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The creators of Cheers

The Writers Panel

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The Importance of Having a Bar in a Basement

"It was a great show fantastic show, but I think we just wanted to go a different direction and have a place where people wanted to be," he said. "I remember there was discussion early on in the process not taxi. Should we allow smoking because they have smoking garage." It's so interesting though when I was looking back at you know what were the hit shows in 1982 and the sitcom atmosphere was really different to cheers in flavor,. Newhart premiered that year which had a similar sort of smart character driven comedy.

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