The regulars of the Boston bar "Cheers" share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.

The lives of the disparate group of employees and patrons at a Boston watering hole called "Cheers" over eleven years is presented. Over much of this period, Sam Malone (Ted Danson), a womanizing ex-Boston Red Sox pitcher and an alcoholic, owns the bar, its purchase and this life, which was his salvation from his alcoholism, which was largely the cause of the end of his baseball career. He ends up having a love-hate relationship with intellectual Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), who he hired as a waitress and whose cultured mentality is foreign to anyone else in the bar. He also has an evolving relationship with Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley), who managed the bar for the Lily Corporation, which bought it from Sam, but whose outward business savvy belied the fact that she was a mess of a woman who was struggling to find her place in life. The regular patrons are largely a bunch of self-identified losers, who bond because of their shared place in life, and because "Cheers" is their home away from home, and in many ways more a home than their actual home as witnessed by the fact that there "everybody knows your name".—Huggo

Laid-back Sam Malone (Ted Danson), a former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, owns and runs "Cheers", a cozy bar in Boston. He hires smart, uptight - and jilted - Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) as a server, out of sympathy, but their attraction causes constant bickering. Wacky characters fill the bar: sarcastic waitress Carla (Rhea Perlman), beer-loving accountant Norm (George Wendt), know-it-all postman Cliff (John Ratzenberger). When Diane leaves Boston much later, Sam sells the bar, buys a boat, and sails the world, but his boat sinks, so he returns. New, ambitious Manager Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) hires him back, but they love to hate each other too.—Jwelch5742

Sam Malone's (Ted Danson's) drinking problem (which led him to buy the bar "Cheers") soured his career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. When a young teaching assistant named Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) is left by her Professor fiancée, she took a job waitressing at "Cheers", leading to a rocky, on-again, off-again relationship with Sam. The bar "where everybody knows your name" is home to: Sam's old Coach, Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto) naive farmboy Woody (Woody Harrelson), know-it-all Cliff (John Ratzenberger), bitter waitress Carla (Rhea Perlman), troubled psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) and his wife, Dr. Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth), and regular Norm (George Wendt), owner of the hugest bar tab.—Ondre Lombard <[email protected]>

"Cheers" is a bar in Boston owned by Sam Malone (Ted Danson), a former Boston Red Sox pitcher, whose drinking problem ended his career. Helping Sam in the bar is Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto), whom he refers to as "Coach" and Carla (Rhea Perlman), a tough waitress. Amongst the regulars are Norm (George Wendt), an accountant who spends most of his time at "Cheers" to avoid his wife, Vera, and Cliff (John Ratzenberger), a mailman, whose conceitedness annoys everyone. Sam is also a womanizer, who thinks that there isn't a woman he can't have. Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), a grad student, who was going away with her boyfriend, stops by the bar, but he dumps her. Diane, with nowhere else to go, gets a job as a waitress. Sam is attracted to her and makes his move, but Diane is turned off by his smug attitude. Eventually they get together, but break up and Diane gets a new boyfriend, psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer). They were about to get married when Diane leaves him and goes to the bar. The actor who played Coach died, so a new character, Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson) was added. Sam and Diane got engaged and were about to get married when Sam urged her to fulfill her dream to be a writer. Sam sold the bar to a corporation. When Sam needed a job, he tried to get a job from the new Manager, Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley), who Sam tried to make a move on, but resisted for awhile. Sam eventually bought the bar back and made Rebecca the manager.—[email protected]