In the series finale, "One for the Road" (1993), Sam reunites with Diane after six years of separation. They try to rekindle their relationship, but just before they fly off together to California, Sam and Diane begin to have doubts about their future together, and they re-separate.
The final episode of "Cheers" was a 90-minute special that brought Sam and Diane back together. After a series of deceptions and misunderstandings, the couple agreed to marry and move to California. At the last minute, Sam decides that his real life is at Cheers, and he returns to the bar.
Who was the person at the door at the end of Cheers?
The person who walks up and knocks on the door in the last scene is Bob Broder, agent for the show's creators Glen Charles and Les Charles and James Burrows.
In the series finale, she marries Don and resigns from Cheers to devote more time to her husband and to start a family. At first she regrets the marriage, but when Don later works for the Boston sewer department, she becomes happier with it.
As Sam prepares to close up, a single figure knocks at the door, only for Sam to announce, “Sorry, we're closed.” Cheers the show was over, but it's appropriately comforting that Sam Malone will open the place up each morning.
In 1989, Eddie was written out of the show entirely. The official reason given was negative viewer reaction to Carla's being married, but in 2006, Thomas indicated that he was fired from Cheers for publicly insulting the physical attractiveness of Rhea Perlman, the actress who played Carla.
While Diane did not hold Sam to the proposal since it was made under duress, he affirmed that he still wanted to marry her. Diane was written out of Cheers following Shelley Long's decision to leave the show after Season 5 in 1987.
While the chemistry between Toheeb Jimoh's Sam and Hannah Waddingham's Rebecca is undeniable and, in one sense, made us want to root for them, we're glad the romance ended when it did – and we're also glad that Ted Lasso season three, so far, has practically chosen to ignore it.
During the panel, one actor revealed what was actually flowing on-draft at Cheers: flat, salty, non-alcoholic beer. Actor George Wednt, who played Norm Peterson on the 11-season series, said the draft beer employed a bit of movie magic — and a whole lot of sodium chloride — to amp up the beer's foamy appearance.
Ted Danson wore a hairpiece to conceal his baldness for the role of Sam Malone during filming of Cheers. His baldness was revealed at the 42nd Primetime Emmy Awards (1990). In the episode "It's Lonely on the Top" (1993), Sam Malone reveals his baldness to Carla (Rhea Perlman).
In the spin-off Frasier, he is only seen once during "Cheerful Goodbyes", where the regulars at Cheers throw him a retirement party. He originally plans on moving to Florida for his retirement, but then decided to stay in Boston (much to Carla's dismay).
Kirstie Alley joined Cheers in season 6 after Long left, and they never met, until the series finale. Long returned as Diane for the Cheers series finale.
In 1989, Swanson joined the cast of Cheers in the recurring role of Kelly Gaines. Her character was a pretty, wealthy, naïve, Lutheran girl, who would eventually marry Woody Boyd, played by Woody Harrelson. She continued to appear in the show until the series ended in 1993.
Woody Harrelson's real-life arm injury was incorporated into his character Woody Boyd's arm injury. Woody Harrelson broke his arm when his car flipped during a practice for the Pro-Celebrity preliminary of the Toyota Grand Prix in 1987, which is why he is wearing a cast.
The Power of Love: Lampshaded by Norm to Sam in the ending sequence of the series finale: "You can never be unfaithful to your One True Love. You always come back to her." It's implied that he means the bar—though he had earlier repeatedly described Diane as "the love of Sam's life."
Robin was an English multi-millionaire industrialist, who spent most of his time on Cheers as a love interest for the gold-digging Rebecca Howe. This led to his developing something of a rivalry with Sam Malone because of Sam's own romantic interest in Rebecca.
In the episode 'No Wedding and a Funeral', however, Rebecca ends things with Sam and tells him that she can't bear the thought of getting hurt again. (Obviously, our precious Sam is nothing like Rebecca's wicked ex-husband Rupert, but her concerns are valid nonetheless.)
Later in season 9, Robin is eventually released from jail and proposes to Rebecca, and she accepts. In The Days of Wine and Neuroses, Rebecca becomes drunk and confesses that she is questioning her feelings for Robin now that he has lost much of his fortune.
She earned five Emmy nominations and one win for Cheers, and went on to series including Good Advice and Modern Family, in addition to stepping into the role of Carol Brady in the updated Brady Bunch movies. Long has been married twice; she has one daughter, actress Juliana, with ex Bruce Tyson.
The series also produced three spin-offs: The Tortellis, Wings, and Frasier; and a Spanish remake. In 2002, Cheers was ranked No. 18 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Kelsey Grammer played Frasier Crane on Cheers from 1984 through to 1993 (the final season). The character evolved to be more of a regular at the bar and a friend to Sam, Rebecca, Cliff, Woody, and Norm, and not as stuffy- and more relatable.
