At "Cheers," everybody knows your name. But can you name the classic comedy's first spinoff? If you said "Frasier," think again. While Kelsey Grammer's Emmy-winning sitcom got underway in 1993, the ...

The premiere episode of ”The Tortellis,” an NBC sitcom that makes its debut at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on Channel 5, starts off with Nick Tortelli (played by Dan Hedaya) dreaming that he is in heaven and ...

Apr. 1—There's a scene from an old "Cheers." Loretta has left Nick, Carla's ex, and Nick's back in Sam's bar hoping to talk Carla back into his life. Eventually, Nick, forlorn and hopeless, receives ...

Iwas always glad to see Dan Hedaya whenever he made one of his rare appearances on Cheers as the scummy former husband of barmaid Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman). Nick Tortelli had the face of a mobster ...

The Tortellis is an American sitcom that aired from January to May 1987 on NBC. A spin-off of the hit series Cheers, The Tortellis stars Dan Hedaya and Jean Kasem. Nick Tortelli, the loutish ...