E17 Fortune and Men's Weight Coach is conned into buying an old scale which also prints out fortunes, and the Cheers gang find their fortunes coming true. Meanwhile, Norm and Vera make progress in their relationship.
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S02E18 Snow Job Sam lies to Diane about the weekend he has planned chasing snow bunnies in Vermont.
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S02E19 Coach Buries a Grudge 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.
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S02E20 Norman's Conquest The regulars push Norm into pursuing an attractive new client who seems to be interested in him.
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S02E21 I'll Be Seeing You Diane is offended when Sam agrees to be featured in a magazine as an eligible bachelor. Meanwhile, Semenko, a pretentious artist, wants to make Diane the subject of his next work of art.
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S02E22 I'll Be Seeing You 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.
Season
Season 3
25 episodes
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S03E01 Rebound Coach asks Diane to return to Cheers from her self-imposed "vacation" to help Sam, who has fallen off the wagon.
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S03E02 Rebound After several sessions with Dr. Fraiser Crane, Sam is getting his life back in order, so Diane feels it's time to tell him the truth about her relationship with the psychiatrist.
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S03E03 I Call Your Name Frasier asks Sam for some advice about his more intimate relationship with Diane and Cliff hides out from a vengeful fellow postal employee.
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S03E04 Fairy Tales Can Come True 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.
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S03E05 Sam Turns the Other Cheek 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.
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S03E06 Coach in Love (1) Coach falls in love with a woman who agrees to marry him while Sam strikes out with her daughter.
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S03E07 Coach in Love (2) The gang is furious when Irene dumps Coach after she wins the lottery. But when Coach refuses to believe that Irene is really gone, everyone worries that he's living in a state of denial.
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S03E08 Diane Meets Mom Diane meets Frasier's mother, who quietly threatens to kill Diane if she doesn't leave Frasier alone.
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S03E09 An American Family Carla's ex-husband returns with his new bride, demanding custody of their oldest son. The normally feisty Carla shocks everyone at the bar when she agrees to the request.
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S03E10 Diane's Allergy After moving in with Fraiser, Diane develops a chronic allergy and believes his beloved dog, Pavlov, causes it.
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S03E11 Peterson Crusoe Norm becomes aware of his own mortality and decides to throw it all in and take off for Bora Bora.
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S03E12 A Ditch in Time 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.
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S03E13 Whodunit? Frasier is devastated when he learns that his learned mentor has been dating Carla, who also has a little surprise of her own.
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S03E14 The Heart is a Lonely Snipe Hunter The guys take Frasier on a snipe hunt in the woods after Diane asks them to include the psychologist in their masculine pursuits.
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S03E15 King of the Hill 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.
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S03E16 Teacher's Pet Sam and the Coach are taking the same night school course in geography, but while Coach studies, Sam dates the teacher.
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S03E17 The Mail Goes to Jail Norm gets arrested when he finishes the route for an ill Cliff, but Cliff refuses to back up Norm's explanation to the authorities.
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S03E18 Bar Bet Sam stands to lose the bar to an old friend because of a bet that he would marry Jacqueline Bissett before a certain date.
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S03E19 Behind Every Great Man 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.
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S03E20 If Ever I Would Leave You After his second wife Loretta kicks him out, Carla's ex-husband Nick Tortelli comes to Cheers asking Carla to take him back.
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S03E21 The Executive's Executioner Norm is promoted to company hatchet man because of his unique style for letting people go.
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S03E22 Cheerio, Cheers Diane announces that she's leaving Cheers to accompany Frasier to Italy and Sam throws her a going-away party.
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S03E23 The Bartender's Tale 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.
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S03E24 The Belles of St. Clete's 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.
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S03E25 Rescue Me 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.
Season
Season 4
26 episodes
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S04E01 Birth, Death, Love and Rice 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.
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S04E02 Woody Goes Belly Up The gang brings Woody's old girlfriend 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.
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S04E03 Someday My Prince Will Come Diane fantasizes over an expensive coat left behind by a patron and agrees to go out with whoever claims it.
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S04E04 The Groom Wore Clearasil Carla asks Sam to tell her teenage son about the joys of bachelorhood and to discourage his urge to get married.
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S04E05 Diane's Nightmare Diane spends a dark and stormy night worrying that Andy Schroeder has escaped and is out to kill her.
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S04E06 I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday Sam has a weak moment and lends Diane $500 to buy a book reputedly signed by Ernest Hemingway.
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S04E07 2 Good 2 Be 4 Real Sam and the gang make up an answer to Carla's ad in the personal column to lift her spirits.
