Frasier was a TV sitcom that ran in the 1990’s and through to 2004 in the US and around the world. It was a spinoff of the hugely successful 1980’s TV sitcom, Cheers, set in a Boston bar of that name.

The character of Frasier Crane had been introduced in an early season of Cheers: a minor role as a snobby psychiatrist with a Doctorate from Harvard who is helping the owner of Cheers recover from an alcoholic relapse. But the actor, Kelsey Grammar, so impressed the producers that they kept him on permanently until the series ended in 1993.

Most long-running, successful sitcoms produce spinoffs and most of them fail. Frasier was one of the exceptions and in many respects it outshone its progenitor, gaining enormous critical acclaim, large audiences and a huge swag of awards over its eleven seasons. With brilliantly scripted storylines, witty, clever dialog and an outstanding cast with chemistry between all of them, it is now regarded by critics as one of the greatest ever sitcoms. It’s certainly one of my all-time favourites that I can watch repeatedly, still making me laugh.

To make sure it was a complete break from Cheers they threw Frasier across the country to his childhood home of Seattle and gave him a new job: at a talk radio station where he provides on-air psychiatric help to callers with problems, while also providing listeners with entertainment.

And with that, here’s a cleverly edited version of just one scene, where someone from the new CHAZ settlement in Seattle calls in with a whole bunch of problems for Frasier to help with. Love the little Antifa touch on the classic opening.