1. The Ring Cycle
Air date: 2002-09-24 · 30 min
Wedding bells finally ring for Niles and Daphne, but not without familial complications.
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Air date: 2002-09-24 · 30 min
Wedding bells finally ring for Niles and Daphne, but not without familial complications.
Open episode 1 ↗Air date: 2002-10-01 · 30 min
A parking-garage dispute embroils Frasier with a stubborn attendant, angry motorists and his disconcerted passenger: Niles.
Open episode 2 ↗Air date: 2002-10-08 · 30 min
Agenda-driven Frasier gets Martin elected to condo-board president, but it turns out that Dad isn't the figurehead his son intended him to be.
Open episode 3 ↗Air date: 2002-10-15 · 30 min
Roz's uninhibited and opinionated cousin irks Frasier and tires Roz, who joins cuz on the all-night partying circuit.
Open episode 4 ↗Air date: 2002-10-29 · 30 min
On Halloween, pranks pit Frasier vs. Bulldog; and Daphne's feisty mum vs. a very inventive, 10-year-old trick-or-treater.
Open episode 5 ↗Air date: 2002-11-05 · 30 min
Mischief awaits Frasier at his son's bar mitzvah, where the teen's mother, Lilith, becomes uncharacteristically emotional.
Open episode 6 ↗Air date: 2002-11-12 · 30 min
Cardiac anxieties seize Niles; housekeeper hiring irks Frasier and Martin, who opts for a cavalier free spirit.
Open episode 7 ↗Air date: 2002-11-19 · 30 min
Niles undergoes heart-bypass surgery in an episode that blends humor and poignancy, and interweaves telling flashbacks to the Crane brothers' youth.
Open episode 8 ↗Air date: 2002-11-26 · 30 min
A convalescing Niles irks Frasier, who's unresponsive to his brother's potshots because of a penitent vow he took and now regrets.
Open episode 9 ↗Air date: 2002-12-10 · 30 min
At Yuletide, the brothers Crane wrangle over who'll host holiday festivities; and Roz cozies up to a department-store Santa.
Open episode 10 ↗Air date: 2003-01-07 · 30 min
A quirky physical therapist has a hand in Daphne's sessions with Martin; the Crane brothers con their way into a posh spa but are barred from the "gold-level access."
Open episode 11 ↗Air date: 2003-01-14 · 30 min
A sexual-harassment matter embroils Frasier, who feuds injudiciously with a financial reporter who's as arrogant as he is.
Open episode 12 ↗Air date: 2003-02-04 · 30 min
Visiting Lilith needs a "favor": she wants to have another child with Frasier and works her wiles in an effort to get him to agree.
Open episode 13 ↗Air date: 2003-02-11 · 30 min
Chaos reigns at Daphne's dinner party, catered by Frasier and crashed by Martin, who's mistaken for the guest-of-honor artist.
Open episode 14 ↗Air date: 2003-02-18 · 30 min
A new romance rattles Frasier: the gym teacher he's dating morphs into his old "derisive, ego-crippling" gym instructor.
Open episode 15 ↗Air date: 2003-02-25 · 30 min
The brothers Crane are dragooned into taking part in a bicycling event benefiting charity. Now all they have to do is learn how to ride.
Open episode 16 ↗Air date: 2003-03-04 · 30 min
Newly-divorced Kenny turns to Frasier for emotional help, but is more uplifted by Martin and their confabs at McGinty's saloon.
Open episode 17 ↗Air date: 2003-03-18 · 30 min
A taste for caviar entices the Crane brothers on the "roe" to perdition with a shady Russian dealer selling Beluga at a bottom-line price.
Open episode 18 ↗Air date: 2003-04-01 · 30 min
The house that Frasier helped build for Habitat for Humanity is not a home until he decorates it, to the chagrin of its occupants. Also: Niles subs for Martin at a grade-school career day; and Daphne's mum waits tables at Café Nervosa.
Open episode 19 ↗Air date: 2003-04-22 · 30 min
Elvis Costello plays a cheery musician, whose gig at the Cafe Nervosa annoys Frasier, who is further flustered by an adulterous friend.
Open episode 20 ↗Air date: 2003-04-29 · 30 min
Ego trips up Frasier, bewitched by his former agent, the seductive and sneaky Bebe Glazer. Dr. Phil portrays himself. Also: Niles and Daphne imagine themselves as oldsters.
Open episode 21 ↗Air date: 2003-05-06 · 30 min
David Ogden Stiers plays a visitor from Martin's wife's past whose tastes and manners suggest to Roz he could be Niles and Frasier's real dad. The prospect ruffles Martin, who is uncomfortable with the Crane brothers' affinity for their guest.
Open episode 22 ↗Air date: 2003-05-13 · 30 min
A sudden burst of affection from Julia fazes Frasier, who's her abettor in criminal mischief directed at his accountant. Elsewhere, Roz interviews for a job at a rival station; and Niles takes an unlikely liking to target-shooting.
Open episode 23 ↗Air date: 2003-05-20 · 30 min
Greener pastures at another station lure Roz, who's also green with jealousy over Frasier's affection for Julia. Also: Daphne's mom prepares to move out at the behest of her daughter and son-in-law.
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