Toast was an American sitcom that took place on NBC from September 30, 1982, until May 20, 1993, for a total of 275 half-hour episodes over eleven seasons. The show is produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in collaboration with Paramount Network Television. The show was created by James Burrows, Glen Charles and Les Charles teams. The event is set in a bar called Cheers in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, and socialize. The main theme song of the event, co-written and performed by Gary Portnoy, lends the refrain "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" as the event slogan.
After his premiere on September 30, 1982, it was almost canceled in his first season when his ranking was almost last in the rankings for his premiere (74 of 77 performances). Toast , however, ended up becoming a highly rated television show in the United States, earning the top ten ranks for eight of eleven seasons, including one season at number one. The show spends most of its time on NBC Thursday night, the "Must See TV" lineup. His much-watched final series was broadcast on May 20, 1993, and 275 episodes of the event have been successfully syndicated throughout the world. Nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series for the eleventh season in the air, he won 28 Primetime Emmy Awards from a record of 117 nominations. The Frasier Crane character (Kelsey Grammer) was featured in eponymous spin-off show, which aired until 2004 and included guest appearances by almost all main characters and small Cheers .
During the run, Cheers became one of the most popular series of all time and has received critical acclaim from start to finish. In 1997, the episode "Thanksgiving Orphans" and "Home Is the Sailor", premiered initially in 1987, respectively ranked No. 1. 7 and No. 45 in TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. In 2002, Cheers was ranked No. 1. 18 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the eighth best written TV series and TV Guide rated it # 11 on the 60 Biggest Events of All Time list.
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Character
Before the Cheers pilot "Give Me a Ring Sometime" was completed and aired in 1982, the series initially consisted of four employees in the first script. Both Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin, regular Cheers customers, are shown; The revisions then add them as one of the regular characters of the series.
Before the production of season 3 finished, Nicholas Colasanto died. Therefore, his Coach character is written as the deceased in season 4. In season 11, Bebe Neuwirth was given a "starring" credit only when he appeared.
Repeating character
Although Cheers operates mostly around the main ensemble player, guest stars and repetitive characters sometimes complement them. Famous recurring guests include Dan Hedaya as Nick Tortelli and Jean Kasem as Loretta Tortelli, who was the main character in the first spin-off of The Tortellis, Fred Dryer as Dave Richards, Annie Golden as Margaret O'Keefe, Derek McGrath as Andy Schroeder (also referred to as Andy Andy), alternately Joel Polis and Robert Desiderio as rival Bar owner Gary, Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec, Roger Rees as Robin Colcord, Tom Skerritt as Evan Drake , Frances Sternhagen as Esther Clavin, Richard Doyle as Walter Gaines, Keene Curtis as John Allen Hill, Anthony Cistaro as Henri, Michael McGuire as Professor Sumner Sloan, and Harry Anderson as Harry 'The Hat' Gittes. Jackie Swanson, who played the recurrent role of Woody's girlfriend and wife finally "Kelly Gaines-Boyd", appeared in 24 episodes from 1989 to 1993. The characters are both dim and naive - but ultimately as sweet as Woody.
Paul Willson plays a rough character "Paul Krapence" over and over. (In one initial appearance in the first season he was called "Glen", and was later credited on screen as "Gregg" and "Tom", but he played the same characters throughout.) Thomas Babson plays "Tom", law students are often ridiculed by Cliff Clavin, for failing to pass the Massachusetts exam. "Al", played by Al Rosen, appears in 38 episodes, and is known for his surly jokes. Rhea Perlman's father, Philip Perlman, plays the role of "Phil".
