![]() ![]() But alas, the wedding never happens, Diane heads off to finish her great American novel, and Long departed the show to make movies. She tells him, “I wouldn’t trade one minute of my life with you for a Nobel Prize in Literature.” Content, they quietly dance. The sexual tension between the two characters went on for years, and in season 5, the writers offered up a touching “What if?” segment dealing with Diane and Sam’s first attempted wedding. From its premiere on September 30, 1982, this comedy starring Shelley Long and Ted Danson offered a high-proof distillation of the best of the screwball films from the mid-20th century. Will they? Won’t they? Oh, please! Put them together. I want to jeopardize it with sex.” Yet her analysis and hesitancy can’t stop, and of course nothing is consummated. “We are developing a very special relationship,” she explains to Sam, “and it would be wrong to jeopardize it by having sex.” Babe magnet that Sam is, he nervously replies, “No. Diane quickly thinks about what is happening and stops herself. Everything tonight has been leading me right into your arms.” But oh, no. They kiss and she admits, “Oh, Sam, I can’t fight it. Afterward, when the couple return by themselves to the empty bar, she is giddy. They escort Diane to a staging of her favorite opera, Lucia di Lammermoor. To make it up to her, Sam Malone, her boss and on-again-now-off-again boyfriend, takes part in a Diane Chambers Night with the bar’s other denizens. A frustrated barmaid who dreams of being a famous novelist, she often feels left out by the staff and barflies who call the pub on Boston’s Beacon Street home. The following is from LIFE’s new special anniversary edition on the television classic Cheers, available at newsstands and online:ĭiane Chambers never quite fit in at Cheers. ![]()
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