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The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Cheers Season 5 Episode 20 - Dinner at Eight-ish
    9.2/10(9 votes)

    #1 - Dinner at Eight-ish

    S5:E20

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Phoef Sutton

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  2. Cheers Season 5 Episode 4 - Abnormal Psychology
    9.1/10(7 votes)

    #2 - Abnormal Psychology

    S5:E4

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

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Janet Leahy

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  3. Cheers Season 1 Episode 19 - Pick a Con... Any Con
    8.7/10(6 votes)

    #3 - Pick a Con... Any Con

    S1:E19

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

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:David Angell

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  4. Cheers Season 3 Episode 14 - The Heart is a Lonely Snipe Hunter
    8.7/10(7 votes)

    #4 - The Heart is a Lonely Snipe Hunter

    S3:E14

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

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Cheers Season 7 Episode 6 - Norm, is That You?
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #5 - Norm, is That You?

    S7:E6

    Norm tries to hide the fact that he's become an interior decorator.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Cherie Steinkellner

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  6. Cheers Season 5 Episode 7 - Young Dr. Weinstein
    8.6/10(7 votes)

    #6 - Young Dr. Weinstein

    S5:E7

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

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Phoef Sutton

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  7. Cheers Season 5 Episode 9 - Thanksgiving Orphans
    8.6/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Thanksgiving Orphans

    S5:E9

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

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Cherie Steinkellner, Bill Steinkellner

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  8. Cheers Season 11 Episode 25 - One for the Road
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #8 - One for the Road

    S11:E25

    Whilst watching the National Cable Ace Awards, the gang sees ex-waitress Diane Chambers winning the award for best writing in a mini-series. This leads to Sam calling Diane to congratulate her, and to find out that she is married and has children. Sam tells her Diane that he too has a wife and kids, and invites Diane and her husband to visit them. Sam strongly believes Diane is lying and becomes really shocked when she walks into Cheers the following day to meet Mrs Malone. Meanwhile Rebecca's boyfriend Don proposes to her and she accidently says no, ends up heartbroken and agrees to play Sam's wife to fool Diane. Sam and Rebecca have dinner with Diane and her husband, Reed Manchester. During the dinner Don arrives and proposes to her again, and this time she manages to say yes! They leave the dinner, and Sam thinks he must look like a fool. Then Diane's husband turns out to be a fake when *his* husband Kevin appears!

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Ralph Phillips

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  9. Cheers Season 10 Episode 25 - An Old-Fashioned Wedding
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #9 - An Old-Fashioned Wedding

    S10:E25

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:David Lloyd

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  10. Cheers Season 1 Episode 17 - Diane's Perfect Date
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #10 - Diane's Perfect Date

    S1:E17

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

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:David Lloyd

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  11. Cheers Season 1 Episode 22 - Showdown (2)
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Showdown (2)

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Les Charles, Glen Charles

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  12. Cheers Season 2 Episode 1 - Power Play
    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #12 - Power Play

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Les Charles, Glen Charles

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  13. Cheers Season 4 Episode 14 - Suspicion
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #13 - Suspicion

    S4:E14

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Les Charles, Glen Charles

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  14. Cheers Season 4 Episode 26 - Strange Bedfellows (3)
    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Strange Bedfellows (3)

    S4:E26

    Janet has won the election 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 realize 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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:David Angell

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  15. Cheers Season 5 Episode 10 - Everyone Imitates Art
    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #15 - Everyone Imitates Art

    S5:E10

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Cheers Season 1 Episode 10 - Endless Slumper
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #16 - Endless Slumper

    S1:E10

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

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Sam Simon

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  17. Cheers Season 3 Episode 3 - I Call Your Name
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #17 - I Call Your Name

    S3:E3

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

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Peter Casey, David Clark Lee

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  18. Cheers Season 4 Episode 15 - The Triangle
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #18 - The Triangle

    S4:E15

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

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Les Charles, Glen Charles

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  19. Cheers Season 4 Episode 17 - Second Time Around
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #19 - Second Time Around

    S4:E17

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Les Charles, Glen Charles

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  20. Cheers Season 4 Episode 25 - Strange Bedfellows (2)
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #20 - Strange Bedfellows (2)

    S4:E25

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:David Angell

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  21. Cheers Season 5 Episode 1 - The Proposal
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #21 - The Proposal

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Peter Casey, David Clark Lee

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  22. Cheers Season 5 Episode 26 - I Do, Adieu
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #22 - I Do, Adieu

    S5:E26

    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.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Les Charles, Glen Charles

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  23. Cheers Season 7 Episode 7 - How to Win Friends and Electrocute People
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #23 - How to Win Friends and Electrocute People

    S7:E7

    Cliff drastically alters his personality after no one from the bar comes to visit him during his hospital stay with appendicitis.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Phoef Sutton

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  24. Cheers Season 7 Episode 13 - Golden Boyd
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #24 - Golden Boyd

    S7:E13

    Woody decides to steal Kelly, a rich snob's girl, away when the man humiliates him.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Cheers Season 7 Episode 16 - The Cranemakers
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #25 - The Cranemakers

    S7:E16

    Lilith persuades Frasier to give up everything urban and move with her to a cabin in the wilds.

    Director:Andy Ackerman
    Writer:Phoef Sutton

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dinner at Eight-ish" is the best rated episode of "Cheers". It scored 9.2/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by James Burrows and written by Phoef Sutton, it aired on 2/26/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Abnormal Psychology".