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Pilot
11 Jul 1990
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Dr. Joel Fleischman arrives in Anchorage, Alaska to fulfill his part of a bargain that paid $125,000 for his medical education in...
Brains, Know How and Native Intelligence
18 Jul 1990
38 Views
Ed asks Dr. Fleischman to help him convince his uncle, a traditional tribal medicine man, to seek medical treatment for a health p...
Soapy Sanderson
25 Jul 1990
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A hermit takes Joel's advice to put his affairs in order and leaves all his considerable land holdings to be jointly administered...
Dreams, Schemes and Putting Greens
01 Aug 1990
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Joel's mind is on helping Maurice sell Alaska as the "new Riviera" to two Japanese businessmen in hopes of becoming the "attending...
Russian Flu
08 Aug 1990
33 Views
A virulent strain of flu, whose only treatment is a smelly Indian concoction brewed up by Marilyn, keeps Joel from enjoying a visi...
Sex, Lies and Ed's Tapes
15 Aug 1990
34 Views
A young man from Saskatchewan further rocks the already delicate relationship between Shelly and Holling. Ed suffers from writer's...
A Kodiak Moment
22 Aug 1990
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Maurice feels his mortality after his brother dies, and decides to adopt Chris as the Minnifield heir, but the title doesn't sit w...
Aurora Borealis: A Fairy Tale for Big People
29 Aug 1990
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The approach of the Aurora Borealis and the constant light produces some strange behavior among the residents of Cicely. Chris aba...
Goodbye to All That
07 Apr 1991
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Joel receives a "Dear John" letter from Elaine, who has decided to marry an older judge, and a concerned Ed enlists Maggie to help...
The Big Kiss
14 Apr 1991
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Ed's wish to know who his parents were summons up a 256-year-old Indian spirit named "One-Who-Waits" who offers to help him find o...
All Is Vanity
21 Apr 1991
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Holling decides to be circumcised to please Shelly, Chris and Maurice organize the town to keep watch over an anonymous man whom d...
What I Did For Love
28 Apr 1991
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Joel's plans for a vacation to New York are sidetracked by Maggie's dreams about his death in an airplane crash and his suspicions...
Spring Break
05 May 1991
33 Views
Things get a little crazy as the town waits for the annual ice breakup and the annual ""running of the bulls"" down the streets of...
War and Peace
12 May 1991
37 Views
A Soviet celebrity returns to Cicely for some relaxation, some borscht and a deadly serious chess match with rival Maurice. Hollin...
Slow Dance
19 May 1991
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The infamous O'Connell curse seems to have claimed another victim when a falling satellite hits Rick. Maurice has mixed feelings a...
The Bumpy Road to Love
22 Sep 1991
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Maggie is devastated when the unveiling of a statue in Rick's memory uncovers his life and loves away from Cicely. Maurice stumble...
Only You
29 Sep 1991
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Maurice sulks over what he believes is an unflattering photo taken by Holling, Maggie worries about needing glasses and getting ol...
Oy, Wilderness
06 Oct 1991
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Maggie and Joel are forced to rough it when her plane is forced down by mechanical problems, and Shelly receives a visit from her...
Animals 'R' Us
13 Oct 1991
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Maggie becomes convinced that the stray dog that's adopted her is Rick reincarnated. Maurice tries to convince Marilyn to join him...
Jules et Joel
27 Oct 1991
31 Views
On Halloween Joel hits his head, presaging a visit from his twin brother Jules. Chris and Ed set out to meet a criminal from Chris...
The Body in Question
03 Nov 1991
34 Views
Chris' discovery of the frozen body of a Napoleonic Frenchman raises many questions for Joel, has Maurice dreaming of the economic...
Roots
10 Nov 1991
36 Views
Joel's former fiancé Elaine, now a widow, comes to visit. Chris' half-brother Bernard returns just as Chris is having dreams of Af...
A-Hunting We Will Go
17 Nov 1991
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Joel decides to explore the fascination of hunting by accompanying Chris and Holling on their annual pilgrimage. Ed becomes worrie...
Get Real
08 Dec 1991
33 Views
A stranded bus of carnival performers brings romance to Marilyn, doubts about her future to Maggie, the mysteries of magic to Chri...
Seoul Mates
15 Dec 1991
33 Views
The holidays in Cicely see Joel experimenting with an unfamiliar Christmas tree, a clumsy Maggie suddenly left alone, Shelly pinin...
