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Daddy Dearest.

Frasier, a CBS spinoff of Cheers starring Kelsey Grammer, is the most hopeful entry of the new TV season and indeed a model of entertainment television at its best: devoid of serious social content, politically indifferent, and hilarious. The storyline of the premiere episode, which will have aired September 16, is almost exactly that of a new Fox comedy starring Don Rickles, Daddy Dearest, a show exhibiting the traits of TV at its worst.

Both shows begin with a family breakup. Dr. Frasier Crane has moved to Seattle, his old hornetown, to start afresh, leaving behind an unfaithful nag of a wife and his old Cheers buddies. There he finds solace in the quiet life and in a ...

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