Celebrity looks
Other celebrities starred in an episode as themselves throughout the series. Sports figures appear on the show itself with connections to Boston or former Sam team, Red Sox, like Luis Tiant, Wade Boggs and Kevin McHale (from Boston Celtics). Some television stars also make guest appearances like themselves like Alex Trebek, Arsenio Hall, Dick Cavett, Robert Urich, George "Spanky" McFarland and Johnny Carson. Various political figures even made appearances in Cheers at that time-Chief of Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William J. Crowe, former Colorado Senator Gary Hart, then Head of the Tip O'Neill Council, then -Senator John Kerry, then Governor Michael Dukakis, Ethel Kennedy (widow of Robert F. Kennedy), and then Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, the last five who all represent home towns and cities of Cheers.
In the mother role, Glynis Johns, in a guest appearance in 1983, plays Diane's mother, Helen Chambers. Nancy Marchand plays Frasier's mother, Hester Crane, in an episode that aired in 1985. In an episode that aired in 1992, Celeste Holm played a joke from a paternal grandmother. Melendy Britt appeared in the episode " Woody or Will not He " (1990) as Kelly's mother, Roxanne Gaines, a very attractive upper-class woman and cougar upscale flirtatious and flirty who tried to woo Woody.
Musician Harry Connick, Jr. appears in an episode as Woody's cousin and plays the song from his Grammy-winning album, We Are in Love (c) 1991). John Cleese won the Emmy Primetime Award for his guest appearance as "Dr. Simon Finch-Royce" in the fifth episode of the season, "Simon Says". Emma Thompson starred in guest stars as Nanny G/Nannette Guzman, a famous singer and former wife of Frasier. Christopher Lloyd became a guest star as a tormented artist who wanted to paint Diane. Marcia Cross portrays Sister Rebecca, Susan, in episode 7 of season Sisterly Love . John Mahoney once appeared as an incompetent jingle writer, which included a brief conversation with Frasier Crane, whose father was later depicted in the Frasier spin-off. Gilpin's fairy, who later played Roz Doyle on Frasier, also appeared in one episode of Cheers in the 11th season, as Holly Matheson, a reporter who interviewed Woody. The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley, also guested in various episodes. In the final episode of Kirstie Alley's run as Rebecca, she is courted from Cheers by the man who came to fix one of the kegs of beer - surprising a "high class" woman - who incidentally was Tom Berenger.
An important guest appearance of the actress describing Sam's sexual conquest or potential sexual encounters include: Kate Mulgrew in the finale of three episodes of the fourth season, describing Boston councilwoman Janet Eldridge; Donna McKechnie as Debra, Sam's ex-wife (with whom she had good relations), pretending to be an intellectual in front of Diane; Barbara Babcock as Lana Marshall, a talent agency specializing in representing male athletes, whose clients she regularly sleeps on demand; Julia Duffy as Rebecca Prout, a depressed intellectual friend Diane; Alison La Placa as Paula Nelson's reporter; Carol Kane as Amanda, whom Sam finally learned was a fellow patient in a sanitarium with Diane; Barbara Feldon as Lauren Hudson, Sam's Valentine's Day of fling (in honor of Same Time, Next Year ); Sandahl Bergman as Judy Marlowe, an old veteran sex partner and now his elder daughter, Laurie Marlowe (Chelsea Noble), who has always regarded Sam as a pseudo-father figure, Sam falls in love; Madolyn Smith-Osborne as Dr. Sheila Rydell, a colleague of Frasier and Lilith; Valerie Mahaffey as Valerie Hill, the daughter of John Allen Hill whom Sam pursued if only to get the upper hand in his business relationship with Hill; and Alexis Smith as Alice Anne Volkman, a much older former Rebecca professor. In season 9, episode 17, I Got Acting Together and Sticked to Your Face, Sam, terrified when he believed that Rebecca wanted to have a serious relationship with her, devised a plan for that thought nonsense in her mind, a plan that required her to be gay, his lover became an ordinary friend named Leon (Jeff McCarthy) - the plan eventually led to a kiss between Sam and Leon. Death of Nicholas Colasanto
Toward the end of production of the third season, the writers of Cheers have to deal with the death of one of the lead actors. During the third season, the heart condition of Nicholas Colasanto (who had been diagnosed in the mid-1970s) worsened. Weight loss and difficulty breathing during filming. Shortly before the third season of filming wrapped, Colasanto was hospitalized for fluid in his lungs. Even though he recovered, he was not cleared to get back to work. While visiting the set in January 1985 to watch the making of several episodes, Co-Star Shelley Long commented, "I think we're all in denial.We all love him there, but he's lost a lot of weight." Co-star Rhea Perlman added: "[He] really wants to be there, he does not want to be sick, he can not breathe properly, it's hard, he works all the time." Colasanto eventually died of a heart attack at his home on February 12, 1985.
