Box set: Northern Exposure All The Seasons
| Release Date | 2011 |
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Northern Exposure: Season 5
Universal Television (1993)
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#1132
Plot
Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) graduated from Columbia University medical school where he attended thanks to a scholarship from the state of Alaska. Though he was slated to work in Anchorage, instead he gets assigned to be the General Practitioner of the tiny Alaskan town, Cicely, to pay for his education. The location is remote, the people are weird and quirky, and Joel wants to return to New York. The show thrived on the "will they or won't they" dynamic between Fleischman and Janine Turner's Maggie O'Connell.Cast
| Doug Ballard | Ronald Arthur Bantz | |
| Darren E. Burrows | Ed Chigliak | |
| Janine Turner | Mary-Margaret "Maggie" O'Connell | |
| Cynthia Geary | Shelly Tambo | |
| Barry Corbin | Maurice Minnifield |
Crew
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Episodes
Disc 01
Ed wakes up in strange places with no clues about how he got there. Joel contracts ""glacier dropsy"" which gives him the feeling of pins pricking his nose, a fear of shrimp, a tender groin and other strange symptoms. Shelly loses her singing voice just when she needs it. Leonard treats Joel's patients and Ed's ""sleep flying"" which maybe and indication of a greater purpose.Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: Andrew Schneider / Diane Frolov
Guest starring: Douglas Dirkson, Al Denbeste, Scott LaRose
Maggie investigates the owners of an antique shop who are exhibiting strange behavior. Maurice begins to see the signs of age when he is called a senior citizen, meets old friends who've seen better days, and has a mild heart attack. Joel discovers that a Yiddish word is in the local Indian language and that a Jewish man may have had an influence in Alaska two hundred years before.Director: Michael Fresco
Writer: Rogers Turrentine
Guest starring: Brandy Black, Traci Martinson, Wren Walker, Bob Morrisey, Lori Larsen, Ashley Rey, Eric Gustavson, Micole Mercurio, Douglas Rowe
Maurice is chosen to be a wax figure at Madame Tussaud's, in London, for their rugged individualist's exhibit. Chris is faced with having to live longer than he planned on, a consequence he has trouble dealing with. The dentist comes to town, which puts everyone on edge.Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Mitchell Burgess / Robin Green
Guest starring: Jill Baskin, Jerry-Mac Johnston, Clark Sandford, Angela Featherstone, Brian George, Jay O. Sanders
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 New York edge. Marilyn screens her potential dates via their medical records.Director: John David Coles
Writer: Jeff Melvoin
Guest starring: Josh Parks, Ray G. Thunderchild, Ronald Hunter, Tim Sampson, Lisa Darr
Disc 02
Maggie is asked by the three guys in Cicely's high school senior class to be their homecoming queen and she accepts. Ruth-Anne faces an IRS auditor who besides trying to figure out her practice of accepting goods and services for payment is undergoing stress from her own marital problems. Maurice tries to outsmart a wealthy American Indian in a land deal. Joel is stuck out in the wilderness without his tape recorder.Director: Nick Marck
Writer: Jeff Melvoin
Guest starring: Steve Barrientes, David Lovine, Keith Jacobs, Anthony Colinares, August Kelley, Sue Morales, Wally Dalton, Jack Black, Anne DeSalvo
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. Holling's dislike of sports causes Shelly to ponder their baby's athletic future and his stature among the men of Cicely.Director: Mark Horowitz
Writer: Mitchell Burgess / Robin Green
Guest starring: Frank Dartt, Clark Sandford, Joanna Merlin, David Margulies
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 things going to Maurice's satisfaction. Joel makes excuses for why he can't join the volunteer fire department and goes on the offensive when his truck bursts into flames and the volunteers are nowhere to be found. Leonard becomes frustrated as he researches the healing properties found in white folklore.Director: Michael Fresco
Writer: Barbara Hall
Guest starring: Peggy O'Connell, Bob Verkes, Cliff Lenderman, Peter Bogdanovich
Ed accompanies Leonard on a house call and has success with his first try at being a shaman. Joel teaches a childbirth class which Holling finds amusing and makes Shelly embarrassed and causes another couple to break up. Maggie buys a new washer/dryer combination but regrets it later when she loses the camaraderie of the Laundromat. Ed is visited by a small green man whose purpose is to make him begin to doubt his healing abilities.Director: Michael Katleman
Writer: Andrew Schneider / Diane Frolov
Guest starring: David Lovine, D. Martin Pera, Alix Koromzay, Jared Rushton, Phil Fondacaro, Kimberly Norris
