Psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane ( Grammer ) returns to his hometown of Seattle, Washington, following the end of his marriage and his life in Boston ( as seen in Cheers ).

Grammer is most widely known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the hit NBC sitcoms Cheers, Wings, and Frasier.

Grammer came to broader public attention as Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcom Cheers.

His 20-year run playing Dr. Frasier Crane ties a length set by James Arness in playing Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975 and Richard Belzer in playing Det.

In 2008, Grammer reprised his role of Dr. Frasier Crane in a commercial for Dr Pepper.

When the producers of the popular American sitcom Cheers were auditioning for the role of Dr. Frasier Crane, Patinkin put Grammer's name forward.

She has worked in television and is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife ( later ex-wife ), on both the TV sitcom Cheers ( in a starring role ), and its spin-off Frasier ( in a recurring guest role ).

On television, from 1986 to 1993 Neuwirth played Dr. Lilith Sternin, who married Dr. Frasier Crane on the hit comedy series Cheers.

* Dr. Frasier Crane, a character on Cheers, and its successful spin-off, Frasier

* Kelsey Grammer, American actor, director, and writer best known for his 20-year portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on two sitcoms

Other renditions have included the Babylon 5 episodes " Atonement ", sung by Marcus Cole to irritate fellow passenger Dr. Franklin ; The Wind In The Willows episode " A Producer's Lot " ( Series 3, Episode 11 ) sung by Mole ( Richard Pearson ); the Married With Children episode " Peggy and the Pirates " ( Season 7, Episode 18 ); the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Disaster "; the episode of Frasier titled " Fathers and Sons " ( Martin interrupts the song trying to join in, singing, " With many awful facts about the scary hippopotamus!

Niles is the father of David, the younger brother of Dr. Frasier Crane, the son of Det.

Pierce is best known for playing the psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the hit NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he won four Emmy Awards during the series ' run.

On the eleventh and final season ( 1992 – 93 ), in " Teaching with the Enemy " ( 1992 ), Lilith admits her affair with another man Dr. Louis Pascal ( Peter Vogt ), which enrages and distresses Frasier, despite his " forgiveness " and makes a vow to never allow her see Dr. Pascal again.

In " The Girl in the Plastic Bubble " ( 1992 ), Frasier attempts suicide, but Lilith swears that she will not leave him for Dr. Pascal and their marriage can work out, so Frasier decides not to do so.

* Though its usage here is not a parody, in an episode of Cheers, Cliff aborts his plans to emigrate to Canada with his love interest when Sam, Woody, and Frasier appeal to his patriotic side by singing this song.

In the TV show Cheers, Frasier Crane's wife Lilith mentions Frasier's parents are both dead.

When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.

This is a frequent occurrence in sitcoms, where networks may agree to continue a show, but only if a certain character is emphasized, leading other minor characters to become victims of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, while the emphasized character ( usually a Breakout Character ) ( as in the case of Frasier Crane ) develops a more complete back story that ignores previous, more simplified back stories.

The character Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer, was featured in his own successful spin-off, Frasier, which also ran for 11 seasons and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major, and some minor, Cheers characters.

Frasier Crane starts as a recurring character but then becomes a permanent character.

Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series Frasier.

The trio received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won 24 Emmy Awards, including the above-mentioned for Frasier, as well as an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy for Cheers, in 1989, which Angell, Casey, Lee and the series ' other producers shared, and Outstanding Writing / Comedy Emmy for Cheers, which Angell received in 1984.

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004.

A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Jane Leeves, Peri Gilpin, and Moose.

His producer Roz Doyle ( Gilpin ) is very different from Frasier in taste and temperament ; yet over time they become close friends.

Frasier and the others often visit the local coffee shop Café Nervosa.

Much like its predecessor Cheers, Frasier used an ensemble cast with storylines involving the central group of characters.

Midway throughout the show's run, it was competing against another highly rated sitcom, Frasier, which slightly dropped the ratings.

Grammer's personal life has been affected by several tragedies: in 1968, his estranged father, whom he had seen only twice since his parents ' divorce, was shot dead ; in 1975, his younger sister, Karen, was abducted, raped, and murdered by spree killer Freddie Glenn ; in 1980, his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident ; and David Angell, close friend and producer of Frasier, died in the 9 / 11 attacks.

