The Bizarre Cheers and St. Elsewhere Crossover Episode

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Do you remember the Cheers and St. Elsewhere crossover episode? The St. Elsewhere episode "Cheers" aired on March 27, 1985. It was interesting to see the bar from a different angle and hear no studio audience laughter.

Per Wikipedia:

St. Elsewhere ended its 3rd season with this TV crossover that found Drs. Westphall, Auschlander, and Craig getting together at Cheers. The scene, which was filmed on the main Cheers soundstage (Stage 25 at the Paramount Studios lot), finds Cliff Clavin trying and failing to gain free medical advice from the doctors, Auschlander confronting his former accountant Norm Peterson, and barmaid Carla Tortelli voicing her displeasure with the doctors regarding her stay in St. Eligius two years earlier for the birth of her baby. The scene ends with Westphall announcing to his two colleagues that he has decided to leave St. Eligius and medicine, a short-lived departure, as he returned in the Season 4 premiere.

The merger of Cheers' and St. Elsewhere's universes created a discontinuity with the second season finale, "Hello, Goodbye", in which Dr. Morrison and his young son spend a day on the town and visit the real-world Bull and Finch Pub, the banners out front celebrating it as the inspiration for (and exterior view of) Cheers.

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Crossover: "Cheers" and "St. Elsewhere"

Cheers Writer Ken Levine on the St. Elsewhere-Cheers Crossover

St. Elsewhere goes to Cheers: the inside story

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One of the most bizarre crossovers in television history. Three of the doctors from St. Elsewhere visit a friendly neighborhood pub where "everybody knows your name". While there, they encounter an incompetant accountaint named Norm, a know-it-all mailman named Cliff, and a rude barmaid named Carla. This clip was taken from the Season Three finale of St. Elsewhere.

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