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Episodes: All (110)  |  With full-length videos ()  |  With videos ()  | See all videos (2) »

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6
Year: 1990  |  1991  |  1992  |  1993  |  1994  |  1995


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date—12 July 1990
A doctor from New York City adjusts to life in a rural town in Alaska.

Season 1, Episode 2: Brains, Know-How and Native Intelligence

Original Air Date—19 July 1990
Dr. Joel Fleischman slowly starts accepting his desperately desolate fate, despite a defective shower leaving him to choose between swallowing his pride in order to get Maggie's plumbing help or bathing in the utterly icy lake. Popular DJ Chris Stevens' 'irreverent' comments on even Walt Whitman get him sacked from Maurice's radio K-Bear, but the boss soon offends everyone else in Cecily. Ed Chigliak's suave way gets reluctant Joel to make confusing house-calls on Ed's uncle, paradoxical medicine man Anku, who treats Joel to a Kentucky takeaway, traditional dancing and a sauna but refuses to be treated for his fatal cancer.

Season 1, Episode 3: Soapy Sanderson

Original Air Date—26 July 1990
Dr. Joel Fleischman is depressed when grumpy old patient Soapy Sanderson completely ignores his medical advice, and is stunned when he and Maggie are named joint executors of his 140 acres forest estate where only wolves live. Maggie wants to turn it into a nature reserve, however un-required it is in this part of Alaska. Joel is rather tempted by the Indian chief Ronkomkoma's idea to turn it into a tax shelter by formally drilling for oil which everybody knows isn't there, hoping it may pay his way back to New York. Later Joel learns Soapy was a spirituality college professor for 20 years. Soapy also left them a $200 Lafitte-Latour for their trouble, which nearly works a romantic wonder, and a journal. Meanwhile the press gets interested.

Season 1, Episode 4: Dreams, Schemes and Putting Greens

Original Air Date—2 August 1990
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 and Fleischman entertain a Japanese investor interested in building a resort in Cicely.

Season 1, Episode 5: Russian Flu

Original Air Date—9 August 1990
Dr. Joel Fleischman has his hands full when his fiancé Elaine flies to Cicely for a visit. He becomes so busy trying to defend himself against the townspeople's charges that he is a KGB agent releasing the Russian flu upon them and competing with Marilyn over the best treatment for the illness, that he has no time to spend with his betrothed. Instead Maggie, entertains Elaine, which only further annoys Joel.

Season 1, Episode 6: Sex, Lies and Ed's Tapes

Original Air Date—16 August 1990
There's much to deal with in Cicely when Shelly's husband arrives with the hopes of taking her back to Saskatchewan, much to the astonishment of Holling. Furthermore, Maggie's boyfriend fears he will soon die as the next victim of the O'Connell curse and Ed searches for inspiration while working on his movie script.

Season 1, Episode 7: A Kodiak Moment

Original Air Date—23 August 1990
Hearing his brother and only surviving fellow Minnifeld died, Maurice looks for a 'son' to adopt. After Joel declines, he gets Chris to try, but although generosity gets them through the hard stuff, a game of croquet proves you can't adopt 'breeding'. When Ed tells Holling Jesse that the fiercest grizzly, who caused him to stop hunting anything else, is back, Shelly insists on joining them on a hunt which shows that although the men are older, the bear still knows them. Joel is asked to attend a hygiene class, but when he arrives learns it's for expectant mothers, which Maggie makes him improvise.

Season 1, Episode 8: Aurora Borealis: A Fairy Tale for Big People

Original Air Date—30 August 1990

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Goodbye to All That

Original Air Date—8 April 1991
The townspeople try to cheer up Joel after his fiancee dumps him.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Big Kiss

Original Air Date—15 April 1991
An Indian spirit advises Ed on finding his parents and Chris on regaining his voice.

Season 2, Episode 3: All Is Vanity

Original Air Date—22 April 1991
Maggie purports Joel to be her boyfriend to gain her father's approval; Holling comes to a very personal decision.

Season 2, Episode 4: What I Did for Love

Original Air Date—29 April 1991
A charming replacement and Maggie's premonition of death make Joel reconsider his trip to New York.

Season 2, Episode 5: Spring Break

Original Air Date—6 May 1991
Holling picks fights with patrons; Ed seeks a once-a-year kleptomaniac; Maurice falls for a trooper.

