Season 4 (1985/86)
| Series # |
Season # |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | 1 | "Birth, Death, Love and Rice" | James Burrows | Heide Perlman | September 26, 1985 (1985-09-26) |
| After the passing away of Coach, Sam hires a new bartender in Woody Boyd, Coach's pen pal who has moved to Boston. Frasier arrives back from Europe with the news that Diane left him at the altar for six months of decadent living across Europe and is now seeking renewal in a Boston monastery. | |||||
| 71 | 2 | "Woody Goes Belly Up" | James Burrows | Heide Perlman | October 3, 1985 (1985-10-03) |
| The gang brings Woody's old girlfriend to Boston to visit him and Frasier, still not yet confident about returning to psychiatry, decides to pay his bar bill by working as a janitor. | |||||
| 72 | 3 | "Someday My Prince Will Come" | James Burrows | Tom Seeley and Norm Gunzenhauser | October 17, 1985 (1985-10-17) |
| Diane fantasizes over an expensive coat left behind by a patron and agrees to go out with whoever claims it. | |||||
| 73 | 4 | "The Groom Wore Clearasil" | James Burrows | Peter Casey and David Lee | October 24, 1985 (1985-10-24) |
| Carla asks Sam to tell her teenage son about the joys of bachelorhood and to discourage his urge to get married. | |||||
| 74 | 5 | "Diane's Nightmare" | James Burrows | David Lloyd | October 31, 1985 (1985-10-31) |
| Diane spends a dark and stormy night worrying that Andy Schroeder has escaped and is out to kill her. | |||||
| 75 | 6 | "I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday" | James Burrows | Cheri Eichen and Bill Steinkellner | November 7, 1985 (1985-11-07) |
| Sam lends Diane $500, but begins to worry about her spending habits. | |||||
| 76 | 7 | "2 Good to Be 4 Real" | James Burrows | Peter Casey and David Lee | November 14, 1985 (1985-11-14) |
| Sam and the gang make up an answer to Carla's ad in the personal column to lift her spirits. | |||||
| 77 | 8 | "Love Thy Neighbor" | James Burrows | David Angell | November 21, 1985 (1985-11-21) |
| Norm fears Vera may be having an affair with his neighbor and Sam wastes his time as a radio sports commentator apologizing to Diane. | |||||
| 78 | 9 | "From Beer to Eternity" | James Burrows | Peter Casey and David Lee | November 28, 1985 (1985-11-28) |
| Sam has to convince Woody to help Cheers win a bowling match with Gary's Old Towne Tap a rival bar. | |||||
| 79 | 10 | "The Barstoolie" | James Burrows | Andy Cowan and David S. Williger | December 5, 1985 (1985-12-05) |
| Cliff refuses to identify himself to his estranged father when the man comes to Cheers with an important message for his son. | |||||
| 80 | 11 | "Don Juan Is Hell" | James Burrows | Phoef Sutton | December 12, 1985 (1985-12-12) |
| Sam is happy to be the subject of Diane's psychology term paper until he learns just exactly what the Don Juan syndrome is. | |||||
| 81 | 12 | "Fools and Their Money" | James Burrows | Heide Perlman | December 19, 1985 (1985-12-19) |
| Sam thinks he's doing Woody a favor by not placing a bet for the young man, but the long shot comes in and Sam has to pay off. | |||||
| 82 | 13 | "Take My Shirt...Please?" | James Burrows | David Lloyd | January 9, 1986 (1986-01-09) |
| Sam's ego is crushed when no one bids on his old baseball jersey during a public television auction. | |||||
| 83 | 14 | "Suspicion" | James Burrows | Tom Reeder | January 16, 1986 (1986-01-16) |
| Diane arranges for a stranger to come into Cheers as part of an experiment in paranoid behavior, but then she provides an even better example as she waits for the gang to get back at her. | |||||
| 84 | 15 | "The Triangle" | James Burrows | Susan Seeger | January 23, 1986 (1986-01-23) |
| Diane and Sam try to rebuild Frasier's shattered ego when he starts drinking too much. | |||||
| 85 | 16 | "Cliffie's Big Score" | James Burrows | Heide Perlman | January 30, 1986 (1986-01-30) |
| Cliff has two dates for the postman's ball-with Carla and Diane. | |||||
| 86 | 17 | "Second Time Around" | Thomas Lofaro | Cheri Eichen and Bill Steinkellner | February 6, 1986 (1986-02-06) |
| Frasier has been out on a date with a fellow psychiatrist, Dr Lilith Sternin, but things didn't go too well. Frasier feels depressed, so feeling sorry for him, Sam arranges a date between Frasier and a woman he knows named Candi. But Sam and Diane get a surprise when Frasier proposes to Candi after just one date. | |||||
| 87 | 18 | "The Peterson Principle" | James Burrows | Peter Casey and David Lee | February 13, 1986 (1986-02-13) |
| Norm gets some dirt on his main competitor for a promotion but hesitates to use it. | |||||
| 88 | 19 | "Dark Imaginings" | James Burrows | David Angell | February 20, 1986 (1986-02-20) |
| Sam's date with a younger woman turns into a Raquetball contest against Woody. When Sam gets hurt he sneaks out of the bar and into the hospital. Where Diane finds him and convinces Sam that getting older is not a bad thing. | |||||
| 89 | 20 | "Save the Last Dance for Me" | James Burrows | Heide Perlman | February 27, 1986 (1986-02-27) |
| Carla asks Sam to partner her in a dance contest where their main competition is Nick and Loretta. | |||||
| 90 | 21 | "Fear Is My Co-Pilot" | James Burrows | Cheri Eichen and Bill Steinkeller | March 13, 1986 (1986-03-13) |
| A flying daredevil that Diane barnstormed with across Europe takes her and Sam for a ride and dies at 20,000 feet up. | |||||
| 91 | 22 | "Diane Chambers Day" | James Burrows | Kimberly Hill | March 20, 1986 (1986-03-20) |
| Diane feels depressed and left out of the gang's activities so Frasier organizes a day just for her-at the opera. | |||||
| 92 | 23 | "Relief Bartender" | James Burrows | Miriam Trogdon | March 27, 1986 (1986-03-27) |
| Woody fears for his job when Sam hires a second bartender. | |||||
| 93 | 24 | "Strange Bedfellows, Part 1" | James Burrows | David Angell | May 1, 1986 (1986-05-01) |
| Local councilwoman Janet Eldridge comes to Cheers as part of her re-election campaign, and Sam finds himself smitten with her. Janet and Sam become a couple, but a jealous Diane joins the opposition campaign fearing that if Janet wins the election, she will win Sam's heart as well. Meanwhile Frasier also joins the opposition campaign hoping to win Diane back. | |||||
| 94 | 25 | "Strange Bedfellows, Part 2" | James Burrows | David Angell | May 8, 1986 (1986-05-08) |
| Sam and Janet's relationship is getting stronger and stronger whilst Diane gets more jealous. Janet suggests that Sam fire Diane to sever all ties with his past, but Diane overhears and quits before he can fire her. Vera's sister Donna is visiting the Petersons and Norm is worried that Donna will flirt with him like she did on her last visit. | |||||
| 95 | 26 | "Strange Bedfellows, Part 3" | James Burrows | David Angell | May 15, 1986 (1986-05-15) |
| Janet has won the election and is hosting her press conference at Cheers. Diane turns up to apologise to Sam but ends up asking Janet some personal questions which causes Sam to throw her out of the bar. Later, Sam and Janet talk and realize their relationship won't work, so they break it off. Sam then picks up the telephone, rings someone and then asks them to marry him..... Meanwhile Vera has been called away, so Donna is left alone with Norm, much to his horror. |
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