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.
Fans of Frasier, the popular Cheers classic television spinoff series, know well that Kelsey Grammer's Frasier Crane character did not get along with his father's Jack Russell Terrier pup, Eddie. Even from the series premiere, Grammer's character makes this clear.
John Mahoney, David Hyde Pierce, and Kelsey Grammer appeared in all episodes.
John Lithgow turned down the part of Frasier Crane in 'Cheers' when he was going through a “snobbish” phase.
In fact, all those stories have been happy ones. The cast of Frasier were notably close. Grammer calls Pierce the brother he never had. Along with the late John Mahoney, who played their dad, Martin, Pierce is godfather to Leeves's son.
Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane
Kelsey Grammer was 38 when Frasier began airing, and had seen more than his fair share of tragedy by this stage. The actor had already made a name for himself on Cheers – a show which initially offered him a six-episode gig but later turned him into a regular cast member.
The sitcom's creators hit on the idea of using Gates as a potential guest star a few weeks ago because he was known to be a "Frasier" fan and is friends with Wil Shriner, one of the show's directors.
Rosalinda Doyle (born May 5 1963 or 1964) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. Roz is the producer of Frasier Crane's Dr.
Also like his brother, Niles is highly intelligent. His IQ is 156, well over the Mensa threshold, and much higher than Frasier's (129).
By the start of the eighth season, Leeves was pregnant, and the writers incorporated her pregnancy into shows as weight gain due to her character's stress from her relationship with Niles (portrayed by David Hyde Pierce).
The baby that Niles and Daphne have at the end of the show is not a result of a real life pregnancy of Jane Leeves, the actress who plays Daphne. However, she was pregnant earlier in the show. In season 8 the actress got pregnant and it was simply written into the show as a weight gain.
Grammer said David Hyde Pierce opted out of returning as Frasier's brother. "David basically decided he wasn't really interested in repeating the performance of Niles," Grammer said. That's not a bad thing, he said.
One member of Frasier's cast received more fan mail than anyone else: Eddie the dog!
Spoilers (1) David Hyde Pierce (Niles) did actually make the half-court basket shown in this episode -- on the 27th take.
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.
Frasier finishes his story just as the plane lands, giving viewers a surprise: Frasier was landing in Chicago, where Charlotte had moved, and not to San Francisco.
This was primarily because they didn't want viewers to think that Frasier was simply riffing off with what Cheers did with Vera, Norm's (George Wendt) wife, who was often mentioned but never made it on screen. They planned on debuting Maris in episode 3, but the gag became too funny that they stuck with it.
Pierce stands as the most decorated cast member on the series, winning 4 Emmy awards, 5 Q Awards, 2 TCA awards, 2 SAG awards and 6 American Comedy awards. Grammer also won 4 Emmy Awards, 4 Q awards, 2 Golden Globes, 2 Satellite awards, 2 American Comedy Awards and a SAG award.
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.
Moose, the celebrity Jack Russell Terrier most famous for his role as Eddie on the television sitcom Frasier, earned around $10,000 per episode, for a net worth of approximately $3.2 million.
But Grammer notes that Eddie was already recast during the show's run -- Moose played him from 1993 to 2000 before his son Enzo took over until the show ended in 2004.
David Hyde Pierce studied classical piano before becoming an actor. When you see Niles playing on Frasier, you can see he's really playing!
The majority of Kelsey Grammer's wealth comes from his time on the hit NBC show Frasier. For the final two seasons of the show, Grammer was reportedly paid $1.6 million per episode for each 24-episode season. At the time, that price tag set the record for the highest-paid TV actor of all time.