Dr. Nora (Frasier episode)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Dr. Nora
Series = Frasier
Season = 6
Episode = 20
Airdate = 29 April 1999
Production =
Writer = Joe Keenan
Director = Katy Garretson
Guests = Christine Baranski (Dr. Nora)
Piper Laurie (Mrs. Mulhern)
Douglas Owen McDonald (George)
Gillian Anderson (Jenny)
Yo-Yo Ma (Tom)
Bonnie Raitt (Denise)
Pia Zadora (Jill)
Prev = IQ
Next = When a Man Loves Two Women
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 6)"Dr. Nora" is the twentieth episode in season 6 of American sitcom "Frasier"

Cast and characters

Main cast and characters

*Kelsey Grammer – Dr. Frasier Crane
*David Hyde Pierce – Dr. Niles Crane
*John Mahoney – Martin Crane
*Jane Leeves – Daphne Moon
*Peri Gilpin – Roz Doyle

Recurring cast

*Tom McGowan – Kenny Daly

Plot outline

Frasier is in Café Nervosa interviewing candidates for a new radio psychiatrist at KACL, whose show will run alongside his own. He thinks he has found an unbeatable contender (Dr. Gordon Edelstein), and Niles, who knows his work, expects him to be right. In the end, however, he recommends Dr. Nora Fairchild, who spends most of her interview paying him compliments, even pretending to think Niles is the older brother. Frasier feels proud to have a protégé, until he actually hears her in action. She turns out to be an advocate of old-fashioned values, condemning pre-marital sex, divorce, single parenthood and the like, and her approach to therapy is not so much constructive criticism as outright abuse. Frasier is embarrassed and angry, and threatens to withdraw his recommendation, but the station manager has other ideas; she attracts so much attention (positive and negative) that he wants to keep her on. When she openly criticises Frasier's advice to one particular caller on air, he and Roz decide on a declaration of war. Fortunately, Niles has been listening to this caller and the way Dr. Nora dealt with her, and he has a more subtle way of approaching the problem.

Episode Title Cards

*"Dr. Ruthless"
*"“M” is for the many ways I’d maim her"

Memorable Quotations

"Niles is trying to grow a moustache. So far it is barely visible"
Niles: I grant you, it's at an early stage.
Frasier: What stage? Research and development?

"Roz has been flirting with Dr. Nora's producer, George, while Frasier declares war on Dr. Nora herself"
Roz: You don't actually buy all this "no sex" stuff of hers, do you?
George: Yeah!
Roz: Well, it's WAR!