Frasier - The Complete Fifth Season

Kelsey Grammer Director: Dan Butler, David Lee, Jeff Melman Dan Butler, David Lee, Jeff Melman,

Overview

This four-disc set contains all 24 episodes from the fifth season of the Emmy award-winning situation comedy Frasier. Each is presented in the original broadcast aspect ratio of 1.33:1. English soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/07/2005
UPC:	0097360699241
Original Release:	0000
Rating:	NR
Source:	Paramount
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Full Frame]
Time:	9:00:00
Sales rank:	2,774

Special Features

Closed Caption; [None specified]

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kelsey Grammer	Actor
David Hyde Pierce	Actor
John Mahoney	Actor
Jane Leeves	Actress

Technical Credits

Dan Butler	Director
David Lee	Director
Jeff Melman	Director
Kelsey Grammer	Director
Ken Levine	Director
Pam Fryman	Director
Sheldon Epps	Director
Rob Hanning	Director

Menu

Side #1 -- Disc 1
   Frasier's Imaginary Friend
   The Gift Horse
   Halloween
   The Kid
   The 1000th Show
   Voyage of the Damned
   Play All
   Previews
Side #2 -- Disc 2
   My Fair Frasier
   Desperately Seeking Closure
   Perspectives on Christmas
   Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name
   Ain't Nobody's Business if "I Do"
   The Zoo Story
   Play All
Side #3 -- Disc 3
   The Maris Counselor
   The Ski Lodge
   Room Service
   Beware of Greeks
   The Perfect Guy
   Bad Dog
   Play All
Side #4 -- Disc 4
   Frasier Gotta Have It
   First Date
   Roz and the Schnoz
   The Life of the Party
   Party, Party
   Sweet Dreams
   Play All

Editorial Reviews

Frasier's fifth year finds the cast, writers, and directors working brilliantly together; by now the series has reached its creative summit -- a lofty perch from which it won't descend any time soon. Season 5 gets off to a bang with "Frasier's Imaginary Friend," in which our hero (Kelsey Grammer) returns from a vacation in Acapulco, raving about his torrid affair with a supermodel zoologist. Naturally, everybody thinks he's making it all up. The series presents its first major surprise in a two-parter that finds Frasier's assistant, Roz (Peri Gilpin), telling him that she's pregnant. "The 1000th Show" (which refers to Frasier's daily radio show) is noteworthy as the first Frasier episode actually filmed on location in Seattle, where the series takes place. "Perspectives on Christmas," an especially well written episode, won the entire cast a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy. Bebe Neuwirth, who played Frasier's wife, Lilith, in Cheers, reprises her characterization in "Room Service," a hilarious episode that finds the confused therapist racing back to her ex after her current lover leaves her -- for a man. Another rib-tickler is "Life of the Party," which climaxes with Roz giving birth -- quite unexpectedly -- at a social gathering. As always, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, and Jane Leeves provide terrific support for Grammer, who continues to play the title role with seeming effortlessness. There isn't a weak episode in the bunch; you'll be hard pressed to find a funnier DVD box set all year.

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse