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- FAQ Information:
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- Last-modified: 1996/3/15
-
- Frequently Asked Questions List for "Northern Exposure"
- and the Usenet newsgroup alt.tv.northern-exp
-
- =======================================================================
-
- Abbreviations used in this document:
- NX = Northern Exposure
-
- =======================================================================
-
- Table of Contents:
-
- I. FAQ-related stuff:
- A. Legal stuff and all that jazz
- B. Related documents
- C. About this newsgroup
- D. Other services
- E. Internet sites
-
- II. What was NX?
-
- II. Character information
- A. Characters and their histories
- B. Characters in episode "Cicely"
- C. Who played the flying man?
-
- IV. Music Used in NX
- A. Northern Exposure CD (U.S. version)
- B. Northern Exposure soundtrack (German version)
- C. If We All Go Insane [Spring Break]
- D. Toy Cows [Roots]
- E. Piano tuner piece [Duets]
- F. Turkey In The Straw [Learning Curve]
- G. Ebudae [Northern Lights]
- H. This Must Be The Place [Dinner at 7:30]
- I. Forever Night Shade Mary [The Quest]
- J. Our Town [Tranquility Base]
- K. Ruth-Anne's dance on her grave [A-Hunting We Will Go]
-
- V. Literature Used in NX
- A. NX books
-
- VI. Various Miscellaneous Stuff
- A. How did the town of Cicely get its name?
- B. Other facts about Cicely
- C. Which characters are gay/lesbian?
- D. How long was Joel in Cicely?
- E. Why are there no children in the show?
- F. Where is NX filmed?
- G. The fling thing
- H. How have the various boyfriends of Maggie O'Connell met their deaths?
- I. Legends
- J. Related shows and films
- K. Satellite feed times
- L. Syndication information
- M. NX Merchandise
- N. Dedication
- 0. Videos
- p. Voice-Overs & Other Roles
- Q. Did Cynthia Geary do her own singing?
- R. Contacts
-
- =======================================================================
-
- FAQ-related stuff
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Legal stuff and all that jazz
-
- "Northern Exposure" is a trademark of Universal City Studios, Inc. All
- Rights Reserved.
-
- Guarantees cannot be made for the accuracy of any of the information in
- this document. If you wish to flame me for my lack of knowledge, please
- do so only if you can also provide me with the correct information. I
- have tried not to influence the information in this document with my own
- opinions, but I can't guarantee that I've been entirely successful.
-
- Included are references to episodes where facts in this document were
- revealed, based on the episode titles in the Episode Guide by Andy
- Bates and Kimiye Tipton. Episode titles are listed in [] after a particular
- reference.
-
- This FAQ, as a collection of information, is Copyright (c) 1996 by
- Sharon Crichton <sharonc@lexis-nexis.com>. All Rights Reserved. The
- removal of this copyright notice is forbidden.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Related documents
-
- Two companion documents to the FAQ are the Northern Exposure Episode
- Guide and the Northern Exposure Music Guide. The Episode Guide was
- originally authored by Andy Bates and finished by Kimiye Tipton <kimi@
- gate.net>. The very brief Music Guide was published by Andy.
-
- The quotes list for the show, previously maintained by Erin Sasaki
- <usagi@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> was given to Cliff Chen <cliff@eniac.seas.
- upenn.edu>. The list at the FTP site is up to date as of episode 4.19,
- "Family Feud." If you would like information on the list, please contact
- Cliff.
-
- The trebuchet mailing list has been laid to rest, due to lack of activity
- on the list, and claims that life has on the moderator, Lee Groves.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- About this newsgroup
-
- alt.tv.northern-exp was created in the fall of 1992. If you are sending a
- message to the group for the first time, we ask only that you send a message
- that is appropriate for the group and that it is not insulting, flaming, or
- trolling (see alt.folklore.urban for examples and explanations of trolling.)
- It also helps to read the group for a few weeks until you get the general
- feel of the group.
-
- Please refrain from using this newsgroup for personal messages.
- Remember that a post without any explicit distribution usually defaults
- to "world" in most news software. This newsgroup is not to be used for
- commercial purposes. And please don't post to "remind" us that it's
- only a TV show and that we need to get a life. We already know that and
- most of us already have one, thank you very much :-)
-
- A note on spamming: if anyone spams Usenet, including our group, please
- do not followup to the article. Rest assured that the FAQ author, as well
- as thousands of other Usenet readers, will be replying immediately to the
- postmaster at the offending user's site. If you see a spam show up in
- our group, hop over to news.admin.misc to see what happens to the little
- bugger. If you don't know what spamming is, it's the posting of the same
- article to multiple newsgroups (usually every newsgroup) regardless of
- the appropriateness of the topic. Previous spams have included "Make
- Money Fast," "Global Warning For All: Jesus is Coming", the infamous
- Skinny Dip advertisement, and the scum lawyers at Canter and Siegel with
- their Green Card lottery advertisements. When someone spams, chances are
- they will not read our group to see your witty followups. Although a
- large core dump placed in their incoming mail will do nicely :-)
-
- Picket Fences now has an alt group - alt.tv.picket-fences. If anyone
- continues to post about that show, please direct them to the proper area.
- If anyone is wondering why fans of that show would post here, remember
- that Picket Fences was compared to NX when it first began, just as NX
- was compared to Twin Peaks.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Other services
-
- (Do these groups still exist? If anyone knows, please let me know.)
-
- Compuserve has "Showbiz" in Section 4, TV. No preset meeting times.
-
- Delphi has a bi-weekly chat session on NX. They meet at Saturdays at
- and Tuesdays at 10:00pm (both EST time). If you wish to join them,
- type GO GRO TV CONF at the Main menu prompt.
-
- Prodigy - There is a group called the Mooseketeers that gets together on
- the TV bulletin board. No preset meeting times.
-
- IRC - Some people are chatting on #thebrick, Wednesday 10:00pm (EST).
- Whoever gets there 1st sets up the channel.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Internet sites
-
- There are all kinds of sites around the globe with NX information. This
- is just a partial list. I've written these all as URLs, but I can't
- guarantee that they will work as such.
