Frasier: Season 4

1996 · 24 episodes · ★ 8.2

What Season 4 of Frasier

Season 4 finds Frasier settled in Seattle, with his show on KACL and his father Martin living at home, still dependent after the shooting. Frasier and Niles keep clashing over their lifestyles and competing for the same women. Niles gets caught up in a farce when he pretends to be Daphne's husband in front of an old boyfriend of hers. Later, he receives divorce papers from Maris and asks his father and brother for advice. Martin also arrives with Sherry, a girlfriend who proves to be too much for both brothers. Roz, Eddie and Daphne round out a cast in which every celebrity complicates the Cranes' lives.

24episodes

Sep 17, 1996premiered

May 27, 1997latest episode

9.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 The Two Mrs. Cranes
Sep 17, 1996 · 23 min · ★ 8.9
The Crane household is turned upside down when Daphne's old flame comes to town.
Directing: David Clark Lee · Writing: Joe Keenan · Starring: Edward Hibbert, Scott Atkinson
4x02 Love Bites Dog
Sep 24, 1996 · 23 min · ★ 8.1
When Roz sets Frasier up on a blind date, Bulldog winds up falling for her instead.
Directing: Jeff Melman, David Clark Lee · Writing: Joe Keenan, Suzanne Martin · Starring: Julius Erving, Bob Costas, Michael Whaley, Jennifer Campbell
4x03 The Impossible Dream
Oct 15, 1996 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
When Frasier is awakened night after night by a recurring dream, he becomes obsessed with analyzing the psychological meaning behind it.
Directing: David Clark Lee · Writing: Rob Greenberg · Starring: Byrne Piven, Kieran Culkin, Pauley Perrette, Bette Rae
4x04 A Crane's Critique
Oct 22, 1996 · 23 min · ★ 8.4
After Martin befriends a reclusive writer both Frasier and Niles admire, they become obsessed with reading the author's first manuscript in decades.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Dan Cohen, F.J. Pratt · Starring: Robert Prosky, Steven Rotblatt
4x05 Head Game
Nov 12, 1996 · 23 min · ★ 8.2
While filling in for Frasier, Niles gains fame after counseling a local basketball star who's in a slump.
Directing: David Clark Lee · Writing: Rob Greenberg · Starring: Wendy Wasserstein, Geoff Callan, Lorenzo Newton, Ken Magee
4x06 Mixed Doubles
Nov 19, 1996 · 23 min · ★ 8.7
After Daphne gets dumped by her boyfriend, Niles decides it's time to declare his love for her.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Christopher Lloyd · Starring: Allison Mackie, Kevin Farrell
4x07 A Lilith Thanksgiving
Nov 26, 1996 · 23 min · ★ 8.6
Frasier and Lilith join forces so that their son can gain admission to the most prestigious private school in Boston.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg · Starring: Jane Lynch, Lisa Banes, Paxton Whitehead, John Prosky
4x08 Our Father Whose Art Ain't Heaven
Dec 10, 1996 · 23 min · ★ 8.0
Martin buys Frasier an expensive painting -- but Frasier doesn't have the heart to tell his father that he hates it.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Michael B. Kaplan · Starring: John Cusack, Nicholas Walker
4x09 Dad Loves Sherry, the Boys Just Whine
Jan 7, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.1
Frasier and Niles disapprove of Martin's relationship with his brassy new girlfriend.
Directing: James Burrows · Writing: Joe Keenan · Starring: Marsha Mason, Jane Kaczmarek
4x10 Liar! Liar!
Jan 14, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.1
Frasier finds himself in a precarious position when he tries to help the troubled marriage of a former high school acquaintance.
Directing: James Burrows · Writing: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg · Starring: Andre Rosey Brown, Saul Stein, Carlene Watkins, Luck Hari
4x11 Three Days of the Condo
Jan 21, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.1
When Frasier becomes fed up with the rules and regulations governing his condominium complex, he decides to run for condo board president.
Directing: David Clark Lee · Writing: Michael B. Kaplan · Starring: Austin Pendleton, Marsha Mason, Dana Ivey, Christopher Templeton
4x12 Death and the Dog
Feb 11, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.3
