About Frasier
After leaving the Boston bar where he first won America over, Dr. Frasier Crane heads home to Seattle for a fresh start as the host of a call-in psychiatry show on radio station KACL. He imagines a sleek, sophisticated single life in his designer high-rise apartment, but fate has other plans. When his gruff, retired-cop father Martin moves in after a hip injury, along with a battered recliner and a scruffy dog named Eddie, Frasier's pristine world is gently and permanently upended.
The genius of the series lies in its sparring partners. Frasier and his younger brother Niles are a matched set of fussy, wine-swirling, opera-loving snobs whose rivalry and devotion drive much of the comedy, while Martin keeps both their egos firmly grounded. Into this household arrives Daphne Moon, the English physiotherapist hired to look after Martin, whose plainspoken warmth and psychic flashes become the heart of the home and the object of Niles' long, hilariously hopeless infatuation.
Across eleven seasons, Frasier balanced farce worthy of a French stage play with genuine tenderness about family, loneliness, and the comedy of being too clever for one's own good. It became one of the most awarded sitcoms in television history and a high-water mark for the form, anchored by the impeccable comic timing of Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, and Jane Leeves.