List Price: $38.99 Our Price: $31.19YOU SAVE $7.8!
Buy it
DVD Cheers - The Complete Fifth Season
Even as it bid goodbye to one of its core characters, Cheers enjoyed a fifth season of high hilarity that still holds up decades later. The cliffhanger at the end of the fourth season began a season-long courting dance between Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long) in which both want to get married--but never at the same time. They argue, they see a pre-nuptial counselor (an Emmy-winning John Cleese), and then one has to make a final decision. But Sam and Diane weren't the only ones exploring relationships. Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) once again meets Dr. Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth) and, with the help of Diane, are soon cozily coinhabiting. Woody (Woody Harrelson) gets a visit from his ex-girlfriend (Amanda Wyss), and meets Coach's niece (Cady McClain). Carla (Rhea Perlman) seems finally rid of the sleazy Nick (Dan Hedaya, who was spun off into a thankfully short-lived series called The Tortellis) only to meet a Bruins goalie named Eddie LeBec (Jay Thomas). Then again, there were some non-relationship events, such as Diane's trying out for the Boston Ballet and the gang's classic Thanksgiving dinner at Carla's house (in which we finally get to see Norm's wife, Vera, sort of). But more than anything, the fifth season belonged to Sam and Diane. Their relationship ends in touching flash-forward and a wish to "have a good life." If only the departing actor's subsequent career had been so good. Like the fourth season, the DVD set has no extras. --David Horiuchi
My husband and I love Cheers so much. I was thrilled to see all of them available on Amazon. How awesome.
One of the Best Series Ever
Brilliantly funny, clever and wise, Cheers is a TV classic. The smartest thing they did was to allow cast members to come and go and yet still refer to and laugh at them as the seasons progress. Like real life. Diane was the riotous outsider, Rebecca the sad-sack loser. Additions like Frasier and Lilith kept things fresh and moving. Sam the heart of it all who grew and changed season by season. An American classic.
Au revoir, Miss Chambers
While Cheers continued on for another six seasons after this fifth season, for many fans of the show, it ended when Shelley Long's character Diane Chambers walked out of the Boston bar for the final time as Ted Danson's Sam Malone watched her leave, knowing she would never come back.
The chemistry between Sam and Diane is what really drove this comedy for the first five seasons that it was on the air. The two actors were truly in sync and their back and forth banter and will they or won't they romance that was on and off countless times during the five years, was something that has not been captured on television many times since.
While Long left the show, as I mentioned, the show continued on for another six years, with Kirstie Alley essentially taking over for Long. While Alley's Rebecca Howe and Sam had good chemistry, it was tough to live up to what had come before with Sam and Diane.
Season four ended with Sam proposing to Diane and we pick up in season five as she rejects him, then quickly changes her mind. Of course, once he was rejected, Sam decided it was over and didn't want to take her back until midway through the season when they finally officially got proposed, while Sam was in court after Diane brought him there on assault charges. As the season drew to a close, the marriage was still planned, but Sam knew better as he said his goodbyes as the door closed behind her for the last time as a cast regular.
While this season marked the final regular cast appearance by Long, it was the first season as a regular cast member for Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane. Dr. Crane was a recurring character for most of the previous seasons, but it was this year that his name came in the opening credits. In this season he becomes serious with the woman who would eventually become his ex-wife, Dr. Lilith Sternin, portrayed absolutely fabulously by the great Bebe Neuwirth. The two move in together and a dinner with Sam and Diane brings out some former relationship secrets that Frasier never shared with his new love.
Bar employees Cara Tortelli and Woody Boyd (Rhea Perlman and Woody Harrelson) continue to make life in Cheers enjoyable for everyone with their great humor. While Perlman's humor is more on the cynical, biting side, Harrelson comes across as the innocent youngster who just never seems to say the right thing. A highlight episode in this season was the famous "Thanksgiving Orphans" episode, where the Cheers gang gathers at Carla's for Turkey Day and the evening ends with a massive food fight. This was one of the best episodes of the season, and quite possibly of the series, at least in my mind.
Bar flies Cliff Clavin and Norm Peterson (John Ratzenberger and George Wendt) seem to live in Cheers, but in this season you get a glimpse of their lives outside of the bar. Mailman Cliff falls for a woman whose dog bit him and she uses his feelings to help get the lawsuit dropped. Norm gets a new job with an accounting firm and everyone gets a glimpse into his life as they take a look at his new "office". Also, for the first time, we get to see Norm's wife Vera, but she is obscured a little. In the Thanksgiving Orphans episode, she shows up at Carla's and immediately gets hit in the face with a pie, so viewers still have no idea just what Vera is like.
