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S02E05: Sumner's Return

Diane's intellectual former fiance returns to reclaim her and puts Sam into an anxiety attack when he tries to measure up by reading Tolstoy.

Genres:

Comedy

Air Date:

Nov 03, 1983

Runtime:

23 minutes

Production:

Paramount Television Studios , Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions

Casts:

Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt, Kelsey Grammer, Woody Harrelson, Bebe Neuwirth

Season 1

Give Me a Ring Sometime

Any Friend of Diane's

Friends, Romans, Accountants

Truce or Consequences

Coach Returns to Action

The Spy Who Came In for a Cold One

E13

Now Pitching, Sam Malone

E14

Let Me Count the Ways

Pick a Con... Any Con

E20

Someone Single, Someone Blue

Little Sister Don't Cha

They Called Me Mayday

E10

How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Call You Back

E11

Just Three Friends

E12

Where There's a Will...

And Coachie Makes Three

E16

Cliff's Rocky Moment

E17

Fortune and Men's Weight

E18

Snow Job

E19

Coach Buries a Grudge

E20

Norman's Conquest

E21

I'll Be Seeing You (1)

E22

I'll Be Seeing You (2)

Fairy Tales Can Come True

Sam Turns the Other Cheek

The Heart Is a Lonely Snipe Hunter

The Mail Goes to Jail

E18

Bar Bet

E19

Behind Every Great Man

E20

If Ever I Would Leave You

E21

The Executive's Executioner

The Belles of St. Clete's

E25

Rescue Me

Season 4

Birth, Death, Love and Rice

Woody Goes Belly Up

Someday My Prince Will Come

The Groom Wore Clearasil

Diane's Nightmare

I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday

2 Good 2 Be 4 Real

Love Thy Neighbor

From Beer to Eternity

Fools and Their Money

E13

Take My Shirt...Please?

The Peterson Principle

E19

Dark Imaginings

E20

Save the Last Dance for Me

Strange Bedfellows (1)

E25

Strange Bedfellows (2)

E26

Strange Bedfellows (3)

House of Horrors with Formal Dining and Used Brick

Tan 'n' Wash

Young Dr. Weinstein

Knights of the Scimitar

Thanksgiving Orphans

E10

Everyone Imitates Art

Never Love a Goalie (1)

E17

Never Love a Goalie (2)

The Godfather, Part III

E23

Norm's First Hurrah

E24

Cheers: The Motion Picture

E25

A House Is Not a Home

Little Carla, Happy at Last (1)

Little Carla, Happy at Last (2)

The Crane Mutiny

Paint Your Office

The Last Angry Mailman

Bidding on the Boys

Pudd'n head Boyd

E10

A Kiss Is Still a Kiss

Woody for Hire meets Norman of the Apes

E14

And God Created Woodman

To All the Girls I've Loved Before

E18

Let Sleeping Drakes Lie

E19

Airport V

E20

The Sam in the Gray Flannel Suit

E21

Our Hourly Bread

E22

Slumber Party Massacred

Backseat Becky, Up Front

Season 7

How to Recede in Business

Swear to God

Executive Sweet

One Happy Chappy in a Snappy Serape

Those Lips, Those Ice

Norm, is That You?

How to Win Friends and Electrocute People

Jumping Jerks

Send in the Crane

E10

Bar Wars II: The Woodman Strikes Back

E11

Adventures in Housesitting

Don't Paint Your Chickens

The Gift of the Woodi

E20

Call Me Irresponsible

The Improbable Dream (1)

The Improbable Dream (2)

A Bar is Born

How to Marry a Mailman

The Two Faces of Norm

The Stork Brings a Crane

Death Takes a Holiday on Ice

For Real Men Only

Two Girls for Every Boyd

Sammy and the Professor

E14

What is... Cliff Clavin?

Indoor Fun With Sammy and Robby

E20

50-50 Carla

E21

Bar Wars III: The Return of Tecumseh

E22

Loverboyd

E23

The Ghost and Mrs. Lebec

Love Is a Really, Really, Perfectly Okay Thing

Cheers Fouls Out

Rebecca Redux

Where Nobody Knows Your Name

Ma Always Liked You Best

Grease

Breaking In Is Hard to Do

Bad Neighbor Sam

Veggie-Boyd

E10

Norm and Cliff's Excellent Adventure

The Days of Wine and Neuroses (1)

E15

Wedding Bell Blues (2)

E16

I'm Getting My Act Together and Sticking It in Your Face

It's a Wonderful Wife

Get Your Kicks on Route 666

Madame LaCarla

The Norm Who Came To Dinner

Ma's Little Maggie

Unplanned Parenthood

Bar Wars V: The Final Judgement

Where Have All the Floorboards Gone?

I'm Okay, You're Defective

E12

Go Make

E13

Don't Shoot... I'm Only the Psychiatrist

E14

No Rest For the Woody

E15

My Son, the Father

E16

One Hugs, the Other Doesn't

E17

A Diminished Rebecca with a Suspended Cliff

Take Me Out of the Ball Game

E22

Rebecca's Lover... Not

E23

Bar Wars VI: This Time It's for Real

E24

Heeeeeere's... Cliffy!

E25

An Old-Fashioned Wedding (1)

E26

An Old-Fashioned Wedding (2)

Season 11

The Little Match Girl

The Beer is Always Greener

The King of Beers

The Magnificent Six

Do Not Forsake Me O' My Postman

Teaching with the Enemy

The Girl in the Plastic Bubble

Ill-Gotten Gaines

Feelings... Whoa, Whoa, Whoa

E10

Daddy's Little Middle-Aged Girl

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Bar

E15

Loathe and Marriage

E16

Is There a Doctor in the Howe?

E17

The Bar Manager, The Shrink, His Wife and Her Lover

E18

The Last Picture Show

E19

Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey

E20

Look Before You Sleep

E21

Woody Gets an Election

E22

It's Lonely on the Top

E23

Rebecca Gaines, Rebecca Loses (1)

E24

Rebecca Gaines, Rebecca Loses (2)

E25

The Guy Can't Help It

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