Dateline: Cicely
05 Jan 1992
32 Views
Maurice hires a colorful but questionable new investigative reporter for his newspaper, Maggie tries to enlighten Joel about the "...
Our Tribe
12 Jan 1992
38 Views
Joel agrees, under pressure from Marilyn, to be adopted by a grateful village elder, but wonders if he'll survive. Maggie becomes...
Things Become Extinct
19 Jan 1992
36 Views
The death of his uncle sends Holling out to his still and into an orgy of self-doubt, Joel feels isolated as he searches for proof...
Burning Down the House
02 Feb 1992
33 Views
Maggie receives an unexpected visit and some unwanted news from her mother. Meanwhile, Chris searches everywhere for just the righ...
Democracy in America
23 Feb 1992
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The mayoral incumbent, Holling, faces opposition from an old friend with a long memory. Chris grows eloquent over the democratic p...
Three Amigos
01 Mar 1992
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The death of an old friend sends Maurice and Holling packing off into the snowy wilderness to bury him at No-Name Point. But the w...
Lost and Found
08 Mar 1992
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The hypochondriac, Eve comes to town to ask about her latest symptoms, but Joel is preoccupied with the ghost of a lonely old soul...
My Mother, My Sister
15 Mar 1992
33 Views
An abandoned baby gets attention from the whole town and helps awaken Adam's paternal instincts while Shelly's life is unsettled b...
Wake Up Call
22 Mar 1992
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As spring blossoms, Shelly suffers from a skin rash, Holling gives away eggs, Joel gets a new outlook on patient care from a triba...
The Final Frontier
26 Apr 1992
34 Views
Maurice becomes curious about the influx of Japanese tourists to the area during the Northern Lights, Holling sets out to discover...
It Happened in Juneau
03 May 1992
35 Views
Joel foresees sophisticated delights when he travels to Juneau for a medical conference but winds up with good old Maggie, meanwhi...
Our Wedding
10 May 1992
33 Views
As their wedding approaches, Adam debates with Joel about women and Eve lets a gung-ho Shelly take over the wedding plans as she w...
Cicely
17 May 1992
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Joel meets an old man who's returned to Cicely after many years. The man tells him the story of two remarkable women, Roslyn and C...
Northwest Passages
27 Sep 1992
37 Views
Maggie must come to grips with her 30th birthday and the ghosts of her dead boyfriends by using an Indian ritual allowing her to l...
Midnight Sun
04 Oct 1992
35 Views
Joel is charged with energy as the sun hasn't set and he uses his pent up energy to try to coach Cicely's basketball team to victo...
Nothing's Perfect
11 Oct 1992
31 Views
Chris kills a pet loving mathematician's dog; he falls in love with her and then while taking care of the rest of her pets, a para...
Heroes
18 Oct 1992
37 Views
A heavy metal rock star comes to Cicely and gets Ed to make a documentary on a rock festival he is holding with local Indian drumm...
Blowing Bubbles
01 Nov 1992
38 Views
Cicely's newest resident, Mike Monroe, is confined to live in a plastic bubble because of M.C.S. (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity),...
On Your Own
08 Nov 1992
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The ever-quiet Bob returns to Cicely, with "The New Perception Players" and still hopes to win Marilyn's affection. Maurice receiv...
The Bad Seed
15 Nov 1992
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Holling's less than honest daughter arrives in Cicely and begins to operate. Holling and Shelly have a disagreement about his "ste...
Thanksgiving
22 Nov 1992
36 Views
The Indians in Cicely celebrate Thanksgiving by throwing tomatoes at white people. Joel is Ed's first victim and he is angered bec...
Do the Right Thing
29 Nov 1992
33 Views
An ex-Soviet member of their state security comes to Maurice and offers to sell him the file of all the information they have in h...
Crime and Punishment
13 Dec 1992
39 Views
Chris is taken into custody for an extradition trial to bring him back to West Virginia, where he currently has a parole violation...
Survival of the Species
03 Jan 1993
38 Views
Ed becomes gloomy about the future and begins to share Mike's visions about the future. Maggie digs up some artifacts from an anci...
Revelations
10 Jan 1993
40 Views
Ruth-Anne pays off her store which gives her great satisfaction and Maurice's great pain; however, Ed feels the most pain when the...
Duets
17 Jan 1993
37 Views
One-Who-Waits returns and has positive information on the location of Ed's father and takes Ed to the construction site where he w...
