The Late Dr. Crane

The Late Dr. Crane
Season	7
Episode	8
About
Air date	18 November 1999
Written by	Rob Hanning
Directed by	Robert H. Egan
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The Late Dr. Crane is the 8th episode of Season 7 of Frasier.

Synopsis

NEWS FLASH! REPORTS OF FRASIER'S DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED -- When a man temporarily poses as Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) who was in the hospital with a bloody nose, and suddenly drops dead, local media reports lament the popular radio host's "passing," but the embarrassing mixup allows Frasier to read his own obituary and ponder his life's unfulfilled hopes and dreams. Meanwhile, Niles (David Hyde Pierce) confronts the prohibitively expensive plastic surgeon (guest star Jane Adams) who re-puttied his ex-wife's face -- but he is so entranced when he meets her that he allows the doctor to work her magic on his own mug.

Starring

Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane

Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon

David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane

Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle

and John Mahoney as Martin Crane

Special Guest Star

Jane Adams as Mel Karnofsky

Guest starring

Rob Leo Roy as Phil

Co-Starring

John P. Farley as Records Clerk

Mary Jo Smith as Nurse

Chariesse LaVelle as News Anchor

Susan Merson as Woman in Café

Lauren Cohn as Orderly

Trivia

• The news announcing Frasier's death lists his birth year as 1952. Kelsey Grammer was actually born in 1955 making him younger than his character.
• This is the first time blood is shown.
• When Frasier is at the hospital he has a bloody nose. This references the fight scene from the classic 1983 Christmas film A Christmas Story.
• The cut on the bridge of Fraiser's nose from the minor accident, is real. The weekend the episode was filmed, Kelsey Grammer hurt his nose in a car accident. Grammer also got two black eyes from the accident as well. He also broke his ankle in the accident as well. He said in an interview: "I was driving around by the set, and the person in another vehicle slammed into me, and my nose went into the wheel. I woke up from the daze I was in, and looked in the mirror, there was a large gash across the bridge of my nose, and I went to the hospital for an x-ray. And it turns out I also broke my ankle. And got two black eyes. I was also in a lot of pain."