Many are wondering what TV series were on that told the the world about our favorite city before Kelsey Grammer ever sang that 'scrambled eggs' song.
Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin, searches for clues among the houseboats on Portage Bay in a scene from"The Night Strangler" from 1973; Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are nowhere in sight.
Time will tell how sound those theories might, but in the meantime, “Frasier” moving to Boston is a great excuse to look at other TV programs on the air before “Frasier” that used Seattle in some way to tell their stories, that influenced Seattle’s image in the outside world, and that maybe contributed to the
“You know, you and Fred have a good time talking about fishing,” June says, as the couple lament an upcoming visit with their friends the Rutherfords. One much later variation on this off-screen category took place in 1999 at the end of the fifth season of “ER,” when George Clooney’s character Doug Ross left the show and decamped fictional Chicago for fictional Seattle.
In a pivotal scene in the first episode, actor Robert Brown, portraying a character in Jason Bolt who was not unlike Seattle founder Arthur Denny, tries to convince a room full of lovely ladies to make the trek north from San Francisco to Seattle. For many, far more than those 264 episodes of “Frasier,” the most influential of all time TV program set in Seattle is the TV movie called “The Night Strangler.” It aired in January 1973 and starred Darren McGavinKolchak is a tabloid newspaper reporter, first seen a year earlier in a previous TV movie called “The Night Stalker,” who has a nose for the odd or otherwise spooky. He wears a seersucker suit, white shoes and a goofy straw hat, and what appears to be a midrange quality toupee.
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