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Northern Exposure, S1 E1 Pilot

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Northern Exposure S1, E3

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Northern Exposure S1, E3
An old hermit dies, leaving his land jointly to Maggie and Joel, who have radically different ideas about what to do with it. She wants to create a nature preserve, while he has been approached by rich natives who want to buy it. Joel tells Maggie about the offer, but conceals the fact that the natives wish to use it as a tax shelter. Ed tags along as a film crew works on a documentary on the deceased, Dr. Soapy Sanderson.



Northern Exposure S1 E2

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Ed gets Joel to talk to his medicine man uncle (Frank Salsedo). The man is seriously ill, but refuses to seek conventional medical treatment out of a fear of losing face with his patients. Maggie berates Joel for not being able to fix his toilet, calling him helpless. Joel decides to try to fix his shower when the hot water stops working. When Maggie hurts her knee, she goes to Joel, but he gives her a hard time for "being helpless". Chris is fired from the radio station after speaking of poet Walt Whitman's homosexuality on air. Joel makes a house call to Maggie (and makes up with her) after having a talk with Uncle Anku, who takes Joel's medical advice after a talk with his wife.

Northern Exposure, S1, E6

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Shelly turns out not to be pregnant; it was all in her mind. To further complicate her relationship with Holling, her twenty-year-old hockey player husband, Wayne (Brandon Douglas) shows up, looking for a divorce so he can marry her best friend. As they get reacquainted, they begin having second thoughts. Rick (Grant Goodeve) visits Joel for a physical, who finds a growth on Rick's chest. Mindful of the weird, untimely deaths of all of Maggie's other boyfriends, he becomes worried. It turns out to be a false alarm, but Maggie resents Rick's belief in the "O'Connell Curse". Ed has trouble picking a subject for his screenplay. He imagines the other residents in scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Midnight Cowboy before finally taking Joel's advice and writing about what he knows - the inhabitants of Cicely. The episode's title is a takeoff of the Steven Soderbergh film Sex, Lies, and Videotape.


Northern Exposure S1 E5

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Joel's fiancée Elaine (Jessica Lundy) arrives for a visit, only to have the entire town come down with the flu, ruining their time together. In their delirium, the townspeople blame the Russians and eventually the helpless doctor. Marilyn takes it upon herself to prescribe a foul-smelling native remedy that cures everyone, but will not tell anyone of its ingredients. Joel attempts to coax the recipe out of Marilyn, saying they could sell it to a pharmaceutical company, and she could use that money for badly needed tribal aid. In the second of two dream sequences, tribute is paid to Twin Peaks famous waterfall opening scene and other recurring characters and catchphrases of the series.



Northern Exposure S1, E4

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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 entertains a Japanese investor interested in building a resort in Cicely, who takes Joel's advice to add a golf course.

Northern Exposure S1, E8

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The Northern Lights and the mood induced by them cause dreaming to intensify among the residents. Joel hears about "Adam" (Adam Arkin), the local version of Bigfoot. When his truck breaks down one night on a lonely road after a house call, he encounters the mysterious creature, who turns out to be an arrogant hermit living deep in the woods. However, nobody in Cicely believes him. Bernard (Richard Cummings Jr.) shows up. He sold his condo in Portland, bought a motorcycle and rode north without quite knowing why. He and Chris find themselves strangely in tune, even sharing the same dream. They finally learn that they share the same father and the same birthday. Satisfied, Bernard returns to Portland. Joel takes Ed and Maggie into the woods to prove that Adam is real.




Northern Exposure, S1, E7

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Maurice receives word that his brother Malcolm has died, leaving him the last of the Minnifields. He persuades Chris to become his heir and tries to mold him in his own image. Ed informs Holling that Jesse, the bear that nearly killed him, has returned. Holling, Ed, and Shelly try to track it down, but get sidetracked. Joel has to teach a childbearing class in another community. He charters Maggie's plane to take him there; in the time they spend together in the air and in class, they begin to bond. The episode's title is a takeoff of the Eastman Kodak company slogan "a Kodak moment".

