Frasier (season 5)
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 23, 1997 – May 19, 1998 |
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The fifth season of Frasier originally aired from September 23, 1997 to May 19, 1998 on NBC. The fifth episode is the only episode of the series to have scenes filmed on location in Seattle. The opening title screen color was changed to a dark yellow gradient to white.
In 2009, TV Guide ranked "The Ski Lodge" episode #31 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.
The story continues from the previous episode ("Odd Man Out"), after Frasier spontaneously decides to board a plane to Acapulco with Joanna. She soon switches seats after learning this. While reading a magazine, he realizes that the model in it is actually the woman sitting next to him on the plane, who introduces herself as Kelly Easterbrook (Sela Ward). She tells him she is a supermodel and a student of zoology. The pair share a steamy time together in Mexico, but while Kelly wants to continue seeing Frasier, she asks him to not tell anyone about them, as she is currently breaking up with a football player and wants this kept out of the media. As it turns out, no one back in Seattle at home or at work will believe that Frasier met anyone in Mexico, still less that it was a supermodel. In fact, Niles, Daphne and Martin worry that, given the desperate state of his love life, he must be inventing a girlfriend. Eventually, Frasier decides to prove that Kelly exists by attempting to snap a photo of her while she's sleeping, only to be caught in the act. She runs out on him, just before his family gets home. Luckily for Frasier, Kelly comes back to get her things, right in front of everyone.
It's Martin's 65th birthday, and instead of competing with each other as they have always done over who can buy Dad the best present, Frasier and Niles decide to set a limit on how much they can spend this year, with Frasier deciding to get Martin a wallet and matching keycase, while Niles gets him a subscription to a brewery that will deliver a different case of beer each month. However, when Niles reveals that his gift is $100 over the limit, Frasier can't believe what he's hearing, so Niles suggests he just put $100 in the wallet, and so the matter seems resolved. Meanwhile, Sherry has big plans for Martin's birthday party (even if it's Daphne who's doing all the work), and has found a picture of Martin back in his police days of him aboard his beloved police horse Agides, which Sherry intends to blow up to life-size, with Martin recalling how much he used to love the horse. The rivalry, however, between Frasier and Niles over the gift they are going to buy Martin escalates again when both Cranes return their gifts for something bigger. Frasier thinks he has won after buying an enormous TV complete with massive speakers that he hates, but knows Martin will love, but when Niles sees it, Frasier wonders why his brother is not twisting and writhing in jealousy. The answer is soon revealed: Niles has managed to track down Martin's police horse Agides and set him up on a stable for him to visit any time he likes. Frasier realizes Niles has won, and the pair take their father down to the stables to meet Agides. At first he is overjoyed to see him, but Martin then becomes quite melancholy after a while, which seems to continues throughout his party too. After the party, Niles and Frasier discover their father down at the stables talking to Agides about the sadness of aging, which causes Niles to graciously say that Agides came from himself and Frasier (as long as his brother gets rid of the big-screen TV from his apartment).
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