The Rake

SNOBBERY IN SEATTLE

is one of the most sophisticated sitcoms in the American canon. It transposed the crisp, rat-a-tat dialogue of thirties screwball cinema to nineties Seattle, where radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) returns after the end of his marriage to look after his father, Martin (John Mahoney), a retired policeman injured in the line of duty. An unusually successful spinoff (to the beloved ), it won more Emmys than any other show until . Of all the show’s

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