Season 2, Episode 6: War and Peace

Original Air Date—13 May 1991
Everyone except Maurice welcomes a vacationing Russian; Holling has nightmares; Ed falls in love.

Season 2, Episode 7: Slow Dance

Original Air Date—20 May 1991
Rick's death by falling satellite further enhances Maggie's reputation; Maurice meets prospective hoteliers.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: The Bumpy Road to Love

Original Air Date—23 September 1991

Season 3, Episode 2: Only You

Original Air Date—30 September 1991

Season 3, Episode 3: Oy, Wilderness

Original Air Date—7 October 1991

Season 3, Episode 4: Animals R Us

Original Air Date—14 October 1991

Season 3, Episode 5: Jules et Joel

Original Air Date—28 October 1991

Season 3, Episode 6: The Body in Question

Original Air Date—4 November 1991

Season 3, Episode 7: Roots

Original Air Date—11 November 1991

Season 3, Episode 8: A-Hunting We Will Go

Original Air Date—18 November 1991

Season 3, Episode 9: Get Real

Original Air Date—9 December 1991

Season 3, Episode 10: Seoul Mates

Original Air Date—16 December 1991

Season 3, Episode 11: Dateline: Cicely

Original Air Date—6 January 1992

Season 3, Episode 12: Our Tribe

Original Air Date—13 January 1992

Season 3, Episode 13: Things Become Extinct

Original Air Date—20 January 1992

Season 3, Episode 14: Burning Down the House

Original Air Date—3 February 1992

Season 3, Episode 15: Democracy in America

Original Air Date—24 February 1992

Season 3, Episode 16: The Three Amigos

Original Air Date—2 March 1992

Season 3, Episode 17: Lost and Found

Original Air Date—9 March 1992

Season 3, Episode 18: My Mother, My Sister

Original Air Date—16 March 1992
Shelly's mom (who prefers to be known as Shelly's YOUNGER sister) surprises her with a visit, boasting about her new main squeeze, a really young Army man.

Season 3, Episode 19: Wake Up Call

Original Air Date—23 March 1992

Season 3, Episode 20: The Final Frontier

Original Air Date—27 April 1992

Season 3, Episode 21: It Happened in Juneau

Original Air Date—4 May 1992

Season 3, Episode 22: Our Wedding

Original Air Date—11 May 1992

Season 3, Episode 23: Cicely

Original Air Date—18 May 1992

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Northwest Passages

Original Air Date—28 September 1992

Season 4, Episode 2: Midnight Sun

Original Air Date—5 October 1992

Season 4, Episode 3: Nothing's Perfect

Original Air Date—12 October 1992

Season 4, Episode 4: Heroes

Original Air Date—19 October 1992

Season 4, Episode 5: Blowing Bubbles

Original Air Date—2 November 1992

Season 4, Episode 6: On Your Own

Original Air Date—9 November 1992

Season 4, Episode 7: The Bad Seed

Original Air Date—16 November 1992

Season 4, Episode 8: Thanksgiving

Original Air Date—23 November 1992

Season 4, Episode 9: Do the Right Thing

Original Air Date—30 November 1992

Season 4, Episode 10: Crime and Punishment

Original Air Date—14 December 1992

Season 4, Episode 11: Survival of the Species

Original Air Date—4 January 1993

Season 4, Episode 12: Revelations

Original Air Date—11 January 1993

Season 4, Episode 13: Duets

Original Air Date—18 January 1993

Season 4, Episode 14: Grosse Pointe, 48230

Original Air Date—1 February 1993

Season 4, Episode 15: Learning Curve

Original Air Date—8 February 1993
Holling decides to finish high school; Marilyn goes to Seattle on vacation.

Season 4, Episode 16: Ill Wind

Original Air Date—15 February 1993

Season 4, Episode 17: Love's Labour Mislaid

Original Air Date—22 February 1993

Season 4, Episode 18: Northern Lights

Original Air Date—1 March 1993

Season 4, Episode 19: Family Feud

Original Air Date—8 March 1993

Season 4, Episode 20: Homesick

Original Air Date—15 March 1993

Season 4, Episode 21: The Big Feast

Original Air Date—22 March 1993
Dr. Fleischman is troubled when he doesn't receive an invitation to a big party for Maurice that the whole town is attending. Shelly accidentally breaks a bottle of wine worth several thousand dollars.

