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The Show Where Sam Shows Up
"The Show Where Sam Shows Up" is the 16th episode of the second season of the American sitcom ''Frasier''. This episode originally aired on February 21, 1995, on NBC, intended as part of a February ratings sweep by the network. It features a special guest appearance of Ted Danson as Sam Malone, a recovering sex addict, bartender and ex-baseball player. In this episode Sam arrives in Seattle to see his old friend Frasier, and then is introduced to Frasier's family at a dinner in Frasier's home, where the inconsistencies about Martin's supposed "death" are cleared up. While visiting Seattle, Sam ends his relationship with a woman named Sheila (Téa Leoni) after discovering her dalliance with other men. Danson's appearance in this episode has received mixed reviews, and the positive highlight about it is his interaction with the cast of ''Frasier''. Plot Act One Bartender and ex-baseball player Sam Malone (Ted Danson) from ''Cheers'' arrives in Seattle to see his psychiatrist fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frasier
''Frasier'' () is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons. It premiered on September 16, 1993, and ended on May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey (screenwriter), Peter Casey, and David Lee (screenwriter), David Lee (as Grub Street Productions), in association with Grammnet Productions, Grammnet (2004) and Paramount Television (original), Paramount Network Television. The series was created as a Spin-off (media), spin-off of the sitcom ''Cheers''. It continues the story of psychiatrist Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer), who returns to his hometown, Seattle, as a radio show host. He reconnects with his father, Martin Crane, Martin (John Mahoney), a retired police officer, and his younger brother, Niles Crane, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), a fellow psychiatrist. Included in the series cast were Peri Gilpin as Frasier's producer Roz Doyle, and Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon, Martin's live-in caregiver. Dan Butler's role a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Boyd
Woodrow Tiberius Boyd is a character on the American television show ''Cheers'', portrayed by Woody Harrelson. Woody came to Cheers at the beginning of the fourth season of ''Cheers'' in 1985 in the episode "Birth, Death, Love and Rice". Woody appeared in 200 episodes of ''Cheers'' between 1985 and 1993. He also made a guest appearance on ''Frasier'' in the episode "The Show Where Woody Shows Up". He is portrayed as simple-minded but good-hearted. ''Cheers'' Woody was born on July 23 (like the actor who played him) and hails from Hanover, Indiana, where he was voted the smartest student in school. His mother's name was Margaret and his father's name is Edgel. He and his childhood sweetheart, Beth Curtis, were also voted "Couple Most Likely to Explode," as they were both obese at the time. It was later revealed that they always ate, to excess, around one another due to their palpable sexual tension. Woody followed in Coach's footsteps in many ways, failing to understand the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Committed Relationship
A committed relationship is an interpersonal relationship based upon agreed-upon commitment to one another involving love, trust, honesty, openness, or some other behavior. Forms of committed relationships include close friendship, long-term relationships, engagement, marriage, and civil unions. Non-romantic and/or non-sexual committed relationships * Family: a group of people related by consanguinity or affinity * Friendship: certain kinds of friendships are committed, such as best friends forever, bromance, blood brother, and womance * Love–hate relationship: intense simultaneous or alternating emotions of love and hate, a committed frenemy or sibling rivalry Committed romantic and/or sexual relationships * Marriage: a legal, religious, and social binding between two people. * Monogamy: having a single long-term romantic and sexual partner ** Ménage à trois: having a domestic arrangement with three people sharing romantic or sexual relations; typically a traditional marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexual Addiction
According to proponents of the concept, sexual addiction, also known as sex addiction, is a state characterized by compulsive participation or engagement in sexual activity, particularly sexual intercourse, despite negative consequences. The concept is contentious; neither of the two major mainstream medical categorization systems recognise sex addiction as a real medical condition, instead categorizing such behavior under labels such as compulsive sexual behavior. Concept Proponents of a diagnostic model for sexual addiction consider it to be one of several sex-related disorders within hypersexual disorder. The term ''sexual dependence'' is also used to refer to people who report being unable to control their sexual urges, behaviors, or thoughts. Related or synonymous models of pathological sexual behavior include hypersexuality (nymphomania and satyriasis), erotomania, Don Juanism, and paraphilia-related disorders. The concept of sexual addiction is contentious. There is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Leeves