-
- (Note: many of the URL's that were listed in this document are no longer
- valid. If there is one that was listed in a previous version of this FAQ
- and it has been removed, but you know the new location, please send it to
- me.)
-
- World Wide Web:
-
- | The FAQ is available at scads of places around the web
-
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html
-
- This second site is an archive of the *.answers newsgroups.
-
- Tim Zylinski's German home page
-
- http://www.wi2.uni-erlangen.de/~tmzylins/nx/nx.html
-
- Kipp Teague's NX page
-
- http://www2.lynchburg.edu/www/teague/nexp.html
-
- The Moose's Guide to Northern Exposure
-
- http://www.netspace.org/~moose/moose.html
-
- The CBS home page
-
- http://www.cbs.com/
-
- FTP:
-
- For information on how to do FTP, send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
- with the body of the message reading
-
- send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources
-
- news.answers archive
-
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/northern-exposure-faq
-
- (/pub/usenet is a link to /pub/usenet-by-group) This is the archive
- of the news.answers group. It is guaranteed to have the latest copy
- of anything posted to that group, including this FAQ.
-
- Metanet site
-
- ftp://198.67.13.2/pub/MetaNet/Nexp
-
- This site has the material mainly from the first three seasons
- (Episode Guide, the Music Guide, episode summaries)
-
- Unix quotes list for NX
-
- ftp://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/pub/usagi
-
- Kimiye Tipton has an FTP site for the Episode Guide
-
- ftp://ftp.gate.net/pub/users/kimi/northern-exp/nxguide.txt.
-
- WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU
-
- ftp://WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU/multimedia/images
-
- This site has gif and jpg pictures. The problem with this site is
- that the pictures are indexed using a not-so-intuitive indexing
- system, but they are there.)
-
- ftp.funet.fi (note that this is in Finland, so be aware of time
- differences) Log on with the userid as 'pictures' instead of 'anonymous'
- or 'ftp' - this will give you access to this area.
-
- ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/pics/tv+film/misc
-
- This site has pictures of the cast.
-
-
- A note on posting binaries to the group: it is not forbidden, it is not
- against "the law," and it doesn't even violate the charter of the group.
- However, the posting of large binaries is not nice. It's easier to post
- locations of FTP sites and let people retrieve that way. Or post them
- to one of the alt.binaries.pictures groups.
-
- =======================================================================
-
- What was Northern Exposure?
-
- NX was originally a summer replacement show from 1990 which developed a
- large following, and was eventually picked up as a regular network show.
- The show was created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, who were also the
- principal forces behind "St. Elsewhere" and "I'll Fly Away."
-
- NX was not renewed for the Fall 1995 season. The last episode aired on
- July 26, 1995. And an auction was recently held that sold ALL of the props
- and equipment from the show, so any revival is highly unlikely.
-
- There have been six seasons of NX:
-
- 1. Summer of 1990 (eight episodes)
- 2. Spring of 1991 (seven episodes)
- 3. Fall 1991 (23 episodes)
- 4. Fall 1992 (25 episodes)
- 5. Fall 1993 (24 episodes)
- 6. Fall 1994 (23 episodes)
-
- NX was the story of Joel Fleischman, a New York City raised Jewish internist
- who financed his medical education through a scholarship from the state of
- Alaska. Unfortunately, the terms of this scholarship required him to repay it
- by serving as a doctor in Alaska for four years. Because there were no
- openings in Anchorage, Joel was sent to the town of Cicely ("on the cusp of
- the new Alaskan Riviera") to serve his term. But after certain circumstances
- happened, Joel first went "up river" and turned native, then returned to
- New York. The circumstances are best explained by viewing the episodes
- "Up River" and "The Quest." Joel was replaced in Cicely, by Dr. Phil Capra,
- who longed to escape the rat race of life in Los Angeles.
-
- NX is shown internationally on various broadcast networks:
-
- ATTENTION! I've delete this section because we don't know how many of these
- entries (if any) are still valid. If it is still being shown in a particular
- country, please let me know and I'll put the information back in.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Emmy awards:
-
- For 1993-94:
- Sound Editing - "Fish Story"
-
- For 1992-93:
- Drama Series
- Supporting Actress, Drama Series - Valerie Mahaffey
- Writing, Drama Series - "Seoul Mates"
- Cinematography, Series
- Editing, Single Camera, Series
- Art Direction, Series
-
-
- =======================================================================
-
- Character information
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Characters and their histories
-
- Main characters:
-
- Phillip Capra (Paul Provenza)
-
- The new doc in town. He and his lovely wife Michelle left the Los Angeles
- area to start a new life in Cicely. They hated Los Angeles, but were they
- really ready for the charms of life in Cicely? Phil speaks French and
- enjoys biking.
-
- Michelle Capra (Teri Polo)
-
- Wife of the new doctor, she is a free-lance journalist. She is not very
- accustomed to life in the wild, since she first tried to defend herself
- against unknown woodland creatures with a thighmaster.
-
- Ed Chigliak (Darren E. Burrows)
-
- Ed is a half-native Alaskan who was raised by one of the local tribes
- when his parents abandoned him. Ed wants to be a film director, and has
- already started pen-pal correspondences with Martin Scorcese, Steven
- Spielberg, Woody Allen, Peter Bogdanovich, and others. Ed works for
- Maurice and Ruth-Anne, and has an IQ of 180. Ed has met the man who
- could be his father, Pete [Duets] and is in training (by Leonard) to be
- a shaman.
-
- Joel Fleischman (actor: Rob Morrow)
-
- A New York (Flushing) raised doctor who fulfilled the terms of his medical
- scholarship ($125,000 to attend Columbia University) by serving four
- years as general practitioner in the town of Cicely, Alaska (earning
- $465 a month after taxes [Grosse Pointe 48230]). Joel was the only
- Jewish person in the entire Borough of Arrowhead County, Alaska [Things
- Become Extinct]. After becoming engaged to Maggie, then thrown out of her
- home because it wasn't working out, Joel headed "up river" to start his life
- over. He has since returned to New York (it's a "state of mind.")
