It's the cozy Boston bar where everybody knows your name. Welcome to Cheers, the Emmy Award-winning smash hit television series that kept the laughs uncorked for 11 years. In Cheers: The Complete First Season, you'll find all 22 complete, uncut episodes of the show's premiere season and see how this milestone TV comedy series began. Former pro baseball player Sam "Mayday" Malone (Danson) enjoys a playboy lifestyle as the proprietor of the neighborhood hangout, assisted by his befuddled bartender, Coach (Colasanto), and his surly waitress, Carla (Perlman). Cheers also has Norm (Wendt) and Cliff (Ratzenberger), two of the funniest barflies you'll ever encounter. And completing the show's ensemble cast is Shelley Long as Diane Chambers, a teaching assistant who suddenly finds herself jilted, jobless-and hired as Sam's newest waitress!

Disc 1: Give Me A Ring Sometime (Pilot), Coach's Daughter, Sam's Women, The Tortelli Tort, Sam At Eleven, Any Friend of Diane's

Disc 2: Friends Romans and Accountants, Truce of Consequences, Coach Returns To Action, Endless Slumper, One for the Book, The Spy Who Came In For a Cold One

Disc 3: Now Pitching Sam Malone, Let Me Count the Ways, Father Knows Last, The Boys In the Bar, Diane's Perfect Date, No Contest

Disc 4: Pick a Con... Any Con, Someone Single Someone Blue, Show Down (Part 1), Show Down (Part 2)

Founded in 1969 as the Bull & Finch Pub, the original inspiration for the setting of the TV show Cheers, was a favorite neighbor-hood bar. In fact, the year that the Cheers show premiered on television (1982) Boston Magazine chose the Bull & Finch Pub as the “Best Neighborhood Bar” in Boston.

In the summer of 1981, a couple from Hollywood--Mary Ann and Glenn Charles--happened into the Bull & Finch during their search throughout Boston for a neighborhood bar to copy for their new TV series. They enjoyed the warm, cozy atmosphere that this Beacon Hill neighborhood pub provided and they decided to take pictures of the interior and exterior to take back to Hollywood. Upon their return, they gave the pictures to a set designer who utilized all of the architectural elements of the Bull & Finch and designed the set that was built on Paramount’s lot on Stage 25. They then cast the show, including all of the actors and actresses that we have come to know and love, shot the pilot, sold the pilot to NBC, and the show premiered September 30, 1982.

The show was one of the most successful and most popular to ever be aired on television. During its 11 seasons on prime time, Cheers received over 100 nominations for Emmys and almost all of the participants in the show won an Emmy in their category. The show itself won “Best Comedy” several times. During those 11 years, 275 episodes were filmed and now provide a library of sitcom comedies that have been in syndication on television channels for many years to come.

With all this said CHEERS is a required taste; not everyone may show the same enthusiasm for this TV show. For fans of the show, you will be very pleased with this wonderful presentation. Paramount provides excellent picture, a wonderful audio track and some great extras. CHEERS comes highly recommended for all fans of this classic comedy hit.

DVD Rating: 4 out of 4

Review originally appeared on DVDFreak.net