The third season episode Cheers was filmed broken, partly to accommodate the pregnancy of Long player members. As a result, the end of the season, which included several scenes with Colasanto, was filmed at the time of his death. In the third season episode that has not been filmed at this point, Coach is said to "go" for various reasons.
The cute writing staff assembled in June 1985, at the start of the fourth season's production, to discuss how to deal with Coach's absence. They quickly discarded the idea that he might have moved, because they felt he would never leave his friends. In addition, since most viewers are aware of the death of Colasanto, the writing staff decides to handle the situation more openly. The four season opener, "Birth, Death, Love, and Rice", dealt with Coach's death and also introduced Woody Harrelson, Colasanto's successor.
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Episode
Themes
Almost all Cheers occur in the front of the bar, but the characters often go to the rear pool room or the bar office. Toast did not show any action outside the bar until the first episode of the second season, which took place at Diane's apartment.
The main theme of the event at the beginning of the season is the romance between Diane Chambers' intellectual waiter and bar owner Sam Malone, a former premier league baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and a recovering alcoholic. After Shelley Long (Diane) left the show, the focus shifted to Sam's new relationship with Rebecca Howe, the climber of the neurotic ladder company.
Many Cheers scripts are centered or touch a variety of social issues, though funny. As to Toasting say, "This text is further strengthened by the courage of authors in successfully addressing controversial issues such as alcoholism, homosexuality, and adultery."
Social class is the subtext of the show. "Upscale" - represented by characters like Diane Chambers, Frasier Crane and Lilith SterninÃ, - rubs shoulders with middle-class characters and workers - Sam Malone, Carla Tortelli, Norm Peterson, and Cliff Clavin. An extreme example of this is the relationship between Woody Boyd and the daughter of a millionaire, Kelly Gaines. Many viewers enjoy Cheers partly because they focus on developing this character in addition to plot development.
Feminism and the role of women are also a recurring theme throughout the show, with some critics looking at each of the main female characters describing aspects as defective feminists in their own way. Diane is a vocal feminist, and Sam is the emblem of all that he hates: a basket of eyes and a chauvinist man. (See "Sam and Diane".)
Homosexuality was handled from the first season, which was rare in the early 1980s on American television. In the first season episode of "The Boys in the Bar", a friend and former teammate Sam came out in his autobiography. Some permanent male workers pressure Sam to take action to make sure Cheers is not a gay bar. The episode won the GLAAD Media Award, and screenwriter Ken Levine and David Isaacs, was nominated for the Emmy Primetime Award.
Addiction also plays a role in Cheers , almost exclusively through Sam. He is an alcoholic who has bought a bar during his drinking days. Frasier has a drinking habit in the fourth episode of "The Triangle" season, while Woody develops gambling problems in the seventh season of "Call Me Irresponsible".
Owner of Cheers
Cheers had several owners before Sam, when the bar opened in 1889. "Est. 1895" on the bar sign is the date created chosen by Carla for numerology purposes, revealed in season 8, episode 6, "The Stork Brings a Crane", which also revealed the address bar as 112 1/2 Beacon Street and it came from Mom's name. In the second episode of the series, "Sam's Women", Coach tells customers who are looking for Gus, the owner of Cheers, that Gus is dead. In the next episode, Gus O'Mally returns from Arizona for one night and helps run the bar.
