TV & VIDEO - Aug. 6, 1987

Kirstie Alley--the actress replacing Shelley Long on NBC’s popular comedy “Cheers”--taped her first show Tuesday night, and was given a couple of congratulatory gifts by the rest of the cast after the show was in the can. The gifts: a bottle of Krystale champagne and . . . a shotgun. The note attached to the gun read: “You’re going to have to shoot your way out of here if you want to leave this show.”