TV Series · 1993 · TV Series · 1990s
Frasier
Scored from 169 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 1990s (630 peers).
Summary
Psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane, divorced and newly departed from Boston, moves back to his native Seattle and takes a job dispensing advice on a call-in radio show at station KACL, where the caustic Roz Doyle produces him. His plan for an elegant bachelor's life collapses when his father Martin, a retired police officer disabled by a gunshot wound, moves into his high-rise apartment with his shabby recliner and his dog Eddie, followed by live-in physical therapist Daphne Moon. Frasier and his equally fastidious brother Niles, also a psychiatrist, trade snobberies about wine and opera while failing to connect with their blunt working-class father. This multi-camera sitcom is a spin-off of Cheers.
Released in 1993, Frasier is a comedy television series. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Episodes run about 22m. Its certificate is TV-PG. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
The calibrated figure is built from 169 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 180 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s television series — 630 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 81 of whom clear the calibration test.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Frasier lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 1990s (630 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 169.
Cohort: TV Series · 1990s
