If you've ever had a question about "Frasier" - quite simply the most excellent comedy on TV these days - now you've got a place to look.
Check your local bookstore and you'll find "Frasier: The Book." It's the "official companion book to the award-winning Paramount Television comedy."One bit of trivia you won't find in the book, however, is that much of it was written right here in Utah. In Heber City, to be exact.
Author Jefferson Graham, who covers the television industry for USA Today, wrote much of the book at his vacation home in Wasatch County.
Graham, his wife and 10-year-old son have been spending time in Utah ever since he came to Clear-field to do a story about roller coasters some years ago. A friend suggested they take a drive to Park City and, somehow - "I don't know how' - they ended up in Heber.
And that eventually led to buying land and building a house there.
"We come up here at least once a month," Graham said. "I try to come as often as I can in the fall because it's my favorite season."
He's also become a big Utah booster back home in the Los Angeles area.
"I think it's a great state. It's beautiful. Most people don't realize how gorgeous it is," Graham said. "They're starting to realize over the last couple of years.
"When we first started coming up here people said, `Utah? What are you going to do there - go to church?' Now people know this is a beautiful place."
The book wasn't necessarily an easy assignment - Graham only had four weeks to complete it, "which I think I stretched to four-and-a-half," he said.
What he came up with includes a history of the show that begins well before it debuted three years ago, a list of all the famous voices that have guest-starred as Frasier's radio patients, short biographies of and interviews with the show's stars and producers, a behind-the-scenes look at how the show is put together, a program guide to all the episodes from the first three years of "Frasier," and the script from the show's premiere episode.
And throughout the book are bits and pieces from various episodes of "Frasier" - laugh-out-loud funny stuff.
All put together over four - or four-and-a-half - weeks in March and April of this year.
"It wasn't too hard," Graham said. "It took a lot of time to compile the lines. They had an episode guide, so I condensed their episode guide. They had character bios, and I added to those. So there was a lot of material to work with."
And finding those funny bits to take out of the scripts and put into the books proved to be one of the more time-consuming tasks.
"That's what took the time. Reading the scripts and looking for lines that weren't story-related, that stood alone," he said.
Of course, it helped that Graham is a bit of a "Frasier" fan himself. He said that writing a book about a show he didn't like would be "terribly tedious."
"It would be very painful and impossible to finish the scripts. Luckily, this is such a witty show and that makes it fun to write about it," Graham said. "I read all 70 of the scripts. And I was laughing out loud - often. Every time you get to Niles you start laughing."
But, despite his fondness for the show, it wasn't Graham's idea to do the "Frasier" book. The studio approached him.
In the wake of "The X-Files" book making the best-sellers list last year, "TV books were hot. The people at Paramount said, `Let's do a "Frasier" book,' and I said, `OK, let's," Graham said.
Graham was familiar with the cast and the producers before he was asked by Paramount to write the book, having interviewed them all previously.
"I've always had a pretty good relationship with the producers," he said. "And (executive producer) David Lee is an e-mail junkie, and I've traded e-mail with him over the years."
Still, doing the book was not without its surprises. The biggest came when Graham discovered that Peri Gilpin wasn't the first choice to play Roz - that another actress with a familiar name had been hired and fired when the show first began rehearsals.
"The first script I picked up was episode 1 and there was the cast list with Lisa Kudrow's name on it," Graham said.
Kudrow, of course, has gone on to stardom as one of the "Friends." And the tale of how she came to be hired and fired by the "Frasier" producers is one of the more interesting parts of the "Frasier" book.
Graham said he was also surprised to learn "how many hours the writers are chained to their desk."
"I knew they were chained but I didn't know how long. I mean, they come in at 10 and they don't leave until 10 or 11 that night," he said. "And they're not allowed to leave the room. They all have to stay as one unit.
"It obviously works for them, but that's tough."
There weren't a lot of surprises from the stars of the show, but Graham did turn up a couple of unexpected tidbits on John Mahoney (who plays Frasier's father, Martin.)
"Once you've talked to one person about the show then you have stuff to talk to the other actors about," Graham said. "I didn't know that John Mahoney was the cut-up. Or that he lives in Chicago and commutes. Or that he doesn't even have an apartment - he just crashes with friends when he's in L.A."
The interviews in the "Frasier" book are confined to questions about the show itself. No smarmy Hollywood gossip or personal intrusions.
"I got to interview Kelsey Grammer, and he didn't mention his personal life, so I thought it was the best interview he'd ever given in his life," Graham said. "He didn't have to talk about all the troubles . . . we just talked about the show."
And "the door was totally open" to all of the actors and producers.
"They wanted to talk. They all wanted to be part of this book," Graham said. "They all want copies. Peri Gilpin, you had to shut her off."
The actors all name their favorite episodes. And Graham has a few of his own - "The Matchmaker" episode in which Frasier's gay boss mistakenly assumes that Frasier is also gay; the episode in which Niles fences his wife's fencing instructor; the episode in which Daphne teaches Niles to tango.
"And I thought this year's season premiere was one of the best shows ever," he said.
In addition to the "Frasier" book and his work for USA Today, Graham has also written a number of other books - including sales strategy books with Ken Kragen and Ron Popeil. He co-authored producer Aaron Spelling's recent biography.
Next up is another TV book - this one about "The Simpsons."
"I don't want to make a career out of this, but it's tough to turn things down," Graham said. "Particularly when you have a 10-year-old kid and you say, `Guess what? I'm doing a book about "The Simpsons." ' Boy, it's hard to turn that one down.
"But that's 180 episodes I'm going to have to watch. I'll have yellow dreams."
And there's also the prospect of doing updated versions of the "Frasier" book as the show continues its run.
"I figure that I signed my life over to `Frasier' if the book is a success," Graham said. "I could be updating it for the rest of my life."