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"The Show Must Go Off" is the twelfth episode in season 8 of American sitcom Frasier. Daphne Moon...

"The Show Must Go Off" is the twelfth episode in season 8 of American sitcom Frasier. Daphne Moon doesn't appear in this episode as Jane Leeves was on maternity leave. Derek Jacobi won the 2001 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance in this episode. While attending a science fiction convention for the benefit of his son, Frasier espies Jackson Hedley, an actor whom he remembers from childhood; it was this man who first introduced him to the delights of Shakespeare. He has long since given up the stage, and now plays an android in the television show Space Patrol. Frasier thinks (and Niles later agrees with him) that this is a great loss to the theatre, and the brothers decide to revive Hedley's career by producing a one-man show for him. Hedley is delighted by the proposition. However, when they see him in action, the brothers start to have their doubts as to whether it is really such a good idea. The title of the episode is an inversion of the popular theatrical saying the show must go on. Many excerpts of the episode are excerpts from various Shakespeare stage plays. When Frasier and Niles present him with a stage, Jackson Hedley delivers an