show you what we can do." That empowers the actors to feel like a larger part of the creative process. Bob Broder: When you watch Jimmy shoot a show, he's fascinating. He's never watching. He's listening. He'll walk up and down behind the cameras, and all of a sudden he'll kick a camera dolly to change the angle. He has a quad split in his head. He knows what each camera is seeing. Jim Burrows: The guys we pitched Cheers to knew a lot more about television than the guys we pitch to today. We got to pitch to guys who got it. We talked about a bar but not a romance. We might have mentioned Tracy/Hepburn. I don't remember. So many pitches under the bridge. Bob Broder: I believe Abe Burrows, Jimmy's father, wrote on a radio show called Duffy's Tavern. The beauty of having set the show in a bar meant when the door opened, the story started, and any story could walk in that door. It wasn't like doing a family comedy where you had to figure out how you were going to service your six characters. Some pretty strange people came in that door. Warren: I remember Jim Burrows and the Charles brothers told us the only show on television with adult relationships was Three's Company. "That's fine," they said, "but that shouldn't be the only one. There is so much more territory to cover." Charles/Burrows/Charles had a pedigree, and we, at NBC, didn't have one