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The doctor is in -- for now. Thanks to yet another near-romance between Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and Daphne (Jane Leeves), Frasier (2nd) nabbed 28.5 million viewers on Dec. 16 -- its largest audience in more than five years (a Dec. 21 repeat also fared well, easily beating a new episode of Sports Night). Kelsey Grammer and Co. may want to enjoy the numbers while they last, as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire moves into ABC's Thursday-at-9 p.m. slot Jan. 13, a potential threat to Frasier's Must See momentum. Meanwhile, a ghost from NBC's Thursday-night past made a visit Dec. 19, as Family Ties alum Meredith Baxter costarred in the CBS flick Miracle on the 17th Green (12th).
TOP 15 DEC. 20 -- 26
VIEWERS* LAST WEEK
1 22.5 FOOTBALL: MINNESOTA VS. GREEN BAY -- ABC, Monday, 9:07 p.m. 2 17.4 60 MINUTES 6 CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. 3 16.5 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (R) 9 CBS, Monday, 9 p.m. 4 15.6 FRASIER (R) 2 NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. 5 15.5 MOVIE: THE MARRIAGE FOOL (R) -- CBS, Sunday, 9 p.m. 6 15.1 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (R) -- CBS, Monday, 8:30 p.m. 7 14.9 ER (R) 1 NBC, Thursday, 10 p.m. 8 14.7 TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL (R) 10 CBS, Sunday, 8 p.m. 9 14.5 FRIENDS (R) 3 NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. 10 14.3 BECKER (R) 11 CBS, Monday, 9:30 p.m. 11 14.0 KING OF QUEENS (R) 16 CBS, Monday, 8 p.m. 12 13.8 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: ADVENTURES IN TIME -- NBC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. 13 13.3 DATELINE NBC 24 NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 13.3 MOVIE: WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (R) -- NBC, Sunday, 9 p.m. 15 13.2 FRASIER (R) 26 NBC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m.
TOP 15 DEC. 13 -- 19
1 29.1 ER 9 NBC, Thursday, 10 p.m. 2 28.5 FRASIER 1 NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. 3 22.4 FRIENDS 6 NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. 4 20.9 STARK RAVING MAD 7 NBC, Thursday, 9:30 p.m. 5 19.4 JESSE 8 NBC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. 6 19.4 60 MINUTES -- CBS, Sunday, 7:23 p.m. 7 19.3 LAW & ORDER 18 NBC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 8 18.8 FOOTBALL: JACKSONVILLE VS. DENVER -- ABC, Monday, 9:07 p.m. 9 18.5 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND 14 CBS, Monday, 9 p.m. 10 16.8 TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL (R) -- CBS, Sunday, 8:23 p.m. 11 16.8 BECKER 21 CBS, Monday, 9:30 p.m. 12 16.7 MOVIE: MIRACLE ON THE 17TH GREEN -- CBS, Sunday, 9:23 p.m. 13 16.0 JAG -- CBS, Tuesday, 8 p.m. 14 15.7 JUDGING AMY 40 CBS, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 15 15.0 PROVIDENCE 46 NBC, Friday, 8 p.m.
*IN MILLIONS (R) RERUN
SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
