48 Fun Facts About Frasier

What is the number of Frasier's apartment in the Elliott Bay Towers?

Frasier lives in apartment 1901 of the fictional Elliott Bay Towers, the set whose picture-window view and Eames lounge chair anchor most of the series.

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

Martin was shot in the hip in the line of duty, leaving him with a cane and unable to live alone; he and Eddie move into Frasier's apartment.

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

Daphne comes from Manchester; she is the only girl among nine children and claims to be a bit psychic.

What breed is Martin's dog, Eddie?

Eddie is a Jack Russell Terrier, played by a dog called Moose and later by Moose's son Enzo.

Which coffee shop do the Crane brothers frequent?

Café Nervosa is the brothers' coffee haunt, one of the show's three main sets alongside the apartment and the radio studio.

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

Frasier won 37 Primetime Emmys, beating The Mary Tyler Moore Show's long-standing 29; Game of Thrones passed the total in 2016.

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

Frasier won Outstanding Comedy Series five years running, 1994 to 1998, a streak later equalled by Modern Family's five from 2010 to 2014.

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?

Roz grew up in Bloomer, Wisconsin; her mother Joanna, played by Eva Marie Saint, is the state's Attorney General.

Roz names the daughter she has in season five what?

Roz names her daughter Alice; the father, Rick, was a 20-year-old college student she had a brief fling with.

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

Niles's first wife is Maris, who is talked about constantly but never shown; like Norm's wife Vera on Cheers, her described oddities grew too extreme for any actress to play.

What is the profession of Mel Karnofsky, Niles's short-lived second wife?

Mel Karnofsky is a plastic surgeon who had treated Niles's first wife; Niles leaves her for Daphne within a day of their sudden marriage, though Mel makes him keep up appearances for weeks.

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

The couple elope to Reno, Nevada, in the season-nine finale 'Moons Over Seattle', after Niles's bid to reconcile Daphne's parents falls flat.

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 as 156, but what is Frasier's?

Frasier's IQ is 129, well short of Niles's 156, a fact Frasier finds hard to swallow given his lifelong assumption that he was the smarter brother.

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

Hester, a research psychiatrist, named Frasier and Niles after her laboratory rats; Rita Wilson played her in a season-nine dream sequence.

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?

Martin is modelled on Peter Casey's father, a San Francisco police officer; the creators flew out to offer the part to John Mahoney in person, whom NBC approved without an audition.

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

'Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs' was composed by Bruce Miller with lyrics by Darryl Phinnessee; the title refers to things that are mixed up, like Frasier's callers.

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

The title card's white line traces the Seattle skyline, the city the show moved Frasier to after Cheers; the lettering colour changed from season to season.

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

Celebrity callers phoned their lines in from wherever they happened to be, often without ever visiting the set; stand-ins read the parts during filming and the recordings were dropped in later.

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

Grammer voices Sideshow Bob; the 1997 episode 'Brother from Another Series' cast David Hyde Pierce as Bob's brother Cecil, reuniting the Crane brothers in Springfield.

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

David Angell and his wife Lynn died in the September 11 attacks 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?

Lilith Sternin, Frasier's frosty ex-wife played by Bebe Neuwirth, appeared in twelve episodes; every other surviving Cheers regular except Kirstie Alley's Rebecca turned up only as a one-off guest.

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?

Bulldog hosts 'The Gonzo Sports Show' on Frasier's station; in 'Bad Dog' he is hailed as a hero after a hold-up in which he actually used pregnant Roz as a shield.

Which word completes Niles's description of agent Bebe Glazer: 'Lady Macbeth without the ___'?

Niles calls Bebe 'Lady Macbeth without the sincerity'; Harriet Sansom Harris played the agent, who first appears representing Bulldog in the season-one episode 'Selling Out'.

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

Noel speaks fluent Klingon; in 'Star Mitzvah' he tricks Frasier into delivering a Klingon blessing at Frederick's bar mitzvah, passing it off as Hebrew.

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

Gil Chesterton, played by Edward Hibbert, hosts the station's 'Restaurant Beat'; colleagues assume he is gay, though he insists on his wife Deb, who works on cars.

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

Sherry tends bar at McGinty's, Martin's regular haunt; he wants to marry her but she prefers to keep things casual, and they part over beers there.

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

Trevor Einhorn played Frederick through the later seasons up to the 2004 finale; Luke Tarsitano had the part in the mid-1990s, and Jack Cutmore-Scott plays him as a Boston firefighter in the revival.

Martin's mistaken May 15 wedding booking in 'Goodnight, Seattle' falls on whose birthday?

Martin confused the date with Eddie's birthday, May 15, leaving Frasier and Niles just over a week to plan the whole wedding.

Where is baby David born in the finale?

David is born at a veterinary clinic: his mother goes into labour while Eddie is being treated there, and Martin and Ronee end up holding their wedding at the clinic too.

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

Frasier ends his final broadcast with the close of Tennyson's 'Ulysses', including 'to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield', over a montage of his family's new lives.

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

Frasier's plane is landing in Chicago, where his girlfriend Charlotte has moved, rather than in California, where he had accepted a new radio job.

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?

John Lithgow was the producers' first choice for Frasier but turned down television at the time; Grammer then auditioned and thought he had failed because nobody laughed.

What is the first name of Daphne's overbearing mother, played by Millicent Martin?

Gertrude Moon, played by Millicent Martin, arrives from England for Daphne's wedding in the season-seven finale and later moves into Frasier's apartment, to his despair.

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

The apartment's view shows the Space Needle from an angle that matches the Kerry Park viewpoint on Queen Anne Hill, a spot where no apartment tower exists.

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

Daphne starred as a child in 'Mind Your Knickers', a sitcom set in a girls' boarding school; she was let go at 16 after growing too tall for the 12-year-old role.

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

Frasier takes a lecturing post at Harvard, his own alma mater, and moves in with his son Freddy, who had dropped out of Harvard to become a Boston firefighter.

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

Alan Cornwall, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, was Frasier's drinking companion at Oxford; he is now a jaded psychology professor at Frasier's new university, who got him the lecturing post.

Who are the parents of David Crane, played by Anders Keith in the revival?

David Crane is the son of Niles and Daphne, born in the original series finale; in the revival he is a socially awkward college freshman whom Frasier takes under his wing.

What happened to the Frasier revival in January 2025?

Paramount+ cancelled the revival in January 2025 after two seasons; CBS Studios, which produces it, said it would shop the show to other outlets.

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

Bebe hears Frasier read a live ad for a Chinese restaurant, introduces herself as Bulldog's agent, and talks him into a string of endorsement deals.

Which former Cheers bartender visits Frasier in Seattle in a season-two episode?

Ted Danson's Sam Malone visits in 'The Show Where Sam Shows Up' (1995), engaged to Sheila, played by Téa Leoni, a fellow recovering sex addict.