Twenty-five years ago, on September 16 1993, Frasier aired its very first episode. It was created as a follow up to the perm and plaid-laden Eighties sensation Cheers, based around one of its more minor characters, Frasier Crane. Expectations were relatively low for a sitcom about the pompous psychiatrist who moves, post-divorce, back to Seattle to start a radio show, where he ends up living with his cantankerous father. Besides, who ever heard of a successful spin-off?

264 episodes, 38 Emmy awards and a finale that brought in 33.7m viewers later, Frasier is one of NBC’s most triumphant shows. The only series to eclipse its Emmy record? Game of Thrones, 12 years after Frasier’s final episode aired in 2004. And with rumours abound that its eponymous star, Kelsey Grammer, is in talks to bring Dr Crane and the gang back to our screens, there’s one character in particular that I hope will be power-suiting it back with him: Roz Doyle.

The character of Frasier’s radio show producer nearly wasn’t as we know her. Friends star Lisa Kudrow was originally cast in the part but when the producers saw her in rehearsals, they decided they needed someone more authoritative in the role. Enter their second choice, Peri Gilpin. Fiercely funny, defiantly headstrong and with one of the filthiest laughs I’ve ever heard, Gilpin’s Roz became the benchmark for what I thought women should be.

How Frasier’s Roz Doyle flew the flag for feminism