-
- Ruth-Anne Miller (Peg Phillips)
-
- The owner of the general store in town, Ruth-Anne left the lower 48 in
- 1971 with an old station wagon, all her household possessions she could
- carry, and her cats, to make a new life in Alaska. Regrettably, one of
- her children is an investment banker.
-
- Maurice Minnifield (Barry Corbin)
-
- Ex-astronaut with a family fortune of $68 million [On Our Own], Maurice
- had big plans for the town of Cicely. The local radio station, KBHR
- (K-Bear 570 AM), is the flagship of the Minnifield Communications
- Network, and is almost solely run off the extensive music collection of
- Maurice (including a fabulous collection of show tunes). Maurice also
- owns the local newspaper and 15,000 "acres of opportunity."
-
- Mary Margaret (Maggie) O'Connell (Janine Turner)
-
- A bush pilot who owned the Capra's cabin, she was constantly at odds with
- (but once engaged to) Fleischman (rarely did they call each other by their
- first names). Maggie was raised in Grosse Pointe, MI and is the daughter
- of the youngest CEO in automotive history ("Do you remember the hatchback?
- That's my Dad.") She flies a Cessna 170 (an old tail-dragger) [Birds of a
- Feather], N4423V [The Gift of the Maggie] or N8326A [Russian Flu] (for
- filming reasons, they use different planes in different episodes.) She is
- also the mayor of Cicely.
-
- Christopher Danforth (Chris) Stevens (John Corbett)
- (alias: Chris in the Morning)
-
- A free-spirit who can converse on Kafka and theoretical physics, as well
- as philosophize on any topic that might come to mind, Chris was the DJ
- at KBHR. He began acquiring his vast wealth of knowledge when he
- spent time in prison in West Virginia (for grand theft auto, which is
- why he can no longer vote.) He jumped parole in 1986 [Democracy in
- America]. He lost his extradition hearing in 1992, but the judge ruled
- that the town must find a suitable replacement in three years or he is
- to be handed over to the authorities from West Virginia "should they show
- up." Chris also doubles as the town's minister, being ordained in the
- Worldwide Church of Truth and Beauty after answering an ad in the back
- of "Rolling Stone."
-
- Shelly Marie Tambo-Vincoeur (Cynthia Geary)
-
- Shelly was the woman over whom Maurice and Holling wanted to kill each
- other. A former Miss Northwest-Passage, Shelly came to Cicely to marry
- Maurice. But once she met Holling, she left Maurice to be with him
- (Holling is over 60 years old, but Shelly hasn't even hit "the big 21"
- [Northwest Passages]). Shelly is the only confirmed non-US citizen
- (she's still a Canadian citizen. [Northern Hospitality])
-
- Holling Gustav Vincoeur (John Cullum)
-
- The owner of one of the local bars, The Brick, Holling was an ex-trapper
- and hunter who swore off killing. Holling and Maurice are old and dear
- friends, but once were mortal enemies over the love of a woman. His
- family history of long life spans has lead him to believe that he would
- outlive any woman that he would marry (he was born Jan 1, 1929 [Things
- Become Extinct]), but he overcame that objection to marry Shelly.
- Holling was also a direct male-line descendant of French aristocracy [The
- Body in Question.] He and Shelly are the parents of Miranda (Randi) Bliss
- Vincoeur.
-
- Marilyn Whirlwind (Elaine Miles)
-
- Phil's receptionist, who raised ostriches at her farm. She was in love
- with the Flying Man (Enrico Bellati) from a travelling circus, but
- could not leave Cicely to accompany him. (Character note: Elaine got the
- part when she accompanied her mother to the audition. The producers and
- director liked her timing and sense of humor better.)
-
-
- Recurring characters:
-
- Adam (Adam Arkin)
-
- The world's worst pathological liar (as far as Joel was concerned), Adam
- was a gourmet chef who was originally thought to be the Cicely version of
- Bigfoot [Aurora Borealis]. He popped up occasionally to cause havoc in
- life of Cicely. He and Eve are the proud parents of baby Aldrich.
-
- Eve (Valerie Mahaffey, winner of a Best Supporting Actress Emmy, 1992)
-
- Adam's wife, also the heiress to a $22 million tungsten fortune, she
- was the world's champion hypochondriac and once chained Joel to her cabin
- so that she could have a doctor in-house round-the-clock [The Bumpy Road
- to Love].
-
- Dave (William J. White)
-
- Cook at The Brick, he took a lot of abuse from Adam over his style of
- cooking (bacon is not pancetta). Dave and Ed are cousins to Marilyn
- through their clans (Dave and Ed are of the Bear; Marilyn is of the
- Raven). Note: William J. White gave up his role as Dave after reinjuring
- an old diving injury.
-
- Eugene (Earl Quewezance)
-
- Cook at the Brick (also known as "not-Dave" in this group), who had
- almost seamlessly taken over from Dave. He has a wife and two small kids.
-
- Ron Bantz (Doug Ballard - duckmallar@aol.com (DuckMallar)) and
- Erick Hillman (Don R. McManus)
-
- Owners of one of the local bed and breakfast establishments. They bought
- the property from Maurice, whom they thought at first to be a "kindred
- spirit," since he lives alone, loves gourmet food and show tunes. They
- also doubled as archaeological excavationists [Survival of the Species],
- and Ron served as a translator for Maurice and his Korean son, Duk
- Won [Sleeping with the Enemy]. Ron served as a Marine in Korea. They were
- married in a lovely ceremony.
-
- Edna Hancock (Rita Taggart)
-
- Edna was the mayor of Cicely, having been elected when she ran against
- long-time mayor Holling Vincoeur (vote was 255 to 247.)
-
- Lester Haynes (Apesanahkwat)
-
- A fellow Sons of the Tundra member to Maurice, he was also Maurice's
- nemesis in business. He was the richest man in the county/area, even
- wealthier than Maurice, and he's scammed Maurice on a few land deals.
