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The main cast of Cheers poses in the bar set, with George Wendt as Norm, Shelley Long as Diane, Ted Danson as Sam, Rhea Perlman as Carla, Woody Harrelson as Woody, and John Ratzenberger as Cliff.
Cast of Cheers Cast of Cheers (from left to right): George Wendt, Shelley Long, Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, Woody Harrelson, and John Ratzenberger. (Other members of the cast during Cheers's long run not pictured here: Nicholas Colasanto, Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, and Bebe Neuwirth.)

Cheers

American television series
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Cheers, popular American television comedy series that appeared on NBC for 11 seasons (1982–93), ranking in the top 10 of the year-end Nielsen ratings seven times. A mixture of comedy and soap-opera romance, it followed the lives of the staff and patrons of Cheers, a fictional bar in Boston. Cheers’s bartender-owner Sam Malone (played by Ted Danson), a witty former Major League Baseball pitcher, was forever on the make. Graduate student–waitress Diane Chambers (Shelley Long,...

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