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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".

  • Power Play
    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

  • Little Sister Don't Cha
    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

  • Personal Business
    7.4/10694 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

  • Homicidal Ham
    7.8/10787 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

  • Sumner's Return
    7.6/10694 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

  • Affairs of the Heart
    7.4/10682 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

  • Old Flames
    7.5/10700 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

  • Manager Coach
    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

  • They Called Me Mayday
    7.4/10685 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

  • How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Call You Back
    7.4/10673 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

  • Just Three Friends
    7.5/10698 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

  • Where There's a Will...
    7.6/10672 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

  • Battle of the Exes
    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

    Writer: Ken Estin, Sam Simon

  • No Help Wanted
    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

  • And Coachie Makes Three
    7.6/10656 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

  • Cliff's Rocky Moment
    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

  • Fortune and Men's Weight
    7.5/10657 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

  • Snow Job
    7.4/10657 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

  • Coach Buries a Grudge
    7.5/10660 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

  • Norman's Conquest
    7.2/10615 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

  • I'll Be Seeing You (1)
    7.4/10645 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

  • I'll Be Seeing You (2)
    7.9/10678 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