7.9/10707 votes#1 - Rebound (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1984
Coach asks Diane to return to Cheers from her self-imposed ""vacation"" to help Sam, who has fallen off the wagon.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles
7.9/10668 votes#2 - Rebound (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1984
Coach asks Diane to return to Cheers from her self-imposed ""vacation"" to help Sam, who has fallen off the wagon.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles
8.0/10646 votes#3 - I Call Your Name
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1984
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
Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee
8.1/10719 votes#4 - Fairy Tales Can Come True
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1984
Cliff meets a woman during a costume party at Cheers that he likes very much, but he's afraid to see her again as himself.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Sam Simon
7.5/10623 votes#5 - Sam Turns the Other Cheek
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1984
Sam makes up an elaborate story to explain how he got shot in the rear end, not wanting to tell everyone the real reason - he was shot at by a jealous husband.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
7.5/10617 votes#6 - Coach in Love (1)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1984
Coach falls in love with a woman who dumps him after she wins a big lottery while Sam strikes out with her daughter.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.4/10609 votes#7 - Coach in Love (2)
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1984
Coach falls in love with a woman who dumps him after she wins a big lottery while Sam strikes out with her daughter.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.5/10641 votes#8 - Diane Meets Mom
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1984
Diane meets Frasier's mother, who quietly threatens to kill Diane if she doesn't leave Frasier alone.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
7.1/10605 votes#9 - An American Family
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1984
Nick returns and demands of Carla a more equitable division of their marital property: namely him getting custody of one of their kids, a demand to which Carla agrees.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.5/10611 votes#10 - Diane's Allergy
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1984
Diane suffers a mysterious allergic reaction after moving in with Frasier.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
7.4/10596 votes#11 - Peterson Crusoe
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1984
Norm becomes aware of his own mortality and decides to throw it all in and take off for Bora Bora.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.5/10612 votes#12 - A Ditch in Time
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1984
Sam meets one of Diane's intense friends, who has her parents over to meet Sam, their future son-in-law, hours after their first date.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Ken Estin
7.5/10597 votes#13 - Whodunit?
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1985
Frasier is devastated when he learns that his learned mentor has been dating Carla, who also has a little surprise of her own.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
8.2/10661 votes#14 - The Heart is a Lonely Snipe Hunter
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1985
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: N/A
7.3/10595 votes#15 - King of the Hill
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1985
Sam returns to the mound for a charity softball game against Playboy bunnies, but his competitive spirit ruins the day when he strikes them all out.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Elliot Shoenman
7.5/10597 votes#16 - Teacher's Pet
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1985
Sam and the Coach are taking the same night school course in geography, but while Coach studies, Sam dates the teacher.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.8/10618 votes#17 - The Mail Goes to Jail
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1985
Norm gets arrested when he finishes the route for an ill Cliff, but Cliff refuses to back up Norm's explanation to the authorities.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
7.6/10608 votes#18 - Bar Bet
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1985
Sam stands to lose the bar to an old friend because of a bet that he would marry Jacqueline Bissett before a certain date.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.7/10604 votes#19 - Behind Every Great Man
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/21/1985
Sam faces the ultimate challenge to his skills as a male animal; a lady reporter who has been investigating the Boston singles scene and has heard every line in the book.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Isaacs, Ken Levine
7.3/10590 votes#20 - If Ever I Would Leave You
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1985
After his second wife Loretta kicks him out, Carla's ex-husband Nick Tortelli comes to Cheers asking Carla to take him back.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Isaacs, Ken Levine
7.9/10595 votes#21 - The Executive's Executioner
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1985
Norm is promoted to company hatchet man because of his unique style for letting people go.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
8.1/10646 votes#22 - Cheerio, Cheers
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/11/1985
Diane announces that she's leaving Cheers to accompany Frasier to Italy and Sam throws her a going-away party.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Sam Simon
8.1/10634 votes#23 - The Bartender's Tale
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/18/1985
Carla insists that Sam should hire an older woman to replace Diane but she doesn't reckon on Sam's attraction to the woman's daughter.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Sam Simon
7.2/10591 votes#24 - The Belles of St. Clete's
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/2/1985
Carla calls together her former classmates from St. Clete's School for Wayward Girls to plot revenge on their former sadistic principal whom she spots drinking at Cheers.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Ken Estin
7.8/10613 votes#25 - Rescue Me
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/9/1985
Frasier proposes to Diane while they're in Italy and she makes an emergency call to Sam, hoping he'll talk her out of it.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Ken Estin
The Best Episodes of Cheers Season 3
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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.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Rebound (1)" is the best rated episode of "Cheers" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 707 votes. Directed by James Burrows and written by Glen Charles, Les Charles, it aired on 9/27/1984. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Rebound (2)".