Cliffhanger ending for Diane and Sam

Press, 28 July 1986, Page 23

Cliffhanger ending for Diane and Sam

Diane gets a proposal of marriage in the final episode in this series of “Cheers” screening on One at 8.30 p.m. — but not from the right person. Frasier pops the question while in Europe, saying he wants to get married the next day. But Diane seizes the first opportunity to telephone Sam back at the Cheers bar, hoping that he will finally confess his love and ask her to come back. But in true Sam Malone style, he hides his real feelings and offers his congratulations instead,

making Diane accept Frasier's offer and begin preparations for the wedding.

while her condition was easily written into the script it was not possible to explain the growing size of Diane’s tummy without making “Cheers’ ” life very complicated.

Meanwhile back at the bar, Sam is making a surprising decision. It is a cliffhanger final episode to a series that came to an end in the United States at just the right time. VZhen it screened a year ago in the States, Nick Colasanto, who played Coach, had just died, and Shelley Long, who plays Diane, was getting very pregnant Rhea Perlman (Carla) was also pregnant and,

The new series of “Cheers” will begin screening here possibly in the summer television season, and certainly no later than February. Viewers will be introduced to a new regular character who takes over the Coach’s job as bartender, a naive country youth played by Woody Harrelson.