Sideshow Bob shares some personality traits of Grammer's character Frasier Crane from the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, and has been described as " Frasier pickled in arsenic ".

Several parallels have been explicitly drawn in The Simpsons between Bob and Frasier Crane – Bob's brother Cecil and his father were played by David Hyde Pierce and John Mahoney respectively, echoing the roles they played in Frasier.

In Frasier, Maris Crane is an unseen character, and the producers of Frasier asked that the scene be removed.

Mahoney portrayed Martin Crane, the father of Grammer's and Pierce's characters in Frasier.

* Niles Crane, a character in the US television series Frasier

* Frederick Gaylord Crane, ( TV ) fictional child of Lilith and Frasier Crane on the American TV shows " Cheers " and " Frasier "

He also appeared in episodes of ALF, Campus Ladies, Entourage, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Friends, Greek, How I Met Your Mother, Mad About You, Married ... with Children, Murphy Brown, NYPD Blue, Reba, Reno 911 !, That ' 70s Show, Veronica Mars, Yes, Dear, and Desperate Housewives.

In 2001, Jacobi won an Emmy Award by mocking his Shakespearean background in the television sitcom Frasier episode " The Show Must Go Off ", in which he played the world's worst Shakespearean actor: the hammy, loud, untalented Jackson Hedley.

* Frasier ( 1994 )-Sam " Mayday " Malone ( Episode – " The Show When Sam Shows Up ")

In addition to The Odd Couple, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Happy Days, other live sitcoms that were sweetened by Douglass were The Paul Lynde Show ( ABC, 1972 – 73 ), The Bob Newhart Show ( CBS, 1972 – 78 ), Maude ( CBS, 1972 – 78 ), Rhoda ( CBS, 1974 – 78 ), Laverne and Shirley ( ABC, 1976 – 83 ), Alice ( CBS, 1976 – 85 ), Soap ( ABC, 1977 – 81 ), Taxi ( ABC, 1978 – 82 ; NBC, 1982 – 83 ), Seinfeld ( NBC 1990-1998 ), Friends ( NBC 1994-2004 ), Cheers ( NBC, 1982 – 93 ) and its spinoff Frasier ( NBC, 1993 – 2004 ).

On television, Douglas appeared briefly as Garry Shandling's love interest on The Larry Sanders Show, starred in the series Action ( 1999 ) with Jay Mohr, guest starred on Seinfeld, Frasier and The Drew Carey Show, and has played a public defender on several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2002 and 2003.

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" In " The Show Where Sam Shows Up " Sam Malone said to Frasier, " He looks just like you did when I first met you.

In " The Show Where Lilith Comes Back " ( 1994 ), Lilith calls Frasier during the radio show, which surprises him.

In " The Show Where Sam Shows Up " ( 1995 ), an episode of the Cheers spinoff Frasier, Sam Malone ( Ted Danson ) tells Frasier that, after reading an article about flesh-eating bacteria, Cliff has not left home.

It broadcasts many talk radio shows, including The Dr. Frasier Crane Show between 2: 00pm – 5: 00pm each weekday, Bob " Bulldog " Briscoe's top-rated The Gonzo Sports Show, and Gil Chesterton's Restaurant Beat.

The Dr. Frasier Crane Show was the first show back on the air.

He also made a guest appearance in the Frasier episode " The Show Where Sam Shows Up ".

Sam in " The Show Where Sam Shows Up ", episode of Frasier

However, in " The Show Where Sam Shows Up ", the 1995 episode of Frasier, the Cheers spin-off, Sam is depicted as a self-identified sexual addict with help from group meetings and committed to change himself.

* Cheers, Wings, Frasier, Caroline in the City, Friends, Mad About You and The John Larroquette Show.

Later, in the episode of the Cheers spinoff Frasier, " The Show Where Sam Shows Up ", although she does not appear in the spinoff, Sam visits Frasier and tells him: Don left Rebecca after he made a fortune on a plumbing-related invention, and Rebecca was " back at the bar.

* Frasier: " The Show Where Diane Comes Back " ( 1996 ) as Mary Anne