Grosse Pointe, 48230
31 Jan 1993
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Joel accompanies Maggie as her "boyfriend," in a trip to back to Michigan, where he has been promised tickets to a Knicks - Piston...
Learning Curve
07 Feb 1993
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Holling decides to go back to school to get his high school equivalency certificate. Marilyn goes on an adventure in Seattle and J...
Ill Wind
14 Feb 1993
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After breaking his nose, twice, Joel and Maggie have a wild fling in her barn. Chris saves Maurice's life, a debt that he is set o...
Love's Labour Mislaid
20 Feb 1993
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Maggie forgets about having sex with Joel. Holling and Ruth-Anne go out to find a Siberian Tit, a bird rarely seen in Alaska. Ed's...
Northern Lights
28 Feb 1993
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Joel goes on strike when the state of Alaska will not allow him time off for a Caribbean vacation he was planning. Chris has troub...
Family Feud
07 Mar 1993
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A totem pole carved in tribute to the Raven clan reopens a bitter rift between them and the Bear clan. Shelly gets medical advice...
Homesick
14 Mar 1993
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Maggie is excited when she thinks she has "cured" her latest beau, as opposed to killing him; however she is crushed when he tells...
The Big Feast
21 Mar 1993
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When Maggie distributes the invitations for Maurice's 25th Anniversary Bash for Minnifield Communications an event "everyone" is a...
Kaddish, For Uncle Manny
02 May 1993
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Joel seeks out other Jews to help him mourn his uncle and Maurice calls out the troops to go out and round some up. Chris gets Ber...
Mud and Blood
09 May 1993
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Spring comes to Cicely and Holling pays to get a job on a farm pulling a plow, because of his wish to sow seeds. Maggie saves Dave...
Sleeping With the Enemy
16 May 1993
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Maurice's son comes to ask for his permission on his choice of a bride. There is a little hitch, Ron thinks that the new bride may...
Old Tree
23 May 1993
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The town's oldest tree is dying. Shelly wakes up and finds that she can't talk, but she can sing. The town asks Joel to diagnose O...
Three Doctors
19 Sep 1993
36 Views
Ed wakes up in strange places with no clues about how he got there. Joel contracts "glacier dropsy" which gives him the feeling of...
The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop
26 Sep 1993
36 Views
Maggie investigates the owners of an antique shop who are exhibiting strange behavior. Maurice begins to see the signs of age when...
Jaws of Life
03 Oct 1993
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Maurice is chosen to be a wax figure at Madame Tussaud's, in London, for their rugged individualist's exhibit. Chris is faced with...
Altered Egos
10 Oct 1993
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Bernard is surprised when he discovers his new love once lived with Chris for 6 months. Joel starts to fear that he is losing his...
A River Doesn't Run Through It
24 Oct 1993
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Maggie is asked by the three guys in Cicely's high school senior class to be their homecoming queen and she accepts. Ruth-Anne fac...
Birds of a Feather
31 Oct 1993
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Joel's parents come to Cicely and his father's know-it-all attitude gets on Joel's nerves and his mother gets back to nature. Holl...
Rosebud
07 Nov 1993
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Ed hits an impasse in his film career when Maurice has him begin to organize Cicely's first film festival and he can't seem to get...
Heal Thyself
14 Nov 1993
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Ed accompanies Leonard on a house call and has success with his first try at being a shaman. Joel teaches a childbirth class which...
A Cup of Joe
21 Nov 1993
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Chris suffers an anxiety attack during the written part of the exam, when he decides to become a pilot. Holling and Ruth-Anne's fr...
First Snow
12 Dec 1993
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As the town prepares for winter, a healthy elderly patient tells Joel she is dying, much to his disbelief. Maggie decides to redec...
Mr. Sandman
09 Jan 1994
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The aurora borealis causes the residents of Cicely to swap their dreams, exposing secrets. Maggie has Holling's dream about being...
Mite Makes Right
16 Jan 1994
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A musician tries to stop Maurice from storing, in his safe, a 1.6 million-dollar violin he's just bought as an investment. Maggie...
Hello, I Love You
30 Jan 1994
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Ruth-Anne and Walt take the long way back home when they pick up a couple of oak display cases; however they run into vehicle trou...
Northern Hospitality
27 Feb 1994
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Joel discovers that his friends consider him remiss about entertaining them, so he plans a dinner party; later he worries about po...