-
- Cal Ingram (the violinist) (Simon Templeman)
-
- Cal was the violinist hired by Maurice to appraise the priceless Guarneri
- violin that Maurice was buying as an investment. His discovery that Maurice
- planned to lock the violin away in his safe, and not make it available for
- playing, drove him over the edge into deep psychosis. He eventually ended up
- in the state mental institute at Ellisburg. He escaped, visiting Cicely many
- times, where he has been hidden by Maurice and treated by Phil. He recently
- turned himself in (and turned on Officer Semanski) and is now in a half-way
- house. His first name Cal is short for Caldecott ("Cottie" to his friends.)
-
- Hayden Keyes (James L. Dunn)
-
- The town's ne'er-do-well, he has broken into Joel's office (for Maurice),
- claimed injuries for insurance and legal suits that did not occur, and
- fired off guns around the town's citizens.
-
- Walt Kupfer (Moultrie Patten)
-
- Walt lives with Ruth-Anne, and was an old friend of her's and Holling.
- He's currently a trapper, although he did try a stint as a clerk in the
- store. He used to work on Wall Street [Hello, I Love You], and was fired
- by Charlie Merrill himself.
-
- Duk Won Minnifield (Kwi Hyun (James) Song)
-
- Korean son of Maurice Minnifield and a woman that Maurice knew in Korea
- during the war. Recently engaged to Pak Soon Ae, who was the daughter of
- Maurice's sworn enemy, Pak Soon Yat.
-
- Mike Monroe (Anthony Edwards)
-
- A lawyer who once suffered from MSC (multiple chemical sensitivity), he
- lived in a geodesic dome off of Highway 3. He was hyper-allegic to the
- environment around him, a condition that developed in the last few years
- of his life. Mike was cured during his stay in Cicely and has since left
- to fight environmental villains as a lawyer for Greenpeace. Joel thought
- he was wacko, cured or not, but Maggie was attracted to him. Note: He is
- NOT dead.
-
- Leonard Quinhagak (Graham Greene)
-
- Leonard was a shaman, and his healing skills have been shown in a number
- of episodes. Recently, Leonard diagnosed Ed as having the call and the
- abilities to be a shaman, but he warned Ed that his life would be very
- different if he takes up the calling.
-
- Elaine Shulman (Jessica Lundy)
-
- Joel's ex-fiance'e-- she left Joel to marry an older man who died
- shortly after their marriage. She and Joel have since reconciled their
- relationship and the unfortunate way that it ended.
-
- Sgt. Barbara Semanski (Diane Delano)
-
- A state trooper who shared the mutual hots for Maurice, but at first thought
- she could not sustain a relationship with him because of his disregard for
- the law (tax law, that is) [The Bumpy Road to Love]. Since that time, they
- have spent more time together, and became engaged [Tranquility Base.]
-
- Bernard Stevens (Richard Cummings, Jr.)
-
- Chris' African-American half-brother. Bernard and Chris are psychically
- connected-- they discovered each other when they both had the same
- vision of a sculpture about the Aurora Borealis [Aurora Borealis]. They
- often share the same dreams and thoughts. Their mutual father was a
- travellin' man who just happened to have two families.
-
- Miranda Bliss Vincoeur (baby twin actresses unknown)
-
- Daughter of Holling and Shelly, Miranda, or "Randi," was born in Holling
- and Shelly's living room upstairs from the Brick, during happy hour.
- According to a dream sequence featuring Shelly ["Hello, I Love You"], Randi
- will, at the age of 18, travel to Dallas, Texas to become a Dallas Cowboy's
- chearleader. Along the way, she will also be a big fan of Barbie dolls,
- and a drummer in a local rock band.
-
- Morty (Morty the Moose)
-
- Morty est morte (dead.) He was part of the captive moose herd
- maintained at a Washington State Univ. research station. According to
- some reports, another moose at the station (Minnie) died of a cobalt
- and copper deficiency, and it was too late to save Morty. Morty was
- about five years old at the time of his death. Most moose live only 6
- or 7 years in captivity, as opposed to up to 16 years in the wild.
- Morty is survived by a number of offspring, including Melody and Matilda,
- sired in the spring of 1993.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Characters in "Cicely" (and their modern day equivalents)
-
- Ned Svenborg = Ed
-
- Mace Mobrey = Maurice
-
- Kit = Chris
-
- Sally = Shelly
-
- Abe = Holling
-
- Mary O'Keefe = Maggie
-
- Franz Kafka = Joel
-
- Nurse = Marilyn
-
- Rhoda = Ruth-Anne (woman at meeting)
-
- The actress who played Roslyn (Jo Anderson) also played Jane, Holling's
- school teacher, in the episode "Learning Curve."
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Who played the Flying Man? [Get Real]
-
- The Flying Man (Enrico Bellati) was played by Bill Irwin. A bio of him
- in the Playbill for "Largely New York," one of his Broadway shows, says
- the following:
-
- BILL IRWIN (The Post-Modern Hoofer, Author, Director and
- Co-Choreographer) was an original member of KRAKEN, a theatre company
- directed by Herbert Blau, and was an original member of the Pickle
- Family Circus of San Francisco, where he worked with Larry Pisoni and
- Geoff Hoyle. He appeared as a guest artist with the ODC Dance Company of
- San Francisco, which first produced his original work. His own pieces,
- often developed with Doug Skinner and Michael O'Connor, include "Not
- Quite/New York," "The Courtroom" and "The Regard of Flight" (PBS "Great
- Performances"). Skinner, Irwin and O'Connor have performed "The Regard
- of Flight" on and Off-Broadway, across the United States and in Sydney,
- Australia. Mr Irwin most recently appeared on the New York stage with
- Steve Martin, Robin Williams and F. Murray Abraham in "Waiting for
- Godot" at Lincoln Center. At the La Jolla Playhouse he played Galy Gay
- in Brecht's "A Man's a Man," Medvedenko in "The Sea Gull" and Arlecchino
- in "Three Cuckolds." He has appeared on Broadway in "Accidental Death of
- an Anarchist" and "5-6-7-8 . . . Dance!" On television he has been seen
- on "Saturday Night Live," "The Tonight Show," "The Cosby Show" and HBO's
- "Bette Midler, Mondo Beyondo." In Britain he appeared on the BBC
- "Paul Daniels Magic Show." His film credits include the 1981 Robert
- Altman movie "Popeye," Alan Alda's "A New Life" and John Sayles' "Eight
- Men Out." In 1983 Mr. Irwin was awarded a National Endowment for the
- Arts Choreographer's Fellowship, and in 1984 was named a Guggenheim
- Fellow and awarded a five-year MacArthur Fellowship. He gratefully
- acknowledges those awards.