Jane Elizabeth Leeves (born 18 April 1961) is an English actress. Leeves played Daphne Moon on the NBC television sitcom ''Frasier'' from 1993 until 2004, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Awards, Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award. She also played Hot in Cleveland#Main cast, Joy Scroggs on TV Land's sitcom ''Hot in Cleveland''. Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in 1983 on the British comedy television show ''The Benny Hill Show'', and appeared as a dancer in ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life''. She moved to the United States, where she performed in small roles. From 1986 to 1988, she had her first leading role in the short-lived sitcom ''Throb'', then secured a recurring part in the television sitcom ''Murphy Brown''. She received further recognition for roles in films such as ''Miracle on 34th Street (1994 film), Miracle on 34th Street'' (1994), ''James and the Giant Peach (film), James and the Giant Peach'' (1996), ''Music of the He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Moon
Daphne Crane (née Moon; born September 1961) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom ''Frasier'', played by Jane Leeves. An English immigrant from Manchester, Daphne is employed by Frasier as a live-in housekeeper and physical therapist for his father, Martin. Her relationship with Frasier's brother Niles is a major plotline of the series, progressing from Niles' secret infatuation to their eventual marriage later in the show. Biography Daphne was born in September 1961 in Manchester, the only daughter in a family of nine children. She spent much of her childhood playing nurse and housemaid to her brothers. She has a complex love-hate relationship with her domineering mother, Gertrude Moon; her relationship with her father, Harry Moon, is much warmer and closer. As a young girl, Daphne's early career was as an actress in the hit British sitcom ''Mind Your Knickers'' (a show about 12-year-olds in a private girls' boarding school). Her career ended at age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is an American actor and director of stage, film and television. He starred as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom ''Frasier'' from 1993 to 2004, and won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the role. Pierce also received the 2007 Tony Award for playing Lieutenant Frank Cioffi in the musical ''Curtains''. He is also widely known for playing Frank Prady in eight episodes of the television legal drama ''The Good Wife'', and Henry Newman in the comedy film ''Wet Hot American Summer'' and its subsequent television spin-offs. Pierce has played supporting roles in many films, including Joan Micklin Silver's ''Crossing Delancey'' (1988), Terry Gilliam's ''The Fisher King'' (1991), Nora Ephron's ''Sleepless in Seattle'' (1993), Mike Nichols' ''Wolf'' (1994), and Oliver Stone's ''Nixon'' (1995). He has also starred in the cult romantic comedy ''Down with Love'' (2003), and the dark comedy film ''The Perfect Host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niles Crane
Niles Crane (born 1957) is a fictional character on the American sitcom ''Frasier'', a spin-off of the television show ''Cheers''. He was portrayed by David Hyde Pierce. Niles is the younger brother of Frasier Crane (played by Kelsey Grammer). Pierce was hired because ''Frasier'' producers saw his headshot and commented on how much he looked like a young Grammer. Unlike Frasier, part of whose background comes from ''Cheers'', Niles's background is established over the course of ''Frasier''. Pierce has said that his character was originally explained to him as "what Frasier would be if he had never gone to Boston and never been exposed to the people at Cheers." It has been suggested that "the difference between the brothers is that Frasier knows they're being pretentious; Niles honestly doesn't". Background Niles was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1957 , to Hester Crane, a psychiatrist, and Martin Crane, a police officer. Like his older brother Frasier, Niles was named for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mahoney
Charles John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018) was an English-born American actor. He was known for playing Martin Crane on the NBC sitcom ''Frasier'' (1993–2004), and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for the role in 2000. Mahoney started his career in Chicago as a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company alongside John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, and Laurie Metcalf. He received the Clarence Derwent Award as Most Promising Male Newcomer in 1986. Later that year, his performance in the Broadway revival of John Guare's ''The House of Blue Leaves'' earned him a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Mahoney first became known for his roles in such films as John Patrick Shanley's romantic comedy ''Moonstruck'' (1987), Barry Levinson's comedy ''Tin Men'', John Sayles' sports drama ''Eight Men Out'' (1988), Cameron Crowe's romantic drama '' Say Anything...'' (1989), the Coen brothers' ''Barton Fink'' (1991), and ''The Hudsucker Proxy'' (1994), Clint Eastwood's ''In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Crane
Martin Crane (born ) is a fictional character from the American television show ''Frasier'', and was played by actor John Mahoney. An army veteran and retired police detective, he is the father of Frasier and Niles Crane. Biography Although Martin is first mentioned in an episode of the sitcom ''Cheers'', his life history is mainly expanded on in ''Frasier''. In an eighth season ''Cheers'' episode, Frasier claims that his father is dead and was a scientist in life. These comments are explained on ''Frasier'' as being the result of estrangement between Martin and Frasier at the time. (Mahoney also appeared in ''Cheers'' as a piano player and jingle writer.) The son of a police officer, Martin was born in Seattle in 1931 and is a lifelong resident of the city. His great-grandparents were Noah Crane and a scullery maid from Russia. At the age of 19, Martin joined the U.S. Army, and saw combat in the Korean War. After returning home Martin joined the Seattle Police Department, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
