The BEST episodes of Cheers season 1

#1 - One for the Book

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1982

While Diane keeps notes on bar conversation, a novice comes in for one final fling before entering a monastery and a World War I doughboy shows up for a very small reunion.

#2 - Showdown (2)

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/31/1983

#3 - No Contest

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1983

Sam enters Diane in the "Miss Boston Barmaid" contest without telling her.

#4 - Endless Slumper

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1982

Rick Walker, a friend of Sam, seeks his advice on how to end a losing streak.

#5 - Pick a Con... Any Con

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1983

Sam enlists Harry the conman to help fleece a card shark who cheated Coach out of a lot of money.

#6 - Now Pitching, Sam Malone

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1983

Sam lets the sexy appeal of an agent and the glamour of the public spotlight lure him into being a TV pitchman.

#7 - The Tortelli Tort

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1982

Carla's fiery temper almost costs Sam the bar when she attacks an obnoxious Yankees fan.

#8 - Let Me Count the Ways

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1983

Diane looks to her friends for comfort when her cat dies, but finds everyone too enthralled by a Celtics game to notice.

#9 - Sam's Women

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1982

Diane's teasing about his airhead women sends Sam looking for a date of a higher cerebral plane and an old customer insists he must see the former owner to discuss his personal problems.

#10 - The Boys in the Bar

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/27/1983

Cheers' regulars fear the place may become a gay hangout after an old friend of Sam's reveals his homosexuality on TV.

#11 - The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1982

The bar patrons are all enthralled by the mysterious gentleman who claims to be a secret agent.

#12 - Someone Single, Someone Blue

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1983

Diane's mother turns up at Cheers with the news that Diane must marry before the next day or her mother will lose her share of Diane's father's estate.

#13 - Diane's Perfect Date

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1983

Sam and Diane dare each other to find the other's perfect date, but Sam's last minute choice doesn't quite measure up.

#14 - Coach Returns to Action

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1982

Coach and Sam become unlikely romantic rivals for Coach's new neighbor.

#15 - Any Friend of Diane's

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1982

Diane becomes upset when Sam hits on an old friend of hers who's on the rebound from an unhappy love affair.

#16 - Truce or Consequences

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1982

Diane and Carla decide to bury the hatchet over after work drinks, which lead to a startling confession from Carla about her youngest child.

#17 - Father Knows Last

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/20/1983

Carla has a secret that's about to be revealed:she's five months pregnant.

#18 - Coach's Daughter

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1982

Coach's daughter brings the obnoxious lout she plans to marry to meet her father.

#19 - Give Me a Ring Sometime

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1982

Cheers is a small bar in Boston, MA. As owner Sam Malone opens up, a couple enter the bar. Professor Sumner Sloane and his fiance Diane Chambers are to go to Barbados to be married, but Sumner's ex-wife still has the wedding ring. Sumner asks Sam to keep an eye on Diane for him whilst he goes and fetches it. Sam tries chatting up Diane but she's not interested. The other employees at Cheers arrive for work - waitress and single mom Carla Tortelli, and bartender Ernie "Coach" Pantusso, who was Sam's baseball coach back in the days when Sam was a relief pitcher for the Red Sox. As the bar gets busier and more people wonder who she is, Diane hopes Sumner will return eventually. Sumner comes back a few hours later and says he hasn't got the ring, but then his ex-wife calls and says she's got it, so he once again leaves Diane in Cheers whilst he goes to fetch it. He asks Diane to call the airport and put their flight back a bit. Once again he is gone a long time, and Diane starts to worry t

#20 - 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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - Friends, Romans, Accountants

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1982

Norm tries to make points with the boss by planning the annual office party at Cheers and arranging for Diane to be the old man's "date".