page_title: List of Cheers characters
section_title: Season 1
hierarchical_section_title: List of Cheers characters / Characters appearing in only one season / Season 1
caption_attribution_description: English: Rep. Devin Nunes meets with Fresno Mayor Autry (Jan. 2003)
context_page_description: This is a list of characters from the American television sitcom, Cheers.
context_section_description: Recurring characters
  Jack (Jack Knight), a bar customer — first appearance is "Sam's Women" (1982); last appearance is "The Boys in the Bar" (1983)
  One- or two-time characters
  Brandee (Angela Aames), a flirtatious blond female customer, whose looks attract men — "Sam's Women" (1982)
  Debra (Donna McKechnie), Sam's former wife (whose background has been omitted in some syndication prints) — "Sam's Women"
  Leo (Donnelly Rhodes), a customer whose son has a boyfriend — "Sam's Women"
  Big Eddie (Ron Karabatsos), a customer with a behavior and comments that annoys everyone — "The Tortelli Tort"
  Lisa Pantusso (Allyce Beasley) and Roy (Philip Charles MacKenzie), daughter of Coach and her fiancé — "Coach's Daughter"
  Chuck (Tim Cunningham), a janitor working for a laboratory that creates mutated viruses. Panicked, people sanitize everything to eliminate viruses after he leaves. — "Coach's Daughter" and "Showdown, Part Two". Actor Cunningham would portray the credited role of a recurring character Tim in later seasons.
  Rebecca Prout (Julia Duffy), Diane's friend — "Any Friend of Diane's". Actress Julia Duffy auditioned for Diane Chambers but did not get the part.
  Darrell Stabell (Macon McCalman), one of Norm's clients whom Norm is trying to impress by beer much less than he typically has — "Any Friend of Diane's"
  Herbert Sawyer (James Read), Norm's boss who almost sexually assaults Diane until Norm interrupts, causing Mr. Sawyer to fire him — "Friends, Romans, Accountants"
  The Little Girl (Julia Hendler) wanting to post an ad of a girls' school production of Twelve Angry Men — "Coach Returns to Action"
  Nina (Murphy Cross), Coach's apartment neighbor with whom he is infatuated — "Coach Returns to Action"
  Tour Guide (Bill Wiley), a driver who frequently brings in tourists to Cheers until Sam kicks him out — "Coach Returns to Action"
  Miss Gilder (Anne Haney), a highly qualified, experienced tutor responding to Carla's ad seeking a tutor — "Endless Slumper"
  Rick Walker (Christopher McDonald), a unlucky baseball player who starts to perform better after obtaining Sam's bottle cap — "Endless Slumper"
  Mr. Phillips (Frank McCarthy), a bar customer waiting for an available table at Melville's restaurant — "One for the Book"
  Kevin (Boyd Bodwell), an aspiring monastic who wants to experience the bar only once before monastery — "One for the Book"
  Buzz (Ian Wolfe), an elderly World War I survivor — "One for the Book"
  "Eric Finch" / Thomas Hillian III (Ellis Rabb), a millionaire who mostly fabricates stories of his own — "The Spy Who Came In for a Cold One"
  Lana (Barbara Babcock), an advertising agent who has a casual affair with Sam to advance his acting career — "Now Pitching, Sam Malone" (1983)
  Tibor Svetkovic (Richard Hill), a Czechoslovakian ice hockey player struggling to understand English — "Now Pitching, Sam Malone"
  Luis Tiant (himself), a former Boston Red Sox baseball player appearing in a beer television commercial in where Sam also appears — "Now Pitching, Sam Malone"
  Marshall Lipton (Mark King) — a nerdy customer, who possesses a huge book of cybernetics and is attracted to Carla — "Let Me Count the Ways" and "Father Knows Last"
  Tom Kenderson (Alan Autry), a homosexual baseball teammate and friend of Sam Malone — "The Boys in the Bar"
  Walter Franklin (Doug Sheehan), one of Diane's dates who counts letters in any sentence said by anyone — "Diane's Perfect Date"
  Gretchen (Gretchen Corbett), Sam's blind date, set up by her friend Diane — "Diane's Perfect Date"
  Tip O'Neill (himself), a United States House Speaker and Massachusetts Representative — "No Contest"
  George Wheeler (Reid Shelton), a hustler who cons people at card games, like gin rummy and poker — "Pick a Con... Any Con"
  Helen Chambers (Glynis Johns), Diane's mother — "Someone Single, Someone Blue"
  Derek Malone (voiced by George Ball), an unseen yet more successful, handsome, and highly educated brother of Sam — "Showdown, Part One"
  Debbie (Deborah Shelton), one of Sam's dates — "Showdown, Part One"
  Cindy (Peggy Kubena), one of Sam's dates whose name he mistakes — "Showdown, Pa
caption: Alan Autry portrays Tom Kenderson, a Boston Red Sox player coming out as gay, in "The Boys in the Bar."
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