Poker Night

A storyline that involves the gang playing poker.

Sanford and Son

Appearances

• The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 3, episode 18, "A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards" (1972). The Petries have the Helpers and another couple over to play poker, and Laura accidentally replaces the deck with marked cards from Ritchie's magic set.
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 3, episode 5, "It's Whether You Win or Lose" (1972). After Lou's trip to Vegas gets snowed out, the guys from the newsroom decide to have a poker game. The only trouble is that Murray is secretly a gambling addict.
• Sanford and Son: Season 2, episode 6, "The Card Sharps" (1972). Lamont hosts a poker game with a group of hustlers despite Fred's warnings.
• Welcome Back, Kotter: Season 1, episode 14, "The Longest Weekend" (1976). To keep Mr. Kotter company while Julie is away for the weekend, the Sweathogs come over to play poker.
• Taxi: Season 1, episode 13, "A Full House for Christmas" (1978). To get back at his brother for upsetting their mother, Louie plots with Alex to clean him out in a poker game.
• Cheers: Season 1, episode 19, "Pick a Con... Any Con" (1983). When a conman scams Coach out of $8,000, Sam works with Harry the Hat to try to scam the scammer with a high stakes poker game in the bar.
• Newhart: Season 1, episode 22, "I Enjoy Being a Guy" (1983). When Dick wins $200 from Chester, Jim, and their professor friend betting on their golf game, he keeps playing them in poker to try to win it back, but they're so bad at it that they keep losing more and more money.
• Newhart: Season 7, episode 12, "Cupcake on My Back" (1989). Dick and George play poker with Chester and Jim, and when Jim catches Chester cheating, they get into a fight that threatens to end their lifelong friendship.
• Newhart: Season 8, episode 21, "Dick and Tim" (1990). Dick discovers he's been left out of a weekly poker game George, Michael, Larry, Darryl, and Darryl have been holding with Tim Conway, and he insists on joining them. Just a few minutes into the game, Dick unintentionally makes a faux pas that makes Tim Conway storm out.
• Dream On: Season 2, episode 13, "The Name of the Game Is Five-Card Stud" (1991). Martin gets roped into a poker game with his co-workers, and when Carter tries to kiss up by inviting Gibby along, the "nickel and dime" game turns into a high stakes bloodbath.
• Cheers: Season 10, episode 18, "License to Hill" (1992). The guys hold a poker game in the back room, leaving Rebecca to run the bar by herself, and it goes about as well as expected. Meanwhile, Woody hustles the other poker players with his naive farmboy routine, and Cliff thinks he's getting drunk on non-alcoholic beer.
• Bob: Season 1, episode 7, "A Streetcar Named Congress Douglas" (1992). Bob holds a poker game at his house with his old comic book creator buddies, and two of them try to make a pass at Kaye.
• NewsRadio: Season 2, episode 19, "Presence" (1996). Mr. James is playing high stakes poker game with a bunch of other eccentric millionaires, and he's not doing very well. He loses the coffee maker and Bill to another station, so the gang tries to help him win them back.
• Still Game: Season 3, episode 3, "Cairds" (2004). When Boabby kicks the gang out of the pub for playing poker, they move the game to Jack's house and keep playing. When one hotly contested game comes down to Tam and Joe, Joe runs out of money and bets his brand new power wheelchair and loses. The gang urges Tam to give Joe back his chair, but he refuses, so the gang plot a scam to take it back from him.