A rare example of a spin-off that eclipsed a stone-cold classic, Frasier built on the popularity of its predecessor, Cheers, ...

David Hyde Pierce didn't return to the Frasier revival as Niles, but Anders Keith, who played his son David, was the best part of the series.

With Freddy now a jock firefighter, Frasier experiences a reversal of his dynamic with his own father, the gruff former cop played so memorably ... s lovably loopy wife, Daphne.

"We'll never be the original 'Frasier,'" says Chris Harris, speaking with co-showrunner Joe Cristalli in a finale chat about discovering a happy medium with the revival and throwbacks to the original ...

David Hyde Pierce, who played Frasier's brother, Niles Crane, on the original, and Jane Leeves, who played Niles' love interest Daphne Moon, are not part of the reboot. Grammer, a father of seven ...

I don’t know where Jane Leeves [who played Martin’s caretaker, Daphne] was from. Peri [Gilpin, who played Frasier’s radio producer Roz] had been on “Cheers,” so I knew she could do it.

With Niles and Daphne out of the Frasier revival ... Jimmy Dunn, who played Moose in Season 1 of the Frasier revival, will return as one of Freddy's firehouse buddies in Season 2.

Also in the mix is Frasier’s nephew (and Niles and Daphne’s son) David, played by Anders Keith, and Freddy’s friend Eve (Jess Salgueiro). Returning to “Frasier” wasn’t part of Grammer ...

There's also the potential of the return of Frasier's brother, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), and sister-in law, Daphne (Jane Leeves ... a really cool thing." Long played barmaid Diane Chambers ...

For nearly 40 years, Grammer has played, rather to perfection, the ever erudite Frasier Crane ... so do you have any ideas about what Niles and Daphne and Roz and all these characters are up ...

Together with Daphne (Jane Leeves), at once Martin ... the severely literal-minded psychiatrist played on “Cheers” and “Frasier” (both the original series and its continuation) by ...