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The Write Team Daily: "A Little Bar In Boston Opens"
September 29, 1982.
Television audiences walked into a little neighborhood bar in Boston for the first time—a place where everybody would eventually know your name.
Cheers premiered on NBC, introducing viewers to Sam Malone, Diane Chambers, Norm Peterson, Cliff Clavin, Carla Tortelli, Coach, and a collection of characters who would become television favorites.
But success was anything but guaranteed. Cheers struggled badly in its first season and seemed destined for cancellation. NBC gave it another chance, audiences gradually found it, and that struggling sitcom grew into an 11-season…
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