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Birth, Death, Love and Rice: Directed by James Burrows. With Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger. Sam couldn't stop the wedding, but Frasier tells him that Diane left him at the altar and is now working at a convent.
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- Comedy, Drama
- James Burrows
- 1985-09-26
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Birth, Death, Love and Rice is the first episode of Season 4 of Cheers. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on September 26, 1985.
Sam couldn't stop the wedding, but Frasier tells him that Diane left him at the altar and is now working at a convent. So Sam visits Diane to ask her to come back to Cheers. Meanwhile, Coach has passed away and Indiana farm boy Woody Boyd comes to Cheers to meet Coach only to learn he passed away a few months ago. He becomes Cheers's new assistant ...
•Shelley Long as Diane Chambers
•Ted Danson as Sam Malone
•Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli
•John Ratzenberger as Cliff Clavin
•George Wendt as Norm Peterson
•Woody Harrelson as Woody Boyd
•This is Woody Harrelson's first appearance on the show and his joining the main cast, as well as the first episode where Nicholas Colasanto is not credited.
•This is the first episode where the Cheers theme song is updated again, in which "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" is rerecorded by adding more vocals to it. This remained in use until the show's ending in 1993.
•It is revealed that Coach and Woody were pen pals and today is the day they were supposed to meet.
•This has, by far, the most story time between the hook and act 1, with five months passing. No other Cheers has more than one week pass during the opening credits.
•Producers originally considered explaining Coach's permanent absence by saying he had retired and moved away. Ultimately it was determined that Coach would be too loyal to leave his job and friends behind, and that simply revealing he his passing was a proper way to acknowledge the real life death of Nicholas Colasanto.
•This is one of the saddest episodes.
A young hayseed from Indiana, Woody Boyd, who is Coach's pen pal (in a slightly unconventional way), comes by the bar looking for Coach, obviously not knowing about his passing which shocks him. Seeing that Woody is interested in the big city and bar-tending, Sam offers him a job at Cheers behind the bar. Sam is no longer pining for Diane, or ...
"Cheers" Birth, Death, Love and Rice (TV Episode 1985) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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Sam (Ted Danson), a former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, owns and runs Cheers, a cozy bar in Boston. Somewhat snobby, beautiful and intelligent Diane (Shelley Long) -- forced to become a waitress when her fiance jilts her -- constantly bickers with Sam. Eventually, they fall in love. Several wacky characters make the bar their home-away-from-home, including sarcastic waitress Carla (Rhea ...
Birth, Death, Love and Rice. Help. S4 E1 24M TV-PG. Frasier returns to Cheers with news that Diane joined a convent. Watch Full Episodes . Full Episodes. Season 4 ...
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