Sam and Diane in "Any Friend of Diane's" (1982; season 1, episode 6)
Sam Malone and Diane Chambers, collectively known as Sam and Diane, are fictional characters in the American situation comedy television series Cheers. Sam Malone is a working-class, retired baseball player-turned-bartender played by Ted Danson; Diane Chambers is a college-graduate cocktail waitress played by Shelley Long. Danson appeared on Cheers for its entire run of the series; Long was part of the regular cast from the 1982 series premiere ("Give Me a Ring Sometime") until the fifth-season finale, "I Do, Adieu" (1987). Long returned for a special appearance in the 1993 series finale, "One for the Road."
During the first five seasons, Sam and Diane both flirt with and condemn each other as social opposites, repeatedly consummating their relationship and breaking up. When they are not together, Sam has affairs with many women; Diane has relationships with men fitting her upper-class aspirations, such as Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer), a long-running character who initially debuts in the third season as Diane's love interest in the romantic pair's dynamic. Each of the first four season finales ends with a cliffhanger involving the story arc. In "I Do, Adieu" (1987) Sam and Diane are due to marry, but they cancel the wedding when Diane leaves Sam and the bar to begin a career as a writer. In the series finale Sam and Diane are reunited, become engaged and break up again, realizing that they are never meant to be together.
The pairing of Sam and Diane has evoked mixed reactions. Some critics disliked the relationship, either for alienating viewers by dominating the show (and removing its original premise) or because they saw Sam and Diane as a mismatch. Others praised the pair, seeing them as strengthening the show. Some writers compared them to couples in later shows, such as Moonlighting, with their sexual tension and intermittent relationships.
pilot episode, Diane works as a bar waitress. She has an on-off relationship with the womanizing bartender Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and a one-year relationship...
student", Diane Chambers (Shelley Long). One time after SamandDiane ended their on-and-off relationship, in "Rebound, Part One" (episode 45, 1984), Sam relapses...
Crane, intended as part of a love triangle with SamandDiane for the season. Actresses Rhea Perlman and Shelley Long were pregnant; Perlman's pregnancy...
relationships with Diane Chambers, his opposite, in the first five seasons (1982–1987). During the breaks in their relationship, Sam has flings with many...
September 25, 1986, and May 7, 1987. This season marks the departure of Shelley Long as Diane Chambers, bringing an end to the SamandDiane relationship (although...
Series, in 1983 and 1984. Critical reception was mostly positive, with negative commentary about the extended romance between SamandDiane. During season...
was still a success. Ted Danson as Sam Malone — bartender, owner, retired Red Sox relief pitcher Shelley Long as Diane Chambers — snobby waitress, the moral...
third-season premiere, "Rebound (Part 1)" (1984), as Diane Chambers's love interest, part of the SamandDiane story arc. Intended to appear for only a few episodes...
only four principal characters: Sam Malone, Diane Chambers, Carla Tortelli, and Ernie "Coach" Pantusso. Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin were absent from...
insults her, but Diane's lack of retaliation serves to annoy Carla even more. In 1987, Diane leaves Boston andSam for a writing and film or screenplay...
(1984), after SamandDiane ended their on-and-off relationship, Coach goes to Diane Chambers's (Shelley Long) apartment to inform her about Sam's relapse into...
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States and on October 14, 1982 in Alaska. The pilot episode introduces the characters at the Cheers bar in Boston: employees Sam Malone, Diane Chambers...
the bar. According to Les Charles, Sam was a straight man to Diane; with Diane gone, they made him more carefree and a "goof-off". We thought of the part...
Samand Monica in what seems like a goodbye and ending of their relationship while Howard and Grace have refound their passion for each other. Diane Keaton...
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