The biggest storyline about Cheers ownership begins at the end of the fifth season, "I Do, Adieu", when Sam and Diane separate, due to Shelley Long's departure from the series. In addition, Sam left the journey to sail around the world. Before leaving, Sam sold Cheers to Lillian Corporation. He returned at the sixth season premiere, "Home is the Sailor", after sinking his boat, to find a bar under the new management of Rebecca Howe. She begged for her work again and was hired by Rebecca as a bartender. In the seventh season premiere, "How to Give Up in Business", Rebecca was fired and Sam was promoted to manager. Rebecca was allowed to keep a job in Lillian vaguely similar to what she had before, but only after Sam had Rebecca (in absentia) "agreed" with a long list of demands that the company had for her.
From there Sam occasionally tries to buy the bar back with a scheme that usually involves rich executives Robin Colcord. Sam acquired Cheers again in the eighth season finals, when it was sold back to him for 85Ã, ¢ by Lillian Corporation, after he warned the company to trade inside Colcord. Dismissed by the corporation because of his silence on this issue, Rebecca is employed by Sam as the home/office manager. For the rest of the episode, to celebrate Sam's reclamation bar, a large banner hanging from the ladder, read "Under OLD Management"!
Production
Creations and concepts
Three people developed and created the television series Cheers: The Charles brothers - Glen and Les - and James Burrows, who identified themselves as "two Mormons and a Jew." They aim to "create a performance around the Spencer-Tracy-Katharine Hepburn-type relationship" between their two main characters, Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. Malone represents the average man, while Chambers represents class and sophistication. The show revolves around the characters in the bar under "cute adult themes" and "situations."
The original idea was a group of workers who interacted like a family, the goal being a concept similar to The Mary Tyler Moore Show . The authors consider creating an American version of the British Fawlty Towers, installed at a hotel or inn. When creators settle in the bar as their setting, the show begins to resemble Duffy's Tavern radio show, a program originally written and coined by James Burrows's father, Abe Burrows. They love the idea of ​​a tavern, because it provides a constant stream of new people, for various characters.
Initial discussions about the location of the show were centered in Barstow, California, then Kansas City, Missouri. They finally turned to the East Coast and finally Boston. Bull & amp; Finch Pub in Boston, which is a model for Cheers, is selected from the phone book. When Glen Charles asked the bar owner, Tom Kershaw, to take exterior and interior photos, he agreed, charging $ 1. Kershaw has since steadily made millions of dollars, licensing the pub's image and selling Cheerful memorabilia . Bull & amp; Finch became the 42nd busiest outlet in the American food and beverage industry in 1997. During the initial casting, Shelley Long, who was in Boston during the filming of A Small Circle of Friends, commented that the bar in the script resembles bar he met in town, which turned out to be a Bull & amp; Finch.
Production team
Crew Cheers numbered in the hundreds. The three creators - James Burrows and Charles brothers, Glen and Les - continue to have offices in the Paramount section for the duration of Cheers run. Charles Brothers remained overall responsibility during the event, often writing major episodes, although beginning with the third season they began delegating the task of writing daily staff to various broadcasters. Ken Estin and Sam Simon were appointed as performers for the third season, and were replaced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee the following year. Angell, Casey and Lee will remain pioneers until the end of the seventh season when they go to develop their own sitcom, Wings, and are replaced by Cheri Eichen, Bill Steinkellner and Phoef Sutton for the eighth through the tenth season. For the last season, Tom Anderson and Dan O'Shannon acted as performers.
James Burrows is considered a factor in the longevity of this event, directing 243 of the 270 episodes and overseeing the production of the show. Among the other event directors are Andy Ackerman, Thomas Lofaro, Tim Berry, Tom Moore, Rick Beren, and the cast of John Ratzenberger and George Wendt.
Craig Safan provides the original music of this series for the whole course except the theme song. His vast composition for the show won him many awards for ASCAP's Top TV Series for his music.