Fish Story
13 Mar 1994
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While fishing Joel hooks "Goony," Cicely's fabled sea-monster. Ruth-Anne takes Chris's motorcycle ride when customer demands get t...
A Wing and a Prayer
10 Apr 1994
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Ed tells one person about the fact that he saw Ruth-Anne and Walt together and later she tells him about the relationship but does...
I Feel the Earth Move
01 May 1994
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Ron and Erick are getting married but the preparations are driving them apart. Holling undercuts another caterer for the wedding r...
Grand Prix
08 May 1994
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Ted tries to impress Marilyn with the rich client he's just landed and learns what makes them different. Maurice organizes Cicely'...
Lovers and Madmen
22 May 1994
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Joel is the only one awestruck by his discovery of a frozen woolly mammoth. Chris gets reacquainted with a girl whose beauty he re...
Dinner at Seven-Thirty
18 Sep 1994
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Joel takes a spiritual journey to New York City after drinking orange juice that contains some Indian folk medicine and sees how l...
Eye of the Beholder
25 Sep 1994
41 Views
With Renaldo, Ed participates in an investigation of possible insurance fraud being perpetrated by Hayden Keyes. Maggie & Maurice...
Shofar, So Good
02 Oct 1994
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Maurice's plans for a fox hunt with his visiting English noblewoman must be put on hold when the fox escapes and gets into the pro...
The Letter
09 Oct 1994
36 Views
A letter Maggie wrote to herself as a teenager makes her re-examine her current life against the ideals she had at fifteen. Shelly...
Zarya
30 Oct 1994
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Ed films Marilyn telling the story of a Russian princess and her grandfather. It seems that Lenin and Anastasia arranged to meet i...
Full Upright Position
06 Nov 1994
33 Views
Maurice welcomes his young cousin Maurice to Cicely, hopefully to take over the family business. Charges of static electricity gen...
Sons of the Tundra
27 Nov 1994
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A new doctor and his wife move to Cicely to take over Joel's practice and his house. While settling in, they get to know some quir...
Realpolitik
11 Dec 1994
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Maggie gets elected mayor. Joel invites Phil up river, for a game of golf and a test. Michelle covers Maggie's first city council...
Mi Casa, Su Casa
10 Jan 1995
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Marilyn comes to visit an old friend in the community where Joel is living and he begins to revert to his old ways. Maurice leaves...
Horns
17 Jan 1995
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The state of Alaska admits to Joel that they were wrong in over-extending his contract. With his release secured, Joel returns to...
The Mommy's Curse
31 Jan 1995
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When Maggie's mother and her male friend, who dies, come to visit, she realizes that her luck with men runs in the family. Maurice...
Lucky People
14 Feb 1995
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The citizens get ready to celebrate founders' day; Chris and Maggie open an old garage and uncover Roslyn and Cicely's old Model T...
The Graduate
07 Mar 1995
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Maggie outbids Maurice for the ownership of the town's rundown theater which she begins to run with help of Ed and Heather. When t...
Balls
05 Apr 1995
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Ed resents Maurice's advice about his relationship with Heather. Chris believes that Maggie needs a new bowling partner so he hold...
Buss Stop
23 Apr 1995
33 Views
Michelle decides to mount a stage production of "Bus Stop" unaware of the curse that has plagued past stage productions. Ron helps...
Let's Dance
18 Jul 1995
36 Views
Chris begins taking dance lessons from Marilyn but she disciplines one of her other students into giving him the lessons only she...
In the quirky and enchanting series "Northern Exposure," recent Columbia University medical school graduate Joel Fleischman finds himself embarking on an unexpected journey after receiving a scholarship from the state. His new assignment takes him to the remote and eccentric town of Cicely, Alaska, where the charming yet peculiar locals challenge his urban sensibilities. The show blends humor with heartfelt moments, as Joel navigates the unique customs and idiosyncrasies of the townspeople, all while adjusting to the stunning yet daunting Alaskan wilderness that surrounds him.
As Joel grapples with the ups and downs of small-town life, he faces a central conflict that tests his ideals and aspirations. Torn between his desire to return to the comforts of city living and his growing attachment to the community, he must confront his own biases and the deeper meaning of belonging. With each encounter, from the philosophical musings of the local radio DJ to the warmth of a native Alaskan, Joel's emotional stakes rise, leading him to reevaluate what it truly means to be a doctor—and a part of a community.
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