Becker (TV series)

Becker is an American sitcom that was produced and broadcast by CBS from 1998 to 2004. It consists of a total of 129 episodes in six seasons.

Overview

Ted Danson plays the title role of Dr. John Becker, a cynical, bad-tempered doctor with his own practice in the Bronx. About half of the series takes place in practice, where Becker must grapple with his employees and patients, and the other half in a coffee shop where Becker meets his acquaintance. From time to time the action takes place in locations such as Becker's apartment and other venues, for example, in the subway.

In Season 1 Episode 20 (taxi to Queens ), there is a crossover with the series Everybody Loves Raymond, Cosby and The King of Queens, whose respective main characters Ray Barone ( Ray Romano), Hilton Lucas (Bill Cosby ) and Doug Heffernan ( Kevin James ) can be seen. By further crossover under the said series Becker is part of a shared universe series of Everybody Loves Raymond, Cosby, Love must be crazy, The Nanny, The King of Queens and Sara's exciting country life as well as the feature film This is Spinal Tap.

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Dr. John Becker played by Ted Danson, who is best known from the sitcom Cheers. Good humor is a foreign word for Becker. He has the special ability to see in all the worst, and is a notorious complainer in the company. His attempts to proceed alone against the system are almost always doomed to failure - even though he tried it at every opportunity. Dr. Becker was final in his class at the American elite university Harvard and is now with his mid-forties GP with a rundown practice - in comparison to the highly paid specialists in the U.S. a career dead end. He is already divorced for the second time. As Becker deals with his fellow human beings, one can at best " not just nice " call. This prevents him also frequently carried out to find a new partner. An exception to this is Dr. Elizabeth " Liz " Carson, played by Frances Fisher, with whom he enters into a relationship over a relatively long period of time, but even this love affair is not of too long duration. However, if a patient, or a friend has a serious problem, you can rely on him, even if he need to back off personally. This of course does not prevent him from to clamor loudly about the need of their assistance.

Reggie has dropped out of school to pursue a modeling career college years ago and now leads to the early death of her father 's coffee shop. Reggie finally trying to catch up with the top thirty at night school a college degree in psychology. She also explores is looking for a committed relationship, but remains unsuccessful. Reggie leaves the series at the end of the fourth season. It is played by actress Terry Farrell, among others, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is known.

Jake is played by Alex Désert. He is Becker's best friend and runs a newsstand in the coffee shop. Jake is blind five years before the beginning of action after an accident. The actor Alex Désert is not blind in real life.

Margret, played by Hattie Winston, is John's chief assistant and takes care of him - this is rarely very affectionate before, but rather maternal resolutely. Besides the work is their difficult marriage with her husband Louis their main occupation. Louis is one of the TV characters that are mentioned more often, but are never seen in the picture.

Linda, played by Shawnee Smith, is also a medical assistant in Becker's practice. The work ethic of the young woman leaves something to be desired - in the few hours in which they appear at all in practice. The largest part of Linda's daily routine takes planning their various amorous adventures. Linda's last name is never mentioned throughout the course of the series.

Bob, played by Saverio Guerra, first appears only sporadically. He was on the same high school as Reggie and now makes about their run-down life funny. But then breaks his own life: his wife leaves him, he loses his business. Later he is Becker's caretaker and dependent otherwise with Jake and Reggie around in the coffee shop. Bob speaks from himself always in the third person. He always tried to come up with minimal effort to make ends meet; in a sequence he gave, for example, a blind beggar, in order to make money. From the sixth season occurs Bob no longer, as he went, according to Jake on vacation. The actor Saverio Guerra decided not to renew his contract after the fifth season.

Chris, played by Nancy Travis, first from the end of the fourth season was Becker's neighbor who bugged him mainly with their exaggerated gaiety. But no later than the fifth season they advanced to Becker's lover and also took over the coffee shop by Reggie.

Hector is played by Jorge Garcia, occurs from the sixth season in the footsteps of Bob. He also tried to get the lowest possible cost through life - the associated plans he forges usually sitting in the coffee shop.

Becker in Germany

The series ran Becker in Germany on Sat.1, but it was only the first four and the last season aired. For these squadrons were Sat.1 synchronization in order, the fifth, however, was synchronized on behalf of Paramount, at a time when they refused due to the insolvency of the Kirch Group to conclude new transactions with its subsidiaries. The broadcasting has failed so far because Sat.1 refuses to pay the prescribed Paramount price for broadcasting.

Since early 2008, the series runs on Anixe HD. According to the website thereby also the fifth season will be shown. The series ran on Comedy Central on September 30, 2009 to 25 March 2010. The fifth season was aired in February 2010. Since July 2010 iterations run in the night program of Comedy Central. Sat1Comedy radiates from the series since January 2011. Comedy Central also shines again the series since 2011.

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