Woody Boyd in "Frasier"; he states at the beginning of the season 6 episode "The Show Where Woody Shows Up" that he is still tending bar at Cheers. Woody Boyd Woodrow Huckleberry Tiberius "Woody" Boyd is a character on the American television show "Cheers", portrayed by Woody Harrelson. Woody came to Cheers at the beginning of the fourth season of "Cheers" in 1985 in the episode "Birth, Death, Love and Rice". Woody appeared in 200 episodes of "Cheers" between 1985 and 1993. He also made a guest appearance on "Frasier" in the episode "The Show Where Woody Shows Up". He is portrayed
Home Is the Sailor (Cheers) promises nothing of the sort will occur again and is provisionally re-hired on the understanding that this is his last chance as Rebecca uses a seductive baseball metaphor-pun about having two outs, two strikes and "no balls". The producers intended "Cheers" to be a comedy about a comedy itself set in the Boston bar, but, as Burrows claimed, the "Sam and Diane" story arc predominated the show for five years and, as he hypothesized, would have made the bar more of a minor role and more irrelevant if Shelley Long had not left the show as Diane Chambers in 1987.