"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,” NBC’s “The West Wing,” “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law” and “Cheers,” the series from which “Frasier” was “spun-off.”

Equally important, through 11 seasons, “Frasier” has also earned a television series record total of 31 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 George Foster Peabody Award; three People’s Choice Awards for Favorite Television Comedy, Favorite New Television Comedy Series and 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 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 him. He brought with him Eddie (Enzo), his pesky Jack Russell terrier, 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, and his wife Daphne (Jane Leeves). Niles began pining over Daphne while she was employed as Martin’s live-in physical therapist; their romance was realized in the final episode of the seventh season. At work, Frasier is kept in line by his slightly jaded producer and man-hungry, single-parent Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin).

“Frasier’s” production team includes creators/executive producers Peter Casey and David Lee, and executive producers Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan, Jeffrey Richman, Sam Johnson, Chris Marcil, Lori Kirkland Baker and Jon Sherman.