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Fri 11
Cheers: Someone Single, Someone Blue — Shelley Long
Diane's wealthy mother shows up the day before her daughter's birthday with news that Diane must marry immediately or Mum becomes a pauper. After considering a list of prospective mates, Diane proposes a "strictly business" union with Sam.
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Fri 11
Cheers: Showdown part 1 — Shelley Long
In Part 1 of a two-parter, Sam's successful, intelligent and thoroughly charming brother Derek visits and soon spirits Diane off to Nantucket.
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Sat 12
Cheers: Showdown part 2 — Shelley Long
Conclusion of two parts. In the first-season finale, Diane decides to fly off to Paris with Sam's dashing brother, then hopes Sam will try to talk her out of it.
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Sat 12
Cheers: Power Play — Shelley Long
In the second-season opener, Sam and Diane's nascent romance meets with great scepticism from the gang, who seem to be prophetic when Diane throws Sam out of her apartment after only five minutes.
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Sun 13
Cheers: Little Sister, Don't Cha — Shelley Long
While Carla is on maternity leave, the seemingly innocent Annette fills in at the bar and shocks everyone with her unseemly dating habits.
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Sun 13
Cheers: Personal Business — Shelley Long
Diane, frustrated with her job and angered by Carla's charge that she receives preferential treatment as the boss's girlfriend, quits Cheers for a more fulfilling career; and a liberated Norm is on the prowl after splitting up with Vera.
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Sun 13
Joan of Arcadia: Vanity, Thy Name Is Human — Shelley Long
God gets Joan to take a class on cosmetology where she gets a good foundation on the principles of self-concept and esteem, leading her to renounce makeup and regular bathing. Meanwhile, Kevin reunites with a former girlfriend (Kimberly McCullough). Adam: Christopher Marquette. Grace: Becky Wahlstrom. Glynis: Mageina Tovah.
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Mon 14
Cheers: Homicidal Ham — Shelley Long
Diane's "perfect date", lady-killing ex-con Andy---he once murdered a waitress---returns to Cheers, and she helps him pursue an acting career. On the night of their big performance, the strangulation scene from "Othello", Diane develops real stage fright when she realises he's actually going to kill her.
Air Time & Details for Shelley Long, Mon 14, 11:00 pm -
Mon 14
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Tue 15
Cheers: Affairs of the Heart — Shelley Long
Cynical Carla ignores the romantic overtures of a perfectly nice gentleman named Hank, believing that if he's interested in her, he must have a "fatal flaw". When he and Carla finally go out on a date, Coach mentions to the gang that Hank has a bad heart and that too much carnal excitement isn't good for him.
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Tue 15
Cheers: Old Flames — Shelley Long
Recently divorced sportscaster Dave Richards bets that he can break up Sam and Diane in 24 hours.
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Wed 16
Cheers: Manager Coach — Shelley Long
When normally mild-mannered Coach gets a shot at managing a Little League team, he turns into a win-at-all-costs tyrant.
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Wed 16
Cheers: They Called Me Mayday — Shelley Long
Dick Cavett suggests that the public may be interested in Sam's memoirs, an idea that disturbs "budding poetic genius" Diane; and Norm wants to have it out with a high-school rival who's dating Vera.
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Thu 17
Cheers: Just Three Friends — Shelley Long
Diane's best friend since childhood moves to Boston and begins to clandestinely put the moves on Sam. When he tells Diane, she refuses to believe him, until the three share an intimate dinner at Diane's.
Air Time & Details for Shelley Long, Thu 17, 11:00 pm -
Thu 17
Filmography
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Biography
About Shelley Long
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Northwestern University drama student Shelley Long began picking up work in Chicago TV commercials in the mid-1970s. She went on to host the WMAQ-TV "magazine" program Sorting it Out, and honed her comic timing with the Second City troupe. While her actual film debut was in 1980's A Small Circle of Friends, Long prefers to list the 1981 spoof Caveman as her first film.
After a handful of TV guest appearances (notably as one of Alan Alda's lady friends on MASH) and an attention-grabbing performance as a freewheeling hooker in Night Shift (1982), Long was cast as the pretentious, garrulous waitress Diane Chambers on the weekly sitcom Cheers. She won an Emmy for this role, but all was not roses on the Cheers set. According to most sources, Diane's overbearing personality spilled over into Long's off-camera behavior; when she left the series in 1987, many of the cast members, especially star Ted Danson, breathed a rather loud and public sigh of relief.
Shelley Long's post-Cheers efforts to establish herself as a movie star have thus far fallen short of expectations; her most successful film assignment to date has been as retro housewife Carol Brady in 1995's The Brady Bunch: The Movie. She reprised the role of Carol in the 1996 sequel A Very Brady Sequel. She returned to the part of Diane Chambers with a guest appearance on Frasier in 1996, and she would play Carol Brady again in A Very Brady Sequel that same year.
At the beginning of the next decade she had a memorable turn in Robert Altman's Dr. T & the Women, and she would appear again on Frasier in the part that made her famous. There was a third Brady Bunch movie in 2002. She appeared in light fare such as Honeymoon with Mom and A Holiday Engagement.