Northern Exposure

Year

1990

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Country

USA

Director

Actors

Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum, Darren E. Burrows, John Corbett, Cynthia Geary, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips, Rob Morrow, William J. White

Description

Joel Fleishman is fresh out of medical college, and fresh out of luck. Failing to read the fine print in his scholarship conditions, he finds he has no choice but to move to the remote and somewhat eccentric town of Cicely, in the wilds of Alaska. Once there, he is welcomed by the peculiar locals who are not keen to see him go, most especially Maurice Minnifield, the ex-NASA astronaut. Despite Joel's adamant denials, one gets the impression that he enjoys life in Cicely more than he admits. ------- Joel Fleischman is a nebbishy Jewish doctor from New York City, and a fresh faced medical school graduate. He's also about to begin the four year service contract he promised to the state of Alaska, who financed his education. But he just happened to forget reading some of the stipulations in his contract, that has assigned him to the small post of Cicely, Alaska. A town of 215 people that welcomes it's newest resident with open arms. As he contends with the daily lives and rituals of these all too normal and trusting folk, Joel just might realize that Cicely's quieter ways are probably more civilized than the hustle and bustle of Manhattan. Made up of Cicely's various residents, patients and friends of Fleischman include wealthy former astronaut Maurice Minnifield; feisty pilot Maggie O'Connell; mayor and saloon owner Holling Vincoeur; his sweet, naive waitress girlfriend Shelly Tambo (who's old enough to be his daughter); intellectual ex-con and disc jockey Chris Stevens; Joel's far wiser and very quiet receptionist Marilyn Whirlwind; kindly store owner Ruth-Anne Miller, and avid film buff Ed Chigliak.

