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Rebecca Howe is a fictional character of the American television sitcom Cheers, portrayed by Kirstie Alley and created by Glen and Les Charles. Rebecca appeared in 147 episodes of Cheers between 1987 and 1993 and in one episode of Wings .
The Cheers regulars learn from Frasier's colleagues that, when she was a college student, Rebecca was a party girl and was nicknamed "Backseat Becky". Rather than admit the truth, Rebecca tells Sam a false story she bought from Carla.
Kirstie Louise Alley [1] (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress. Her breakthrough role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991.
Kirstie Alley debuted as Rebecca Howe in this episode after Shelley Long left the series as Diane Chambers in 1987.. The producers intended Cheers to be a comedy about a comedy itself set in the Boston bar, but, as Burrows claimed, the "Sam and Diane" story arc predominated the show for five years and, as he hypothesized, would have made the bar more of a minor role and more irrelevant if ...
The cast of Cheers in one of the show's early seasons. (Photo: NBC/Courtesy Everett Collection) (©NBC/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Here's what the series finales for Cheers and Seinfeld have to teach us about ending a long-running sitcom.(Photo: Illustration by Kyle McCauley for Yahoo/Photo: Getty Images) (Illustration by ...
Cheers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, for 11 seasons and 275 episodes. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television and was created by the team of James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles.
Everyone still knows their names! The cast of the hit 1980s sitcom "Cheers" reunited on stage at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 15 to present the awards for outstanding directing in a ...