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S04E08 Love Thy Neighbor Norm fears Vera may be having an affair with his neighbor and Sam wastes his time as a radio sports commentator apologizing to Diane.
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S04E09 From Beer to Eternity The gang at Cheers calls in a ringer to help the pub win a bowling match against a rival bar.
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S04E10 The Barstoolie Cliff refuses to identify himself to his estranged father when the man comes to Cheers with an important message for his son.
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S04E11 Don Juan is Hell Sam is happy to be the subject of Diane's psychology term paper until he learns just exactly what the Don Juan syndrome is.
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S04E12 Fools and Their Money 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.
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S04E13 Take My Shirt... Please? Sam's ego is crushed when no one bids on his old baseball jersey during a public television auction.
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S04E14 Suspicion 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.
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S04E15 The Triangle Diane and Sam try to rebuild Frasier's shattered ego when he starts drinking too much.
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S04E16 Cliffie's Big Score Cliff has two dates for the postman's ball - with Carla and Diane.
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S04E17 Second Time Around 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 Candi. But Sam and Diane get a surprise when Frasier proposes to Candi after just one date.
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S04E18 The Peterson Principle Norm gets some dirt on his main competitor for a promotion but hesitates to use it.
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S04E19 Dark Imaginings Sam's date with a younger woman turns into a Raquetball contest against Woody. When Sam gets hurt he sneaks out of the bar and into the hospital. Where Diane finds him and convinces Sam that getting older is not a bad thing.
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S04E20 Save the Last Dance for Me Carla asks Sam to partner her in a dance contest where their main competition is Nick and Loretta.
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S04E21 Fear is My Co-Pilot A flying daredevil that Diane barnstormed with across Europe takes her and Sam for a ride and dies at 20,000 feet up.
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S04E22 Diane Chambers Day Diane feels depressed and left out of the gang's activities so Frasier organizes a day just for her-at the opera.
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S04E23 Relief Bartender Woody feels replaceable when an entertaining bartender overshadows him.
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S04E24 Strange Bedfellows (1) Local councilwoman Janet Eldridge comes to Cheers as part of her re-election campaign, and Sam finds himself 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.
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S04E25 Strange Bedfellows (2) Sam and Janet's relationship is getting stronger and stronger whilst Diane gets more jealous. Janet suggests that Sam fire Diane 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.
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S04E26 Strange Bedfellows (3) Janet has won the election and is hosting her press conference at Cheers. Diane turns up to apologise 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 realize their relationship won't work, so they 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.
Season
Season 5
26 episodes
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S05E01 The Proposal 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.
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S05E02 The Cape Cad Diane follows Sam to Cape Cod in an effort to ruin his weekend with another woman.
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S05E03 Money Dearest Cliff's ecstatic when his mother decides to marry a wealthy man until the groom decides to give it all away to charity.
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S05E04 Abnormal Psychology Diane tries to help Lilith, the lady psychologist attracted to Frasier, to soften her appearance and surprise Frasier during their television debate.
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S05E05 House of Horrors with Formal Dining and Used Brick Cliff finds a reasonably priced older home for Carla to buy that turns out to be haunted.
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S05E06 Tan N' Wash The gang insists on getting in on Norm's new business investment then complains bitterly when it looks like a washout.
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S05E07 Young Dr. Weinstein Stung by Diane's attitude, Sam tries to impress her by getting reservations at the most exclusive restaurant in Boston.
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S05E08 Knights of the Scimitar Cliff prods a reluctant Norm to join his lodge and Sam thinks Diane has invented a suitor to make him jealous.
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S05E09 Thanksgiving Orphans The gang gathers at Carla's house for a Thanksgiving dinner of frozen turkey and overdone peas.
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S05E10 Everyone Imitates Art 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.
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S05E11 The Book of Samuel 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.
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S05E12 Dance, Diane, Dance 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.
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S05E13 Chambers vs Malone Sam proposes to Diane again and ends up charged with assault and battery when she turns him down again.
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S05E14 Diamond Sam Sam regrets trying to buy Diane an engagement ring that is a cheap imitation.
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S05E15 Spellbound Nick vows to take Diane away from Sam when Sam defends Loretta's efforts to ditch Nick and start her own singing career.
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S05E16 Never Love a Goalie (1) Carla falls for Eddie, a hockey goalie; meanwhile, Diane is foreman of a jury in an attempted murder trial.
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S05E17 Never Love a Goalie (2) Eddie's career was red-hot until he started dating Carla. The defendant in Diane's murder case comes to the bar.
