From Cheers to Dynasty to Hill Street Blues to The A-Team, the television of the 1980s was an eclectic mix of sharp sitcoms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a tough choice here. I absolutely adore Rebecca Howe and the beloved, late Kirstie Alley’s portrayal of her is fantastic.

'Cheers' director James Burrows explains how casting Ted Danson as Sam Malone changed the character's sport and name. A runner up got his own NBC show years later. “One of the finalists for the ...

The NBC comedy Cheers experienced many changes over 11 seasons. It lost some cast members and gained new ones. One constant was always Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman), the Cheers waitress. No matter who ...

When Woody Harrelson first joined the cast of “Cheers,” Ted Danson committed a lot of time trying to “outdo” his new cast member. While talking with “Cheers” co-creator and director James Burrows on ...

Ted Danson is a prolific actor, but certainly no prophet. The Cheers star recalled being "dead wrong" about most of his instincts while on the sitcom from 1982–1993, including the casting of one of ...

Cheers is rightly remembered as one of the best sitcoms of the 20th century, but it's easy to forget all the hurdles it overcame to achieve that legacy. How many other shows, after all, could not only ...

"Cheers" paved the way for many similar sitcoms that came after it. The show, running through much of the ‘80s into the early ’90s, is introduced to new fans to this day, with it living on various ...

What's the deal with modern-day sitcom series finales? Twenty-five years ago this month, 76.3 million viewers tuned in to NBC for Seinfeld's farewell episode. And five years before that on the same ...

Ted Danson brought Sam Malone to life on Cheers, the long-running sitcom that allowed fans to fall in love with patrons of the titular bar. When a woman named Diane (Shelley Long) comes in needing a ...