Cheers 45 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. In 2002, "Cheers" was ranked No. 18 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the eighth best written TV series and "TV Guide" ranked it #11 on their list of the 60 Greatest Shows of All Time. Before the "Cheers" pilot "Give Me a Ring Sometime" was completed and aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees in the first script. Neither Norm Peterson nor Cliff Clavin, regular customers of Cheers, were featured; later revisions added
One for the Road (Cheers) City (WNBC), a 45.6 rating; in the Hartford–New Haven (WVIT) area, a 48 rating and 63 share; and in Boston (WBZ-TV), the series' setting, a 54.1 rating. The retrospective program, "Cheers: Last Call!", hosted by Bob Costas, paid tribute to 11 years of "Cheers" and aired at 9:00 p.m. before the 9:22 p.m. finale. It received an overall 39.6 rating (36.9 million households); the Los Angeles rating was 40.0. The finale reran on Sunday, May 23, 1993, from 7:22p.m. to 9:00p.m. ET with a Nielsen rating of 10.0. "Cheers: Last Call!", which ran from 7:00p.m. to 7:22p.m. ET had a