While the creative team behind Frasier would uphold her visual absence throughout the series, there were two episodes in which Maris was physically involved. We saw her silhouette through a shower ...

On "Frasier," although Niles was extremely different from Norm, he too had a wife (Maris) that the audience never once laid eyes on. But if things had shaken out differently, we would have met ...

Everything starts as it always does: Niles and Frasier plan their next soirée with willfully ignorant exuberance. Niles offers up Maris’ beach house, and Frasier clinches the hot caterer du jour.

This episode not only contains a scene in contention for the most heart-warming TV moment of all time, but features some classic Frasier/Niles snobbery, some great Niles/Maris stuff, and a healthy ...

"[Roz and Frasier] had a great ... champagne in Niles' face at the behest of his estranged (and never-seen) wife Maris. "We can't keep our s--- together and we're all laughing," Gilpin says.

Niles’ estranged wife Maris is never seen, with her elusive physical ailments compounding each season. Frasier’s ice queen ex-wife Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth) is an underutilized gem of the series ...

But it’s hard for Frasier and Niles to run the theater when you don’t have Niles, so we had to step back from that. Chris Harris: It would be weird to make Niles the new Maris. Joe Cristalli ...

I suppose that also means we should not expect the new Frasier cast to finally include someone to play Maris — a character who was never once seen during the Cheers spinoff’s original 11 ...