8.8/104 votes#1 - Pick a Con... Any Con
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1983
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
8.8/104 votes#2 - And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (2)
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/24/2000
Daphne considers dumping Niles after Donny and Mel's plotting stresses her out. Fortunately, Frasier comes to the lovers' aid once again.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: David Angell
8.7/106 votes#3 - And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (1)
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/2000
After running off together, Niles and Daphne face the wrath from their jilted lovers: Donny's suing for emotional distress and Mel's plotting a ruse.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: David Angell
8.5/104 votes#4 - Strange Bedfellows (2)
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 5/8/1986
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
8.4/105 votes#5 - Strange Bedfellows (3)
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 5/15/1986
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
8.4/1010 votes#6 - My Coffee with Niles
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/1994
When Niles asks Frasier if he's happy after his first year back in Seattle, the question opens up a comical and revealing family dialogue.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
8.3/103 votes#7 - Dark Imaginings
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/20/1986
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
8.0/104 votes#8 - House of Horrors with Formal Dining and Used Brick
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1986
Cliff finds a reasonably priced older home for Carla to buy that turns out to be haunted.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
8.0/102 votes#9 - The Guy Can't Help It
Season 11 Episode 24 - Aired 5/13/1993
Don Sentry walks into the bar and into Rebecca's life. He's the repairman called in to fix the bar tap. Although Don is not Rebecca's usual type, Frasier talks her into taking a chance when she states that someone like a Don is what she should be going after. Quickly, she falls head over heals, but Sam thinks she's settling for second best. He wants Rebecca to be his fall-back if in a couple of years he has not found "Mrs. Malone". Rebecca shoots back that he is an aging Lothario way past his prime. Frasier suggests to Sam, who is hurt by Rebecca's comments, that perhaps there is some truth to Rebecca's assertion about him and that he would benefit by group therapy for sexual compulsives. Sam does go to the meeting, and after a rough start, he does admit that perhaps he is no longer happy with his life.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.9/105 votes#10 - The Crane Mutiny
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1987
The gang tries to convince Frasier that Rebecca desires him after he quarrels with Lilith and Rebecca replaces Sam's picture with one of Robert Urich.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.8/104 votes#11 - 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
7.8/104 votes#12 - Strange Bedfellows (1)
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/1/1986
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
7.5/104 votes#13 - 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
7.4/105 votes#14 - Someone Single, Someone Blue
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1983
Diane's mother turns up at Cheers with the news that Diane must marry before the next day or her mother will lose her share of Diane's father's estate.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.4/105 votes#15 - 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
7.4/105 votes#16 - Love Thy Neighbor
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1985
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
7.4/1014 votes#17 - The Good Son
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1993
Psychiatrist Frasier Crane returns to his hometown of Seattle to host a radio talk show, but soon discovers he could use a shrink himself when his father moves in.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.2/104 votes#18 - 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
7.2/104 votes#19 - Chambers vs. Malone
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1987
Sam proposes to Diane again and ends up charged with assault and battery when she turns him down again.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
7.0/104 votes#20 - 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
6.8/104 votes#21 - 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
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"Pick a Con... Any Con" is the best rated episode written by David Angell. It scored 8.8/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by James Burrows. It aired on 2/24/1983 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (2)".