Cheers

Cheers - NBC

NBC

Series

1982

TVPG

Sitcom

Comedy drama

Sam Malone, former reliever for the Red Sox, runs a Boston bar where “everybody knows your name.”

Where to Stream

1982–1993 Series 11 Seasons 279 Episodes

Upcoming TV Airings

The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.

Friday, May 1

Pick a Con ... Any Con

Season 1 • Episode 19

Sam discovers Coach is being ripped off in his daily gin games.

Friday, May 1

Someone Single, Someone Blue

Season 1 • Episode 20

Diane's well-to-do mother will lose her inheritance if Diane isn't married within 24 hours.

Saturday, May 2

Show Down

Season 1 • Episode 21

Sam becomes jealous when his impressive older brother Derek drops by the bar and charms Diane.

Saturday, May 2

Show Down

Season 1 • Episode 22

Diane's fascination with Sam's older brother brings their long simmering relationship to a boil.

Sunday, May 3

Power Play

Season 2 • Episode 1

The regular gang finds Sam and Diane's romance hard to believe, a view apparently shared by Diane.

Sunday, May 3

Little Sister Don't Cha

Season 2 • Episode 2

Carla's promiscuous sister hits on everyone in the bar, including naive Cliff.

Monday, May 4

Personal Business

Season 2 • Episode 3

Carla claims that Diane is getting preferential treatment; Diane looks for a new job.

Monday, May 4

Homicidal Ham

Season 2 • Episode 4

Diane decides to save Andy, an unbalanced ex-convict that finds life easier in jail.

Tuesday, May 5

Sumner's Return

Season 2 • Episode 5

One year after dumping her, Diane's intellectual former fiancé returns to reclaim her.

Tuesday, May 5

Affairs of the Heart

Season 2 • Episode 6

Carla rejects a man interested in her romantically, convinced that he must have some fatal flaw.

Wednesday, May 6

Old Flames

Season 2 • Episode 7

Sam's friend (Fred Dryer) hopes to put an end to Sam and Diane's relationship.

Wednesday, May 6

Manager Coach

Season 2 • Episode 8

Coach becomes a slave driver when he's put in charge of a Little League team.

Thursday, May 7

They Called Me Mayday

Season 2 • Episode 9

Dick Cavett causes great excitement when he offers to submit Sam's memoirs to his publisher.

Thursday, May 7

How Do I Love Thee? ... Let Me Call You Back

Season 2 • Episode 10

Sam and Diane separate for a week to re-evaluate their relationship.

Friday, May 8

Just Three Friends

Season 2 • Episode 11

Diane is furious, when she sees that Sam and her old school chum find each other very attractive.

Friday, May 8

Battle of the Exes

Season 2 • Episode 13

Carla asks Sam to accompany her to her ex-husband's wedding ceremony to his blonde bimbo Loretta.

Saturday, May 9

No Help Wanted

Season 2 • Episode 14

Sam questions Norm's abilities when he hires him as an accountant.

Saturday, May 9

Coachie Makes Three

Season 2 • Episode 15

Sam and Diane want to spend some time alone together, but the lonely Coach keeps joining them.

Sunday, May 10

Cliff's Rocky Moment

Season 2 • Episode 16

Cliff's know-it-all attitude finally gets him into a fight with another patron.

Sunday, May 10

Fortune and Men's Weights

Season 2 • Episode 17

When Coach buys an antique scale that also prints out fortunes, the gang finds them coming true.

Monday, May 11

Snow Job

Season 2 • Episode 18

Diane tries to keep Sam from going on a ski weekend with the guys.

Monday, May 11

Coach Buries a Grudge

Season 2 • Episode 19

Coach is angry when he learns an old friend, now deceased, once propositioned his wife.

Tuesday, May 12

Norman's Conquest

Season 2 • Episode 20

Norm thinks he must have an affair with an attractive client to prove his manhood.

Tuesday, May 12

I Call Your Name

Season 3 • Episode 3

Sam believes that Diane is still madly in love with him; Cliff catches a co-worker stealing.

Wednesday, May 13

I'll Be Seeing You

Season 2 • Episode 21

Sam hires an eccentric artist (Christopher Lloyd) to paint a portrait of Diane.

Wednesday, May 13

I'll Be Seeing You

Season 2 • Episode 22

Diane defends her relationship with Sam while having her portrait painted by an artist.

Thursday, May 14

Rebound

Season 3 • Episode 1

Sam resumes his excessive drinking habits, and Diane has a new lover.

Thursday, May 14

Rebound

Season 3 • Episode 2

Diane tells Sam the truth about her relationship with Frasier Crane.

Friday, May 15

Coach in Love

Season 3 • Episode 6

Coach falls in love and proposes to a woman he has never seen before.

Friday, May 15

Coach in Love

Season 3 • Episode 7

Coach's engagement to Irene becomes complicated after she wins a $2 million lottery.

Saturday, May 16

Sam Turns the Other Cheek

Season 3 • Episode 5

Sam breaks one of his cardinal rules when he dates the wife of a jealous man.

Saturday, May 16

Diane Meets Mom

Season 3 • Episode 8

Diane meets Frasier's mother, who quietly threatens to kill Diane if she doesn't leave him alone.

Sunday, May 17

An American Family

Season 3 • Episode 9

Carla announces that she is giving up the fight for custody of her son.

Sunday, May 17

Diane's Allergy

Season 3 • Episode 10

Diane suffers a mysterious allergic reaction after moving in with Frasier.

Monday, May 18

Peterson Crusoe

Season 3 • Episode 11

When a suspicious spot appears on Norm's chest X-ray, he decides to sail around the world.

Monday, May 18

A Ditch in Time

Season 3 • Episode 12

Sam romances an attractive woman (Carol Kane) who resorts to threats of suicide whenever rejected.

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