50 Fun Facts About Frasier

What are the call letters of the radio station where Frasier hosts his call-in show?

The studio set was modelled on ABC's then-new radio studios in Los Angeles.

Frasier's father Martin was forced to retire from the Seattle police after being shot where?

The wound leaves him unable to live alone, which is how he and Eddie end up in Frasier's apartment.

Daphne Moon, Martin's live-in physiotherapist, comes from which English city?

She is the only daughter in a family of nine children, and claims to be a bit psychic.

What breed is Martin's dog, Eddie?

Eddie was played by a dog called Moose and later by Moose's son, Enzo.

Which coffee shop do the Crane brothers frequent?

It sits alongside the apartment and KACL as one of the show's three main sets.

How many Primetime Emmy Awards did Frasier win over its run, a record for a scripted series at the time?

It beat The Mary Tyler Moore Show's long-standing 29 and held the record until Game of Thrones passed it in 2016.

Frasier won Outstanding Comedy Series how many years in a row?

The run from 1994 to 1998 is tied with Modern Family for the most consecutive wins in the category.

Which actress was originally cast as Roz Doyle before being replaced by Peri Gilpin during rehearsals?

The producers wanted someone who could seem more assertive and take control of Frasier at the station; Kudrow went on to Friends.

Roz Doyle was named in memory of a producer on which other sitcom from the same creators?

She died of breast cancer in 1991; Roz was the only main role that required an audition, with about 300 actresses seen.

Roz Doyle grew up in the small town of Bloomer, in which state?

Her mother Joanna, played by Eva Marie Saint, is the state's Attorney General.

Roz names the daughter she has in season five what?

The father was a 20-year-old college student she had a brief fling with.

Niles's never-seen first wife is called what?

She is mentioned in nearly every episode of their marriage yet never appears; her divorce lawyers cost Niles his Mercedes.

After Maris, Niles briefly marries Mel Karnofsky. What is Mel's profession?

She was Maris's surgeon; the marriage lasts two days before Niles confesses his love for Daphne on the eve of her wedding to Donny.

Where do Niles and his new bride finally elope at the end of season nine?

Niles had just failed to reconcile Daphne's parents, which left her doubting marriage altogether.

Niles's vanity licence plate on his Mercedes reads what?

Frasier drives BMWs; after the divorce Niles is reduced to a Geo Metro he refuses to let Frasier see.

Niles's IQ is stated to be 156. What is Frasier's?

Niles's mysophobia, wiping his hands after any human contact, is traced back to a childhood babysitter, Ronee Lawrence.

Frasier and Niles's mother Hester named her sons after what?

Hester was a psychiatrist herself; Rita Wilson played her in a Frasier dream sequence.

The character of Niles was not in the original concept. What prompted the producers to create him?

Awkwardly, Frasier had told his Cheers friends he was an only child.

Before settling on Frasier, the creators pitched Grammer a series in which he would play what?

The wealthy, Malcolm Forbes-like character was to clash with a live-in nurse; Paramount preferred a straight Frasier Crane spin-off.

Martin Crane was based on creator Peter Casey's father, who spent 34 years with which police department?

NBC told the producers that if they could land John Mahoney he could be hired without an audition; they flew to Chicago with the pilot script.

Frasier's closing theme, sung by Kelsey Grammer, is called what?

Composer Bruce Miller was told to avoid mentioning radio or psychiatry; the lyricist chose the title because both are, like patients, "mixed up".

Frasier's title card shows a white line drawn in the shape of what?

The title colour changed every season, from blue in season one to metallic gold in season eleven.

How did the celebrity callers on Frasier's radio show record their lines?

During filming, anonymous voice actors read the lines; the celebrity versions were dropped in afterwards, and season finales credited them with headshots.

Kelsey Grammer voiced which Simpsons character, whose brother Cecil is voiced by David Hyde Pierce?

The 1997 episode "Brother from Another Series" even used a Frasier-style title card and theme.

Frasier co-creator David Angell was killed in what event in 2001?

He and his wife Lynn were aboard American Airlines Flight 11; the baby born in the finale is named David after him.

Which Cheers regular was the only one to become a recurring Frasier character, in twelve episodes?

