{"id":4250,"date":"2025-04-29T20:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:22:21","slug":"frasier-star-reveals-why-he-turned-down-reappearing-on-the-show-several-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/frasier-star-reveals-why-he-turned-down-reappearing-on-the-show-several-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Frasier star reveals why he turned down reappearing on the show \u2018several times\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ted Danson famously played Sam Malone in 80s sitcom Cheers (Picture: CBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ted Danson has revealed why he turned down further appearances on Frasier<\/a>, after co-star Kelsey Grammer asked him to return \u2018several times\u2019.<\/p>\n

The pair famously shared the screen in iconic 80s sitcom Cheers<\/a>, in which Ted starred as bar owner Sam Malone opposite his former colleague\u2019s efforts as stuffy psychiatrist Frasier Crane.<\/p>\n

After Kelsey landed Frasier, his own Cheers spin-off<\/a>, Ted reprised his role for a one-off episode, which aired in 1995.<\/p>\n

However, popping up on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast<\/a>, the 77-year-old opened up about why his brief stint in season two didn\u2019t lead to something more regular.<\/p>\n

\u2018He asked me several times, over the years, to be part of it, and I didn\u2019t,\u2019 he told the host. \u2018Not because I was angry at Kelsey <\/a>or anything, mostly because I didn’t know how to…<\/p>\n

‘How the f**k do you play Sam Malone in his 60s or now 70s?<\/p>\n

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He shared the screen with Kelsey Grammer in the series (Picture: NBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ted briefly reprised his role to appear in Frasier (Picture: NBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018It’s amusing to be an ageing adolescent when you’re in your 30s, 40s, but not when you’re in your 70s. So I thought, I don’t know how to do that.<\/p>\n

\u2018It wouldn\u2019t be the Cheers writers \u2026 I would have felt at sea. I wouldn’t know how to do it. That’s why I said no.\u2019<\/p>\n

Host Howie then questioned Ted on his tumultuous friendship with Kelsey over the years, and the latter\u2019s recent remarks that they had been \u2018talking about a couple of ideas\u2019 \u2014 including the recently cancelled Frasier reboot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The episode aired in season two, in 1995 (Picture: CBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018That was over the years,\u2019 the Good Place star clarified. \u2018Recently, in the last year, I did say, \u201cAbsolutely. Ask me and I will come do it\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018Because I felt like I not only owed it to him, but I wanted to.<\/p>\n

\u2018If it came back and he asked me to do an episode or something? Yeah, I would.\u2019<\/p>\n

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