Customer Reviews
First season of one of the best TV comedies ever 
2008-09-16
This is where the sophisticated series gets started. It isn't quite at its best by this point, but the material is very funny indeed. Strongly recommended.
excellent buy!! 2008-07-03
Smart, funny, classy! You HAVE to see them all or you don't know what you are missing!
Dr. Crane, you have a call on line two... 2008-07-03
Fraiser is without a doubt one of the definitive sitcoms of modern television. Its blend of intelligence, humour, drama, love and life all mix together to create one awesome show! It is hilarious and in a very intelligent way; all the episodes are ingenious and well-crafted and all the characters are very interesting and are each essential to the show. Frasier, as the lead character, leads a life of interesting, hilarity, drama, and at times adventuruous oddity. Niles is the equally hilarious and brilliant brother who is absolutely in love with Daphne. Martin's the hard-nosed, retired father figure who, deep down, cares about his sons. Daphne's the British caretaker who always has a great quip to add. Roz is about as desparate as they come in terms of her love life, but she brightens the atmosphere with some very funny moments. And, Bulldog adds his hardcore self-pompous attitude that can be quite a scream! Plus, there's always something hysterical their dog Eddie does in every episode that just makes me belt out his name in laughter, "Eddieeeeeee!". Hahaha, a little tradition of mine while I watch Frasier.
In addition, the sound and picture quality of these DVDs is excellent, and it comes with some great extra features that offers even more bang for your buck. So don't miss out on the laughs, brilliance and depth that is Frasier! Thanks for the time, and peace.
More than I expected. 2008-06-22
Excellent sound,good images, well organized by episodes.It's one of those series very difficult to replace.It's a classic. You better get it. I'm buying the whole series. You don't find that kind of humor anymore.
Just one fault, no close capture.
It's Frasier - What else is there to say? 2008-05-14
Frasier was one of the best shows ever on TV. Reliving all of these great episodes was great. If you like Frasier at all, you have to get these DVDs!
The Best Spinoff To Date. 
2007-11-05
Season One of FRASIER finds the recently divorced Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane (Grammer), at a new place in his life. Last seen gracing the bars of Cheers, Frasier has a new life in his home town of Seattle as a popular radio psychiatrist, which has given him the chance to spread his words of wit and wisdom to the masses. Sharing an apartment with his ex-policeman father, Marty (Mahoney), and his father’s English physical care assistant Daphne (Leeves), Frasier must also cope with his psychiatrist brother Niles (Pierce) and Eddie the dog.
FUNNY 2007-08-29
I bought this for my daughter's birthday and she absolutely loved it. She liked Frasier on Cheers and was surely not disappointed in this season. She's already asked for season two for the next holiday. Frasier and Niles could be brothers in real life. Martin is a hoot. Casting is great. I'd recommend this to anyone. Guaranteed to make you laugh.
LOL all the way 2007-08-28
My favorite part is episode one the pilot if memory serves it is called the Good Son. I have found nearly all episodes of Frasier to be LOL Funny, but the pilot I think tops them all.
the first and [in my opinion] best season for Frasier! 2007-05-16
For me, FRASIER marked a very happy point in television (post Cosby Show), when we had something to look forward to in sitcom world. In fact, I think that the series challenged the common belief that spin-off series are oftentimes overrated and not half as good as the original series from which they spawned. FRASIER was actually better than CHEERS. I was never really into the whole concept of a bunch of people, sitting around in a bar, chewing the fat about their lives. Yet, one character, the neurotic, pompous and pretentious psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane, was born on that show, and migrated to his old stomping grounds of Seattle. Thus, inspiring this wonderful show!
We are reintroduced to Dr. Frasier Crane, here. This time, he has found himself a job as a talk show host, serving out "McSessions" (in the words of his haughty brother, psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane, played by the brilliant David Hyde Pierce) on KACL FM, with firecracker show producer Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin). Together, they play off of each other with a combination of perpetually annoyed and genuinely engaged banter.
What's more, Frasier doesn't know what he's got himself into. He envisioned moving back to him hometown of Seattle, to start life anew, in the aftermath of a nasty divorce from Dr. Lillith Stern (Bebe Neuwirth), his uber-uptight ex-wife, who makes Casper the Friendly Ghost look like George Hamilton, the perpetually tan soap opera star. (Numerous jokes are based on Lillith's white complexion and slightly subhuman behavior, to be diplomatic.) Frasier Crane's hope is that the move will help him reignite his social life as a "born again bachelor." Unfortunately, fate has other plans in store. His elderly father, retired cop Martin Crane (David Mahoney) suffers a bad fall, and, due to a bullet in his hip, cannot continue living alone. Martin moves in with his best friend, Eddie the Dog (Moose), and...shall we say...hell breaks loose for Frasier, and all of his aspirations of living fast and free are shot. Enter Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves), a [slightly] eccentric, but very charming young healthcare provider from Manchester, England. Low and behold, Frasier has yet another flat mate, and unwelcome addition to his bachelor pad/condo.
These early episodes are, in my opinion, the strongest of the series. For starters, Kelsey Grammer obviously bases his comic influences on the late, great Jack Benny (minus violin). His pregnant pauses are hysterical. What's more, the banter between Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde-Pierce are priceless, and many of the episodes are reminiscent of another time and place, when comedy was really, honest to goodness, funny!
Buy this today.
Masterful 2007-03-21
I had heard about his show for seasons, and from outer appearances, scratched my head at its appeal, since, at first glance, it seems rather dull. However, I happened upon an episode rerun one night, and I found this to be one of the wittiest, cleverest, original and gut-busting shows I had every seen. And I continued to watch, sometimes Monday through Friday, and was rarely to never disappointed. So, when the DVD came out, I plunked down 50 bucks (gasp!) to purchase the Season One DVDs. I was introduced to new episodes I'd never seen, as well as reminded of gems that I'd seen before, and became familiar with backstory that I'd missed from watching the shows jumbled.
This show is obviously funny. But what sets it apart is its daring in assuming that the audience is literate and engaged. For example, in one episode Frasier runs off to save Niles' marriage when Niles and Daphne are stranded in his house during a storm. When Martin protests that Niles would never cheat, Frasier says (paraphrased) "A desperate woman, an unstable man, in a Gothic mansion on a rainy night...the only thing missing is someone yelling 'Heathcliff' over the moor." I roared. And humor like that is so refreshing and sparse in sitcoms, not to mention television in general.
Yet, the show is also great in that it doesn't take itself so seriously. You would imagine that a show about two effete, snobby, long-winded psychiatrists would be sterile and stiff. Far from it, the show is filled with sight gags, slapstick, and other "lowbrow" humor. Also, the two are very flawed, creating some very humorous binds. Also, their foils, are their father, the down-to-earth father, and Daphne, their salt-of-the-earth nurse and housekeeper.
It manages to balance the tone, and even sometimes really say something transcendent. The season finale, My Coffee with Niles, despite its humor, still manages to be a reflexive and just a touch melancholy. And the episode "Author, Author," where Niles enlists Frasier to help him right his book, capably (though uproariously) delves into the complexity of adult sibling relationships, including the jealously, unresolved childhood issues and a sometimes ugly spirit of competition.
Overall, I love it.
