Cheers (season 9) waitress Carla, bar tender Woody Boyd and manager Rebecca Howe work at the bar and deal with the patrons of the bar Norm Peterson, Cliff Clavin and Frasier Crane. The sitcom was the involved in the NBC Thursday night slot. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Cheers (season 9) The ninth season of "Cheers", an American television sitcom, originally aired on NBC in the United States between September 20, 1990, and May 3, 1991. The show was created by director James Burrows and writers Glen and Les Charles under production team Charles Burrows Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Television. Cheers is an award-winning sitcom
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.