-
- The Playbill was copyright 1989, and since then he has appeared in:
- "Steppin' Out" as Liza Minelli's only male student; "My Blue Heaven" as
- the partner of Rick Moranis; Bobby McFerrin's video of "Don't Worry, Be
- Happy"; "Eight Men Out"; "Fool Moon" (current Broadway production);
- Great Performances: "Soundheim: A Celibration at Carnegie Hall"
-
- =======================================================================
-
- Music Used in NX
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Northern Exposure CD (U.S. version)
-
- "Music From The Television Series Northern Exposure"
- MCA Records, Inc. MCAD-10685
-
- 1. David Schwartz "Theme from Northern Exposure" [Pilot, Kodiak]
- 2. Daniel Lanois "Jolie Louise" [Pilot, The Body in Question, Old Tree]
- 3. Booker T. and the MG's "Hip Hug-Her" [Animals R Us; My Mother, My Sister]
- 4. Etta James "At Last" [Slow Dance]
- 5. Chic Street Man "Everybody Be Yoself" [Spring Break]
- 6. David Schwartz "Alaskan Nights" [It Happened in Juneau, Our Tribe]
- 7. Magazine 60 "Don Quichotte" [Jules et Joel]
- 8. Nat "King" Cole and His Trio "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" [The Big Kiss]
- 9. Miriam Makeba "Emabhaceni" [Roots]
- 10. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Gimme Three Steps" [My Mother, My Sister]
- 11. Frederica Von Stade "Bailero from Chants d'Auvergne" [Wake-Up Call]
- with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conducted by Antonio de Almeda
- 12. David Schwartz Medley: "A Funeral in My Brain" [Things Become Extinct,
- Our Tribe, Ill Wind,...], "Woody the Indian" [Sex, Lies, and Ed's Tape],
- "The Tellakutans" [Seoul Mates, The Body in Question]
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- More Music from Northern Exposure (U.S.)
-
- "More Music From Northern Exposure"
- MCA Records, Inc. MCAD-11077
-
- 1. Georgia Wettlin-Larsen "Ojibway Square Dance (Love Song)" [Learning Curve]
- 2. David Schwartz "Theme from Northern Exposure"
- 3. Johnny Nash "Stir It Up"
- 4. Ruth Brown "Mambo Baby"
- 5. Simon Bonney "Someone Loves You"
- 6. David Schwartz "The Ladder"
- 7. Big Joe & His Washboard Band "If You Take Me Back"
- 8. Basin Brothers "Un Marriage Casse (A Broken Marriage)"
- 9. Vinx "There I Go Again"
- 10. Brian Eno/John Cale "Lay My Love" [The Bad Seed]
- 11. Les Paul & Mary Ford "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your
- Troubles Away)"
- 12. David Schwartz "Mooseburger Stomp"
- 13. Joanne Shenandoah "I May Want a Man"
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Northern Exposure soundtrack (German version)
-
- The title is "Ausgerechnet Alaska" (like the series title).
- It is distributed by IDEAL Vertrieb, Wichmannstr. 4, 2000 Hamburg 52.
-
- 1. The Moose "Northern Exposure Theme-Mix"
- 2. The Kingsmen "Louie Louie"
- 3. Little Milton "Stand By Me"
- 4. Lee Dorsey "Ya Ya"
- 5. Billy Steward "Summertime"
- 6. Little Richard "Good Golly Miss Molly"
- 7. Coasters "Little Egypt"
- 8. The Drifters "On Broadway"
- 9. Dolly Parton "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"
- 10. Guy Mitchell "Singing The Blues"
- 11. Patsy Cline "Crazy"
- 12. Paul Anka "My Way"
- 13. The Marcels "Blue Moon"
- 14. Showaddiwaddi "Who Put The Bomp"
- 15. Trini Lopez "This Is Your Land"
- 16. Jerry Butler "Moon River"
- 17. Andy Williams "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing"
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- If We All Go Insane [Spring Break]
-
- This is the song playing during the famous "running of the bulls" scene.
- It is by Lindsay Buckingham.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Toy Cows [Roots]
-
- Aaron Naas did the detective work to answer the most important question
- since time began-- mainly, who did the song "Toy Cows in Africa"?
- The song "Toy Cows In Africa" is by a group called Chance.
-
- Updates on Chance: Cheryl Leah and Ed Willet moved from L.A. to
- Wisconsin. Their CD is finally out, and Cheryl has it available for
- $16.50 postpaid within the U.S. Send your order to:
-
- Cheryl Leah, W10993 Black Hawk Trail, Fox Lake, WI 53933, 414-928-2389
-
- She and Ed plan to continue their musical pursuits in Wisconsin under
- the name Chance.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Piano tuner piece [Duets]
-
- The piece played by the blind piano tuner is a Chopin nocturne, from
- Opus 9, #1: Larghetto in B flat minor.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Turkey In The Straw [Learning Curve]
-
- Kimiye Tipton posted the answer to yet another burning NX music
- question.
-
- The Orlando Sentinel TV critic, Greg Dawson, got the following info
- from CBS, regarding what sounded like an Native American version of
- "Turkey in the Straw" in "Learning Curve." The scene was of Marilyn
- touring around Seattle, accompanied by this piece.
-
- The song is an Ojibway love song. As explained on the second NX CD,
- a common practice among the Ojibway was to take a song, such as the
- square dance "Turkey in the Straw," and substitute Ojibway lyrics.