Casting
The character of Sam Malone was originally intended to be a retired soccer player and was scheduled to be played by Fred Dryer, but, after casting Ted Danson, it was decided that the former baseball player (Sam "Mayday" Malone) would be more trustworthy. The dryer, however, will go on to play sports announcer Dave Richards, an old friend of Sam, in three episodes. Cliff Clavin's character was created for John Ratzenberger after he auditioned for the role of Norm Peterson, who eventually went to George Wendt. When chatting with the producer afterwards, he asks if they will include a "bar know-it-all", the part he finally played. Alley joins the player when Shelley Long leaves, and Woody Harrelson joins when Nicholas Colasanto dies. Danson, Perlman and Wendt are the only actors to appear in every series episode; Ratzenberger appears in all but one.
Photography styles and locations
Most episodes of Cheers are, as the dubbed voice stated at the beginning of each episode, "filmed before a live studio audience" at Paramount Stage 25 in Hollywood, generally on Tuesday night. Scripts for new episodes were released on Wednesday to read, Friday is a practice day, and final script is released on Monday. Burrows, who directed most of the episodes, insisted on using film stock rather than videotape. He is also famous for using the moves in his directing style, trying to keep the characters moving rather than silent. During the first season when ratings were bad Paramount and NBC requested that the show use videotapes to save money, but poor record recording ended the experiment and Cheerful continued to use the movie.
Due to a decision by Glen and Les Charles, the cold openness is often not connected with the rest of the episode, with the lowest ranked writer assigned to create a joke for them. Some cold opening is taken from episodes that run too long.
The first year of the show took place completely within the bar boundaries, the first location outside the bar was Diane's apartment. When the series becomes a hit, the characters start exploring further, first to another set and finally to the exterior location occasionally. Image of exterior bar location is from Bull & amp; Finch Pub, located just north of Boston Public Park. The pub has become a tourist attraction because of its relationship with the series, and attracts nearly one million visitors annually. Since then it has been renamed Cheers Beacon Hill; the interior is different from the TV bar. The Pub itself is on 84 Beacon Street (on the corner of Brimmer St). In August 2001, there was a replica made from the bar at Faneuil Hall to harness the popularity of the show.
Theme song
Before "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo, became the theme song of the show, Cheers ' the manufacturer rejected the two songs Portnoy and Hart Angelo. The songwriter has collaborated to provide music for Preppies , a failed Broadway musicals. When told that they can not select "People Like Us", the opening song Preppies ', the couple wrote another song "My Kind of People", which looks like "People Like Us "and intended to insinuate" old WASP lifestyle-old decadent money, "but, to satisfy producer demand, they rewrote the lyrics to be about" likable losers "in Boston bars. The show producers refused this song, too. After they read the script from the pilot series, they created another song "Another Day". When Portnoy and Hart Angelo heard that NBC had commissioned thirteen episodes, they made the official theme song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" and rewrote the lyrics. On the syndication broadcast of Cheers , the theme song is shortened to make room for the ad.
Reception
Critical reception
Cheers has been critically acclaimed in its first season, though it landed a disappointing 74 out of 77 performances in that year's rankings. This critical support, early success at the Primetime Emmy Awards, and support from NBC's entertainment division president Brandon Tartikoff are considered to be the main reasons for the survival and success of the event. Tartikoff stated in 1983 that Cheers was a sophisticated adult comedy and NBC executives, "never for a moment any doubt" that the show would not be renewed. Author Levine believes that the most important reason is that the network recognizes that it does not have other hit shows to help promote Cheers ; when he later wrote, "[NBC] does not have anything better to replace it."
Ranking was upgraded for a summer rerun after the first season. The performers held various talk shows to try to promote the series further after the first season. In the second season, Cheers competes with CBS's top-ranked event Simon & amp; Simon . With the growing popularity of Family Ties , which took place in the slot ahead of Cheers from January 1984 to Family Ties moved to Sunday in 1987, and placement < i> The Cosby Show in front of both at the start of their third season (1984), the line-up became a success rating that NBC eventually dubbed "Must See Thursday". The next season, the Cheers rating increased dramatically after Woody Boyd became a regular character as well. At the end of his last season, the show has eight successive seasons in the Big Ten Nielsen rankings; seven of them are in the Big Five.