Northern Exposure, S3, E3, "Oy, Wilderness"

NORTHERN EXPOSURE, S3, E3, "OY, WILDERNESS"

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Northern Exposure S3, E2, "The Big Kiss"

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Northern Exposure, S3, E5, "Jules et Joel"

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Northern Exposure, S3, E4, "Animals R Us"

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Ed becomes so discouraged, he gives up on the film he has been making, but then starts anew and films the community of Cicely. Maggie comes to believe that a stray dog is the reincarnation of her boyfriend Rick. Maurice sees a business opportunity in Marilyn's ostrich farm.

Northern Exposure, S3, E7, "Roots"

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Northern Exposure, S3, E7, "Roots"Fleischman's ex-fiancée Elaine, who jilted him for a much older man, shows up after the death of her husband, triggering mixed feelings in Maggie. The arrival of Chris's brother Bernard conjures up dreams of Africa in Chris, who declares himself a "person of color" and interprets the dream to mean he should go to Africa. Adam makes another appearance.


Northern Exposure, S3, E6, "The Body in Question"

NORTHERN EXPOSURE, S3, E6, "THE BODY IN QUESTION"

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Northern Exposure, S3, E6, "The Body in Question"
The frozen body of a French soldier is found, along with a diary that claims that Napoleon came to Alaska with the deceased, rather than fight the Battle of Waterloo. Joel gets a visit from the prophet Elijah, and as his disbelief is slowly undermined, he begins to worry that his stay in Cicely is changing him.

Northern Exposure, S3, E9. "Get Real"

NORTHERN EXPOSURE, S3, E9. "GET REAL"

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Northern Exposure, S3, E9. "Get Real"
A small traveling circus troupe is temporarily stranded in Cicely when their bus breaks down, and the silent "Flying Man" (Bill Irwin) takes a fancy to Marilyn. Shelly leaves Holling after he tactlessly notes that she has "inordinately large" feet. Joel studies his medical books with Ed's help.


Northern Exposure, S3, E8, "A-Hunting We Will Go"

NORTHERN EXPOSURE, S3, E8, "A-HUNTING WE WILL GO"

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Northern Exposure, S8, E8, "A-Hunting We Will Go"
Joel is shocked when Maggie shows up with a magnificent deer she has shot. After she berates him for not knowing what he is talking about, he decides to go along on a hunting trip with Holling and Chris. Meanwhile, Ed worries about Ruth-Anne after her injury and finding out that she just turned 75. Ed throws a belated surprise party for Ruth-Anne at The Brick, with some of the food provided by the hunters.

Northern Exposure, S3, E10, "Seoul Mates"

NORTHERN EXPOSURE, S3, E10, "SEOUL MATES"

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Northern Exposure, S3, E10, "Seoul Mates"
The town celebrates the holidays with a Raven pageant, while Maggie dreads going home for the holidays and is publicly relieved (but privately saddened) when her parents instead take a Caribbean vacation. Joel, who is Jewish, feels guilty about getting his first Christmas tree. Holling sings a solo mass for Shelly who is pining for a Christmas service. Maurice is shocked to learn he has a grown Korean son (James Song) (from his Korean War service) when the man, his mother and his son show up unannounced.



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Northern Exposure, S3, E11, "Dateline: Cicely"

NORTHERN EXPOSURE, S3, E11, "DATELINE: CICELY"

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Northern Exposure, S3, E11, "Dateline: Cicely"
Maurice boosts his local newspaper's circulation by hiring Adam as a secret columnist; the first of his articles claims that trees have voices. Maggie hears them, but Joel is characteristically skeptical. Holling offers Chris a partnership in The Brick to raise money to pay off his delinquent tax bill. Chris sets about making changes that increase profits, but also irritate Holling.



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