Eddie feels blue, so Martin hires a dog psychiatrist to determine the cause of his depression.
Directing: James Burrows · Writing: Suzanne Martin · Starring: Željko Ivanek, Patty Duke, Tom Lagleder
4x13 Four for the Seesaw
Feb 18, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.2
When the Crane brothers go away for the weekend with two attractive women, Niles discovers he hasn't quite cut his emotional ties to Maris.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: David Lloyd · Starring: Lisa Darr, Megan Mullally, Andrew Heckler
4x14 To Kill a Talking Bird
Feb 25, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.6
Niles moves into a prestigious building and tries to impress his snobby neighbors with an elegant dinner party.
Directing: David Clark Lee · Writing: Jeffrey Richman · Starring: Patricia Wettig, Rosemary Murphy, Nancy Linari, Wayne Alexander
4x15 Roz's Krantz & Gouldenstein Are Dead
Mar 11, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.2
While volunteering at a retirement home, Roz becomes convinced that she's "the angel of death" after her first two patients die on her.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: William Lucas Walker · Starring: Lois Smith, Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Dan Butler
4x16 The Unnatural
Apr 1, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.2
Rather than show his son that his dad's not perfect, Frasier agrees to join the station's softball team -- even though he has no idea how to play the game.
Directing: Pamela Fryman · Writing: Michael B. Kaplan · Starring: Bobby Sherman, Trevor Einhorn, Dan Butler
4x17 Roz's Turn
Apr 15, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 6.2
When an on-air hosting spot opens up at the station, Roz decides to go for it -- but Frasier's agent has other ideas.
Directing: Joyce Gittlin · Writing: Joe Keenan · Starring: Harriet Sansom Harris, Kathryn Joosten, Doug Carfrae, Dan Butler
4x18 Ham Radio
Apr 22, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 7.8
Frasier's attempts to produce a live, 1940s-style radio drama for the station's fiftieth anniversary produce chaos instead.
Directing: David Clark Lee · Writing: David Lloyd · Starring: Richard Easton, Jack Betts, Hope Allen, Patrick Kerr
4x19 Three Dates and a Breakup (1)
Apr 29, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.4
While Frasier tries to juggle three dates in three days, Martin and his girlfriend face the prospect of breaking up.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Rob Greenberg · Starring: Maria del Mar, Marsha Mason, Pauley Perrette, David Benoit
4x20 Three Dates and a Breakup (2)
Apr 29, 1997 · 23 min
Frasier tries to get Martin and Sherry to reconcile -- to the detriment of his own love life.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Rob Greenberg · Starring: Maria del Mar, Marsha Mason, Pauley Perrette, Rebeccah Bush
4x21 Daphne Hates Sherry
May 6, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.9
Frasier and Niles are caught in the middle when Martin's girlfriend and Daphne can't stop bickering.
Directing: Kelsey Grammer · Writing: Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg · Starring: Marsha Mason, Dan Butler
4x22 Are You Being Served?
May 13, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.7
Frasier tries to console Niles after Maris serves him with divorce papers.
Directing: Gordon Hunt · Writing: William Lucas Walker · Starring: Luck Hari, Michael McFall, Gerry Gibson, Dan Butler
4x23 Ask Me No Questions
May 20, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.1
When Niles asks Frasier whether he and Maris belong together, Frasier goes out of his way to give his brother an honest, thoughtful response.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Dan Cohen, F.J. Pratt · Starring: Irene Olga López, Luck Hari, Cindy Katz
4x24 Odd Man Out Season Finale
May 27, 1997 · 23 min · ★ 8.5
Frasier comes down with a case of the "bachelor blues" when he realizes that every single person he knows is dating someone -- except him.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Suzanne Martin · Starring: Lisa Guerrero, Miles Marsico, Linda Hamilton, Joshua Green