Behind The Couch: The Making of Frasier (20:48)– The cast and crew discuss how Frasier grew out of Cheers, and how the new show came to life. Crane, Frasier; Crane, Niles (1996). Cafe Nervosa: The Connoisseur's Cookbook. Oxmoor House. ISBN 0848715500. Marching On To Season Two (5:59)– A brief featurette with Peter Casey and David Lee about how the Frasier-Niles dynamic deepened during the season. The standard definition clips used in this featurette give a great basis of comparison to how much better the remastered episodes look on the Blu-rays compared to the original broadcasts and DVDs.

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a b c d e Newman, Bruce (March 1, 1998). "All in Their Family". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013 . Retrieved February 20, 2009. The Niles & Daphne Attraction (4:10)– Casey and Lee discuss how Niles’ attraction to Daphne was a spontaneous development. The original focus of the series was intended to be the relationship between Frasier and Martin, and it was the focus of most of the first-season episodes. Once the show began airing, Niles became a breakout character, and more focus was added to the brothers' relationship, and other plots centering on Niles, starting in the second season. [30] The producers initially did not want to make Niles's wife Maris an unseen character because they did not want to draw parallels to Vera, Norm's wife on Cheers. They originally intended that she would appear after several episodes, but were enjoying writing excuses for her absence so much that they eventually decided she would remain unseen, and after the increasingly eccentric characteristics ascribed to her, they concluded that no real actress would be able to portray her anyway. [21] Sets and settings [ edit ] The show's theme song, "Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs," is sung by Grammer and is played over the closing credits of each episode. Composer Bruce Miller, who had also composed for Wings, was asked to avoid explicitly mentioning any subjects related to the show such as radio or psychiatry. After Miller finished the music, lyricist Darryl Phinnesse suggested the title as they were things that were, like Frasier Crane's patients, "mixed up". The lyrics indirectly refer to Crane's radio show; "I hear the blues a-callin'," for example, refers to troubled listeners who call the show. [34] Grammer recorded several variations of the final spoken line of the theme, which were rotated for each of the episodes. Other than season finales, a short, silent scene, often revisiting a small subplot aside from the central story of the episode, appears with the credits and song, which the actors performed without written dialogue based on the scriptwriter's suggestion. [35] Dan Butler as Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe (main seasons 4–6; recurring season 1; special appearance seasons 2–3; special guest seasons 7, 9, 10 & 11), the womanizing, misogynistic host of "Bob 'Bulldog' Briscoe and the Gonzo Sports Show", which follows Frasier's time slot at KACL.

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And Then There Was Eddie (4:57)– John Mahoney takes the lead in this featurette about the dog Eddie. Darowski, Joseph J.; Darowski, Kate (August 7, 2017). Frasier: A Cultural History. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-7797-7. Archived from the original on February 10, 2023 . Retrieved September 14, 2020. I noticed one mastering error with season 7’s “The Fight Before Christmas” – it is presented in 16×9 widescreen rather than its original 4×3 ratio. Rather than being cropped, there is additional picture information on both sides of the frame, though nothing important. It appears that when the episode was remastered, the disc producers either forgot to matte the sides of the image to create a 4×3 ratio, or inadvertently substituted a widescreen master created for syndication and streaming. The error is limited to this single episode, and this observation is more footnote than complaint.

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Frasier DVD news: Announcement for Frasier–The Complete Series–TVShowsOnDVD.com". tvshowsondvd.com. Archived from the original on June 30, 2015 . Retrieved June 15, 2015. Seasons ten and eleven were originally broadcast in high definition, and the disc set reuses those existing masters. Though they are perfectly satisfactory, there have been improvements in film scanning and editing technology since then, and eagle-eyed viewers will note that the last two seasons aren’t quite as sharp or detailed as the first nine. There’s less visible film grain here, with occasional hints of digital noise. There’s nothing objectionable or wrong with these last two seasons, but they’re not the night and day improvement found in the earlier ones. Harriet Sansom Harris as Bebe Glazer (seasons 1–5, 7, 9–11), Frasier's flirtatious and duplicitous agent. Described by Niles as " Lady Macbeth without the sincerity", she will use any method to get her or her clients the best deal. Things You Might Not Know About Frasier". September 16, 2017. Archived from the original on December 25, 2021 . Retrieved March 15, 2018.

Moose and Enzo as Eddie, Martin's pet dog. Eddie annoys Frasier in many ways, especially by staring at him for long periods. Even so, Frasier occasionally shows kindness to Eddie by petting him, taking him for a walk, or giving him edible treats.

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Barnes, Anthony (September 6, 2000). "Just don't tell the Major, Fawlty is our favourite". Birmingham Post. ISSN 0963-7915. OCLC 500151397. Archived from the original on December 25, 2021 . Retrieved October 18, 2016.In 1996, Grammer's recurrent alcoholism led to a car accident. The cast and crew performed an intervention that persuaded him to enter the Betty Ford Center, delaying production for a month. [23] The first four seasons were also released on VHS along with a series of 'Best Of' tapes. These tapes consisted of four episodes taken from seasons 1–4. Lowry, Brian (September 14, 1998). " 'Frasier' Wins Record Fifth Straight Emmy". Archived from the original on October 23, 2018 . Retrieved February 6, 2018– via Los Angeles Times. The KACL callers' lines were read by anonymous voice-over actors during filming in front of a live audience, and during post-production, the lines were replaced by celebrities, who actually phoned in their parts without having to come into the studio. The end credits of season finales show greyscale headshots of celebrities who had "called in" that season. Celebrities providing voices as callers include Gillian Anderson, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Cindy Crawford, Billy Crystal, Phil Donahue, David Duchovny, Hilary Duff, Olympia Dukakis, Carrie Fisher, Jodie Foster, Art Garfunkel, Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Linda Hamilton, Daryl Hannah, Ron Howard, Eric Idle, Stephen King, Jay Leno, Laura Linney, John Lithgow, Yo-Yo Ma, William H. Macy, Henry Mancini, Reba McEntire, Helen Mirren, Mary Tyler Moore, Estelle Parsons, Rosie Perez, Freddie Prinze Jr., Christopher Reeve, Carly Simon, Gary Sinise, Mary Steenburgen, Ben Stiller, Marlo Thomas, Rob Reiner, Carl Reiner, Lily Tomlin, and Eddie Van Halen.