Cheers is probably the first sitcom with a serial storyline, starting with the third season. The success of the event helped make such a multi-episode story popular on television, which Les Charles regretted.
[W] e may be partly responsible for what's happening now, where if you miss the first or second episode, you're lost. You have to wait until you can get everything on DVD and catch up with it. If the blood is in our hands, I feel a bit bad about it. This can be very frustrating. "
Toast begins with a five-character limited ensemble consisting of Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Nicholas Colasanto and George Wendt. By the time the 10 season starts, the event has eight front characters in the list. Cheers are also able to gradually phase in characters like Cliff, Frasier, Lilith, Rebecca, and Woody. During season 1, only one set, the bar, which holds all the episodes. The next season introduces other devices, but the show's ability to focus on bar action and avoid misdirection is important.
NBC dedicated a full night for the last episode of Cheers , following the one-hour season end season Seinfeld (which is the beginning). The event started with a "pregame" event organized by Bob Costas, followed by the last 98 minutes episode itself. The NBC affiliate then broadcasts the tribute to Cheers during their local newscast, and the night ends with a special Night Special broadcast broadcast live from Bull & amp; Finch Pub. Although the episode did not achieve its predicted ratings for being the most watched television episode, it was the most watched show of the year, carrying 93.5 million viewers (64 percent of all viewers that night), and was ranked 11th along time in entertainment program.. The 1993 final broadcast of Cheers also appeared as the highest NBC broadcast at the moment, as well as the most watched single episode of any television series during the 1990s on US television.
The episode originally aired on the usual spot Ceria Thursday night, and then re-broadcast on Sunday. While the original broadcast did not outperform the suffix M * A * S * H ​​â € <â € <, a mix of non-recurring audiences for Thursday and Sunday shows. It should also be noted that television has greatly changed between the two finals, leaving Cheers with wider competition for ranking.
In 2013, the GQ magazine held an online competition to find the best TV comedy. Cheers was voted the greatest comedy event of all time. In 2017, James Charisma from Paste (magazine) ranked the # 5 opening event sequence on the 75 Best TV Title Title list of All Time .
Awards and honor
During eleven season run, the Cheerful players and crew get many awards. The show garnered a record 111 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, for a total of 28 wins. In addition, Cheers earned 31 Golden Globe nominations, for a total of six wins. Danson, Long, Alley, Perlman, Wendt, Ratzenberger, Harrelson, Grammer, Neuwirth, and Colasanto all received Emmy nominations for their roles. Cheers won the Golden Globe Award for Best TV-Series, Comedy/Musical in 1991 and Emmy Primetime Award for Extraordinary Comedy Series in 1983, 1984, 1989, and 1991. Serial was presented with the "Legend Award" at the 2006 TV Land Awards, with many surviving cast members attending the event.
Here are the awards that have been earned by Ceria players and crew during their 11 seasons:
Distribution
Syndication
Cheers became more popular when aired on American television and entered into an off-network syndication in 1987, originally distributed by Paramount Domestic Television. When the show began in 1993, Cheers was syndicated in 38 countries with 179 US television markets and 83 million viewers. When the quality of some of the previous snippets from Cheers began to deteriorate, it experienced a careful recovery in 2001 due to its continued success. The series was aired on Nick at Nite from 2001 to 2004 and on TV Land from 2004 to 2008. With Nick on Nite aired the week long Cheers "All Your People Know Your Name" marathon. The show was removed from the lineup in 2004. The series began airing on Hallmark Channel in the United States in October 2008, and WGN America in 2009, where it continues to air on both channels. In January 2011, Reelz Channel began broadcasting the series within an hour-long block. TV started broadcasting Cheers evenings in 2010. Recently, USA Network performed a rerunning series on Sunday mornings and mornings on weekdays in order to feature 2d2 length extended movies hours and maintains symmetrical schedules.