The only bad thing about this set is the same as with the fourth season. The set has absolutely no extras, which is disappointing, as it would have been great to hear what things were like behind the scenes in Long's last year. But beyond that, this season set featured a lot of great episodes.
As a youngster, I enjoyed the final few seasons of Cheers, but I never realized just how fantastic this show was with Shelley Long and Ted Danson's chemistry in the early years. As far as this show goes, this season was certainly a great one, but at the same time, a tough one as the hole left by Long was a big one.
In its sixth season, Cheers introduced its second major--and most significant--cast change. Following the events of season 5, Sam (Ted Danson) returns from his aborted around-the-world boat trip to find the old gang gone, Carla (Rhea Perlman) and Woody (Woody Harrelson) wearing uniforms more fit for a barbershop quartet, and a tough new boss who reportedly "eats live sharks for breakfast." The new boss, Rebecca (Kirstie Alley, probably best known at the time for her appearance in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and later to anchor such series as Veronica's Closet and Fat Actress), grudgingly hires back Sam, but has him positively befuddled with her resistance to his masculine wiles. She's not as tough as she seems, however, getting weak in the knees at the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ted Danson DVD Release Date: Released the 13 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $38.99 Your Price: $29.24YOU SAVE $9.75!
Buy it
Whats wrong with you people?!!Cheers is a brilliant show, excellently written and acted, yet it can't even get in the top 100 on the amazon.com Top Sellers TV list? What the heck? I mean some shows that made the list are awful, and some I never heard of. Cheers won more Emmys than any other show ever except two. Its the longest running sitcom of all time tied with Cheers spinoff Frasier and M*A*S*H. Its finale episode is still ranked second all time for a series finale, only behind M*A*S*H. I see stuff that doesn't come out until like December ahead on the Top Sellers list. Cheers The Complete Seventh season is phenominal! Cliffs girlfriend Margaret makes her first appearence and is hilarious. A fantastic season. So why isn't a best seller? Very curious. I don't get it. I'm very... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ted Danson DVD Release Date: 15 November 2005
List Price: $38.99 Your Price: $27.29YOU SAVE $11.7!
Buy it
Frasier's fifth season is marked by two central themes. First is Roz's (Peri Gilpin) unexpected pregnancy, which naturally opens the door for countless promiscuity jokes for the radio show's beleaguered producer. The second is the continuing drama of Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and his frosty wife, Maris, which seemed to finally come to a head. Not that even a good marriage has ever kept Niles from pining for Daphne (Jane Leeves), of course. Frasier's (Kelsey Grammer) show is sailing along, and for the occasion of his 1000th show, is honored by the mayor for "Frasier Crane Day," which allows the cast to do some rare location shooting in Seattle. But he has some problems with KACL management, and the prospect of tough contract negotiations tempts him to return to the Dark Side,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Kelsey Grammer DVD Release Date: Released the 07 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $38.99 Your Price: $29.24YOU SAVE $9.75!
Buy it
Frasier's fourth season was mostly about relationships. Niles (David Hyde Pierce), now separated from Maris, is back on the market like his bachelor brother, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer). That's great when the pair goes to a cabin with a pair of fetching women (Megan Mullaly, later of Will and Grace, and Lisa Darr), but Niles is never able to completely dispel his attachment to his suffocating wife... or to Daphne (Jane Leeves). His obsession with the latter gets an immediate burst in the season's first episode, in which he has to masquerade as Daphne's husband, then later comes to a head when she appears at his apartment door asking to stay the night. The boys have the usual disputes with their father (John Mahoney), including their disdain for the former cop's new... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Kelsey Grammer DVD Release Date: Released the 01 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $38.99 Your Price: $31.19YOU SAVE $7.8!
Buy it
I used to not like Frasier matter of fact I used to change the channel everytime when I was in early teens. Luckily through one of my friends who had the first season and had nothing to do I decided to give it a chance and it was great. I Became fan of Frasier and hooked. The sixth season is great with great triumph for Niles who finally get divorced. The show is great if enjoy saucy,sassy,and witty comedy this show has it. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Kelsey Grammer DVD Release Date: Released the 13 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $38.99 Your Price: $29.24YOU SAVE $9.75!
Buy it