-
- It is "Ojibway Square Dance" from _Songs_of_the_People_, performed by
- Georgia Wettlin-Larsen. It can be ordered from The Melody Shop
- (218-751-5303) in Bemidji, Minn. It is also available on the second
- NX CD.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Ebudae [Northern Lights]
-
- The piece played at the end of the episode "Northern Lights," where
- Chris is displaying his sculpture of light, is "Ebudae" by Enya, from
- her album "Shepherd Moons." It is sung in Gaelic.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This Must Be The Place [Dinner at 7:30]
-
- The piece played at the end of the episode "Dinner at 7:30" is
- "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" by The Talking Heads, on their
- album "Speaking in Tongues" (also available on "Sand in the Vaseline".)
- It is called Naive Melody because the band members were playing instruments
- that they normally don't play.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Forever Night Shade Mary [The Quest]
-
- The song played while Joel is on the ferry, looking at New York, is
- "Forever Night Shade Mary" by Latin Playboys. Their CD is self-titled
- "Latin Playboys" (eponymous) and is on Slash/Warner Bros 9 45543-2.
-
- There is a Los Lobos connection to Latin Playboys. Latin Playboys is a
- project of David Hildalgo, one of the main members of Los Lobos.
- The Latin Playboys are David Hildalgo, Louie Perez, Mitchell Froom,
- and Tchad Blake.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Our Town [Tranquility Base]
-
- The very last song used on NX was "Our Town" by Iris Dement, from her
- album "Infamous Angel." It is the song playing during the montage of
- scenes from Cicely that closed the series.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Ruth-Anne's dance on her grave [A-Hunting We Will Go]
-
- No one knows what the music at the end of "A-Hunting We Will Go", where
- Ruth-Anne and Ed dance on the grave that Ed gave her for her 75th
- birthday. Speculation in the group is that it's another David Schwartz
- medley. It is not on either NX CD.
-
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-
- Literature Used in NX
-
- There was a syndicated article that appeared in the New York Times and
- other various newspapers around the U.S. that started to touch on the
- list of books that Chris has quoted/read on the air.
-
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Renascence and Other Poems"
- Joseph Campbell, "Power of Myth"
- Shakespeare, the complete works
- Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time"
- Hegel, "Early Technological Writings"
- Kierkegaard, "Sickness Unto Death"
- Emmanuel Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason"
- Walt Whitman, the complete works
- Nietzsche, "Logic," and "The Metaphysics of Morals"
- Tolstoy, "War and Peace"
- Maurice Sendak, "Where the Wild Things Are"
- Baudelaire, "Flowers of Evil" (in translation, Chris does
- not read French)
- "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson"
- Alexis do Tocqueville, the complete works
-
- Additions to the NYT article:
-
- Jack London, "Call of the Wild"
- Holling Clancy Holling, "Paddle to the Sea"
- Herman Melville, "Billy Budd"
- Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
- Raymond Chandler, "Red Wind"
- Joseph Campbell, "Hero With a Thousand Faces"
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
- E.B. White, "Charlotte's Web"
- The Portable Jung
- Proust, "Remembrance of Things Past"
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- NX books
-
- Some of these books are out of print and will be difficult finding in
- your local bookstore, but people who are perseverant may be able to
- find a copy.
-
- "Letters from Cicely: a book" / Ellis Weiner; based on the Universal
- Television series Northern Exposure created by Joshua Brand and John
- Falsey. -- New York: Pocket Books, c1992. ISBN 0-671-77735-1.
- CIP (May. 92)
-
- A series of letters from each character to various people;
- the author has tried to keep his voice in sync with the
- individual characters.
-
- Japanese edition: Tokyo, Fusho, c 1993
- FUSOSHA MYSTERY No. 0291 ('93/7/30)
- Translator: Haruna NAKATANI
- ISBN 4-594-01201-9
-
- "The Northern Exposure Cookbook"
- Ellis Weiner
- from Contemporary Books
-
- A collection of recipes for a community feast, as the characters
- would probably fix them.
-
- "Exposing Northern Exposure", Scott Nance, Pioneer Books, Inc.,
- 5715 N. Balsam Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89130, 1992
- ISBN 1-55698-324-7, $14.95
-
- The book details all the NEXP episodes from the pilot to "Cicely."
- Included are cast interviews, character bios, and a
- number of character, location, and set photos, none in color.
-
- "Chris in the Morning: Love, Life, and the whole Karmic Enchilada"
- Compiled and Edited by Louis Chunovic, Published by Contemporary Books,
- ISBN: 0-8092-3762-8
-
- "The Northern Exposure Book"
- Louis Chunovic, A Citadel Press Book published by Carol Publishing Group
- 120 Enterprise Ave., Secaucus, NJ 07094
- ISBN 0-8065-1409-4
-
- "Northern Exposures", Rob Morrow, Published by Hyperion
- 114 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 ISBN 0-7868-6064-2 $9.95
-
- It's a collection of black and white photos taken over the years by
- Rob around the NX sets (cover photo is Janine wearing a gas mask).
-
- =======================================================================
-
- Various Miscellaneous Stuff
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- How did the town of Cicely get its name?
-
- Cicely was founded, but nameless (and lawless) until two women, Cicely
- and Roslyn, came to town to form a utopian society. For more details,
- see the episode "Cicely" which tells the history of the two women and
- the society. For those people who haven't seen the show, the town is
- (obviously) named after Cicely, due to her selfless death to protect
- Roslyn.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Other facts about Cicely
-
- According to some publicity photographs, the population is 215 and
- elevation is 6572 feet. Other people have reported that Brand and Falsey
- set the town's population at 839, since they were originally paid
- $839,000 an episode. In "Survival of the Species" Ed states it as 849,
- which was confirmed in a few later episodes. In the episode where Miranda
- Bliss Vincoeur was born, it was stated as probably 844.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Which characters are gay/lesbian
-
- Cicely and Roslyn were lesbians. Maurice asked Chris to downplay this
- part of their town's history. It is alluded to in the pilot episode,
- where Maurice tries to tell Joel that, despite what other people will
- tell him, they were just good friends. It is not stated but alluded
- to in "Cicely" during the conversation between Mary O'Keefe and Roslyn
- about alternatives to men.
