Season 5 of Frasier aired on the NBC television network from September 23, 1997 to May 19, 1998.
About
The fifth season pulls together a number of threads from earlier, but its major new element is Roz's pregnancy, which comes to light in the third episode.
Picking up where season four ended, Frasier meets a woman named Kelly Easterbrook, who is revealed to be supermodel. Having come off a bad breakup, Kelly requests that Frasier keep their relationship quiet, but he soon discovers that no one believes that he met anyone in Mexico, let alone a supermodel. Ultimately, the relationship ends when Kelly catches Frasier in the act of taking a photo of her while asleep.
Meanwhile, Fraiser’s radio show reaches its landmark 1000th broadcast and KACL management plans to mark the occasion accordingly but a comedy of errors prevents him from even showing up.
Soon after this, the love lives of Martin and Niles begin to crumble: Martin breaks up with Sherry while Niles ends his marriage with Maris for good.
In other events, Niles and Daphne continue their complex pas de deux, Roz gives birth to a baby girl, Martin is reunited with his old police horse Agidies, the Cranes go to a ski lodge where passions soon run wild, Niles sleeps with Lilith, the Cranes are reunited with some of their distant family members (including Martin’s brother, Walt), the Cranes and Roz take a cruise to Alaska where they run into Maris, and in the season finale, Frasier clashes with KACL management and ends up losing his job, as well as those of the other on-air talent.
Starring
- Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane
- Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon
- David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane
- Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle
- Dan Butler as Bob Briscoe (8 episodes)
- John Mahoney as Martin Crane
Special Guest Stars
- Bebe Neuwirth as Lilith Sternin (Room Service)
- Marsha Mason as Sherry Dempsey (2 episodes)
Trivia
- This is the third and final season of the show to not feature a two-part episode after Season 1 and Season 3. However, Frasier's Imaginary Friend picks up where Season 4 ended and The Kid is a direct continuation of Halloween.
- The 1000th Show is the only episode of the entire series to have scenes filmed on location in Seattle.
- Jane Leeves received her only Emmy nomination for the series during this season, for the episodes Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name and First Date, respectively.
- In 2009, TV Guide ranked The Ski Lodge episode #31 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.
Episodes
| # | EP # | EPISODE | AIRDATE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | 1 | Frasier's Imaginary Friend | 23 September 1997 |
| 98 | 2 | The Gift Horse | 30 September 1997 |
| 99 | 3 | Halloween | 28 October 1997 |
| 100 | 4 | The Kid | 4 November 1997 |
| 101 | 5 | The 1000th Show | 11 November 1997 |
| 102 | 6 | Voyage Of The Damned | 18 November 1997 |
| 103 | 7 | My Fair Frasier | 25 November 1997 |
| 104 | 8 | Desperately Seeking Closure | 9 December 1997 |
| 105 | 9 | Perspectives On Christmas | 16 December 1997 |
| 106 | 10 | Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name | 6 January 1998 |
| 107 | 11 | Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do | 13 January 1998 |
| 108 | 12 | The Zoo Story | 20 January 1998 |
| 109 | 13 | The Maris Counselor | 3 February 1998 |
| 110 | 14 | The Ski Lodge | 24 February 1998 |
| 111 | 15 | Room Service | 3 March 1998 |
| 112 | 16 | Beware of Greeks | 17 March 1998 |
| 113 | 17 | The Perfect Guy | 24 March 1998 |
| 114 | 18 | Bad Dog | 7 April 1998 |
| 115 | 19 | Frasier Gotta Have It | 21 April 1998 |
| 116 | 20 | First Date | 28 April 1998 |
| 117 | 21 | Roz and the Schnoz | 5 May 1998 |
| 118 | 22 | The Life Of The Party | 12 May 1998 |
| 119 | 23 | Party, Party | 19 May 1998 |
| 120 | 24 | Sweet Dreams | 19 May 1998 |