Frasier - The Complete Fourth Season

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Summary: Frasier's Best Year
Review: After the solid third season, Frasier came back with what could arguably be its best season. There were new storylines: Martin meeting a new lady, Sherry (played by Marsha Mason), who doesn't exactly hit it off with the rest of the gang--as well as continuations of old ones: Niles trying to reconcile with Maris. The biggest story of this season, though, was off-camera: star Kelsey Grammer went into rehab, which necessitated that the others in the cast pick up the slack. They proved up to the task, of course, and upon Grammer's return the show became better than ever. In this season, we were visited by familiar faces like Lilith and Frederick for a memorable Thanksgiving episode, as well as Agent Bebe, as well as surprise appearances (James Earl Jones). In addition, this season contained some of the truly greatest episodes of this show: the opener, The Two Mrs. Cranes, had the show's farcical sense of its humor at its most potent, Ham Radio featured delightfully unhinged performances by the supporting cast, and Are You Being Served? features one of the show's funniest moments. This is where the show hit its peak: the synthesis of great acting, writing, and ensemble acting that made this show memorable. If you love Frasier, these episodes are probably many of the reasons why. If you only buy one set of Frasier DVDs, this should probably be it.

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Summary: Wow!
Review: GReatest writing i have ever seen. Could do with out the commercials in the beginning of disc.

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Summary: Frasier's thirteenth season overall
Review: In 1996-97,fans of Cheers were addicted to Dr. Frasier Crane. It is so amazing how a character that wasn't an original from the parent show could grow in popularity. That's like THE JEFFERSONS from ALL IN THE FAMILY and LAVERNE & SHIRLEY and MORK & MINDY from HAPPY DAYS. Kelsey Grammer kept being nominated for and winning Emmys for FRASIER as the show continued its run.

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Summary: frasier - great show but no subtites
Review: love frasier but why are there no subtitles? disappointing as my brother is hard of hearing

Rating:
Summary: FIVE Stars!!!...and Eddie too.
Review: Mine just arrived today, and has a $15 rebate sticker if I buy another season (expires April 30, 2005)...not a bad deal.

Season 4 is another 5-star hit, now I have it on DVD.

If you're a Frasier fan, every season is a must-have. Add it to your library and laugh through each season for a lifetime.

The episodes include:

1. The Two Mrs. Cranes
2. Love Bites Dog
3. The Impossible Dream
4. A Cranes' Critique
5. Head Game
6. Mixed Doubles
7. A Lilith Thanksgiving
8. Our Father Whose Art Ain't Heaven
9. Dad Loves Sherry, The Boys Just Whine
10. Liar, Liar!
11. Three Days Of The Condo
12. Death And The Dog
13. Four For The Seesaw
14. To Kill A Talking Bird
15. Roz's Krantz & Gouldenstein Are Dead
16. The Unnatural
17. Roz's Turn
18. Ham Radio
19. Three Dates And A Breakup
20. Daphne Hates Sherry
21. Are You Being Served?
22. Ask Me No Questions
23. Odd Man Out

To the producers: Season 5 please!!!



Rating:
Summary: 3 minutes and 20 seconds of commercials
Review: My one star rating has nothing to do with the quality of the DVD or the acting or the writing. It has to do with the fact that the first DVD begins with three minutes and twenty seconds of advertisements for a Happy Days DVD, a Laverne and Shirley DVD and a Mork and Mindy DVD. You can't fast forward through this stuff. (I suppose you can change your video source and watch something else while the commercials play, however.) Anytime you want to watch anything on the first DVD, you'll have to wait for 3:20 in addition to waiting for the FBI warning and the Paramount intro to play before you get to the content screen. Usually, I watch no more than one or two episodes at a time. So, this is very inconvenient. I'm not going to buy any of those other DVDs anyway. Making me sit through the ads all the time shows how little regard Paramount has for its customers. This is what happens when the money guys and the marketing guys stop paying attention to what is best for the customer. Not only that, but on the menu there is a selection for "previews", just in case you want to watch those advertisements all over again. These guys must be nuts!

Aside from that, I've watched the first DVD and part of the second one in this package and am happy with my purchase. The last episode on the first disc is one of my favorites. It's the one where Daphne gets a new boyfriend who turns out to be a Niles clone. The performances are first rate and the writing is of the usual quality. I just hope there are no ads cluttering the 5th season DVD when it's released.

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Summary: Torn between a great show, and the terrible corporate entity
Review: Paramount deserves to have their DVDs boycotted for making purchasers of the 4th season of "Fraiser" sit through ads for 3 OTHER series sets before getting to what I paid to view. The trick, I found, is using the chapter skip buttons on my remote. The buttons for Menu, Title, Fast Forward, and Pause all DO NOTHING! The way this DVD is constructed should be cause for a class action against Paramount!

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Summary: Cute But Stupid !!
Review: The recent TV reruns of Frasier have mostly been from the last two seasons of the series, so it is good to get the chance to see shows from the early and middle years on DVD. One episode especially stands out from season four, "To Kill A Talking Bird", when Niles has a bird attached to his head and the bird is repeating everything it hears - "Cute But Stupid" !! That particular show absolutely cracks me up ! The writing team from the Cheers and Frasier programs are absolute masters at witty, urbane humor. I do agree with another reviewer that the opening advertisements for Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy are very annoying, but it won't affect my rating for a great season four of Frasier.

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Summary: One of the best seasons
Review: This season is one of the best. There is only one episode that I don't care to watch. I also have season 3, but there are many episodes that I would never choose to watch. This one has great episodes such as the Ham Radio, Roz as the Angel of Death, etc. This is definitely one worth getting and watching over and over.

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Summary: Frasier does have closed captioning for hard-of-hearing
Review: TV sets have a closed-caption feature can be turned on to see the subtitle text. Please tell me if this helps.
Regards ... Les