Ratings
The NBC premiere lineup on September 30, 1982, consisted of, in order of time sequence starting at 8:00pm (ET/PT)/7:00pm (CT/MT), Fame, Cheers, Taxi, and Hill Street Blues. The sitcom Cheers debuted at 9:00pm against the two-hour season premiere of the CBS hit series Magnum, P.I. and the one-hour season premiere of the ABC hit series Too Close for Comfort and landed on 60th place out of the bottom five of 63 programs with a 9.6 Nielsen rating. In Alaska, it premiered on October 14, 1982, at 8:00pm AKT.
On December 23, 1982, this episode reran and resulted an 11.5 rating in the 57th place out of 68 programs that aired on December 20–26, 1982.
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