1. Power Play
Air date: 1983-09-29 · 30 min
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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Air date: 1983-09-29 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 1 ↗Air date: 1983-10-13 · 30 min
Carla goes on a maternity leave and is replaced by her supposedly shy and innocent sister.
Open episode 2 ↗Air date: 1983-10-20 · 30 min
Diane, angry at the implication that she couldn't hold a job anywhere but Cheers, leaves for better position and Norm leaves Vera.
Open episode 3 ↗Air date: 1983-10-27 · 30 min
Andy, the ex-con Sam arranged as a blind date for Diane, returns to Cheers to show off his acting ability.
Open episode 4 ↗Air date: 1983-11-03 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 5 ↗Air date: 1983-11-10 · 30 min
Carla rejects a man interested in her romantically, convinced that he must have some "fatal flaw" to find her attractive.
Open episode 6 ↗Air date: 1983-11-17 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 7 ↗Air date: 1983-11-24 · 30 min
Coach becomes a slave driver when he's put in charge of Little League team.
Open episode 8 ↗Air date: 1983-12-01 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 9 ↗Air date: 1983-12-08 · 30 min
Sam casually tells Diane he loves her and sends her deep into an introspective analysis of their relationship.
Open episode 10 ↗Air date: 1983-12-15 · 30 min
Diane's good friend moves to town and makes a move on Sam.
Open episode 11 ↗Air date: 1983-12-22 · 30 min
Sam lets a dying man tend bar just for fun, but the man leaves the bar patrons $100,000 in a paper napkin will.
Open episode 12 ↗Air date: 1984-01-05 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 13 ↗Air date: 1984-01-12 · 30 min
Sam regrets asking Norm to do his taxes when the out of work accountant comes up with a five figure refund.
Open episode 14 ↗Air date: 1984-01-19 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 15 ↗Air date: 1984-01-26 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 16 ↗Air date: 1984-02-02 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 17 ↗Air date: 1984-02-09 · 30 min
Sam lies to Diane about the weekend he has planned chasing snow bunnies in Vermont.
Open episode 18 ↗Air date: 1984-02-16 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 19 ↗Air date: 1984-02-23 · 30 min
The regulars push Norm into pursuing an attractive new client who seems to be interested in him.
Open episode 20 ↗Air date: 1984-05-03 · 30 min
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.
Open episode 21 ↗Air date: 1984-05-10 · 30 min
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.
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