“Frasier,” starring Kelsey Grammer in his Emmy Award-winning title role of Dr. Frasier Crane, made history by becoming the first series, comedy or drama, to achieve a record five consecutive Emmy wins for Outstanding Comedy Series. With this achievement, the series stands ahead of the classic series which are four-time winners: “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “All in the Family,” “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law” and “Cheers,” the series from which “Frasier” was “spun-off.”

In entering its ninth season, “Frasier” has earned a total of 21 Emmys, including three for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Grammer) and two for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (David Hyde Pierce). In addition, the series has garnered the prestigious Peabody Award; People’s Choice Awards for Favorite Television Comedy and Favorite New Television Comedy Series as well as another for Best Actor (Grammer); a Humanitas Prize; Golden Globes for Best Musical or Comedy Series and Best Actor (Grammer), and the TV Guide Award as Favorite Comedy Series, along with many other accolades.

The upscale comedy provides a weekly dose of the neuroses and tribulations suffered by an insecure and pompous psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane, host of a Seattle radio advice show. The twice-divorced doctor’s peaceful home life of fine cigars and haute cuisine was shattered when his gruff, ex-cop father, Martin (Emmy nominee John Mahoney), was injured in the line of duty and forced to move in with Frasier. Martin brought with him a semi-psychic, live-in home-care provider, Daphne Moon (Emmy nominee Jane Leeves); his pesky Jack Russell terrier, Eddie (Moose); and a duct-taped recliner that clashes with Frasier’s more aesthetically pleasing Eames and Wassily chairs. Their home is frequently visited by Frasier’s snobbish and competitive brother, Niles (Pierce), a fellow psychiatrist whose longtime romantic interest in Daphne was finally happily realized last season. At work, his slightly jaded producer and man-hungry, single parent Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin), supports Frasier.

Over the past year, “Frasier” has proven the strength of its overall appeal as the comedy returned to its longtime home at the center of NBC's Tuesday schedule, where it was the night's highest-rated program on any network among adults 18-49 (6.8 rating and 17 share) and gave NBC its widest margin of victory ever in the Tuesday (9-9:30 p.m.) half-hour. Overall, the series delivered an average of 15.9 million viewers last season and attracted a series record of 28.6 million viewers with its October 24, 2000 season premiere episode.

“Frasier” is a presentation of Grub Street Productions in association with Paramount Network Television. Peter Casey, David Lee, Dan O’Shannon , Kelsey Grammer and Rob Hanning are the executive producers. The series was created by Casey, Lee and David Angell.