-
- The two innkeepers, Ron and Erick, are gay.
-
- Is Maurice gay? Well, that depends. Nothing has ever been said or implied
- on the show that he is gay. However, certain subtle characterizations may
- indicate that he is gay but denies it. It is up to the individual viewer
- whether or not they believe that he is gay. Before you choose to post on
- this topic, please be aware that it has enjoyed a long and lively
- discussion, but has also created some flames and personal insults.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- How long was Joel in Cicely?
-
- Joel's contract originally required four years of service to the state
- of Alaska. In the episode "Thanksgiving," the rising cost of living and
- devaluation of the US dollar caused the state to add another year to
- Joel's "sentence." But in the 100th episode [Horns], the state of Alaska
- confessed that they could not increase a contract duration during the
- execution of said contract (precedent from a court case in another state),
- and gave Joel back his year and $1200.
-
- Throughout the series, Joel had spent the following amounts of time:
- (episodes listed in order of their original air dates):
-
- Russian Flu (first season):
- Joel says that it's been 2 months since he and Elaine were
- together.
-
- Spring Break (first season):
- Joel says that he's been in Cicely for 10 months without
- experiencing intimate sexual contact.
-
- Goodbye to All That (second season):
- Chris says that Joel has been there eight months.
-
- Lost and Found (third season-- Joel renews his subscription to
- _The_New_Yorker_):
- 3 years, 8 months, 22 days, and 15 hours to go
-
- Thanksgiving (fourth season):
- 3 years, 9 months, 17 days, and 1 hour to go (but what's
- another hour?)
-
- Learning Curve (fourth season):
- Anything he currently has + 2 months to repay the $800 he
- borrowed from Maurice.
-
- Love's Labour Mislaid (fourth season, 1993):
- Ed states that he will have known Joel for 2 years in June.
-
- Family Feud (fourth season):
- Maggie and Joel argue about their relationship after having
- known each other for 2.5 years.
-
- Mite Makes Right (fifth season):
- Joel says he's known Maggie for three years.
-
- The Gift of the Maggie (fifth season):
- Dr. Pete from Gardner Station remarks that Joel must have
- been in Alaska for almost 4 years.
-
- The Quest (sixth season):
- Maggie tells that Joel has been in Alaska for five years.
-
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Why are there no children in the show?
-
- Well, a lot of people who subscribe to this newsgroup are pretty glad
- there aren't any main characters who are under 18 years of age. Others
- believe that children are missing and should be included. There have
- been children in certain episodes; there were children in Ed's film
- "Cicely" [Animals R Us], there were children around during the visit by
- the circus [Get Real], and there were children at the wedding [The
- Wedding]. And of course, there is baby Aldrich, the progeny of Adam and
- Eve, and Shelly and Holling's daughter Miranda Bliss.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Where was NX filmed?
-
- NX was filmed in the town of Roslyn, WA.
-
- Courtesy of Aaron Naas <aaronn@char.vnet.net>, here is a mini-FAQ on
- Roslyn.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- List of some of the interesting locations in and around Roslyn, WA.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Original sources of information
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- AAron nAAs (aaronn@vnet.net), visited Roslyn for a week, stayed in Cle
- Elum.
-
- Mary Andler, Curator of Roslyn Museum.
-
- Free "Visit the Kittitas" tourist guide published by the Ellensburg Daily
- Record, THE newspaper of the Kittitas.
-
- "Upper Kittitas Country Dining Guide" insert published by N.K.C. TRIBUNE.
-
- Free "Visitor Guide for 1993, Snoqualmie Summit to Blewett Pass".
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Buildings in town
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Roslyn Museum Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Never shown.
- LOTS of Roslyn history about town & people.
- Packed with antiques. Some NX info. Sign in.
- Chat with Mary Andler for a while.
-
- Roslyn Cafe Corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 2nd Street.
- Never featured, only outside mural seen.
- Nice Little cafe. Tourist stop (lots 'O
- tourists!). Some NX stuff.
- Ads declare: "Where the stars dine!" and
- "As shown on 'Northern Exposure'"
-
- Roslyn Cafe Mural Corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 2nd Street.
- Shown frequently.
- Hot tourist spot. People line up for pictures.
-
- Cicily Gift Shop 6 North 2nd Street.
- Sign sometimes seen.
- NX stuff.
-
- Laundrymat Corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 2nd Street.
- Might only be used as a set.
-
- Roslyn General Store 8 Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Never featured.
- Ads declare: "Largest selection of hard ice
- cream in the Upper County"
-
- Village Pizza Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Never featured, front sometimes seen.
- Excellent gourme Pizza.
-
- Pennsylvania Station 1st and Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Never featured, front sometimes seen.
- Little cafe.
-
- Brick Tavern 1 Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Ads declare: "The oldest operating saloon
- in the State of Washington", "Established
- 1899", and "Complete with running water
- spittoon"
-
- Central Sundries 2 Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Ruthanne's general store.
- Hot set warning ribbons draped about
- front of store. Some NX stuff.
-
- Pioneer Restaurant and 3 Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Sody-Licious Bar Never featured.
- Fine dining, great food and atmosphere.
- Surprisingly impressive. Micro beers on tap.
-
- Northwester Improvement Co. Corner of Pennsylvania Avenue.
- (NWI building) Seen frequently from outside.
-
- Memory Makers NWI building.
- and 1st Street.
- Never featured.
- NX gift shop. Lots of NX info & stuff.
- Takes up two thirds of NWI building.
-
- Minnifield Communications NWI building.
- Network (KBHR radio station) Locked set.
-
- Roslyn Brewing Company 33 Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Never featured or shown.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Houses of featured characters
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Ruthanne's house 12 5th Street.
-
- Marilyn's house 25 5th Street.
-
- Maggie's old house 8 West Washington Avenue.
- Replica was built on vacant lot beside it to
- look like original house. Replica was burned
- for show.
-
- Maggie's house Corner of E Street and Washington.