Disc 03
Chris suffers an anxiety attack during the written part of the exam, when he decides to become a pilot. Holling and Ruth-Anne's friendship undergoes a strain when a diary that Ed has found shows that his grandfather ate hers during the blizzard of 1897. Joel is in search the thief of forty dollars in petty cash.Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Mitchell Burgess / Robin Green
Guest starring: William Salyers
As the town prepares for winter, a healthy elderly patient tells Joel she is dying, much to his disbelief. Maggie decides to redecorate her house before winter sets in and gets a new chair that no one seems to like. Holling must figure out how many plots to dig at the cemetery before the ground freezes. Shelly lies to Maurice about never saying she loved him and she thinks her nose has begun to grow because of it.Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: Andrew Schneider / Diane Frolov
Guest starring: Sylvia Scott, Dominic J. DeLeo, Rich Hawkins, Harriet Medin
An agent stops by to see Ed about his idea for ""The Shaman"" but he wants a few ""little"" changes made to better sell the script. Chris seeks to discover his feminine side. Joel and Maggie ""discuss"" motherhood. Shelly flees her baby shower as all the pressures of motherhood begin to show themselves to her, when Eve and others tell their child birthing experiences.Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Barbara Hall
Guest starring: Peggy O'Connell, Pamela Kosh, Jillian Armenante, Therese Tinling, Regina King, Donal Logue
The aurora borealis causes the residents of Cicely to swap their dreams, exposing secrets. Maggie has Holling's dream about being a cab driver in Quebec, driving his overbearing father around. Ron has Maurice's dream about blue pumps. Joel sleepwalks in search of candy, having a child's dream. Holling has Dave's dream about kayaking with a spatula. Walt has someone's dream (Joel's?) about climbing a never ending tower.Director: David Chase / Andrew Schneider
Writer: Andrew Schneider / Diane Frolov
Guest starring: Alyce LaTourelle, Carole Jean Anderson, David Pichette, Delia Sheppard, Clement Von Franckenstein
Disc 04
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 becomes obsessed with ridding her house of dust mites after she develops an allergy to them. Chris struggles to find inspiration for his latest sculpture. Joel and Maggie have their first date, which ends early because of talk about things microscopic.Director: Michael Vittes
Writer: Andrew Schneider / Diane Frolov
Guest starring: A. Michael Lerner, Patrick Ryals, Angelique Von Halle, Andreas Renell, Jack Kehler, Simon Templeman
The ranger from up in the fire tower asks for Joel when he is distraught over losing his current job. Joel talks him down, but after 15 years of being alone he needs time to adjust. Adam ruins Maurice's plans for a President's Day fireworks show because the guys running the display are there to ""get him."" While out on a fishing trip with Chris, Ed is struck by lightning and becomes depressed while thinking about why.Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Jeff Melvoin
Guest starring: George Catalano, Cliff Lenderman, Ron Perkins, John LaMotta, Jimmie Ray Weeks
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 trouble. Before giving birth, Shelly goes on a spiritual journey at the Laundromat and meets up with ""The Pooper"" at different stages of her life. Joel and Maggie get frustrated as they try too hard at making a go of their relationship.Director: Michael Fresco
Writer: Mitchell Burgess / Robin Green
Guest starring: Rod Pilloud, Colton D. Jones, Lindsay Parker, Maureen Flannigan, Kaley Cuoco
Joel discovers that his friends consider him remiss about entertaining them, so he plans a dinner party; later he worries about potential food poisoning. Holling tells Shelly that he is not a Canadian citizen, which makes her worry about not having national health care for ""The Pooper."" Chris ""comes to realize the power of this thing (microphone),"" when a listener kills himself after hearing one of his selections, so he revises the play list. Shelly takes ""The Pooper"" back to Canada and Holling goes after them.Director: Oz Scott
Writer: Barbara Hall
Guest starring: James L. Dunn, Krisha Fairchild, Craig Huisenga, Susan Connors, Burke Pearson, Bruce Baum, Rita Taggart, Ocean Hellman
Disc 05
Ruth-Anne tries learning Italian, so she can read Dante, and gets some help from Shelly. Walt needs sunlight to overcome his depression, so he gets his light glasses and becomes addicted, so Chris & Holling perform an intervention. Caribou block Main Street, so the mayor takes action. While waiting out a storm in the airport cabin with Maggie, everything is going Joel's way, until Ed shows up.Director: Michael Vittes
Writer: Jeff Melvoin
Guest starring: Chris Stephenson, Harry Pringle, Karen Johnson-Miller, Piper Henry, Pamella Inveen, Diedre Kilgore, Cindy Lu, Rita Taggart
