Northern Exposure

Cicely's residents take care of Joel (Rob Morrow) when he comes down with a violent Alaskan flu; Ed (Darren E. Burrows) faces a difficult decision about a career change.

Maggie (Janine Turner) turns sleuth to investigate the owners of the local antique store; Maurice (Barry Corbin) is afraid of growing old.

The residents are unnerved by the annual visit by the mobile dentist; a wax museum's likeness of Maurice is so lifelike that it disturbs everyone.

Bernard arrives with his new girlfriend and learns that Chris used to live with her; Marilyn begins choosing her dates based on their medical history.

Maurice (Barry Corbin) tries to outsmart a wealthy American Indian landowner (Apesanahkwat) when making a property deal.

Joel (Rob Morrow) is surprised when his know-it-all father and chatty mother (David Margulies, Joanna Merlin) visit Cicely and immediately fit right in.

Ed faces a career crisis when he helps Maurice organize the Cicely film festival; Joel finds excuses for not joining the volunteer fire department.

After his first successful healing experience as a shaman, Ed confronts a demon; Shelly is upset when Holling jokes during Lamaze classes.

Ruth-Anne and Holling's (Peg Phillips, John Cullum) friendship is strained when they learn his grandfather ate hers to survive the great blizzard of 1897; Chris (John Corbett) learns to fly.

As Cicely prepares for winter, Joel is puzzled and disturbed when an elderly but healthy patient informs him that it is her time to die.

After hearing about the horrors of childbirth at her baby shower, Shelly (Cynthia Geary) escapes to the woods; a Hollywood agent wants Ed (Darren E. Burrows) to change his script.

Personal secrets are revealed when the northern lights cause the citizens of Cicely to experience one another's dreams.

Maurice (Barry Corbin) is stalked by a musician (Simon Templeman) whom he hired to help him decide whether to buy an expensive violin as an investment.

When a local ranger (Jimmie Ray Weeks) is fired and refuses to leave his tower, Joel (Rob Morrow) is asked to talk him down.

As Shelly (Cynthia Geary) goes into labor, she undertakes a spiritual journey and glimpses various points in her child's future.

Joel reluctantly plans a party after learning that his friends think he does not reciprocate invitations; a song on Chris' radio show causes trouble.

Joel and Maggie's (Rob Morrow, Janine Turner) romantic interlude in a secluded cabin during a storm is interrupted by Ed (Darren E. Burrows).

Joel's (Rob Morrow) fishing trip comes to a strange end when he attempts to reel in Cicely's infamous sea monster.

Joel (Rob Morrow) is annoyed when Maggie (Janine Turner) flies in another doctor to ``talk shop'' with him; Maurice (Barry Corbin) stays with Holling and Shelly (John Cullum, Cynthia Geary).

Maggie (Janine Turner) asks Maurice (Barry Corbin) to help her build an ultralight plane, then fires him when he tries to take over.

Maggie (Janine Turner) believes Joel's (Rob Morrow) kindness is making her sick to her stomach; Holling (John Cullum) runs into trouble when he attempts to cater Ron and Erick's (Doug Ballard, Don McManus) wedding.

When Ed's attempts to cure a wheelchair racer of tennis elbow go awry, he is again plagued by the taunting little green man.

Maurice turns a blood drive into a competition with another town while Joel loses his ability to draw blood; one of Maggie's surviving boyfriends visits.

Maurice (Barry Corbin) has Cal (Simon Templeman), the violinist, illegally released from the sanitarium to help him romance Officer Semanski (Diane Delano).

Marilyn thinks her grandfather's story about escorting a Russian princess to secret talks with Lenin has something to do with her leg pain.