Season 4, Episode 22: Kaddish, for Uncle Manny

Original Air Date—3 May 1993

Season 4, Episode 23: Mud and Blood

Original Air Date—10 May 1993

Season 4, Episode 24: Sleeping with the Enemy

Original Air Date—17 May 1993

Season 4, Episode 25: Old Tree

Original Air Date—24 May 1993

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Three Doctors

Original Air Date—20 September 1993

Season 5, Episode 2: The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop

Original Air Date—27 September 1993

Season 5, Episode 3: Jaws of Life

Original Air Date—4 October 1993

Season 5, Episode 4: Altered Egos

Original Air Date—11 October 1993

Season 5, Episode 5: A River Doesn't Run Through It

Original Air Date—25 October 1993

Season 5, Episode 6: Birds of a Feather

Original Air Date—1 November 1993

Season 5, Episode 7: Rosebud

Original Air Date—8 November 1993

Season 5, Episode 8: Heal Thyself

Original Air Date—15 November 1993

Season 5, Episode 9: A Cup of Joe

Original Air Date—22 November 1993

Season 5, Episode 10: First Snow

Original Air Date—13 December 1993

Season 5, Episode 11: Baby Blues

Original Air Date—3 January 1994

Season 5, Episode 12: Mr. Sandman

Original Air Date—10 January 1994

Season 5, Episode 13: Mite Makes Right

Original Air Date—17 January 1994

Season 5, Episode 14: A Bolt from the Blue

Original Air Date—24 January 1994

Season 5, Episode 15: Hello, I Love You

Original Air Date—31 January 1994

Season 5, Episode 16: Northern Hospitality

Original Air Date—28 February 1994

Season 5, Episode 17: Una Volta in L'Inverno

Original Air Date—7 March 1994

Season 5, Episode 18: Fish Story

Original Air Date—14 March 1994

Season 5, Episode 19: The Gift of the Maggie

Original Air Date—28 March 1994

Season 5, Episode 20: A Wing and a Prayer

Original Air Date—11 April 1994

Season 5, Episode 21: I Feel the Earth Move

Original Air Date—2 May 1994

Season 5, Episode 22: Grand Prix

Original Air Date—9 May 1994

Season 5, Episode 23: Blood Ties

Original Air Date—16 May 1994

Season 5, Episode 24: Lovers and Madmen

Original Air Date—23 May 1994

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Dinner at Seven Thirty

Original Air Date—19 September 1994

Season 6, Episode 2: Eye of the Beholder

Original Air Date—26 September 1994

Season 6, Episode 3: Shofar, So Good

Original Air Date—3 October 1994

Season 6, Episode 4: The Letter

Original Air Date—10 October 1994

Season 6, Episode 5: The Robe

Original Air Date—17 October 1994

Season 6, Episode 6: Zarya

Original Air Date—31 October 1994

Season 6, Episode 7: Full Upright Position

Original Air Date—7 November 1994

Season 6, Episode 8: Up River

Original Air Date—14 November 1994

Season 6, Episode 9: Sons of the Tundra

Original Air Date—28 November 1994

Season 6, Episode 10: Realpolitik

Original Air Date—15 December 1994

Season 6, Episode 11: The Great Mushroom

Original Air Date—4 January 1995

Season 6, Episode 12: Mi Casa, Su Casa

Original Air Date—11 January 1995

Season 6, Episode 13: Horns

Original Air Date—18 January 1995

Season 6, Episode 14: The Mommy's Curse

Original Air Date—1 February 1995

Season 6, Episode 15: The Quest

Original Air Date—8 February 1995

Season 6, Episode 16: Lucky People

Original Air Date—15 February 1995

Season 6, Episode 17: The Graduate

Original Air Date—8 March 1995

Season 6, Episode 18: Little Italy

Original Air Date—15 March 1995

Season 6, Episode 19: Balls

Original Air Date—4 June 1995

Season 6, Episode 20: Buss Stop

Original Air Date—24 April 1995

Season 6, Episode 21: Ursa Minor

Original Air Date—12 July 1995

Season 6, Episode 22: Let's Dance

Original Air Date—19 July 1995

Season 6, Episode 23: Tranquility Base

Original Air Date—26 July 1995

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