Frasier Crane was, after all, a part of the ensemble solid on “Cheers.” Having debuted in season 3, he was rapidly made a recurring character and remained a part of the solid proper up till the present resulted in 1992 after 11 seasons. In 1993, he would return as Dr. Crane in his spin-off present, which itself would go on for 11 seasons and change into nearly as beloved because the sequence from which the nice physician had spun.
However when producers had been placing “Frasier” collectively, there have been some considerations about whether or not the entire enterprise would work. In any case, “Cheers” was at all times going to be a tricky act to comply with. Not solely had the sequence run for 11 seasons, however its finale had drawn nearly 100 million viewers and even a request from then-President Invoice Clinton to look (although he finally failed to indicate up). Past that, the producers had been involved that Frasier as a personality wasn’t essentially main man materials.
Talking to Yahoo!, “Cheers” co-creator and director of a number of “Frasier” episodes, James Burrows defined the particular fear going into the spin-off:
“The one concern all people had — you are taking a buffoonish character on ‘Cheers’ and making him a number one man, after which hiring David Hyde Pierce to play the buffoonish character. So there was some concern whether or not Kels [Kelsey Grammer] might go into that.”
Very like how Pierce’s worries had been quickly allayed as soon as filming began, nonetheless, it appears the producers had been rapidly satisfied that Grammer was as much as the duty.
