7.7/10762 votes#1 - Power Play
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1983
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
Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles
7.3/10730 votes#2 - Little Sister Don't Cha
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1983
Carla goes on a maternity leave and is replaced by her supposedly shy and innocent sister.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Heide Perlman
7.4/10695 votes#3 - Personal Business
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1983
Diane, angry at the implication that she couldn't hold a job anywhere but Cheers, leaves for better position and Norm leaves Vera.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.8/10789 votes#4 - Homicidal Ham
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1983
Andy, the ex-con Sam arranged as a blind date for Diane, returns to Cheers to show off his acting ability.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
7.6/10695 votes#5 - Sumner's Return
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1983
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.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Michael J. Weithorn
7.4/10684 votes#6 - Affairs of the Heart
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1983
Carla rejects a man interested in her romantically, convinced that he must have some "fatal flaw" to find her attractive.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.5/10701 votes#7 - Old Flames
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1983
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.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.3/10710 votes#8 - Manager Coach
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1983
Coach becomes a slave driver when he's put in charge of Little League team.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.4/10686 votes#9 - They Called Me Mayday
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1983
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.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.4/10675 votes#10 - How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Call You Back
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1983
Sam casually tells Diane he loves her and sends her deep into an introspective analysis of their relationship.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.5/10700 votes#11 - Just Three Friends
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1983
Diane is at first incredulous then furious when it becomes apparent that Sam and her old school chum find each other very attractive.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
7.6/10673 votes#12 - Where There's a Will...
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1983
Sam lets a dying man tend bar just for fun, but the man leaves the bar patrons $100,000 in a paper napkin will.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.6/10688 votes#13 - Battle of the Exes
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1984
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.
Director: James Burrows
7.5/10649 votes#14 - No Help Wanted
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1984
Sam regrets asking Norm to do his taxes when the out of work accountant comes up with a five figure refund.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.6/10657 votes#15 - And Coachie Makes Three
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1984
Sam and Diane want to spend some time alone together, but the lonely Coach keeps joining them, not realising 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 piece.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.9/10700 votes#16 - Cliff's Rocky Moment
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1984
Cliff's know-it-all attitude finally gets him into a fight with another patron.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
7.5/10660 votes#17 - Fortune and Men's Weight
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1984
Coach is conned into buying an old scale which also prints out fortunes, and the Cheers gang each see their fortunes - except for Diane, who thinks it is all a load of rubbish. Meanwhile, Norm and Vera make progress in their relationship.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.4/10659 votes#18 - Snow Job
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1984
Sam lies to Diane about the weekend he has planned chasing snow bunnies in Vermont.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.5/10661 votes#19 - Coach Buries a Grudge
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1984
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.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
7.2/10616 votes#20 - Norman's Conquest
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1984
The regulars push Norm into pursuing an attractive new client who seems to be interested in him.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Lissa Levin
7.4/10647 votes#21 - I'll Be Seeing You (1)
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/1984
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.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles
7.9/10680 votes#22 - I'll Be Seeing You (2)
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1984
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.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles
The Best Episodes of Cheers Season 2
Every episode of Cheers Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Cheers Season 2!
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.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Power Play" is the best rated episode of "Cheers" season 2. It scored 7.7/10 based on 762 votes. Directed by James Burrows and written by Glen Charles, Les Charles, it aired on 9/29/1983. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Little Sister Don't Cha".