Starting April 2011, Netflix started entering Ceria as one of the titles in the "live viewing" streaming service. Amazon added it to Prime services in July.
A Toast repeatedly substituted the substitution of Naughtiest Australia Home Video on September 4, 1992 at Network Nine in Australia. The latter was canceled mid-episode on broadcast only by Kerry Packer, who pulled the plug after a phone call. It was repeated several years later in the Nine Network shortly after Packer's death in 2005. Cheerful is currently airing on Eleven (Digital Ten network channel) starting January 11, 2011 in Australia. When Cheers were shown by NCRV in the Netherlands, they showed all 275 episodes in sequence, once per night, repeating the series three times.
In 2012, Cheers has been repeated on UK CBS Drama satellite channel. Cheers are also featured on UK ITV4's free-to-air channel where two episodes are shown each night of the weekday. Because the ITV syndication is also available for viewing on the ITV Player online for seven days after broadcast. On March 16, 2015, the series began airing on UK subscription channels Gold on weekdays at 9:30 am and 10:00 am.
They are also currently airing on ReelzChannel.
High definition
High definition transfer Cheers started running on HDNet in the United States in August 2010. Originally taken from the movie (but transferred to and edited on a videotape) the program was broadcast in a 4: 3 aspect ratio, the new version transferred is 16: 9. However, in the UK, HD repetition on ITV4 HD is shown in the original 4: 3 aspect ratio.
DVD release
Paramount Home Entertainment and (since 2006 onwards) CBS Home Entertainment has released all 11 Seasons of Cheers on DVD in Region 1, Region 2 and Region 4. In the US, the last three seasons have music substitutions. In "Grease", "I Fought the Law" is replaced; its deletion affects the comedy value of the original scene.
On March 6, 2012, they released Fan Favorites: The Best of Cheers . Based on Facebook poll 2012, the selected episodes are:
- "Give Me a Ring Someime" (season 1, episode 1)
- "Diane's Perfect Date" (season 1, episode 17)
- "Choose Con, Any Con" (season 1, episode 19)
- "Abnormal Psychology" (season 5, episode 4)
- "Thanksgiving Orphans" (season 5, episode 9)
- "Dinner at Eight-ish" (season 5, episode 20)
- "Simon Says" (season 5, episode 21)
- "An Old Fashioned Wedding", parts one and two (season 10, episode 25)
On May 5, 2015, CBS DVD released the Cheers-The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.
Digital media distribution
The complete ten seasons of Cheers are available through Netflix's United States streaming service, ITunes Store, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu Plus. In Canada all season Cheers are available on the Crave TV streaming service.
License
The series lends itself naturally to the development of the Cheerful bar-related merchandise, culminating in the development of the Ceria-themed pub chain Cheers . The Paramount licensing group, led by Tom McGrath, developed the concept of a Ceria pub initially in partnership with Host Marriott, which puts Cheer themed pubs in over 15 airports around the world. Boston boasts an authentic Cheers bar, historically known by Boston insiders as Bull and Finch, as well as Cheers restaurant in Faneuil Hall market, and Sam's Place, spin Concept sports bar- off is also located in Faneuil Hall. In 1997, the first licensed European licensed bar Cheers opened at Regent's Street W1, London. Like Cheers Faneuil Hall, Cheers London is a replica of the set. The opening of the gala was attended by James Burrows and cast players George Wendt and John Ratzenberger. The Cheers bar in London closed on December 31, 2008. The actual bar set has been on display at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum until the closure of the museum in early 2006.
The theme song for the event was eventually licensed to a Canadian restaurant, Kelsey's Neighborhood Bar & amp; Grill.
CBS currently holds the rights to the Ceria franchise as a result of the division of Viacom 2006 which saw Paramount move its entire television studio to CBS.
