The Best Episodes of Cheers Season 4

After the sad passing away of Coach, Sam hires a new bartender in Woody Boyd, Coach's pen pal who has moved to Boston. Frasier arrives back from Europe with the news that Diane left him at the altar for six months of decadent living across Europe and is now seeking renewal in a Boston monastery.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

The gang brings Woody's old girl friend to Boston to visit him and Frasier, still not yet confident about returning to psychiatry, decides to pay his bar bill by working as a janitor.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

Diane fantasizes over an expensive coat left behind by a patron and agrees to go out with whoever claims it.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

Carla asks Sam to tell her teenage son about the joys of bachelorhood and to discourage his urge to get married.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee

Diane spends a dark and stormy night worrying that Andy Schroeder has escaped and is out to kill her.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: David Lloyd

Sam loans Diane $500 to buy a book autographed by Ernest Hemmingway. She later gives the book to Sam as collateral until she pays back the loan, but Sam accidentally destroys it.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

The guys at the bar feel sorry for Carla because nobody has responded to her newspaper singles ad. So they start sending her romantic responses from a fictional airline pilot.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee

Norm fears Vera may be having an affair with his neighbor and Sam wastes his time as a radio sports commentator apologizing to Diane.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: David Angell

Sam has to convince Woody to help Cheers win a bowling match with Gary's Old Towne Tavern at a rival bar.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee

Cliff refuses to identify himself to his estranged father when the man comes to Cheers with an important message for his son.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Andy Cowan

Sam is happy to be the subject of Diane's psychology term paper until he learns just exactly what the Don Juan syndrome is.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Phoef Sutton

Sam thinks he's doing Woody a favor by not placing a bet for the young man, but the long shot comes in and Sam has to pay off.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

Sam's ego is crushed when no one bids on his old baseball jersey during a public television auction.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: David Lloyd

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

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

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

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

Cliff has two dates for the postman's ball-with Carla and Diane.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

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

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

Norm gets some dirt on his main competitor for a promotion but hesitates to use it.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Peter Casey, David Clark Lee

After trying (and failing) to hit on a pretty female customer, Sam feels like he is over the hill and challenges Woody to a racquetball game. Unfortunately Sam ends up hurting himself and has to take a trip to the hospital.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: David Angell

Carla asks Sam to partner her in a dance contest where their main competition is Nick and Loretta.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

A flying daredevil that Diane barnstormed with across Europe takes her and Sam for a ride and dies at 20,000 feet up.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

Diane feels depressed and left out of the gang's activities so Frasier organizes a day just for her-at the opera.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

Sam hires a new bartender and appoints himself as host/manager of Cheers. But when his new strategy goes belly-up and he is forced to return to the bar, somebody has to be fired.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles

Local councilwoman Janet Eldridge comes to Cheers as part of her re-election campaign, and Sam finds hismelf smitten with her. Janet and Sam become a couple, but a jealous Diane joins the opposition campaign fearing that if Janet wins the election, she will win Sam's heart as well. Meanwhile Frasier also joins the opposition campaign hoping to win Diane back.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: David Angell

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