Frasier: The Complete Series

For any show to manage eleven seasons is a milestone. For Kelsey Gramer to have come off of the 11 season "Cheers" (though hge joined the cast in it's second season, leaving the original; "Sunday In The Park With Goerge" to do so, he played rasier Crame for 20 years. But the true stars here are David Angell, Peter casey and David Lee who developed the show while their suiccesful show "Wings" was still on the air which they developed while their succesful show "cheers' was still on the air. Frasier broke the miold and was one of the last of NBC's "must see TV" stars. (that ended with Will and Grace" and NBC has slipped to the bottom since. "frasier' won Emmhy after Emmy- always beating "riends" largely because of the writing and because they aimed at an intelligent audience. We weren;t told that an episode was modeled after eydeau, but they prooved it was just as popyular. The comedy came from the characters, not situations and the cast was just about the best in television.Grub Street did a great job of bringing in actors for long arcs (Wendie Malick who ended upo marrying Martin) will always be regarded as a lead on Frasier as will Marsha Norman, Feliicity huffman (whose arc and in particular the famous "pictionary" sequence is unorgetable.) Jean Smart will always be a regular and Dan Butler has never been in ANYTHING hwere his finger prints weren't left all over it. Every single meber of the cast was fantastic.. Bebe Neuwirth was a mainstay to the show even on those years where she showed up in only one episodee.The greatest gift is David Hyde Pierce, an acgor of such brilliance that he pulled off a 12 minute scen by himself with no dialouge as he prepared for a Valentine's date that let him face down on Frasierr's birned couch.We watched Jane Leeves grow up as Daphne grew up and we watched the boisterous Peri Gilpin be permitted to show her sentimental side. The story lines were brilliant and though the last three seasons become a little too much regarding Frasier's search for a life-time companion, they at least justified it with a bit of a break down where Frasier goes of to be by himself and invesitgates his mind where Lilith, Diane Chambers, Nanette Gusman and Mother are there in the room with him playing his subconcious.the series ends leaving only one loose end- rasiers, but we see him making a bold hgesture and there is hope, which is what Frasier was always about.Watching Frasier Crame grow from the destroyed mess who swept the bar at Cheers to a comfident man able to sooth and comfort and be very comfortable with who he is was like the best element of this series.You should be forewarned that the first four season do not contain a "play all" option and MANY is the disc I've not boought for this reason. As a result, I often don;t bother with the first three seasons- a pity as the pilot is a work of art.

I balked at paying so much at one time for a whole comedy series. I almost never spend this much money at one time on DVDs. I rec'd the set timely, DIRECTLY from Amazon. I'm on the 7th Season. I missed this series when it was on originally, so most of the shows I'm watching, I'm seeing for the first time. IMO, this is one of the best written, well acted, and funniest sitcoms ever. Some of the shows remind me of the classic I Love Lucy shows. I have really enjoyed this set of DVDs and don't regret paying this much. The two or three beginning seasons are packaged differently, but that doesn't bother me. Still, I wonder, what with the profit the company is making on these things, why not repackage those to look like the others? As for the ads at the beginning...these appear in mine beginning after several seasons. I got my set directly from Amazon, not from another seller. If some sets don't have those, I suspect it's something the manufacturer started doing later, or did before and stopped. But for those who say their players won't fast forward past them, maybe your SKIP button will work on them. I have two DVD players: a Panasonic and a Sony. The Panasonic is a nice one, but sort of old. The Sony is both somewhat old and didn't cost that much. Both of them have "index" or "next section" or "skip" buttons. Those are like fast forward, except the disk will SKIP to the next section of the disk. I am able to SKIP past each ad to the next, so I just SKIP, and then SKIP, and then SKIP again. It's an irritation, but most DVDs have ads at the beginning these days, and the SKIP button works well on them. The SKIP button works in reverse, as well. Fast forward usu. doesn't work on ads on DVDs for me.The video and audio quality are good. But the show wasn't made in HD, I think. I don't know if shows can be remastered to make them HD if they weren't made that way originally. All I know if the audio and video quality seem good to me for a tv show. I haven't finished all of the seasons yet, but so far, no bubbles or messed up parts on the disks. If I encounter that, I will update.UPDATE: I finished all the disks. There were no bubbles or flaws in any of the disks.