Episodes

• Season 1: 1. Pilot (1990). A doctor from New York City adjusts to life in a rural town in Alaska.
• Season 1: 2. Brains, Know-How And Native Intelligence (1990). Dr. Joel Fleischman slowly starts accepting his desperately desolate fate, despite a defective shower leaving him to choose between swallowing his pride in order to get Maggie's plumbing help or bathing in the utterly icy lake. Popular DJ Chris Stevens' 'irreverent' comments on even Walt Whitman get him sacked from Maurice's radio K-Bear, but the boss soon offends everyone else in Cecily. Ed Chigliak's suave way gets reluctant Joel to make confusing house-calls on Ed's uncle, paradoxical medicine man Anku, who treats Joel to a Kentucky takeaway, traditional dancing ...
• Season 1: 3. Soapy Sanderson (1990). Dr. Joel Fleischman is depressed when grumpy old patient Soapy Sanderson completely ignores his medical advice, and is stunned when he and Maggie are named joint executors of his 140 acres forest estate where only wolves live. Maggie wants to turn it into a nature reserve, however un-required it is in this part of Alaska. Joel is rather tempted by the Indian chief Ronkomkoma's idea to turn it into a tax shelter by formally drilling for oil which everybody knows isn't there, hoping it may pay his way back to New York. Later Joel learns Soapy was a spirituality college ...
• Season 1: 4. Dreams, Schemes And Putting Greens (1990). Shelly becomes pregnant and a wedding is arranged, but Holling has a deep-rooted fear - both his father and grandfather lived over a century, while their wives died young, leaving them alone and grieving for over sixty years each. Holling vowed to avoid their fate. Meanwhile, Maurice and Fleischman entertain a Japanese investor interested in building a resort in Cicely.
• Season 1: 5. Russian Flu (1990). Dr. Joel Fleischman has his hands full when his fiancé Elaine flies to Cicely for a visit. He becomes so busy trying to defend himself against the townspeople's charges that he is a KGB agent releasing the Russian flu upon them and competing with Marilyn over the best treatment for the illness, that he has no time to spend with his betrothed. Instead Maggie, entertains Elaine, which only further annoys Joel.
• Season 1: 6. Sex, Lies And Ed's Tapes (1990). There's much to deal with in Cicely when Shelly's husband arrives with the hopes of taking her back to Saskatchewan, much to the astonishment of Holling. Furthermore, Maggie's boyfriend fears he will soon die as the next victim of the O'Connell curse and Ed searches for inspiration while working on his movie script.
• Season 1: 7. Kodiak Moment, A (1990). Hearing his brother and only surviving fellow Minnifeld died, Maurice looks for a 'son' to adopt. After Joel declines, he gets Chris to try, but although generosity gets them through the hard stuff, a game of croquet proves you can't adopt 'breeding'. When Ed tells Holling Jesse that the fiercest grizzly, who caused him to stop hunting anything else, is back, Shelly insists on joining them on a hunt which shows that although the men are older, the bear still knows them. Joel is asked to attend a hygiene class, but when he arrives learns it's for expectant mothers, ...
• Season 1: 8. Aurora Borealis: A Fairy Tale For Big People (1990). While Joel gives Ed golf lessons, the Indian warns him Adam is around, the never actually seen monster-prankster, blamed for all kinds of weirdness since 15 years. Passing the night in his car in the woods after diagnosing a park ranger Burns, Joel is apparently robbed, actually taken in, by very human loner Vietnam vet Adam. Chris is delighted his instinctive sculptural inspiration fits the astronomical phenomenon Aurora Borealis (northern light). Chris accepts help from lost motor-biker Bernard, and discovers they share a lot, even an identity essential.
• Season 2: 1. Goodbye To All That (1991). The townspeople try to cheer up Joel after his fiancee dumps him.
• Season 2: 2. Big Kiss, The (1991). An Indian spirit advises Ed on finding his parents and Chris on regaining his voice.
• Season 2: 3. All Is Vanity (1991). Maggie purports Joel to be her boyfriend to gain her father's approval; Holling comes to a very personal decision.
• Season 2: 4. What I Did For Love (1991). A charming replacement and Maggie's premonition of death make Joel reconsider his trip to New York.
• Season 2: 5. Spring Break (1991). Holling picks fights with patrons; Ed seeks a once-a-year kleptomaniac; Maurice falls for a trooper.
• Season 2: 6. War And Peace (1991). Everyone except Maurice welcomes a vacationing Russian; Holling has nightmares; Ed falls in love.
• Season 2: 7. Slow Dance (1991). Rick's death by falling satellite further enhances Maggie's reputation; Maurice meets prospective hoteliers.
• Season 3: 1. Bumpy Road To Love, The (1991). When a statue is risen in Rick's memory, Maggie learns of his infidelity through a stranger's eulogy. Meanwhile, Adam returns and makes Joel go with him to treat his hypochondriac wife.
