Northern Exposure is an American Northern comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska , that ran on CBS from July 12, , to July 26, , with a total of episodes. The Northern Lights 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. 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 try to prove that Adam is real, but finds only pieces of a garlic press. Contents move to sidebar hide.
Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. For other uses, see Cup of Joe disambiguation. Series overview [ edit ]. Season Episodes Originally released First released Last released 1 8 July 12, August 30, 2 7 April 8, May 20, 3 23 September 23, May 18, 4 25 September 28, May 24, 5 24 September 20, May 23, 6 23 September 19, July 26, Episodes [ edit ].
Season 1 [ edit ]. Joel Fleischman arrives in Alaska and is informed that due to a surplus of doctors, instead of working in a modern hospital in Anchorage , he will be the sole doctor in the remote village of Cicely for the next four years, the service he owes as payment for his student loan. He tries frantically to get out of the assignment before realizing the penalties are too steep. Many of the main characters are introduced. 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.