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S05E18 One Last Fling Diane gives Sam 24 hours for a final fling before their wedding.
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S05E19 Dog Bites Cliff Cliff is thinking lawsuit after a dog bites him while delivering the mail, until he meets the dog's beautiful and cooperative owner.
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S05E20 Dinner at Eight-ish 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.
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S05E21 Simon Says Diane badgers a noted British marriage counselor into seeing her and Sam for a pre-nuptial session, then refuses to heed his advice.
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S05E22 The Godfather, Part III 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!
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S05E23 Norm's First Hurrah 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.
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S05E24 Cheers: the Motion Picture 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.
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S05E25 A House is Not a Home 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.
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S05E26 I Do, Adieu 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.
Season
Season 6
25 episodes
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S06E01 Home is the Sailor 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.
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S06E02 'I' on Sports Sam tries to dodge his bar duties so he can fill in for a friend as a sports broadcaster.
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S06E03 Little Carla, Happy at Last (1) 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.
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S06E04 Little Carla, Happy at Last (2) Much to Carla's dismay, Eddie has called off the wedding thanks to his mother's disapproval of the bride. Now it's up to Sam to reunite the two superstitious lovebirds.
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S06E05 The Crane Mutiny The gang tries to convince Frasier that Rebecca desires him after he quarrels with Lilith and Rebecca replaces Sam's picture with one of herself.
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S06E06 Paint Your Office Norm gets to know Rebecca better when he paints her office as a way of paying off his bar tab.
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S06E07 The Last Angry Mailman 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 nickname- "Backseat Becky".
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S06E08 Bidding on the Boys Sam and Woody are up for bids at a charity auction but less than thrilled at their new "owners."
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S06E09 Pudd'n Head Boyd Woody meets an elderly woman while wearing his makeup for the role of Mark Twain, and begins dating her.
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S06E10 A Kiss is Still a Kiss Rebecca asks an eager Sam to escort her to a company function to correct a false impression held by her boss.
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S06E11 My Fair Clavin Cliff helps his girl friend improve her appearance then regrets it when all sorts start to hit on her, including Sam.
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S06E12 Christmas Cheers 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.
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S06E13 Woody For Hire, Meets Norman of the Apes 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.
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S06E14 And God Created Woodman Woody takes responsibility for a vase broken by Rebecca at a company party, and winds up pals with the big boss.
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S06E15 Tale of Two Cuties 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.
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S06E16 Yacht of Fools Rebecca thinks she's finally got a shot at Evan Drake when he invites her and Sam for a weekend aboard his yacht.
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S06E17 To All the Girls I've Loved Before Frasier's bachelor party turns out depressing and bleak while Lilith's shower threatens to burst into flames.
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S06E18 Let Sleeping Drakes Lie Rebecca moons over Evan Drake's bedroom as Norm repaints it, but she's caught when the man returns unexpectedly.
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S06E19 Airport V Carla tries to conquer her fear of flying with Frasier's help and Rebecca waits tensely for a visit from a restaurant critic.
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S06E20 The Sam in the Gray Flannel Suit Rebecca is hurt and jealous when Sam's promoted to corporate headquarters until she finds out why he was moved up.
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S06E21 Our Hourly Bread Rebecca decides to take Woody's suggestion of raffling off a Caribbean vacation to get the bar out of a slump.
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S06E22 Slumber Party Massacred Lilith and Rebecca throw a teenage slumber party to cheer up Carla after she learns she's soon going to be a grandmother.
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S06E23 Bar Wars 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.
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S06E24 The Big Kiss-Off Sam and Woody wager over who can be the first to plant a three-second kiss on Rebecca.
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S06E25 Backseat Becky, Up Front A desperate Rebecca goes to extraordinary lengths for a moment alone with Evan Drake as he prepares to move to Japan.
Season
Season 7
22 episodes
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S07E01 How to Recede in Business Rebecca's life suffers a further disruption when Evan Drake's replacement makes Sam the new manager of Cheers.
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S07E02 Swear to God Sam makes a rash promise to God that he'll remain celibate if only someone else is the father of an old girl friend's baby.
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S07E03 Executive Sweet (1) Rebecca puts Sam off by telling him that from now on she'll only date men who can advance her career, and then she meets her younger-than-springtime new boss.
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S07E04 One Happy Chappy in a Snappy Serape (2) Sam goes to Mexico to open a new bar for the company, robbing Rebecca of her "fiance" and her only defense against the marriage proposal of her baby boss.
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S07E05 Those Lips, Those Ice Carla throws a jealous fit when she suspects that Eddie is fooling around with someone from the ice show.
