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American television series
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Cheers, popular American television comedy series that appeared on NBC for 11 seasons (1982–93), ranking in the top 10 of the year-end Nielsen ratings seven times. A mixture of comedy and soap-opera romance, it followed the lives of the staff and patrons of Cheers, a fictional bar in Boston. Cheers’s bartender-owner Sam Malone (played by Ted Danson), a witty former Major League Baseball pitcher, was forever on the make. Graduate student–waitress Diane Chambers (Shelley Long, 1982–87) was the particular object of his affection, and their sparring, filled with sexual tension, provided plenty of humour over the course of their on-again, ...(100 of 319 words)

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