The Ring Cycle
Episode: 10x01 | Airdate: Sep 24, 2002
Wedding bells finally ring for Niles and Daphne, but not without familial complications.
Episode: 10x01 | Airdate: Sep 24, 2002
Wedding bells finally ring for Niles and Daphne, but not without familial complications.
Episode: 10x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2002
A parking-garage dispute embroils Frasier with a stubborn attendant, angry motorists and his disconcerted passenger: Niles.
Episode: 10x03 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2002
Agenda-driven Frasier gets Martin elected to condo-board president, but it turns out that Dad isn't the figurehead his son intended him to be.
Episode: 10x04 | Airdate: Oct 15, 2002
Roz's uninhibited and opinionated cousin irks Frasier and tires Roz, who joins cuz on the all-night partying circuit.
Episode: 10x05 | Airdate: Oct 29, 2002
On Halloween, pranks pit Frasier vs. Bulldog; and Daphne's feisty mum vs. a very inventive, 10-year-old trick-or-treater.
Episode: 10x06 | Airdate: Nov 5, 2002
Mischief awaits Frasier at his son's bar mitzvah, where the teen's mother, Lilith, becomes uncharacteristically emotional.
Episode: 10x07 | Airdate: Nov 12, 2002
Cardiac anxieties seize Niles; housekeeper hiring irks Frasier and Martin, who opts for a cavalier free spirit.
Episode: 10x08 | Airdate: Nov 19, 2002
Niles undergoes heart-bypass surgery in an episode that blends humor and poignancy, and interweaves telling flashbacks to the Crane brothers' youth.
Episode: 10x09 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2002
A convalescing Niles irks Frasier, who's unresponsive to his brother's potshots because of a penitent vow he took and now regrets.
Episode: 10x10 | Airdate: Dec 10, 2002
At Yuletide, the brothers Crane wrangle over who'll host holiday festivities; and Roz cozies up to a department-store Santa.
Episode: 10x11 | Airdate: Jan 7, 2003
A quirky physical therapist has a hand in Daphne's sessions with Martin; the Crane brothers con their way into a posh spa but are barred from the "gold-level access."
Episode: 10x12 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2003
A sexual-harassment matter embroils Frasier, who feuds injudiciously with a financial reporter who's as arrogant as he is.
Episode: 10x13 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2003
Visiting Lilith needs a "favor": she wants to have another child with Frasier and works her wiles in an effort to get him to agree.
Episode: 10x14 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2003
Chaos reigns at Daphne's dinner party, catered by Frasier and crashed by Martin, who's mistaken for the guest-of-honor artist.
Episode: 10x15 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2003
A new romance rattles Frasier: the gym teacher he's dating morphs into his old "derisive, ego-crippling" gym instructor.
Episode: 10x16 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2003
The brothers Crane are dragooned into taking part in a bicycling event benefiting charity. Now all they have to do is learn how to ride.
Episode: 10x17 | Airdate: Mar 4, 2003
Newly-divorced Kenny turns to Frasier for emotional help, but is more uplifted by Martin and their confabs at McGinty's saloon.
Episode: 10x18 | Airdate: Mar 18, 2003
A taste for caviar entices the Crane brothers on the "roe" to perdition with a shady Russian dealer selling Beluga at a bottom-line price.
Episode: 10x19 | Airdate: Apr 1, 2003
The house that Frasier helped build for Habitat for Humanity is not a home until he decorates it, to the chagrin of its occupants. Also: Niles subs for Martin at a grade-school career day; and Daphne's mum waits tables at Café Nervosa.
Episode: 10x20 | Airdate: Apr 22, 2003
Elvis Costello plays a cheery musician, whose gig at the Cafe Nervosa annoys Frasier, who is further flustered by an adulterous friend.
Episode: 10x21 | Airdate: Apr 29, 2003
Ego trips up Frasier, bewitched by his former agent, the seductive and sneaky Bebe Glazer. Dr. Phil portrays himself. Also: Niles and Daphne imagine themselves as oldsters.
Episode: 10x22 | Airdate: May 6, 2003
David Ogden Stiers plays a visitor from Martin's wife's past whose tastes and manners suggest to Roz he could be Niles and Frasier's real dad. The prospect ruffles Martin, who is uncomfortable with the Crane brothers' affinity for their guest.
Episode: 10x23 | Airdate: May 13, 2003
A sudden burst of affection from Julia fazes Frasier, who's her abettor in criminal mischief directed at his accountant. Elsewhere, Roz interviews for a job at a rival station; and Niles takes an unlikely liking to target-shooting.
Episode: 10x24 | Airdate: May 20, 2003
Greener pastures at another station lure Roz, who's also green with jealousy over Frasier's affection for Julia. Also: Daphne's mom prepares to move out at the behest of her daughter and son-in-law.