Distributor:
Universal Region 1 NTSC
6 hours 24 Minutes
Cast: Rob Morrow, Janine
Turner, Elaine Miles, John Cullum, John Corbett
Extras: Yes
When
Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow)
graduates from Medical school he
has to spend four years working
for the state of Alaska who had
financed his medical education,
what he doesn't know is that
instead of being based in big
city Anchorage he has to work in
the tiny town of Cicely
(population 813) after its only
doctor dies. This of course is a
huge culture shock to
Fleischman, a New Yorker through
and through, not only that but
Cicely is choc full of quirky
characters such as President of
the Chamber of Commerce Maurice
Minnifield (Barry Corbin), The
Brock Tavern owner Holling
Vincouer (John Cullum), town DJ
Chris "in the morning"
Stevens (JOhn Corbett) and
Joel's new receptionist, the
monosyllabic Marilyn Whirlwind
(Elaine Miles).
One
glimpse of sanity on the horizon is provided by air taxi pilot Maggie
O'Connell (Janine Turner), whose previous five boyfriends have all had
calamities befall them, and with whom Joel has a real love-hate
relationship.
Greatly
entertaining Northern Exposure was certainly one of the better series of
the early nineties and is still very fresh today. Funny, quirky and
engaging, sharing a similar sensibility with shows such as Twin Peaks
and Due South. This first series of 8 episodes (on two double sided
discs) obviously concentrates on setting up the series premise and
introducing the characters, in fact Fleischman spends the first few
episodes doing his best to get out of his contract and is very much the
fish out of water;
Definitely
a cut above and with its very funky packaging (one of the best we've yet
seen, the DVD comes with it's own orange parka, complete with Moose
zipper) Northern Exposure is definitely one to add to your classic TV
collection.
EXTRAS:
There is a full hour of never seen before scenes, including deleted
scenes from every episode and various bloopers.