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S07E06 Norm, Is That You? Norm tries to hide the fact that he's become an interior decorator.
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S07E07 How to Win Friends and Electrocute People Cliff drastically alters his personality after no one from the bar comes to visit him during his hospital stay with appendicitis. Sam gives Lilith driving lessons.
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S07E08 Jumping Jerks The gang decides to take up sky diving as a diversion.
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S07E09 Send in the Crane Sam finds himself attracted to both an old girlfriend and her grown daughter while Woody volunteers to be the clown at the boss' kid's birthday party Rebecca is planning.
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S07E10 Bar Wars II: The Woodman Strikes Back Cheers' gets another chance of losing a contest to their cross-town rivals at Gary's Old Towne Tavern; this time the contest is for "Boston's Best Bloody Mary."
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S07E11 Adventures in Housesitting Rebecca offers to housesit for one of the company executives and calls on Sam and Woody for help when the man's beloved dog runs away.
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S07E12 Please Mr. Postman Cliff's loyalties are tested when his new ladylove, a fellow postal employee, commits a rule infraction on his behalf.
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S07E13 Golden Boyd Woody decides to steal Kelly, a rich snob's girl, away when the man humiliates him.
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S07E14 I Kid You Not Lilith and Frasier practice their parenting skills on Carla's precocious six-year-old son.
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S07E15 Don't Paint Your Chickens Rebecca tries to impress corporate headquarters by using her marketing skills to promote Norm's one man painting business and Sam tries to keep up with a sweet young thing wild about all kinds of sports.
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S07E16 The Cranemakers Lilith persuades Frasier to give up everything urban and move with her to a cabin in the wilds.
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S07E17 Hot Rocks Sam introduces everyone to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an old fan, but Rebecca later believes the old man stole her diamond earrings.
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S07E18 What's Up, Doc? Sam actually fakes a case of impotence to get close to a therapist Lilith and Frasier introduced to him.
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S07E19 The Gift of the Woodi Woody's rich girl friend doesn't fully appreciate his inexpensive but heartfelt birthday gift and Rebecca transforms herself to further her career prospects.
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S07E20 Call Me Irresponsible Woody gets gambling fever and tension mounts as Carla waits for Eddie to surprise her on their second anniversary.
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S07E21 Sisterly Love Sam tries to reconcile Rebecca and her sister.
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S07E22 The Visiting Lecher Rebecca accuses a respected authority on marital fidelity of making a pass at her.
Season
Season 8
26 episodes
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S08E01 The Improbable Dream (1) Just as Rebecca fears for her sanity because of the erotic dreams she's been having about Sam, multi-millionaire Robin Colcord sweeps her off her feet.
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S08E02 The Improbable Dream (2) Rebecca quickly forgets about Sam after she agrees to go to California with Robin Colcord.
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S08E03 A Bar is Born Rebecca prepares herself to spend her first night with Robin Colcord while Sam takes the first step towards owning the bar again.
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S08E04 How to Marry a Mailman The young woman Cliff turned in for stealing a Post Office vehicle returns from Canada with an offer that literally blinds Cliff.
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S08E05 The Two Faces of Norm Norm invents a strict curmudgeon of a partner to boss around his easygoing paint crew while Sam goes crazy with concern after selling his precious 'Vette.
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S08E06 The Stork Brings a Crane Lilith spoils Rebecca's elaborately planned celebration of Cheers' 100th anniversary by going into labor.
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S08E07 Death Takes a Holiday on Ice Carla learns that Eddie led a secret life when a second widow shows up at his funeral.
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S08E08 For Real Men Only Frasier and the guys cringe over plans to attend his son's circumcision while Rebecca struggles to throw an interesting retirement party for a very dull corporate employee.
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S08E09 Two Girls for Every Boyd Woody has trouble with the love scenes for his first starring role and the guys have a beard-growing competition.
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S08E10 The Art of the Steal Rebecca and Sam are trapped overnight in Robin Colcord's deluxe security apartment while the gang passes the time playing Monopoly.
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S08E11 Feeble Attraction Norm fires his secretary, who sees it as proof that he's wildly attracted to her and Rebecca becomes obsessed with a surprise hidden in the desk Robin, gave her.
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S08E12 Sam Ahoy Robin lends Sam and the gang his yacht race in a regatta, but the motley crew discovers a bomb in the refrigerator, right next to the beer.
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S08E13 Sammy and the Professor Carla faces an audit while Rebecca's idol, her business school professor, makes an investment in Sam.