While fishing Joel hooks ""Goony,"" Cicely's fabled sea-monster. Ruth-Anne takes Chris's motorcycle ride when customer demands get to be too much for her, then she joins a middle-aged motorcycle gang for a midnight ride. Holling gives up on his paint-by-numbers after Maurice ridicules his work. Joel meets his Rabbi in the middle of the lake after ""Goony"" takes him for a ride. The town, especially Maurice, demand action when it appears Ruth-Anne may not be coming back.Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: Jeff Melvoin
Guest starring: Haynes Brooke, Amy Caton-Ford, Marsha Stuekle Neal, Sharon Galloway, John Fleck, Mickey Jones, Jerry Adler, Stephen McHattie
Maurice's home catches fire and after it's extinguished there is a danger of asbestos, so he takes some space at Holling and Shelly's place. Later when Holling won't accept any remuneration he becomes outraged. Chris chooses not to shoot a buck when he has an easy shot; he later seeks out the deer again when he receives a bottle of Buckhorn whiskey for his trouble. Joel makes a medical discovery but has no other physicians to share his good news with, so Maggie brings another doctor to town that he can talk shop with.Director: Patrick McKee
Writer: Mitchell Burgess / Robin Green
Guest starring: Carol Rave, Kia Sian, Fred Applegate
Ed tells one person about the fact that he saw Ruth-Anne and Walt together and later she tells him about the relationship but doesn't want it to get around so he'd better keep quiet, but it slips out. Maggie hires Maurice to help her with the construction of an ultra-light, but fires him when his meticulous details take the project over. Shelly worries about Holling's relationship with the priest that's come to town to baptize Randi.Director: Lorraine Senna Ferrara
Writer: Mitchell Burgess / Robin Green
Guest starring: Robert Wright, Chenoa Egawa, Ryan O'Neill, Marianne Jones, Gary Taylor, Daniel Collins, Tom Mason
Disc 06
Ron and Erick are getting married but the preparations are driving them apart. Holling undercuts another caterer for the wedding reception, but when he realizes the cost of the ingredients, for the dishes they want, he tries a few substitutions. Maggie thinks that Joel's kindness is making her ill. Maurice tries to duck out of the wedding. Marilyn is taking a writing class and keeping a journal, which Joel worries about the content regarding him.
Ted tries to impress Marilyn with the rich client he's just landed and learns what makes them different. Maurice organizes Cicely's 1st International wheelchair race and demands too much from the contestant he is sponsoring. Ed prescribes a remedy for a racer with tennis elbow, but the little green man returns to try to undermine his confidence in his healing abilities.Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Barbara Hall
Guest starring: Jacob Heilveil, Vernon Joe, Raymond Gendrin, Keith Egawa, Dennis Bateman, Craig Blanchette, Markus Flanagan, Ben Reed, Dave McSwain, Phil Fondacaro, Tim Sampson, Kristine Kirsten
Though he promotes it on the air, Chris has reservations about making a donation for Maurice's blood drive. Ed discovers his rare blood type is shared by another person in town, so he hires a P.I., Renaldo Pinetree, to dig into her past and find out if she is her mother. Maggie's old ""tiller mate"" from Grosse Pointe comes to Cicely after her affections and he offers Joel the incentive to leave Cicely for good. Joel loses his touch for drawing blood as Cicely nears the amount Maurice needs to win his bet with a neighboring town.Director: Thomas R. Moore
Writer: Mitchell Burgess / Robin Green
Guest starring: Charlotte Eve London, Sharon Collar, Barbara Dirickson, Don S. Davis, Ronald G. Joseph, D. David Morin
Joel is the only one awestruck by his discovery of a frozen woolly mammoth. Chris gets reacquainted with a girl whose beauty he remembers from high school; however, when she arrives, all is not as he recalled and she appears to be getting uglier. Maurice has a birthday dinner surprise for Barbara complete with the violin playing of the man who blew up his truck. The next morning he escapes. Joel concedes that he's become a Cicelian.Director: James Hayman
Writer: Jeff Melvoin
Guest starring: Mary Sabetto, Bob Morrisey, Wayne Pére, Darlene Vogel, Carol Barbee, Simon Templeman
Edition Details
| Edition | Complete Box Set |
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| Series | Northern Exposure |
| Release Date | 22/01/2007 |
| Packaging | Custom Case |
| Screen Ratio | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Layers | Single Side, Dual Layer |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 6 |
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Features
| Disc 01 | Interactive menus, Scene access, Bonus footage, Deleted scenes |
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