This is a review of the functionality of the Box set rather than the quality of the show (which is immense). The video and sound quality is excellent barring a couple of Cons:There's not much to it. There are two huge dvd "cases" which house half of the dvds in each. Whcih can be a bit of a faff getting in and out. The carboard case featured in the product image is pretty flimsy and will probably end up being ditched as it just wont last.The biggest issue is though that there is no "play all" function. So you can't just stick a dvd in and watch 6 episodes. you need to keep selecting the next episode - i appreciate this is a bit lazy but its an issue for me.

With the possible return of 'Frasier' being touted by Kelsey Grammer in interviews, I thought, now, would be an opportune moment to review this box-set of the complete 11 series run of the multiple Emmy award winning comedy...''Frasier' was a spin-off of the hugely successful comedy series 'Cheers,' and was broadcast from September 1993 to May 2004; amassing an incredible 264 episodes. Its critical and commercial success often surpassed that of its parent show. As most people are aware, 'Frasier' concerns the ups and downs of Dr. Frasier Crane, a Freudian psychiatrist who, following his divorce from his wife, Dr. Lilith Sternin, returns to his home town of Seattle in order to start a new life. There, he becomes a radio talk show host, but his newly organised life is turned upside down by his father – a retired cop – moving into his thoroughly modern apartment. I feel that the two main reasons for the show's success are the five main characters - the pompous Frasier; his fastidious brother, Niles; their salt-of-the-earth father, Martin: his eccentric English live-in nurse, Daphne; Frasier's man-eating producer, Roz – and its razor sharp wit. I've always admired the fact that it never felt the need to talk down to its audience by explaining some of its more highbrow jokes and references. The quality of the writing was almost consistently high throughout, however, any series that runs for eleven years will have a few bumps in the road – hello, Daphne's family! - plus I think it lost a little something once Niles and Daphne got together. No matter; 'Frasier' remains one of the finest comedies ever made.As well as the episodes, there are loads of extras on each series, and all rather attractively packaged, though in a slightly flimsy box. If only there were comedies around like this today.

THE SHOW: Frasier is a wonderful series. My all-time favourite. It's one of those series' where all the components came together perfectly: snobby Frasier, fussy Niles, their down-to-Earth retired cop father Martin, Daphne (with her bizarre-to-horrifying stories of her childhood, always told with oblivious affection), streetwise Roz, and cute-yet-clever (in his own doggy fashion) Eddie. They created a core of characters you root for, and care about. Characters we happily followed for eleven years. The lines are witty, with one-liners flying through the air like tennis balls; and the show can also do sincere emotion when needed (I'm reminded of the season 10 episode "Rooms With A View").However, Frasier fans already know all this.THE BOXSET: This boxset is a wonderful packaging. Coming in a neat cardboard cover, there are two neat plastic cases inside, each containing 22 DVDs (one for Season 1-6; one for Season 7-11) with books of DVDs, back-to-back (one DVD each side). This prevents scratches. There are English subtitles on all series (some series have other languages, too; though that's inconsistent), and some special features. For less than £30 (as of January 2016) it's a bargain.A must for all Frasier fans.

I would give Frasier 11 out of 10, as easily the best comedy sitcom ever of course.However, the DVD's aren't the best. I like the presentation of the box and inserts but the DVD' tray of my player has to be opened/closed again now and again for the disc to play (something I have only experienced with this set. And then there's the clumsy DVD menu. There is no option to just continuous play. Each episode requires intervention. Also the quality of the video is a little bit over sharpened in places.Still for the price it's wonderful to have th complete box set and I never tire of watching repeats of the episodes.

Well, content is great. Frasier set, everything included. But the packaging is atrocious....truly abysmal. The discs inside were loose and skidding about and when i tried to put them back on the spindles it soon dawned on me that they were double stacked. Furthermore, each 'side' of the trays holds 4 discs, and one stack of 2 overlaps the other stack of 2. I don't care about cornflake boxes or collectibles at all, but even so, this packaging is ridiculously unfriendly.Anyway. I've got the set. On Prime Day so an extra tenner off too. So I'll live with it.