Cheers
Give Me a Ring Sometime
Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired 1982-09-30
Synopsis
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 desk 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.
In the series
This episode is part of Cheers (1982–1993) on NBC.
Where everybody knows your name — ensemble perfection and will-they tension.
Key cast
- Ted Danson as Sam Malone
- Shelley Long as Diane Chambers
- Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli
- George Wendt as Norm Peterson
- John Ratzenberger as Cliff Clavin
- Nicholas Colasanto as Coach Ernie Pantusso