11 Facts About Diane Chambers

Diane Chambers is a fictional character in the American television situation comedy show Cheers, portrayed by Shelley Long and created by Glen and Les Charles.

Diane Chambers premiered in Cheers in 1982 as a former teaching assistant and graduate student who works as a cocktail waitress.

Diane Chambers was said to have attended Bennington College and pursued graduate studies at Boston University.

Diane Chambers had on-and-off relationships with womanizing bartender Sam Malone, a former professional athlete and a foil to her intellectual persona.

When Sam and Diane Chambers ended one of their relationships at the end of the second season, Diane Chambers went to a psychiatric hospital in the following season and met psychiatrist Frasier Crane, and the two set off to marry in Europe at the end of that season.

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Diane Chambers left Boston, promising Sam that she would return in six months.

Diane Chambers is full of gumption and chutzpah, but quite frequently, she doesn't have the vaguest idea [about] what's going on.

Diane Chambers'sdecision was so surprising that it became national news and greatly worried the show's cast and crew, who believed that the Sam-Diane relationship was fundamental to Cheers success.

Many ideas of writing out Diane Chambers were attempted, but they decided she would leave Boston for a writing career.

James Burrows said they intended Cheers to be a comedy about comedy set in the bar, but the "Sam and Diane Chambers" romance dominated the show for five years and would have made the bar a minor role and less relevant if Long had not left the show in 1987.

In 1999, Diane Chambers was rated number 33 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Characters list.