Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7169 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-09-06
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Season 3 of Cheers enriched television history in a lot of ways, most notably by introducing Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Frasier Crane while also bidding an off-screen farewell to Nicholas Colasanto, the actor who played Coach. Grammer's beloved character, who remained on NBC for 20 unbroken years (including the long-running Frasier), is ushered into the Cheers family when he meets barmaid Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) in a very funny, Emmy-nominated episode suggesting the neurotic course of their future romance. Meanwhile, Sam (Ted Danson), having fallen off the wagon due to his own tempestuous love affair with Diane, has to endure Frasier's questions about how to be intimate with the brainy babe. Elsewhere in Cheers' sardonic community, Cliff (John Ratzenberger), in a sweet but barbed episode, meets a woman (Bernadette Birkett) at a costume party and is afraid of re-introducing himself later. Norm (George Wendt) becomes aware of his mortality and decides to move to Bora Bora, and Sam (in another Emmy-nominated show) has to explain how he got shot in his posterior. Other good things: "The Heart Is a Lonely Snipe Hunter," in which the men of Cheers cruelly initiate Frasier in the manly art of snipe-hunting, and "Bar Bet," starring Jacqueline Bisset as a woman Sam must marry before a certain date or lose the bar forever. --Tom Keogh

Synopsis
One of the most beloved and critically-acclaimed television series of all time, Cheers ran for 10 seasons and centered on the colorful staff and patrons of the Boston bar where everyone knows your name. Run by former Red Sox pitcher and ladies' man Sam Malone (Ted Danson), the establishment's ever-present characters include salty barmaid Carla (Rhea Perlman), flighty bartender Coach (Nicholas Colasanto), barflies Norm (George Wendt) and Cliff (John Ratzenberger), and, of course, Sam's love interest/nemesis Diane Chambers (Shelley Long). Season 3 introduced pompous psychiatrist Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) as a recurring character and was also the last season for Colasanto, who died shortly after taping. This 4-volume set includes all 25 episodes from the award-winning third series, which garnered Perlman an Emmy and Long a Golden Globe.

Customer Reviews

Third series and still going strong...
Its only the past couple of years I have got into Cheers, but better late than never. For me it is probably the definitive US sitcom. Here in its third series it was as good as ever. After their quite damaging break-up Sam Malone is once again drinking with Diane Chambers long gone. With nothing else to do the ever helpless but wonderful Coach begs Miss Chambers to come back, in which she does, however this time along with new love a certain Dr. Frasier Crane.

Frasier's (Kelsey Grammer) inclusion gives a different spin on the already very funny and quite parculiar relationship between Ted Danson's Sam and Shelley Long's Diane. But rather than hurting its television appeal, it makes it stronger. Of course there are the usual laughs from Coach, Carla and of course Norm and Cliff all facing the trials and tribulations of life at Cheers. Of course the third series was tragically Nicholas Colasanto's last due to his sad death after the filming of the episode "Cheerio, Cheers". But the Coach went out on top form as ever, with "Teacher's Pet" one of his highlights.

If your already a Cheers fan there is no excuse for you not to buy another series of this wonderful comedy. If your yet to be blessed by its wonderful characters, humour and heart then do take the time to be so.

Everyone knows your name
I started watching Cheers from Epsiode 1 on Channel 4 in the early 80's.

I don't think that it's impact at that time can be easily appreciated by watching one episode after another.

My friends and I used to ache for Friday's to come around to get another fix.

This collection of DVD's brings back some marvellous memories. But the acting and storylines are as strong as ever. Even with the coach so very ill and appearing for the last time.

In an era of relentless vile comedy this collection is a breath of fresh air.

slight blip
Being at first of the school that feels that the later years of Cheers' run were funnier and with a wider scope of characters, I have to say Series 1 and 2 have grown on me. However Series 3, apart from the all too fleeting appearances of Frasier, fails to really lift off, for perhaps two reasons:

1. The writers contriving that the highly errudite and fiercely educated upper class barmaid Diane comes back to somehow continue her blue collar love in. The spark that existed between Sam and Diane in the first two series is pretty much non existent in this showing.

2. Nicholas Colasanto, who had been wonderful during the first two series, unfortunately became seriously ill, dying near the end of the series. Some of the episodes that starred him were just painful to watch.