“Good Afternoon, Seattle. I’m listening.” Dr. Frasier Crane’s iconic catchphrase has not been uttered on the KACL 780 airwaves for over 20 years.

However, Kelsey Grammer’s stuffy radio psychiatrist is returning to his hometown for a special Seattle-themed episode in season two of the Frasier revival on Paramount+.

So far, the revival has followed the titular Frasier in Boston, where he has been teaching at Harvard and working on improving his relationship with his son, Freddy.

The sitcom was originally in Seattle to make Frasier’s journey and new start away from Boston (and his roots on Cheers) more profound. At the time, nobody could have anticipated that the show would go on to win countless awards and define Seattle for a generation of television fans.

Returning to Seattle is more than simply a nostalgia trip for fans, it is crucial for the show’s plot going forward. Frasier’s longtime producer, Roz Doyle (played by Peri Gilpin) made a surprise appearance during the season one finale, but she is set to play a more substantial role in the show going forward.

“The return to Seattle was a function of trying to get Roz into our world, organically, with a real reason to be there,” says Grammer. “Seattle doesn’t work anymore, her daughter lives on the East Coast and she can embrace a whole new life.”

The Seattle-themed episode will see Frasier and Roz return to KACL 780, and will feature cameos from Dan Butler as Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe, Edward Hibbert as Gil Chesterton, and Harriet Sansom Harris as Frasier’s agent, Bebe Glazer. Returning to shoot the episode, says Gilpin, was an “emotional experience.”

“Everything was the same. The set was the same, the studio was the same, but we were different. At the same time, there was something shocking and sad about it, but we were laughing our heads off and having fun. You miss the old days but that forces you to embrace today and be here now and go on from here. That’s over, it’s gone.”

Jack Cutmore-Scott portrays Freddy Crane, Frasier’s son. Despite not being part of the original sitcom, he echoes Gilpin’s sentiments about the “emotional” return to KACL as he witnessed the cast return after so many years.

“It was magic. We were there when all of them revisited this set for the first time in 20 years and it was deeply emotional. We are on the periphery but seeing Peri, Dan, Gil and Kelsey come back onto the radio station set was pretty special.”

It took two decades for Roz and Frasier to reunite, but for Gilpin and Grammer, it was incredibly natural to step back into that world and find that the chemistry that helped define the original series still exists.

“It’s absolutely natural. It’s like a shorthand, you look at each other and you know that it’s still there. They know how to play each other,” says Grammer.

The dynamic between its actors—not just Grammer and Gilpin’s Frasier and Roz, but David Hyde Pierce’s Niles, Jane Leeves’s Daphne, and John Mahoney’s Martin, was what made the show one of the most successful and popular sitcoms of the decade. And all these years later, still gives it a timeless quality.

“The show is always about love and relationships and that doesn’t run out of time, it’s about people that care about each other,” says Grammer.