📺 'Cheers' Friday 04 February 1983 - Ch4: 22:00 ' Give Me a Ring Sometime' - the first episode of Cheers'. 'Cheers' was a living, breathing example of American ensemble comedy at the very zenith of its art form. In the early episodes we had all usual ingredients we would become so familiar with for the next decade; a sniping, Carla, a Normism (“A beer, Norm?” “You smooth talker!”), Cliff failing to realise his profound unpopularity, Sam lusting after a pair of baton twirling majorettes and Coac