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S08E14 What is... Cliff Clavin? Jeopardy makes an appearance in Boston, and Cliff gets on the show. The Jeopardy! round had all 6 categories Cliff specializes in, such as celebrities or the US Postal Service. But when Final Jeopardy approaches, he loses all his money putting a stupid response "Who are three people that have never visited my kitchen?" and becomes depressed afterwards. Meanwhile someone has stolen Sam's little black book and started ringing all the girls in it.
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S08E15 Finally! (1) Tonight might be the night that Rebecca and Robin finally get together, despite Sam's presence.
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S08E16 Finally! (2) The aftermath of their get together isn't all she hoped it would be, when Rebecca finds Robin with another woman.
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S08E17 Woody or Won't He A mechanical bull gets the better of Cliff while Woody tries to deal with the romantic advances of his girl friend's mother.
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S08E18 Severe Crane Damage Lilith goes on a talk show to promote her new book about men who are bad for women and takes along her prime example-Sam.
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S08E19 Indoor Fun with Sammy and Robby Rebecca dreams of a perfectly romantic day with Robin. Robin on the other hand has dared Sam to a series of adolescent challenges.
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S08E20 50-50 Carla Carla and Eddie's other widow Gloria become best buddies but the friendship is threatened when Carla learns the two-timer left $50,000 in insurance and Woody worries about a nude scene when he's cast in a revival of Hair.
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S08E21 Bar Wars III: The Return of Tecumseh Despite the truce negotiated by Rebecca, the gang decides to warm up the cold war against Gary's Olde Towne Tavern when they notice the statue of Tecumseh the Indian is missing.
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S08E22 Loverboyd Woody moons over the fact that Kelly is going to Europe to attend school and Norm suffers through being the designated driver for the evening.
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S08E23 The Ghost and Mrs. Lebec Carla feels compelled to call in an exorcist when Eddie's ghost appears in the bar and Rebecca complains to a TV station about a defective hair removal system.
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S08E24 Mr. Otis Regrets Sam makes Rebecca jealous in many strange ways by telling her that he scored with Robin's other girl friend, and Woody is flabbergasted when a girl answers his ad for a roommate.
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S08E25 Cry Hard (1) Rebecca impresses Sam and the boys when she shows them Robin's fancy apartment while he's out of town. But Sam isn't impressed when he discovers that Robin's been stealing information from the company Rebecca works for.
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S08E26 Cry Harder (2) Rebecca and Sam both have mixed emotions as they face the fact that Robin Colcord, after proposing to Rebecca, is arrested for insider trading based on information supplied by the once and future owner of Cheers.
Season
Season 9
25 episodes
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S09E01 Love is a Really, Really, Perfectly Okay Thing In the afterglow of their intimate encounter, Rebecca becomes determined to deny that it ever happened, to the gang at the bar, to Robin and to herself.
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S09E02 Cheers Fouls Out Sam tries to beat Gary at his own game in a grudge basketball game by recruiting Boston Celtics' star Kevin McHale as a substitute bartender at Cheers.
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S09E03 Rebecca Redux Sam hires a new bar manager that everyone seems to like, then learns how low Rebecca has sunk in her pursuit of new employment.
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S09E04 Where Nobody Knows Your Name Rebecca is secretly very upset when one of Robin's previous lovers goes public claiming to be his current affair.
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S09E05 Ma Always Liked You Best Cliff gets very hurt and upset when his mother decides that Woody is the son she never had, and Norm gets caught in a window.
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S09E06 Grease Norm nearly has a cow when he hears that the Hungry Heifer is closing down, and mounts an all-out campaign to keep it going
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S09E07 Breaking In is Hard to Do Lilith and Frasier try to cope with the fact that their son needs more care from them while Rebecca and Carla try to figure out how Rebecca can pay Robin a conjugal visit in jail.
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S09E08 Bad Neighbor Sam Sam initiates a feud with the new owner of Melville's, the restaurant upstairs when snobbish restaurateur John Hill buys the building.
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S09E09 Veggie-Boyd Woody gets a big break when he's cast in a commercial for a new vegetable drink but Cliff just feels broken when the new trivia napkins upstage him.
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S09E10 Norm and Cliff's Excellent Adventure Woody gets hooked on a home television-shopping channel while Norm and Cliff start a fight between Sam and Frasier.
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S09E11 Woody Interruptus Kelly returns from Europe with a new French boyfriend and Cliff decides to have his head cryogenically frozen before he dies.
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S09E12 Honor Thy Mother Carla's formidable mother demands on her deathbed that Carla name one of her children "Benito Mussolini."
