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The first season of ''Cheers'', an American television sitcom, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 30, 1982, and March 31, 1983, in 22 episodes. The show was created and produced by director James Burrows and writers Glen and Les Charles, who previously worked on ''Taxi'', another sitcom. ''Cheers'' was produced by Charles Burrows Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television. The concept and production design of the show were inspired by a public house in Boston, the Bull & Finch, which is now called Cheers Beacon Hill. When it was first broadcast, critics praised the series as intelligent, sophisticated, cleverly written, well-cast, and well-timed. However, the Nielsen ratings for its original runs were very low. Typically, low ratings result a show's cancellation, but before the season finale aired, the network renewed it for another season. Reruns of season 1 scored higher ratings than its first airing and the series earned award recognitions, including five Emmy Award wins in 1983. In later years, this season has still elicited positive reviews and is currently available on DVD. == Cast and characters == This season introduces six characters: * Sam Malone (Ted Danson)a bartender, bar owner, and retired baseball player. Before the series premiered, his baseball career took a toll due to his alcoholism, so he became an owner and a bartender of Cheers. * Diane Chambers (Shelley Long)a college-educated, sophisticated academic who is jilted by her fiancé and left without money or a job. Diane is hired by Sam as a waitress. She proves to be pretentious, annoys customers with her long-winded speeches, and becomes the butt of their jokes. * Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman)a hard-working, "wisecracking, cynical waitress".〔 Carla is a divorced mother of her ex-husband Nick's four children and then becomes pregnant with his fifth child. Diane and Carla do not get along and often insult each other. * Ernie "Coach" Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto)an aging befuddled, "gravelly voiced"〔 retired coach and co-bartender. Coach is vulnerable to other people's exploits, which puts the bar at stake. Coach and Sam take care of each other as father and son figures whenever help is needed. Nevertheless, he listens to people's problems and solves them with advice and analysis. * Norm Peterson (George Wendt)a semi-(un)employed accountant and bar regular. Whenever Norm enters the bar, people yell out his name. * Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger)a postal worker and bar regular. Cliff is often present in the bar and his words confuse or irritate other people. Throughout the season, supporting characters are explored while Sam and Diane flirt and reject each other. In the season finale, no longer resisting their temptations for each other, Sam and Diane passionately kiss. In the pilot episode's original script, there were only four principal characters: Sam Malone, Diane Chambers, Carla Tortelli, and Ernie "Coach" Pantusso. Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin were absent from the original script. George Wendt and John Ratzenberger had auditioned for the role of George, a character who would have been included in one scene of the pilot episode. Wendt was cast as George, who evolved into Norm Peterson, while a know-it-all character Cliff Clavin was added at Ratzenberger's suggestion.〔 Therefore, influenced by the casting of Wendt and Ratzenberger, the pilot script was revised before production began on the show. Wendt became part of the program's regular cast and continued until it ended. Ratzenberger was credited in almost every episode for his recurring appearances in season 1, and he became part of the regular cast in the following season. Sam Malone was supposed to be an ex-wide receiver for the football team New England Patriots,〔 Editions of April 27–29, 1984, are bundled in the webpage. Article is located at page 85 in ''Google''.〕 but Danson's casting led the program's writers to change Sam's former sporting role into a former relief pitcher for the baseball team Boston Red Sox.〔 Nicholas Colasanto, director and actor who appeared in the 1980 film ''Raging Bull'', was cast as Coach.〔 About 1,000 actors who were not widely known were auditioned for these characters,〔 and Stephen Kolzak was in charge of casting.〔 Levine refers Stephen Kolzak as "Steve Kolzak".〕 According to Ted Danson, Perlman was the first actor to be hired for the show and was cast as Carla.〔 Perlman had previously appeared in ''Taxi'' as the wife (ex-wife during the show's final season) of Louie de Palma, played by her husband Danny DeVito.〔 Danson and Long were cast as a romantic duo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cheers (season 1)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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