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The Best Episodes Written By Glen Charles

Every TV Episode Written by Glen Charles Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Glen Charles Ratings Summary

"Power Play" is the best rated episode written by Glen Charles. It scored 8.5/10 based on 6 votes. It was directed by James Burrows. It aired on 9/29/1983 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Showdown (2)".

  • Power Play
    8.5/10(6)

    #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

  • Showdown (2)
    8.4/10(7)

    #2 - Showdown (2)

    Season 1 Episode 22

    Aired 3/31/1983

    Diane's fascination with Sam's older brother brings their long simmering relationship to a boil when the sibling asks Diane to go to Paris with him.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Rebound (2)
    8.4/10(5)

    #3 - 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

  • Suspicion
    8.3/10(6)

    #4 - Suspicion

    Season 4 Episode 14

    Aired 1/16/1986

    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

  • I Do, Adieu
    8.3/10(4)

    #5 - I Do, Adieu

    Season 5 Episode 26

    Aired 5/7/1987

    Dr. Sumner Sloane returns to Cheers on Diane and Sam's wedding day to tell her that a publisher is interested in one of her class manuscripts if she can go to work immediately on rewrites.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • The Triangle
    8.2/10(5)

    #6 - The Triangle

    Season 4 Episode 15

    Aired 1/23/1986

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

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Second Time Around
    8.2/10(5)

    #7 - Second Time Around

    Season 4 Episode 17

    Aired 2/6/1986

    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

  • Rebound (1)
    8.0/10(5)

    #8 - 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

  • Birth, Death, Love and Rice
    8.0/10(6)

    #9 - Birth, Death, Love and Rice

    Season 4 Episode 1

    Aired 9/26/1985

    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

  • Woody Goes Belly Up
    8.0/10(5)

    #10 - Woody Goes Belly Up

    Season 4 Episode 2

    Aired 10/3/1985

    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

  • I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday
    8.0/10(5)

    #11 - I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday

    Season 4 Episode 6

    Aired 11/7/1985

    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

  • Diane Chambers Day
    8.0/10(5)

    #12 - Diane Chambers Day

    Season 4 Episode 22

    Aired 3/20/1986

    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

  • Bob's Change of Life
    8.0/10(1)

    #13 - Bob's Change of Life

    Season 6 Episode 1

    Aired 9/24/1977

    Bob's well-ordered life turns topsy-turvy when he and Emily move to a new Chicago residence.

    Director: Peter Bonerz

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Honor Thy Father
    8.0/10(1)

    #14 - Honor Thy Father

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 9/18/1979

    The cabbies are disturbed by Alex's nonchalance when confronted with the news of his father's heart attack.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Art Work
    8.0/10(1)

    #15 - Art Work

    Season 2 Episode 22

    Aired 3/4/1980

    On Elaine's advice, the cabbies pool their money to buy a painting.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Zen and the Art of Cab Driving
    8.0/10(1)

    #16 - Zen and the Art of Cab Driving

    Season 3 Episode 13

    Aired 3/19/1981

    Jim picks up two men in his cab and overhear them talking about the secret to success: dynamic perfectionism. Jim takes it to heart and decides to use the technique to reach his goal, which he won't reveal to the cabbies. Soon, Jim becomes the perfect cab driver, setting company records on every shift. After a few weeks, Jim gives up, announcing that he's reached his goal and can no longer stand to work so hard. He invites the gang over to his apartment to reveal what he's been working so hard for. Upon arrival, they see that his goal was a room full of televisions, with satellites, cable, VCRs, and video games—his ticket to the global village. The gang is unimpressed at first, until each of them gets sucked into watching exciting things on the various televisions.

    Director: Will Mackenzie

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Give Me a Ring Sometime
    7.9/10(13)

    #17 - Give Me a Ring Sometime

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 9/30/1982

    Bride-to-be Diane Chambers becomes the center of attention at a cozy bar called Cheers.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Sam at Eleven
    7.9/10(8)

    #18 - Sam at Eleven

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 10/21/1982

    Sam realizes how much he misses his former sports celebrity status when a local newscaster asks to interview him again.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Showdown (1)
    7.9/10(7)

    #19 - Showdown (1)

    Season 1 Episode 21

    Aired 3/24/1983

    Diane's fascination with Sam's older brother brings their long simmering relationship to a boil when the sibling asks Diane to go to Paris with him.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Fools and Their Money
    7.8/10(6)

    #20 - Fools and Their Money

    Season 4 Episode 12

    Aired 12/19/1985

    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

  • Fear is My Co-Pilot
    7.8/10(5)

    #21 - Fear is My Co-Pilot

    Season 4 Episode 21

    Aired 3/13/1986

    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

  • Home Is the Sailor
    7.8/10(4)

    #22 - Home Is the Sailor

    Season 6 Episode 1

    Aired 9/24/1987

    Sam returns to Cheers six months after he sold it to a large corporation to pursue a life of leisure on board a new boat. Now the boat has sunk and he's looking for a job.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • The Late Captain Pierce
    7.7/10(3)

    #23 - The Late Captain Pierce

    Season 4 Episode 4

    Aired 10/3/1975

    When Hawkeye's father is notified that he's dead, he finds it's no easy matter either to get word to him or to establish otherwise.

    Director: Alan Alda

    Writer: Glen Charles

  • Relief Bartender
    7.7/10(6)

    #24 - Relief Bartender

    Season 4 Episode 23

    Aired 3/27/1986

    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

  • No Contest
    7.5/10(6)

    #25 - No Contest

    Season 1 Episode 18

    Aired 2/17/1983

    Sam enters Diane in the "Miss Boston Barmaid" contest without telling her.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Glen Charles