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S09E13 Achilles Hill Sam decides to settle his feud with John Hill by dating the man's daughter and Carla fears that the foosball table is possessed.
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S09E14 The Days of Wine and Neuroses (1) Rebecca parties hearty to hide her second thoughts after Robin finally pops the question and Frasier develops a passion for the new sing-along machine.
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S09E15 Wedding Bell Blues (2) Rebecca awakens on her wedding morning raring to go, and seems determined to ignore Sam's attempts to remind her of her doubts, and Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield upstages Frasier.
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S09E16 I'm Getting My Act Together and Sticking it in Your Face Rebecca has trouble accepting the fact that she cancelled her wedding with Robin and Frasier translates Dickens' classic prose into Boston vernacular.
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S09E17 Sam Time Next Year On Valentine's Day, Sam winds up laid out due to back trouble on the 20th anniversary of his annual tryst with Lauren.
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S09E18 Crash of the Titans Rebecca decides on a new goal in life and begins by flattering John Hill in an effort to get his lease for the bar.
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S09E19 It's a Wonderful Wife Norm develops a rich paranoia and decides to look for another bar when wife Vera gets a job upstairs at Melville's, and Lilith helps the gang celebrate Frasier's birthday.
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S09E20 Cheers Has Chili Rebecca wants to serve Woody's chili in the poolroom despite Sam's heartfelt objections.
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S09E21 Carla Loves Clavin Carla faces the hardest task of her life when she tries to be nice to Cliff after learning he's one of the judges for the Miss Boston Barmaid competition.
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S09E22 Pitch It Again, Sam Sam's old baseball rival shows up to goad Sam into a final round on the mound, but Sam isn't too sure he wants to go.
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S09E23 Rat Girl Rebecca is on a healthy eating kick and is trying to convince others in the bar to join her. Meanwhile, Lilith is in mourning as her favorite lab rat, Whitey, has died. Sam is also in mourning, but is mourning the loss of a beautiful woman, who he never really had since she is rebuking him. But Sam finds out what he believes to be the incredulous reason for her rebuke.
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S09E24 Home Malone Despite Lilith's hesitance, Frasier asks Sam to babysit Frederick. At the bar, Kelly is working temporarily as a waitress as she needs a work experience to write a school paper.
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S09E25 Uncle Sam Wants You Rebecca is at another crossroads in her life. She knows that she doesn't want to do the bar shtick for the rest of her life, but is now unsure what she wants to do. Regardless, she goes on one job interview after another, each time dooming herself to failure. Meanwhile, Sam has been spending a lot of time lately with the Cranes. More specifically, he has been spending a lot of time with Frederick.
Season
Season 10
26 episodes
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S10E01 Baby Balk Sam and Rebecca have definitely decided that they are going to have a baby together. But things don't go smoothly and each seeks advice from one of the Cranes.
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S10E02 Get Your Kicks on Route 666 Frasier takes the guys on a trip to rediscover the "inner man" while the gals discover Carla's cousin Frankie when he fills in at the bar.
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S10E03 Madame LaCarla Carla is reluctant to accept the crystal ball passed to her by the retiring psychic, Madame Lazora.
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S10E04 The Norm Who Came in from the Cold Norm becomes a permanent house guest when he injures his back while painting at the Cranes'.
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S10E05 Ma's Little Maggie Cliff's girlfriend and mother take an instant liking to each other while Rebecca tries to entice Sam into some frozen fertility underwear.
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S10E06 Unplanned Parenthood Sam and Rebecca begin to doubt their resolve to be parents after caring Carla's wild bunch and Cliff lobbies for the job of directing Woody's video project for the folks back home.
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S10E07 Bar Wars V: the Final Judgement Sam may have played his last prank when it appears that his Halloween trick may have killed his old nemesis Gary.
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S10E08 Where Have All the Floorboards Gone? The gang feels responsible when the Celtics' Kevin McHale goes into a slump after becoming obsessed with the number of bolts in the floor of Boston Garden.
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S10E09 Head Over Hill Sam gets upset when Carla gets sidetracked from revenge to romance with perennial nemesis John Hill.
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S10E10 A Fine French Whine Woody wants to propose to Kelly, but Henrí and his expiring visa take precedence.
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S10E11 I'm Okay, You're Defective Frasier has to face making out a will while Sam braces himself for bad news from Rebecca's fertility doctor.
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S10E12 Go Make Sam and Rebecca let their imaginations run free during a weekend of baby-making and dream up different versions of their future progeny.
