Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a tough choice here. I absolutely adore Rebecca Howe and the beloved, late Kirstie Alley’s portrayal of her is fantastic.

How many other shows, after all, could not only survive the death of a main cast member (Nicholas Colasanto during season 3) and the departure of a fan favorite (Shelley Long abruptly left after ...

The NBC comedy Cheers experienced many changes over 11 seasons. It lost some cast members and gained new ones. One constant was always Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman), the Cheers waitress. No matter who ...

Cheers had no shortage of interesting characters. Everyone who walked through the bar had an interesting story. Still, fans of the long-running series were attached to a character they never saw. Rhea ...

Ted Danson played bartender Sam Malone on Cheers and became a fan-favorite character. In fact, most sitcom fans still love Sam to this day. That doesn't mean that filming the show didn't have its off ...

The 1986 holiday episode started in the titular bar, as the gang revealed their respective Thanksgiving plans - or lack of plans, in some cases. Carla (Rhea Perlman), Frasier (Kelsey Grammer), Cliff ...

It's rare for a supporting actor on a hit TV comedy to turn down the chance to headline their own spin-off series. But that's precisely what Rhea Perlman did when the makers of Cheers — including ...

"Cheers might have been everything in the beginning of my career, but family is everything, everything,” the Marvelous and the Black Hole actress tells PEOPLE Forty years later, Rhea Perlman still ...

Ted Danson brought Sam Malone to life on Cheers, the long-running sitcom that allowed fans to fall in love with patrons of the titular bar. When a woman named Diane (Shelley Long) comes in needing a ...

Forty years ago today, a snooty bookworm walked into a Boston bar... and TV was never the same. On Sept. 30, 1982, a little show called Cheers premiered on NBC, and initially, the ratings were not ...

"Cheers" paved the way for many similar sitcoms that came after it. The show, running through much of the ‘80s into the early ’90s, is introduced to new fans to this day, with it living on various ...