PERI GILPIN is familiar to millions thanks to her role as Frasier Crane’s long-suffering producer, Roz.

Ted Danson made his name, of course, playing Frasier’s friend Sam Malone in Cheers when the psychiatrist’s spin-off sitcom was nothing more than a glint in a producer’s eye.

Now, Gilpin is playing Mrs Russell, wife of Danson’s character DB in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

DB and the team are investigating the brutal murder of Tom Burns, the basketball coach at his son Charlie’s university. Evidence at the scene reveals that two people were involved in the killing, and the initial stages of the investigation suggest that lots of people had plenty of reasons to want Burns dead, including Charlie and his girlfriend.

DB knows his offspring isn’t capable of such a crime, but as evidence mounts against him, the devoted father must find a way to clear his son’s name.