Old Is Gold I: Frasier

Some series even though ended are going to be forever remembered. Some performances are just worth remembering. In this section of my blog I will give you some recommendations on TV series that ran through so many years and then got cancelled due to lack of viewership (not necessarily because they were not good enough) or they were just ended in terms of the story.

In some posts I will also review some of the older movies, some of them I found extremely good and some of them were just some of the top movies of all time. Everything as old as the cinema industry goes will be up for grabs in these posts. You can expect me to continue adding to this section whenever I can.

Today, I will be recommending one of the greatest comedy series ever made, at least in my personal opinion.

Goodnight, Seattle I Love You

We might not all agree to how good this show was. If you were one of the people who viewed the first couple of episodes and then gave up then you made the biggest mistake of your life, it gets better, extremely better. It gets good enough for me to be able to say that acronyms like 'LOL' and 'ROFL' were made to describe almost every moment of every episode beyond the first few. (which even though great, lose the comedy at moments to act in a more introductory fasion).

The show is about a psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane who moves from Boston to Seattle where he becomes a radio psychiatrist. Soon, his father, Martin Crane, who is an ex-police officer with a minor disability moves in with him along with his small dog. Our psychiatrist also has a brother, Niles Crane, who happens to be in the same profession and married throughout roughly half the seasons that the series ran for to a filthy rich woman whom we never see but we always hear about in the funniest of manners, and never seeing her makes it even funnier cause I don't think anyone could have pulled such a role, trust me, no one is that weird. We always see the two brothers competing and bickering in the geekiest and some times most snobbish of manners which adds another huge touch of comedy to the series.

We also get two more characters in this package who last with us throughout the series, the producer Roz Doyle of our psychiatrist's radio show and the physical therapist, Daphne Moon, who is hired to take care of the psychiatrist's father who is British, funny and claims repeatedly that she has a psychic ability, and sometimes she actually gets accurate readings but even in those rare readings her readings have nothing to do with what she seemed to be initially talking about.

But here is one more thing, you may know our star psychiatrist from elsewhere. The great comedian , Kelsey Grammar who portrayed the role of Dr. Frasier Crane, portrayed the very same role on another show which ran for eleven seasons and revolved around the lives of the regulars of a Boston bar. The actor started portraying the role since as early as the very first episode of the third season of the show Cheers and played it for nine seasons running before his character had a spin-off of its own that ran for another 11 years, adding up to a total of 20 years he has portrayed it again.

The show's 11 seasons ran from 1993 to 2004 before which he played the same role on nine out of the eleven seasons of Cheers (from 1984 -1993).

Enjoy watching it if you haven't, it is totally binge watchable over a couple of weeks and it is such a stress reliever to watch something this funny.