8.6/105 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: Les Charles
8.5/104 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: Les Charles
8.4/105 votes#3 - 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: Les Charles
8.3/106 votes#4 - 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: Les Charles
8.2/104 votes#5 - 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: Les Charles
8.2/104 votes#6 - 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: Les Charles
8.0/104 votes#7 - 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: Les Charles
8.0/105 votes#8 - 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: Les Charles
8.0/104 votes#9 - 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: Les Charles
8.0/104 votes#10 - 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: Les Charles
8.0/104 votes#11 - 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: Les Charles
8.0/103 votes#12 - 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: Les Charles
8.0/101 votes#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: Les Charles
7.9/1012 votes#14 - 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: Les Charles
7.9/107 votes#15 - 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: Les Charles
7.8/106 votes#16 - 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: Les Charles
7.8/105 votes#17 - 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: Les Charles
7.8/104 votes#18 - 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: Les Charles
7.7/103 votes#19 - 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: Les Charles
7.7/103 votes#20 - 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: Les Charles
7.6/105 votes#21 - 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: Les Charles
7.4/105 votes#22 - 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: Les Charles
7.4/105 votes#23 - Someday My Prince Will Come
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1985
Diane fantasizes over an expensive coat left behind by a patron and agrees to go out with whoever claims it.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Les Charles
7.2/104 votes#24 - 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: Les Charles
7.0/104 votes#25 - 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: Les Charles
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"Power Play" is the best rated episode written by Les Charles. It scored 8.6/10 based on 5 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, "Rebound (2)".