"Cheers" aired on NBC from 1982 to 1993. It centered on a Boston bar of the same name, owned by former baseball player Sam (Ted Danson). The show featured mostly cheerful banter from his staff, including waitress and love interest Diane (Shelley Long), and the bar's frequent patrons.
The sitcom was nominated for Best Comedy every year it aired. Though the show struggled with getting an audience early on, it later earned very high ratings. "Cheers" writer Ken Levine wrote that he believed the reason the network didn't axe the show was that "they had nothing else better to replace it with."
