139 "Dr Nora"
Written by: Joe Keenan
Directed by: Katy Garretson
Regular Cast:
Frasier, Niles, Martin, Daphne, Roz and Kenny.Guest Cast: Dr Nora Fairchild (Christine Baranski), Mrs Mulhern (Piper Laurie), George (Douglas Owen McDonald)
Guest Callers:
Jenny (Gillian Anderson), Tom (Yo-Yo Ma), Denise (Bonnie Raitt), Jill (Pia Zadora)Skyline: A crescent moon rises.
Plot: KACL have decided to add another shrink to their line-up, and Frasier has been allowed to choose the finalist. He chooses Dr Nora Fairchild, who seems to be a nice woman, but soon Frasier discovers that her advice is very judgmental and the opposite of what he says (for example, she called an unmarried mother a whore).
Frasier and Roz decide to do something and Roz finds out that Dr Nora has been divorced twice and has had affairs with married men!!! They also discover that Nora is estranged with her mother, so to prove his method of counselling is best Frasier decides to reunite Nora with her mother. But the reunion doesn't go as planned.....
Meanwhile Niles grows a moustache, but no-one notices.
Subtitles: Dr Ruthless; "M" Is For The Many Ways I'd Maim Her.
Roz loves..... Dr Nora's producer George
Martin knows..... Charlie Drucker, whom Martin made a joke about his chest. The joke then continued with a word similar to his last name.....
Trivia: Mentions of
Donny, Chopper Dave and Grammy Moon. Piper Laurie, who plays Nora's mother, also voiced the caller Marianne in Ep 13 "Guess Who's Coming To Breakfast". Dr Nora is based on the famous agony aunt Dr Laura in the USA - indeed they share similar attitudes.Read the script of this episode at
http://www.oocities.org/Hollywood/Derby/3267/620.html.
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