Kirstie Alley played Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers from 1987 to 1993. She joined the sitcom, replacing Shelly Long and remaining with the show until its eleventh and final season.
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With this role, she received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991.
Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons.
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The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/ Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television and was created by the team of James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles.
During its run, Cheers became one of the most popular series in history and received critical acclaim from its start to its end. Its series finale was watched by an estimated 93 million viewers, almost 40% of the US population at the time.


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