Cheers Cheers Cheers is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes for eleven seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television. The show was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar named Cheers in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, and socialize. The show's main theme song, co-written and performed by Gary Portnoy, lent its refrain "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" as the
Ethel Portnoy Kousbroek (1929–2010) in 1951. She raised two children and until 1962 she worked at the UNESCO. She worked for Dutch papers and was published in "Randstad", in the weeklies "Haagse Post" and "Vrij Nederland" and also in the "NRC Handelsblad". The family moved to The Hague in 1970. In the late 1970s Portnoy was one of the editors of the feminist literary journal "Chrysallis". Since 1979, she worked at the journal "Maatstaf". Portnoy debuted as a novelist in 1971 at the age of 44 with the book "Steen en Been". She wrote in English, but considered herself a Dutch writer.