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S10E13 Don't Shoot... I'm Only the Psychiatrist Cliff and Norm help Frasier's low-esteem self-help group really help themselves and Woody trims Sam's hair.
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S10E14 No Rest for the Woody Woody's extracurricular work as a gravedigger may pay for Kelly's engagement ring, but it also jeopardizes his first meeting with her grandmother.
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S10E15 My Son, the Father Sam finds a way to get even with John Hill. One of Carla's sons decides to become a priest.
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S10E16 One Hugs, the Other Doesn't A Boston performance by children's singer Nanny Gee for Frederick's birthday sheds light on Frasier's past as Lilith and the barflies discover Nanny is Frasier's first wife! Frasier had forgotten to mention this fact to Lilith and when Nanny arrives at Cheers she and Lilith soon get into a catfight!
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S10E17 A Diminished Rebecca with a Suspended Cliff Woody's cousin develops a crush on Rebecca and Cliff is very unhappy with the new postal uniforms.
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S10E18 License to Hill Rebecca insists she can handle the bar while the rest of the gang plays poker, then learns that she's allowed their liquor license to lapse.
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S10E19 Rich Man, Wood Man The gang tries to bring Woody back to earth after a vacation in London with Kelly and her money.
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S10E20 Smotherly Love Frasier wants Lilith to confront her overbearing mother and Rebecca wants Sam to make Norm pay his bar tab.
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S10E21 Take Me Out of the Ball Game Sam ponders a baseball comeback, but when he goes to play a few games he discovers most of the players are much younger and immature than he is. They're acting just like he used to, and Sam doesn't think he enjoys acting like that anymore. Meanwhile, back in Boston, Frasier loses Lilith's favourite lab rat and tries to get an identical one before she returns.
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S10E22 Rebecca's Lover... Not Rebecca looks forward to seeing her high school sweetheart, unaware of the changes in his life, and Sam starts a support group for owners of stolen Corvettes.
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S10E23 Bar Wars VI: This Time It's for Real The new owner of Gary's Olde Towne Tavern lack a sense of humor and respond badly to Cheers' latest prank.
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S10E24 Heeeeeere's... Cliffy! Norm tells Cliff a little white lie about Carson using Cliff's material on The Tonight Show, then regrets it when Cliff comes up with three tickets to Burbank. Meanwhile Sam and Woody install a satellite dish at Cheers.
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S10E25 An Old-Fashioned Wedding (1) Woody and Kelly's wedding faces some funny obstacles, before and during the ceremony, including Sam's flirtation with a German guest who turns out to be married, the priest dying and Kelly's Uncle Roger having to perform the ceremony - but only if he is drunk, Rebecca having to ice the cake after insulting the kitchen staff, and Lilith having to sing to the guests in order to stop them, and Woody and Kelly, from finding out the disasters going on behind the scenes.
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S10E26 An Old-Fashioned Wedding (2) The wedding pandemonium continues in the second half of the episode. Woody and Kelly are aware of the blunders occurring behind their back. They try hard to have a normal wedding despite the apparent obstacles by putting up a brave front through their wedding ceremony as the day draws nearer. The entire Cheers gang also comes forward to overcome the mayhem that besieges and mars the festivities.
Season
Season 11
28 episodes
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S11E01 The Little Match Girl Rebecca's smoking gets her into big trouble when she accidentally starts a fire in the bar and blames it on faulty wiring.
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S11E02 The Beer is Always Greener Carla is forced to clean up her act and behave nicely when she's has to find another job while Cheers is being rebuilt. Woody's faith in Kelly is shaken when he learns they have religious differences.
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S11E03 The King of Beers Norm's new job seems like a dream come true when he becomes a beer taster at a brewery. Rebecca finds she can't tear herself away from the bar's new slot machine.
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S11E04 The Magnificent Six Henrí challenges Sam to a contest to see who's the bigger ladies' man. Rebecca resorts to desperate measures in her quest to quit smoking.
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S11E05 Do Not Forsake Me O' My Postman Maggie returns to Cheers and Cliffie, this time claiming she's carrying his baby. Rebecca hires a hack songwriter to create a jingle for the bar.
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S11E06 Teaching with the Enemy (1) Rebecca spots Lilith with another man, and doesn't know whether to tell Frasier. Meanwhile, Sam hires a bouncer named Tiny, but can't bring himself to fire Tiny when nobody wants to go near him.
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S11E07 The Girl in the Plastic Bubble (2) A distraught Frasier ends up on a ledge after Lilith informs him that she wants to spend a year away from him, sealed in a biosphere with her lover.
