One for the Road (Cheers) ladies' man, former baseball player, and bartender, and Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), a college graduate student, and cocktail waitress, had on-and-off relationships throughout first five seasons of the program (1982–1987) until Diane left Boston to pursue a writing career in the season five finale, "I Do, Adieu" (1987). This was Shelley Long's last contracted appearance as Diane Chambers. Six years after the season five finale, the Sam and Diane storyline is resurrected with a special guest appearance by Shelley Long and then concluded in the final episode. During season eleven there are many transformations before the finale. Woody Boyd (Woody
The Colgate Comedy Hour Real McCoys", made his television debut on "The Colgate Comedy Hour." Hal March and Tom D'Andrea appeared on "The Colgate Comedy Hour" in what subsequently became in the summer of 1955 the 11-episode NBC live military comedy series, "The Soldiers". D'Andrea took leave from his role as Jim Gillis in William Bendix's "The Life of Riley" for "The Soldiers". In June 1955, the show changed its name to the "Colgate Variety Hour" to reflect a move away from pure comedy. A number of the earlier hosts had left by the end of the 1953-54 season (with the exception of Martin