Sam Malone, a former baseball star, is the head of a nice little bar where
Norm, Cliff, Dr. Frasier and all the other regular customers spend together
a few hours every day, talking about their problems, laughing at each
other's flaws, trying to be there when someone else needs them. "Cheers" is
the place where everybody knows your name...
Sam Malone's drinking problem (which led him to buy the bar Cheers) soured
his career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. When a young teaching
assistant named Diane Chambers is left by her Professor fiancee, she took a
job waitressing at Cheers, leading to a rocky, on-again, off-again
relationship with Sam. The bar where everybody knows your name is home to:
Sam's old Coach, naive farmboy Woody, know-it-all Cliff, bitter waitress
Carla, troubled psychiatrist Frasier and his wife, and regular Norm, owner
of the hugest bar tab.
Sumner Sloan abandons his fiancee, Diane Chambers, at the last moment,
forcing her to get a job at a bar named "Cheers," and begins an on-again,
off-again relationship with the owner, Sam "Mayday" Malone, a former
baseball player. However, in the end, she goes to Summer, leaving Sam just
like Sumner left her. Sam sells the bar and goes around the world, but upon
returning, immediately sets out to buy it back from the new owner, Rebecca
Howe. Also working at Cheers are the bartenders, Ernie "Coach" Pantusso
and, after his death, small-town Woody Boyd, and headwaitress Carla
Tortelli (LeBec). Frequent customers include Norm Peterson, an accountant
(who eventually becomes a painter) with a tab the size of a Russian novel;
Cliff Claven, an aging single mailman who lives with his mother; Frasier
Crane, a psychiatrist and Diane's ex-boyfriend; Lilith Sternin (Crane), an
extremely cold psychiatrist who eventually married and divorced Frasier;
Robin Colcord, Rebecca's corporat!
Cheers is a bar in Boston owned by Sam Malone, a former Boston Red Sox
pitcher, whose drinking problem ended his career. Helping Sam in the bar is
Ernie Pantusso, whom he refers to as Coach and Carla, a tough waitress.
Among the regulars are Norm, an accountant who spends most of his time at
Cheers to avoid his wife, Vera and Cliff, a mailman, whose conceitedness,
annoys everyone. Sam is also a womanizer, who thinks that there isn't a
woman he can't have. Diane Chambers, a grad student, who was going away
with her boyfriend, stops by the bar but he dumps her. Diane with nowhere
else to go, gets a job as a waitress. Sam is attracted to her and makes his
move but Diane is turned off by his smug attitude. Eventually they get
together but break up and Diane gets a new boyfriend, psychiatrist, Fraiser
Crane. They were about to get amrried when Diane leaves him and goes to the
bar. The actor who played Coach died, so a new character, Woody Boyd was
added. Sam and Diane would get engaged and were about to get married when
Sam urged her to fulfill her dream to be a writer. Sam would sell the bar
to a corporation. When Sam needed a job, he tried to get a job from the new
manager, Rebecca Howe, whom Sam tried to make a move on but resisted, for
awhile. Sam would eventually buy back the bar and make Rebecca the manager.