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S11E08 Ill-Gotten Gaines Kelly's father is convinced that Woody has blackmail on his mind when Woody sees Mr. Gaines in a romantic act with his brother's wife. Rebecca plans to hold a Thanksgiving dinner at the bar.
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S11E09 Feelings... Whoa, Whoa, Whoa Carla tries to hide her feelings when John Hill has a heart attack. Cliff believes that Hitler has moved into his building.
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S11E10 Daddy's Little Middle-Aged Girl Rebecca's father attempts to make her return with him to San Diego while Woody tries to exert his will over Kelly, to make her move her things to his apartment.
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S11E11 Love Me, Love My Car Sam gets cold feet about reaquiring his beloved car, and goes so far as to romance the buyer's widow to get it back. Rebecca befriends a pig destined to be Woody's Christmas dinner.
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S11E12 Sunday Dinner Frasier decides to start dating again now that Lilith has left him, so he makes a date with his young secretary, Shauna. Meanwhile, Cheers is hosting a family reunion, and Cliff and Norm are hired to videotape it.
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S11E13 Norm's Big Audit Norm can avoid an audit, if he'll just sleep with his investigating IRS agent. Sam is very reluctant to let the gang watch a videotape of one of his old games.
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S11E14 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Bar Robin turns up with bad news and good news. The bad news is he's broke, flat, busted. The good news is he's remembered that a money belt stuffed with cash is hidden in the bar somewhere.
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S11E15 Loathe and Marriage Carla's daughter insists on having her father walk her down the aisle, despite Carla's objections.
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S11E16 Is There a Doctor in the Howe? (1) The gang finds out that Frasier has officially divorced from Lilith so they try to cheer him up with a party. The party leads to a little drinking which leads to an unexpected shared moment between Frasier and Rebecca.
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S11E17 The Bar Manager, The Shrink, His Wife and Her Lover (2) Lilith returns to Frasier only to find him with Rebecca. Matters are complicated when Lilith's disgruntled former lover comes looking for her.
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S11E18 The Last Picture Show Sam puts the bar's former owner in charge while he and the guys go to a drive-in theater before it closes down.
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S11E19 Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey Sam enlists Harry the Hat to help win the latest war of practical jokes between Cheers and Gary's Old Towne Tavern.
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S11E20 Look Before You Sleep Sam locks himself out of the bar with his house keys inside so he begins a search for a place to sleep for the night which proves more difficult than expected.
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S11E21 Woody Gets an Election Frasier decides to conduct an experiment in voter psychology by getting Woody on the ballot for city council and is shocked by the results.
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S11E22 It's Lonely on the Top A night of drinking leads to some surprises and revelations when Carla tells Sam that she drunkenly slept with one of the regulars that night - but can't remember who! Could it be Norm, or Cliff, or Frasier, or what about the most unlikely person in the bar she could have slept with - Paul.....?
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S11E23 Rebecca Gaines, Rebecca Loses (1) After Woody, Kelly and her father Lloyd arrive at Cheers talking about classical music (they'd been to a symphony), Rebecca joins in the conversation and impresses Lloyd. He invites her to a society function. Rebecca thinks it is a date and is thrilled to bits - but is in for a shock when she arrives. Meanwhile Esther Clavin has been put in a retirement home by Cliff, but whilst Cliff feels guilty, the others think he has murdered his mother.
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S11E24 Rebecca Gaines, Rebecca Loses (2) After Woody, Kelly and her father Lloyd arrive at Cheers talking about classical music (they'd been to a symphony), Rebecca joins in the conversation and impresses Lloyd. He invites her to a society function. Rebecca thinks it is a date and is thrilled to bits - but is in for a shock when she arrives. Meanwhile Esther Clavin has been put in a retirement home by Cliff, but whilst Cliff feels guilty, the others think he has murdered his mother.
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S11E25 The Guy Can't Help It Rebecca finds herself really attracted to a handsome plumber. Sam joins a help group for sexual compulsives.
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S11E26 One for the Road (1) The gang finally finds out what has happened to Diane Chambers when they see her winning an award on television. Sam calls Diane to congratulate her and ends up inviting her back to Boston where they reunite one last time. Meanwhile, Don the plumber pops the question to Rebecca and gets an unexpected answer.
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S11E27 One for the Road (2) Reconciliation comes from Sam and Diane after an unexpected turn of events.
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S11E28 One for the Road (3) Sam and Diane are plagued with doubts about getting back together.
Finale note — From the desk: The guide closes on “One for the Road (3)” (1993-05-20) — a series bookend worth the package context. Shelley Long exit lore and the Sam/Diane industrial complex.