• Season 3: 2. Only You (1991).
• Season 3: 3. Oy, Wilderness (1991).
• Season 3: 4. Animals R Us (1991). Maggie is approached by a dog whom she believes to be Rick reincarnate while Maurice tries to make a business scheme out of Marilyn's ostrich farm.
• Season 3: 5. Jules Et Joel (1991). Shortly after hitting his head, Joel is visited by his identical twin brother, Jules, and changes places with him for a day. Meanwhile, Chris is contacted by a bomber who wants to turn himself in.
• Season 3: 6. Body In Question, The (1991).
• Season 3: 7. Roots (1991).
• Season 3: 8. A-Hunting We Will Go (1991).
• Season 3: 9. Get Real (1991).
• Season 3: 10. Seoul Mates (1991). It's Christmas in Cicely and Maurice is approached by a Korean man who turns out to be his son.
• Season 3: 11. Dateline: Cicely (1992). In an effort to sell more issues of his newspaper, Maurice hires pathological liar Adam to write for it.
• Season 3: 12. Our Tribe (1992).
• Season 3: 13. Things Become Extinct (1992). Holling undergoes a midlife crisis when his uncle dies and Ed makes a documentary about a man who makes flutes.
• Season 3: 14. Burning Down The House (1992).
• Season 3: 15. Democracy In America (1992). When a new candidate signs up for the upcoming mayoral election in Cicely, this triggers a large amount of activity among the residents.
• Season 3: 16. Three Amigos, The (1992). Maurice and Holling venture into the Alaskan wilderness to bury a recently deceased friend.
• Season 3: 17. Lost And Found (1992). When Joel complains of ghost-like rumblings in the house, Maggie thinks it could be the loner who committed suicide in it decades before, so she orders an exorcism of the house. Meanwhile, the hypochondriac Eve wants Joel's help for her various ailments. And, Maurice is visited by his old Marine colonel who needs to borrow money.
• Season 3: 18. My Mother, My Sister (1992). Shelly's mom (who prefers to be known as Shelly's YOUNGER sister) surprises her with a visit, boasting about her new main squeeze, a really young Army man.
• Season 3: 19. Wake Up Call (1992). Spring arrives in Cicely and with it comes more quirky behavior from its residents: Shelly has a skin rash, Holling decides to give away eggs, Joel gets a lesson in medical care from a tribal medicine man and Maggie has a reawakening with the help of a handsome stranger.
• Season 3: 20. Final Frontier, The (1992). During the Northern Lights, Cicely is infused with Japanese tourists, Holling decides to go in search of Jessie the bear and Maggie and the townsfolk are curious when a package arrives that is covered with foreign stamps.
• Season 3: 21. It Happened In Juneau (1992). Joel looks forward to a weekend in Juneau, hoping to spend it with attractive female physicians. But, instead, he winds up in a hotel suite with Maggie who clearly cramps his style. Meanwhile, Chris is flustered when Bernard, his "karmic doppelganger", returns from Africa.
• Season 3: 22. Our Wedding (1992). Adam prepares to marry Eve. At his bachelor party, the men ruminate on the differences between men and women. Meanwhile, Eve lets an enthusiastic Shelly take over the wedding plans. And, Maggie and Joel try to finish what they started in Juneau.
• Season 3: 23. Cicely (1992). Joel encounters a 108-year-old man who has come home to Cicely. He tells Joel that Cicely, founded by two incredible, free-thinking women named Roslyn and Cicely, was once considered the "Paris of the North". The series regulars appear in this episode as various residents from 1909.
• Season 4: 1. Northwest Passages (1992). On Maggie's 30th birthday, she decides to perform an ancient Native American ritual for saying goodbye to her dead boyfriends. Joel and Ed later have to rush in for the rescue when she turns out to be ill.
• Season 4: 2. Midnight Sun (1992). When the midnight sun, days of constant sunlight, hits Cicely, Joel experiences a relentless surge of energy and begins coaching Cicely's local basketball team.
• Season 4: 3. Nothing's Perfect (1992).
• Season 4: 4. Heroes (1992). A rock musician (played by Adam Ant) accidentally arrives in Cicely, creating quite a stir-up among the locals. While Ed makes a documentary about the visit, Chris has trouble deciding how to put an old friend to his final rest.
• Season 4: 5. Blowing Bubbles (1992).
• Season 4: 6. On Your Own (1992). While Ed catches a fish containing a ring that he thinks belonged to Fedrico Fellini, the Flying Man and some circus performers revisit Cicely.
• Season 4: 7. Bad Seed, The (1992).
• Season 4: 8. Thanksgiving (1992).
• Season 4: 9. Do The Right Thing (1992). A semi-retired KGB agent arrives in Cicely and reveals to Maurice that he once divulged some classified information. Holling finds a great nuisance in a health-care inspector who gives him some instructions to clean The Brick.
