Give Me a Ring Sometime is the title of the first episode of season 1 of the hit NBC sitcom Cheers. The episode first aired on September 30, 1982. The show's ratings were dead last. Despite this, Cheers would stay on tv for over ten years.
As owner Sam Malone opens up the bar, a couple enters. Professor Sumner Sloane and his Boston University student and fiancée Diane Chambers are to go to Barbados to be married, but Sumner's ex-wife still has th...
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Give Me a Ring Sometime is the title of the first episode of season 1 of the hit NBC sitcom Cheers. The episode first aired on September 30, 1982. The show's ratings were dead last. Despite this, Cheers would stay on tv for over ten years.
As owner Sam Malone opens up the bar, a couple enters. Professor Sumner Sloane and his Boston University student and fiancée Diane Chambers are to go to Barbados to be married, but Sumner's ex-wife still has the ring he wishes to give Diane as a wedding ring. Sumner asks Sam to keep an eye on Diane for him while he goes to retrieve it.
Sam tries chatting up Diane but she's not interested. The other employees at Cheers arrive for work: waitress and single mom Carla Tortelli, and bartender Ernie Pantusso, who is known by the nickname "Coach" and was Sam's baseball coach back in the days when Sam was a relief pitcher for the Red Sox. Diane meets the Cheers employees, and waits patiently while Norm Peterson, Cliff Clavin, and other barflys talk bar...
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