Spin-offs, crossovers, and cultural references
Some actors and actresses from Cheers bring their characters to other television shows, whether in guest appearances or in new spin-off series. The most successful cheer is Frasier , featuring Frasier Crane after relocating back to Seattle, Washington. Sam, Diane, and Woody all appeared in the episode of Frasier , with Lilith appearing as a guest on several episodes. In the nine episode of "Cheerful Goodbyes", Frasier returns to Boston and meets the Cheers gang, then attends Cliff's retirement party.
Although Frasier is more successful, The Tortellis is the first series for the spin-off from Cheers , premiered in 1987. The show features Carla's ex-husband Nick Tortelli and his wife Loretta, but canceled after 13 episodes and invited protests for the stereotypical portrayal of Italian-Americans.
In addition to direct spin-offs, some Cheers characters have crossover guest appearances with other events, including Wing and . Elsewhere ("Cheers" episode). Cheers has also been falsified or referenced in other media, including The Simpsons (spoofing the title sequence and theme song in "Flaming Moe"; actually visiting the venue with the role of the vocal role of the majority of players ("My Life in Four Cameras" episodes, Adventure Time (episode "Simon & Marcy"), comedy movie 2012 Ted and video games 2011 Dragon Age II .
In the 2015 video game Fallout 4 , set in Boston, there is a bar called 'Prost Bar' near Boston Common which, when included, is a similar replica of the bars used in the series. Even including 2 corpses sitting at the end of the bar, with one of them dressed in a Mail Carrier uniform, a direct reference to Cliff Cliff's usual cliff barge.
The eighth anniversary of "Late Night with David Letterman", aired in 1990, started with a scene in Cheers, where the TV bar stalled on NBC, and all the bar visitors decided to go home instead to watch Letterman. The scene was again used to open the final episode of Letterman in 1993. A similar scene was shown in the Super Bowl XVII Pregame Show on NBC, where characters briefly discussed the upcoming match.
In the second episode of the "Swarley" season of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother , in the last scene, Barney goes into the bar and everyone shouts "Swarley," just like when traditional characters shout "Norma!" every time Norm Peterson enters the Cheers bar, and he turns around and walks sadly as Carl the bartender plays "Where Everybody Knows Your Name." The camera angle also changes to show the same set-up and framing bars for the main interior bar image shown in Cheers . In addition, the final credit was made in the "Cooper Black" gold font of the Cheers credits (which was a very popular font for sitcoms from early to mid 1980s).
The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The Morn character is named for Norm Peterson because Armin Shimerman mentions an unnamed "Norm" character among the take.
Theatrical Drama Cheers: Live On Stage revives a concise version of the first two seasons of the show.
One episode of Cheers has a crossover reference for Spenser: For Hire (a Cheater bartender has a cameo appearance as an unspeakable addition).
In Guard from Galaxy Vol. 2 , Peter Quill makes many references to the Cheers event.
In the season 2 final of the NBC sitcom The Good Place , Ted Danson Michael's character appears as a bartender while wearing a blue checkered button, with a clear tribute to Danson's character on Cheers.
Remake
In September 2011, Plural Entertainment made its debut in re-making the series on Spanish television, also titled Cheers . Set in an Irish pub, he starred in Alberto San Juan as NicolÃÆ'¡s "Nico" Arnedo, the equivalent of Sam Malone in the original series. It also uses the original theme song, re-recorded in Spanish by Dani MartÃÆ'n, entitled "DÃÆ'³nde la gente se divierte."
In December 2012, The Irish Film and Television Network announced that the casting was underway on the Irish version of Cheers produced by the production company Sideline. The new show, while titled Teach SeÃÆ'¡n , will air on Irish TG4 and feature the main characters who, like Sam Malone, are bar owners, retired athletes and recovering alcoholics. Except for the setting in Ireland, the bartender is a "former star who throws" rather than a former baseball player.
Cheers: Live On Stage
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