30 Facts About Cheers

Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons.

However, Cheers eventually became a Nielsen ratings juggernaut in the United States, earning a top-ten rating during eight of its 11 seasons, including one season at number one.

Cheers had lost weight and was having trouble breathing during filming.

Third-season episodes of Cheers were filmed out of order, partly to accommodate Shelley Long's pregnancy.

Cheers writing staff assembled in June 1985, at the start of the production of the fourth season, to discuss how to deal with the absence of Coach.

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Cheers did not show any action outside the bar until the first episode of the second season, which took place in Diane's apartment.

Many Cheers scripts centered or touched upon a variety of social issues, albeit humorously.

Cheers is a recovering alcoholic who had bought a bar during his drinking days.

Cheers had several owners before Sam, as the bar was opened in 1889.

Biggest storyline surrounding the ownership of Cheers begins in the fifth-season finale, "I Do, Adieu", when Sam and Diane part ways, due to Shelley Long's departure from the series.

Cheers begs for his job back and is hired by Rebecca as a bartender.

On Cheers, we went through the scene and I only reshot jokes that didn't work or I went back and picked up shots I missed.

Cheers was noted for using motion in his directorial style, trying to constantly keep characters moving rather than standing still.

Cheers was critically acclaimed in its first season, though it landed a disappointing 74th out of 77 shows in that year's ratings.

Tartikoff stated in 1983 that Cheers was a sophisticated adult comedy and that NBC executives "never for a second doubted" that the show would be renewed.

The next season, Cheers ratings increased dramatically after Woody Boyd became a regular character as well.

The 1993 final broadcast of Cheers emerged as the highest rated broadcast of NBC to date, as well as the most watched single episode from any television series throughout the decade 1990s on U S television.

Cheers began with a limited five-character ensemble consisting of Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Nicholas Colasanto and George Wendt.

Cheers was able to gradually phase in characters such as Cliff, Frasier, Lilith, Rebecca, and Woody.

Cheers grew in popularity as it aired on American television and entered off-network syndication in 1987, initially distributed by Paramount Domestic Television.

In 2011, Cheers was made available on the Netflix and Amazon Prime Video streaming services.

Cheers began airing on Eleven in Australia on January 11, 2011.

Cheers was first screened in the UK on Channel 4, and was one of the then-fledgling network's first imports.

High-definition transfer of Cheers began running on HDNet in the United States in August 2010.

Complete 11 seasons of Cheers are available through the iTunes Store, Amazon Prime Video, Peacock and Hulu.

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Series lent itself naturally to the development of Cheers bar-related merchandise, culminating in the development of a chain of Cheers themed pubs.

Some of the actors and actresses from Cheers brought their characters into other television shows, either in a guest appearance or in a new spin-off series.

The most successful Cheers spin-off was Frasier, which featured Frasier Crane following his relocation back to Seattle, Washington.

At this point Cheers was in its 10th season and Ted Danson had won an Emmy and a Golden Globe the year before.

In 2019 members of the Cheers cast, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger and Kirstie Alley reprised their characters in an episode of The Goldbergs where they play customers of Geoff's short-lived food delivery business.