Product Description
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The complete second series of the upscale sitcom about a
middle-aged Seattle psychiatrist, beset by problems largely of
his own making. In 'Slow Tango in South Seattle', Frasier (Kelsey
Grammer) feels his teenage past come knocking when a romantic
affair that he had with his piano teacher is included in a
friend's steamy novel. Frasier insists on looking up the piano
teacher to explain. In 'The Unkindest Cut of All', Martin's (John
Mahoney) longterm canine companion Eddie has been getting local
bitches in the family way and finally Martin agrees with Niles
(David Hyde Pierce) and Frasier, it's time to get him neutered.
If only it were that simple. In 'The Matchmaker', Frasier sets
lovelorn Daphne (Jane Leeves) up with hunky new manager at the
radio station, Tom (Eric Lutes). In the ensuing comedy of manners
it seems only Frasier has failed to realise Tom's true
orientation. In 'Flour Child', Niles, facing the future
exigencies of herhood, takes to Seattle's streets carrying a
sack of flour in an empathetic gesture of baby simulation. In
'Duke's, We Hardly Knew You', Martin's favourite bar is being
threatened by a big investment group, but can Frasier and Niles
admit to their her that they themselves are investors? In 'The
Botched Language of Cranes', a comment on Frasier's radio show
offends the whole of Seattle. In penitent mood, Frasier embarks
on a charity benefit appearance to heal the situation, with
disastrous results. In 'The Candidate', Frasier's attempts to
support a local election candidate come up against his notorious
scruples at the last possible moment before campaign filming
begins. In 'Adventures in Paradise', Frasier's trip to the
Polynesian island of Bora Bora turns into disaster when he runs
into his ex-wife Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth). In 'Adventures in
Paradise (2)', Frasier's island idyll goes from bad to worse with
an appearance by Diane (Shelley Long) from his Bostonian Cheers
barfly days. In 'Burying a Grudge', Niles' trip to visit Maris in
hospital is enlivened by a chance meeting with Martin's old
partner on the force, Artie (Lincoln Kilpatrick). Niles attempts
to reconcile the estranged relationship. In 'Seat of Power',
Frasier employs a plumber at his apartment only to discover this
'Danny Kriezel' (John C. McGinley) was Niles' high school bully.
In 'Roz in the Doghouse', Frasier's producer Roz (Peri Gilpin) is
tempted to step in as producer on Bulldog's (Dan Butler) sports
show, denying that this might just be an attempt at seduction by
the gonzo sports broadcaster. In 'Retirement Is Murder', Martin's
detective skills are dusted off as he tries to solve 'The Weeping
Lotus' murder, a case he was never able to close whilst on active
duty. In 'Fool Me Once, Shame On You, Fool Me Twice...',
Frasier's case is stolen and a man starts wandering around
Seattle imitating him. In 'You Scratch My Book', Frasier is torn
between his romantic interest in comely pop-psychologist Dr Honey
(Shannon Tweed) and his horror at the thought of endorsing her
lowly self-help book with the introduction he has agreed to
provide. In 'The Show Where Sam Shows Up', the serial badboy (Ted
Danson) who ran 'Cheers' bar in Boston comes to Seattle to ask
Frasier for help, having once more jilted his betrothed at the
altar. Frasier elects to help his old friend, with mixed results.
In 'Daphne's Room', the live-in Mancunian considers her options
following a series of invasions of her privacy by Frasier,
jeopardising Niles' access to the object of his love into the
bargain. In 'The Club', Niles and Frasier vie bitterly for the
single opening in the membership list of the Empire Club, a
prestigious gentlemen's club full of the great and the good. In
'Someone to Watch Over Me', Frasier seems to have acquired a
stalker and employs a lady bodyguard to protect him at an annual
broadcasting awards ceremony. In 'Breaking the Ice', Frasier
seizes upon the fact that Martin has never told him he loves him,
and so accompanies Niles on one of their her's ice-fishing
trips. Never the practical types, the Crane boys soon end up
causing more heartache than familial love in the unfamiliar
circumstances of the freezing countryside. In 'An Affair to
Forget', a caller to Frasier's show gives the impression that
Maris, Niles' never-seen wife, is cheating on him with her
fencing instructor. In 'Agents in America Part III', Frasier's
indomitable agent Bebe (Harriet Sansom Harris) advises he fake
illness to put pressure on the station to up his salary. But when
the station removes his parking space, the plan looks like going
disastrously wrong. In 'The Innkeepers', Niles and Frasier decide
that their knowledge as bon-viveurs makes them excellent material
to run a restaurant. Their eaterie, 'Les Freres Heureux', proves
anything but, however, when all goes awry on the all important
opening night. In 'Dark Victory', the final episode of series
two, Martin's birthday finds everyone at odds with each other,
plus Seattle's power goes down and Frasier must use all his
wisdom to bring everyone back together.
.co.uk Review
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Frasier picked up its second season with another round
of comedy as intelligent as its pompous title character.
Fortunately, the sniping between Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and his
her, Marty (John Mahoney), that took up a lot of the first
season is mostly past, and the crack ensemble was ready to roll
in a number of memorable episodes. Frasier tries to set up Daphne
(Jane Leeves) with the new station manager in 'The Matchmaker,'
Frasier, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), and Marty go fishing in
'Breaking the Ice,' Frasier and Niles jump into politics in 'The
Candidate,' the team of Frasier and Roz (Peri Gilpin) breaks up
('Roz in the Doghouse'), and Frasier and Niles open a restaurant
in "The Innkeepers." It was Pierce's Niles who emerged as a star
in the second season, lusting after Daphne, learning about
parenthood in 'Flour Child,' and challenging a Bavarian fencer
for the hand of his ever-absent wife, Maris, in the comic tour de
force 'An Affair to Forget.' Pierce picked up a well-deserved
first Emmy, and the show repeated its first-season Emmys for
comedy series and lead actor. Frasier's dates included Jobeth
Williams (whom he takes on a disastrous getaway to Bora Bora),
Shannon Tweed, and Tea Leoni, and other guest stars were Nathan
Lane and, from his original show, Cheers, Bebe Neuwirth and Ted
Danson. --David Horiuchi
Synopsis
Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer is Frasier--the hilarious
psychiatrist first seen on TV's Cheers and subsequently the start
of this smash-hit comedy series. And the gang's all here for the
complete second season of this wry and witty sitcom--and what a
season it is! Frasier Crane (Grammer) infuriates the entire city
of Seattle when he complains about its rainy climate during his
radio talk show. Meanwhile, his her Martin (John Maloney)
finds his favorite bar is slated for the wrecker's ball--and
could it be that Frasier and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) are behind
its demise? Roz (Peri Gilpin) considers a new job offer...Daphne
(Jane Leeves) finds her privacy invaded...and Frasier's romantic
island getaway with a new girlfriend is ruined when his ex-wife
Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth) is discovered happily ensconced in an
adjacent cottage! It's all 24 episodes of Frasier's riotous
second season, presented in one highly-entertaining four-disc
collection.
