Rittenhouse 2025 Cheers Premiere Edition – Sealed Case (12 Boxes)

A factory-sealed case of 12 boxes of Rittenhouse's Cheers Premiere Edition, officially licensed by Paramount. Per box: 24 packs of 5 cards, with 2 on-card autographs and 1 costume relic. Per case: 24 autographs and 12 relics on average, plus at least one Ted Danson or Kelsey Grammer signature.

Cheers finished dead last in its first season

Seventy-seventh out of seventy-seven programmes. Not last in its timeslot — last on American television.

By every commercial logic it should have been cancelled at once. NBC kept it, and the usual explanation is that the network was doing so badly overall that it had nothing better to put in the slot, combined with a programming chief who simply liked the show and was prepared to defend it.

It won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series that year anyway, which bought it another. Ratings climbed slowly, and by its fifth season Cheers was in the American top five, where it stayed for the rest of its run. The finale in 1993 drew around 80 million viewers.

It is the standard example cited whenever anyone argues that a show needs time — and a reminder of how little of that exists now, when a streaming series that underperforms in its first fortnight is quietly removed.

The spin-off, Frasier, then ran another eleven years and won more Emmys than Cheers did.

Who signs

All autographs signed on-card. Costume relics feature screen-used wardrobe from Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt and Woody Harrelson.

Set composition

Retro-style base set of 99 cards covering Seasons 1 to 4.

Insert sets: Norm! · Quotable Cheers · Memorable Duos · Starring Characters · Opening Sequence · Gold parallels (numbered to 82) · hand-drawn sketch cards.

Case topper included. At nine cases, a dual autograph incentive signed by John Ratzenberger and George Wendt.