A spacious bachelor pad with three bedrooms and three bathrooms was looking extra good, as were the soothing beige tones of the 1990s.
The main set was Frasier's apartment, designed to be “ultra-modern” in an “eclectic style,” as Frasier described it in the first episode. Part of the fictional “Elliott Bay Towers,” it's roughly 2,000 square feet.
Located in the fictional Elliott Bay Towers, the three-bedroom, three-bath luxury condo has view of the Space Needle and Seattle skyline so amazing, it's no surprise that it's entirely fictional. The backdrop image used was actually taken at Kerry Park and would be impossible from any real condo.
Frasier Trivia: It actually cost $500,000 to furnish Frasier's apartment! And, despite not looking it, Martin's chair was actually quite expensive (due to it being custom made).
While it's difficult to surmise a full floor plan, especially since some areas seem overly large (the living room) while others seem relatively small (the corridor with Daphne's bedroom), the square footage for it is roughly 2,000, or the size of a small house.
A spacious bachelor pad with three bedrooms and three bathrooms was looking extra good, as were the soothing beige tones of the 1990s.
If you look at Monica and Rachel's apartment, the square footage was expected to be between 1100 to 1500 square feet. This puts the rent around $6000 to $8000, according to most modern-day estimates.
One member of Frasier's cast received more fan mail than anyone else: Eddie the dog!
Frasier's offscreen investments, his negotiated radio salary, and savings from high psychiatrist salary were lucrative enough to sustain himself, his costly tastes, and responsibilities.
There shouldn't be doubts that Frasier is filmed in front of a live audience.
I can now reveal what they were actually drinking. . . it's Harvey's Bristol Cream. In Season 6 episode 9 Frasier decants a distinctive blue bottle.
Where's the real Cafe Nervosa? As rumor has it, Cafe Nervosa was based on the real-life Elliott Bay Cafe inside Elliott Bay Book Company, back when it was located in the historic, 1890-built Globe Building.
Frasier Locations
This fabulous series was not shot in Seattle, as the show suggests, but filmed on sound stage sets in Los Angeles. There is only one exception to the filming rule in Frasier, which is the 100th episode called 'The 1000th Show' on the series. The 1000th Show was episode 5 of season 5.
Because he was a rich, ostentatious therapist with a successful radio talk show and plenty of money!
Also like his brother, Niles is highly intelligent. His IQ is 156, well over the Mensa threshold, and much higher than Frasier's (129).
Unlike many other series where characters' pregnancies were written in to accommodate the actress becoming pregnant in real life, this was not the case with Roz. Hers was purely a storyline invention, Peri Gilpin was not pregnant in real life.
Spoilers (1) David Hyde Pierce (Niles) did actually make the half-court basket shown in this episode -- on the 27th take.
John Lithgow turned down the part of Frasier Crane in 'Cheers' when he was going through a “snobbish” phase.
A brief look at the TV series Frasier, where the cast discuss their favourite episodes. The programme was followed by Kelsey Grammer's favourite, 'Our Father Whose Art Ain't Heaven', introduced by him.
Maris Crane is Niles Crane's wife for much of the series, though she is never fully seen onscreen (much like Norm Peterson's wife, Vera, on Cheers). She is the most notable of the show's never-seen characters, and often the subject of many jokes. Her family is not revealed on the series.
At the beginning of the series, Monica and Rachel's apartment number is 5, and Chandler and Joey's is 4.
First, they calculated that Joey and Chandler's rent would have equated to roughly $3,500 a month, totalling approximately $63,000 over three years. User ASmileThatKills then added on another $1000 for Joey's half of the utilities, bringing the current total up to $64,000 so far.
The show explained that their good fortune came on account of an inherited, rent-controlled lease from Monica's grandmother that allowed the pair to pay just $200 per month in rent.