Season 9

September 20, 1990

In the afterglow of their intimate encounter, Rebecca becomes determined to deny that it ever happened, to the gang at the bar, to Robin and to herself.

September 27, 1990

Sam tries to beat Gary at his own game in a grudge basketball game by recruiting Boston Celtics' star Kevin McHale as a substitute bartender at Cheers.

October 4, 1990

Sam hires a new bar manager that everyone seems to like, then learns how low Rebecca has sunk in her pursuit of new employment.

October 11, 1990

Rebecca is secretly very upset when one of Robin's previous lovers goes public claiming to be his current affair.

October 18, 1990

Cliff gets very hurt and upset when his mother decides that Woody is the son she never had, and Norm gets caught in a window.

October 25, 1990

Norm nearly has a cow when he hears that the Hungry Heifer is closing down, and mounts an all-out campaign to keep it going, while Rebecca frets over seeing Robin as he works in the street nearby as part of a road gang.

November 1, 1990

Lilith and Frasier try to cope with the fact that their son needs more care from them while Rebecca and Carla try to figure out how Rebecca can pay Robin a conjugal visit in jail.

November 15, 1990

Sam initiates a feud with the new owner of Melville's, the restaurant upstairs when snobbish restaurateur John Hill buys the building.

November 22, 1990

Woody gets a big break when he's cast in a commercial for a new vegetable drink but Cliff just feels broken when the new trivia napkins upstage him.

December 6, 1990

Woody gets hooked on a home television-shopping channel while Norm and Cliff start a fight between Sam and Frasier.

December 13, 1990

Kelly returns from Europe with a new French boyfriend and Cliff decides to have his head cryogenically frozen before he dies.

January 3, 1991

Carla's formidable mother demands on her deathbed that Carla name one of her children "Benito Mussolini."

January 10, 1991

Sam decides to settle his feud with John Hill by dating the man's daughter and Carla fears that the foosball table is possessed.

January 24, 1991

Rebecca parties hearty to hide her second thoughts after Robin finally pops the question and Frasier develops a passion for the new sing-along machine.

January 31, 1991

Rebecca awakens on her wedding morning raring to go, and seems determined to ignore Sam's attempts to remind her of her doubts, and Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield upstages Frasier.

February 7, 1991

Rebecca has trouble accepting the fact that she cancelled her wedding with Robin and Frasier translates Dickens' classic prose into Boston vernacular.

February 14, 1991

On Valentine's Day, Sam winds up laid out due to back trouble on the 20th anniversary of his annual tryst with Lauren.

February 21, 1991

Rebecca decides on a new goal in life and begins by flattering John Hill in an effort to get his lease for the bar.

February 28, 1991

Norm develops a rich paranoia and decides to look for another bar when wife Vera gets a job upstairs at Melville's, and Lilith helps the gang celebrate Frasier's birthday.

March 14, 1991

Rebecca wants to serve Woody's chili in the poolroom despite Sam's heartfelt objections.

March 21, 1991

Carla faces the hardest task of her life when she tries to be nice to Cliff after learning he's one of the judges for the Miss Boston Barmaid competition.

March 28, 1991

Sam's old baseball rival shows up to goad Sam into a final round on the mound, but Sam isn't too sure he wants to go.

April 4, 1991

Lilith grieves over the death of her favorite lab rat while bar support Paul proves an unlikely target for a sexy seduction.

April 25, 1991

Sam enters a whole new world when he babysits for Frasier and Lilith, and Woody worries about Kelly when she goes to work at Cheers as part of a school project.

May 2, 1991

When Sam finds it difficult to back away from Frasier's son, he decides to have one of his own-if only he can find the right mommy.