Bebe Neuwirth's frosty ex-wife; every surviving Cheers regular except Kirstie Alley's Rebecca turned up at some point.

In the season nine episode "Cheerful Goodbyes", Frasier returns to Boston for whose retirement party?

Cliff is retiring to Florida; the Cranes bump into him at the airport and end up with the whole gang.

Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe hosts which programme on KACL?

Behind the machismo he is terrified of reptiles and once used a pregnant Roz as a human shield.

Frasier's ruthless agent Bebe Glazer is described by Niles as "Lady Macbeth without the ___"

Harriet Sansom Harris played her; she first appears as Bulldog's agent in the season one episode "Selling Out".

KACL technician Noel Shempsky is a Star Trek fanatic who speaks which fictional language fluently?

That skill, along with his Spanish, keeps him employed when the station changes format in season five.

KACL's posh restaurant critic, forever in a bow tie, is called what?

He surprises everyone by revealing he is married to a woman who works as a car mechanic.

Martin's brash bartender girlfriend Sherry Dempsey, played by Marsha Mason, works at which bar?

Martin wants to marry her, but she prefers to keep things casual, and they part over beers at the bar.

Who plays Frasier's son Frederick for most of the original series' run?

Luke Tarsitano played him in season three; the character returned in the 2023 revival as a Boston firefighter.

In the series finale, Martin marries Ronee Lawrence. Who was Ronee to the Crane boys years earlier?

Wendie Malick played her in season eleven; the wedding is thrown together in eight days.

In "Goodnight, Seattle", Martin mistakenly books his wedding venue for May 15. Whose birthday is that?

He meant July 15, so Frasier and Niles have to plan the whole wedding in eight days.

Where is baby David born in the finale?

They had taken Eddie to the vet when Daphne went into labour, so Martin and Ronee got married there too.

Which poem does Frasier recite at the end of his final KACL broadcast?

He then signs off with "Goodnight, Seattle" for the last time.

In the finale, everyone assumes Frasier is flying to a California radio job, but where is his plane landing?

He has followed his girlfriend Charlotte rather than the radio job; the finale drew 25.3 million viewers.

How many viewers watched the Frasier finale on May 13, 2004?

It was the week's number-one show and the seventh most-watched series finale in NBC's history.

Frasier Crane first appeared on Cheers as the love interest of which character?

He was meant to last only a few episodes before Diane dumped him, but Grammer's performance kept him around.

Which actor was the Cheers producers' first choice to play Frasier Crane, before turning it down?

Grammer thought he had failed his audition because nobody laughed.

On which third series, after Cheers and Frasier, was Kelsey Grammer Emmy-nominated as Frasier?

He played Frasier for a total of 20 years, tying James Arness's Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke as the longest-running character in primetime at the time.

Which landmark did the view from Frasier's apartment show off, though no real Seattle apartment has that view?

The backdrop photo was reportedly shot from a cliff, possibly at Kerry Park.

Daphne's early career, before physiotherapy, was as a child actress in which fictional British sitcom?

It ended when she grew too tall and busty at 16 to keep playing a 12-year-old boarding-school girl.

Frasier's 2023 revival moves him to Boston, where he takes a lecturing job at which university?

He buys his son Freddy's apartment building to be closer to him; Freddy has dropped out of Harvard to become a firefighter.

In the revival, Nicholas Lyndhurst plays Alan Cornwall, Frasier's boozy old friend from which university?

He is now a Harvard psychology professor with no visible affection for his students.

Anders Keith plays David Crane in the revival. Who are David's parents?

He was the baby born in the vet's clinic in the original finale, and is now a Harvard freshman studying psychology.

What happened to the Frasier revival in January 2025?

CBS Studios said it would shop the show elsewhere, but no other service picked up a third season.

Frasier's fussy agent Bebe first appears in "Selling Out" after hearing him endorse what on air?

She introduces herself as Bulldog's agent and talks him into a string of endorsement deals.

Which former Cheers bartender turns up in Seattle in "The Show Where Sam Shows Up"?

Téa Leoni played the fiancée, Sheila; every surviving Cheers regular except Rebecca Howe visited the show at some point.