• Season 4: 10. Crime And Punishment (1992). The law catches up with Chris when the authorities begin setting up an extraction to have him turned in to the West Virginia police for violating parole.
• Season 4: 11. Survival Of The Species (1993). Ed goes green after having a post-apocalyptic dream, Maggie discovers some old artifacts in her garden and Holling begins associating with a young runaway from Los Angeles.
• Season 4: 12. Revelations (1993).
• Season 4: 13. Duets (1993).
• Season 4: 14. Grosse Pointe, 48230 (1993).
• Season 4: 15. Learning Curve (1993). Holling decides to finish high school; Marilyn goes to Seattle on vacation.
• Season 4: 16. Ill Wind (1993).
• Season 4: 17. Love's Labour Mislaid (1993).
• Season 4: 18. Northern Lights (1993).
• Season 4: 19. Family Feud (1993).
• Season 4: 20. Homesick (1993).
• Season 4: 21. Big Feast, The (1993). Dr. Fleischman is troubled when he doesn't receive an invitation to a big party for Maurice that the whole town is attending. Shelly accidentally breaks a bottle of wine worth several thousand dollars.
• Season 4: 22. Kaddish, For Uncle Manny (1993). Joel's Uncle Manny dies and the people of Cicely join forces to locate ten other Jews for his kaddish.
• Season 4: 23. Mud And Blood (1993).
• Season 4: 24. Sleeping With The Enemy (1993).
• Season 4: 25. Old Tree (1993). An old tree near Cicely seems to be on its last legs and the locals enlist Joel to make a diagnosis.
• Season 5: 1. Three Doctors (1993). Ed is trying to figure out why he keeps waking up in strange places. Dr Fleischman is suffering from mysterious symptoms, but naturally doesn't trust the locals' diagnosis. Shelley has been singing for months.
• Season 5: 2. Mystery Of The Old Curio Shop, The (1993). The past comes back to haunt the residents (of Cicely) when Maurice works himself into a minor heart attack while over-fretting his age. Maggie relives a childhood fantasy, and Joel traces the history of Cicely to long-forgotten Jewish predecessor.
• Season 5: 3. Jaws Of Life (1993).
• Season 5: 4. Altered Egos (1993). Obsession reaches new heights when Chris is dismayed that his ex-lover can't find any difference between him and Bernard in bed. Joel worries about losing his New York "edge". And Marilyn snoops through the medical files to find her perfect man.
• Season 5: 5. River Doesn't Run Through It, A (1993).
• Season 5: 6. Birds Of A Feather (1993). Family matters come to the forefront when Joel's parents, Nadine and Herb, visit. Nadine finds a unique connection with Marilyn and the eagles. Meanwhile Shelly is concerned that Holling will miss out on special father-son moments with their new baby after he announces that he's bored with sports.
• Season 5: 7. Rosebud (1993). Ed is struggling to find his path in life and it doesn't help when Maurice wants to use his Hollywood contacts to organize a film festival. Joel's own path seems to have gone up in smoke when his truck ignites after he turns down Ruth-Anne's offer to join the volunteer fire department.
• Season 5: 8. Heal Thyself (1993). When Leonard brings Ed along on a shaman visit, the patient grows closer to him, which is sabotaged by a creature called the Green Man.
• Season 5: 9. Cup Of Joe, A (1993).
• Season 5: 10. First Snow (1993).
• Season 5: 11. Baby Blues (1994).
• Season 5: 12. Mr. Sandman (1994).
• Season 5: 13. Mite Makes Right (1994).
• Season 5: 14. Bolt From The Blue, A (1994).
• Season 5: 15. Hello, I Love You (1994).
• Season 5: 16. Northern Hospitality (1994).
• Season 5: 17. Una Volta In L'Inverno (1994).
• Season 5: 18. Fish Story (1994).
• Season 5: 19. Gift Of The Maggie, The (1994).
• Season 5: 20. Wing And A Prayer, A (1994).
• Season 5: 21. I Feel The Earth Move (1994). Ron and Eric plan their wedding, Holling is hired to cater, Maggie begins to experience earthquakes and Joel peeks inside Marilyn's diary.
• Season 5: 22. Grand Prix (1994).
• Season 5: 23. Blood Ties (1994).
• Season 5: 24. Lovers And Madmen (1994).
• Season 6: 1. Dinner At Seven Thirty (1994).
• Season 6: 2. Eye Of The Beholder (1994).
• Season 6: 3. Shofar, So Good (1994).
• Season 6: 4. Letter, The (1994).
• Season 6: 5. Robe, The (1994).
• Season 6: 6. Zarya (1994).
• Season 6: 7. Full Upright Position (1994).
• Season 6: 8. Up River (1994).
• Season 6: 9. Sons Of The Tundra (1994).
• Season 6: 10. Realpolitik (1994).
• Season 6: 11. Great Mushroom, The (1995).
• Season 6: 12. Mi Casa, Su Casa (1995).
• Season 6: 13. Horns (1995).
• Season 6: 14. Mommy's Curse, The (1995).
• Season 6: 15. Quest, The (1995).
• Season 6: 16. Lucky People (1995).
• Season 6: 17. Graduate, The (1995).
• Season 6: 18. Little Italy (1995).
• Season 6: 19. Balls (1995).
• Season 6: 20. Buss Stop (1995).
• Season 6: 21. Ursa Minor (1995).
• Season 6: 22. Let's Dance (1995).
• Season 6: 23. Tranquility Base (1995).

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