Cheers

September 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.

October 13, 1983

Carla goes on a maternity leave and is replaced by her supposedly shy and innocent sister.

October 20, 1983

Diane, angry at the implication that she couldn't hold a job anywhere but Cheers, leaves for better position and Norm leaves Vera.

October 27, 1983

Andy, the ex-con Sam arranged as a blind date for Diane, returns to Cheers to show off his acting ability.

November 3, 1983

Diane's intellectual former fiance returns to reclaim her and puts Sam into an anxiety attack when he tries to measure up by reading Tolstoy.

November 10, 1983

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

November 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.

November 24, 1983

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

December 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.

December 8, 1983

Sam casually tells Diane he loves her and sends her deep into an introspective analysis of their relationship.

December 15, 1983

Diane is at first incredulous then furious when it becomes apparent that Sam and her old school chum find each other very attractive.

December 22, 1983

Sam lets a dying man tend bar just for fun, but the man leaves the bar patrons $100,000 in a paper napkin will.

January 5, 1984

Not wanting to appear lonely and dateless whilst going to her ex-husband Nick's wedding ceremony to blonde bimbo Loretta, Carla asks Sam to accompany her.

January 12, 1984

Sam regrets asking Norm to do his taxes when the out of work accountant comes up with a five figure refund.

January 19, 1984

Sam and Diane want to spend some time alone together, but the lonely Coach keeps joining them, not realising he is spoiling things for them. Rather than hurt his feelings by asking him not to bother them, Sam and Diane decide to set him up with a woman so they will be left in piece.

January 26, 1984

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

February 2, 1984

Coach is conned into buying an old scale which also prints out fortunes, and the Cheers gang each see their fortunes - except for Diane, who thinks it is all a load of rubbish. Meanwhile, Norm and Vera make progress in their relationship.

February 9, 1984

Sam lies to Diane about the weekend he has planned chasing snow bunnies in Vermont.

February 16, 1984

An old friend of Coach has died and Coach decides to hold a memorial to him in the bar, inviting all their old friends. But then Coach discovers his late friend made a pass at his late wife.

February 23, 1984

The regulars push Norm into pursuing an attractive new client who seems to be interested in him.

May 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.

May 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.