Sunday, February 05, 2017

The "lost" CHEERS scene

A yearly tradition...

For several years I had been talking about the "Lost" CHEERS scene. David and I wrote it for the 1983 Super Bowl Pre-game show to promote our fledgling series. They ran it just before game time and it was seen by 80,000,000 people. Nothing we've ever written before or since has been seen by that many eyeballs at one time. But the scene was never repeated. It never appeared on any DVD's. It just disappeared.

Until a couple of years ago.

Sportswriter supreme, Joe Resnick has taped every Super Bowl including that one. And since the scene aired so close to the game, it was on the tape.  Sadly, Joe passed away last year.   You can read my tribute to him here.

Thanks to friend of the blog, Howard Hoffman, he was able to digitize it and post it on YouTube.  Here's the text of the scene.

So here it is. The Super Bowl is next.

6 comments :

Jeff Maxwell said...

Should be a traditional part of every Superbowl. Just cut in different team names. Not hard, huh?

Kirk said...

I remember seeing that.

scottmc said...

Looking for something to watch besides the game. There is a Mary Tyler Moore marathon on Decades channel. On Antenna TV there is a Becker episode written by Matthew Weiner and directed by you, 'The Ghosts of Christmas Presents'.

Chris said...

If they ever do a CHEERS blu-ray set that should be on it, though a friend at Paramount Home Video tells me a CHEERS blu-ray is unlikely to ever happen what with disc sales being in the toilet.

John Jackson Miller said...

Ken, speaking of lost Cheers episodes, I recently stumbled across a vaguely-remembered program: the 1983 NBC ALL-STAR HOUR on YouTube, which included Cheers characters in the framing material promoting the season's new shows. I always thought the prominence of Cheers in the show suggested how the series' fortunes were already changing by the end of the first season. Do you recall anything about how that program happened?

Chas said...

I like how Cliff wears his USPS shirt even on the weekends.