-
- Maurice's house 8 E Street.
-
- Maurice's family Home In backyard of 16 North First Street.
- Privately owned.
- Built in Ronald. Moved through Roslyn
- Given to Roslyn Resident. With a little
- work would actually be livable (but REALLY
- small).
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Other sites
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Maggie & Joel Fish Lake area.
- emergancy landing site
-
- Frequently show lake Lake Cle Elum,
-
- Where Maurice & Holling Salmon La Sac Campground close to bridge.
- slipped w/ Dead friend
-
- Little white church Town of Easton, corner of 1st and Depot.
-
- Site of Maggie's halucination Toward source of Cle Elum River.
-
- Rick's final campsite Disguised vacant lot in Town.
- Too snowy in forest, had to move into town.
- Kludged lot into makeshift set to have
- greater camara visibility.
-
- Where Ned Svenborg Roslyn Cemetary.
- visits the grave of Roslyn Interesting breakdown of ethnic groups and
- lodges. For example, if you were part of
- the Moose Lodge then you would have a grave
- waiting for you.
-
- Flung Piano In Teanaway Area at the Crossetti Ranch.
-
- Mechanic Garage scenes Cascade Motors at 1st and Dakota Avenue.
-
- Statue of Rick In Memory Makers.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Where is Cicely?
-
- An offshoot (and popular disussion) is, where is Cicely? Nobody knows
- for sure-- it's right next door to Springfield, USA. Like The Simpsons,
- the producers and writers of NX have sprinkled enough misleading clues
- that it cannot be pinpointed exactly. Some include:
-
- It's in the 63rd parallel, placing it in the main body of the
- state. [Hello, I Love You]
-
- You can travel from Cicely to Cantwell on Route 8 (Ruth-Anne and
- Walt did), which again places it in the main body of the state.
- [Hello, I Love You]. And Route 6 also leads into town [Una Volta
- in L'Inverno]
-
- The men run naked out to Highway 1 when the ice breaks [Spring
- Break]
-
- It's just across the border from Sixty Mile, in Canada. [Northern
- Hospitality]
-
- It is within a 75 mile radius of 143 degrees W, 62 degrees N,
- according to the ice-sculpture at Maurice's feast. [The Big Feast]
-
- The address on the post card that Joel sends to Maggie is
-
- Maggie O'Connell
- P.O. Box 86
- Cicely, AK 99729
-
- An alert reader of the group notes that 99729 is the zip code for
- Cantwell, AK.
-
- It's north of the Arctic Circle because they spend some days in
- complete darkness [Northern Lights] and some days in complete
- light [Midnight Sun]
-
- It's south of the Arctic Circle because they don't have
- permafrost [Survival of the Species]
-
- It's 40 air-minutes from Anchorage, the nearest hospital. (Joel
- tells Shelly she'll be going there to deliver. [Baby Blues])
- Maggie also receives her flight service briefings from Anchorage.
-
- It's 200 miles from the next nearest town. [Ill Wind]
-
- It's 200 miles from Sleetmute, and not too far from Unalaklee.
-
- It's 400 miles from Soldotna (the length of the drive for the
- owner of "Rick" the dog.) [Animals R Us]
-
- It's 500 miles from Sourdough. [Spring Break]
-
- It's located along a river (or at least Roslyn, WA is), and is
- 1000 miles from Anchorage [Kaddish] (which of course, means that
- Maggie's little Cessna 170 travels at 1500 miles an hour :-)
-
- It's in the panhandle, because the specific Indians mentioned
- are Pacific Northwest tribes (Tlingit and Haida.)
-
- It's in the panhandle portion that runs along the coast next to
- Canada ("The cusp of the new Alaskan Riviera" - premiere episode)
-
- At least we know that it's on a major log truck route, and there
- are paved roads nearby [premiere].
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The fling thing
-
- That thing is called a trebuchet (pronounced tray-boo-shay). For more
- information, I quote a post by Hank Nunes:
-
- ""Car & Driver" did a whole article on the 'trebuchet.' It was called
- "Seige the Day." Two guys in England built a replica and fling toilets
- filled with gasoline and small cars and people. They thought that they
- might sell a few of these, but at the time of the article, they had only
- sold one-- to NX. If you want one, they only cost $18,000.00."
-
- Some references/cites:
-
- Car & Driver, June 1992
- "All Things Considered", National Public Radio, Jan. 2 1992.
- The Wall Street Journal, July 30, 1991
-
- Items that have been flung:
-
- Maggie's burnt piano [Burning Down the House]
- Chris' dead friend Tooley [Heroes]
-
- The exact quote by Chris about the fling:
- "It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself." [Burning Down the
- House]
-
- The trebuchet was sold at the auction for all props. It is now in Monroe, WI.
- The owner is John Cyra, who wants to either sell or display it. There is a
- web page for it: http://www.eskimo.com/%7Everne/treb.html
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- How have the various boyfriends of Maggie O'Connell met their deaths?
-
- This is known as the curse of Maggie O'Connell-- every man she has ever
- slept with has died in some gruesome accident. The latest was Rick
- Pederson, who was played by Grant Goodeve in the first season (until
- Rick's untimely demise). Until her house burned down, Maggie had kept
- small shrines to each boyfriend.
-
- Harry = potato salad at a picnic
- Bruce = victim of a terrible fishing accident
- Glenn = took a wrong turn in his Volvo onto a missile test site
- Dave = fell asleep on a glacier and froze to death
- Rick = merged with a satellite
-
- This is from the eulogy given at Rick's funeral by Chris [Slow Dance].
-
- Additions after "Northwest Passages":
-
- Steve = struck by lightning while working on an oil rig
- (revealed only during Maggie's hallucination)
-
- Maggie has "cured" at least one boyfriend (Mike Monroe), and she had
- slept with Fleischman [Ill Wind] but he hasn't died (yet). We will never
- know about Chris.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The Raven
-
- A long time ago, the Raven looked down from the sky and saw that the
- people of the world were living in darkness. The ball of light was kept
- hidden by a selfish old chief. So the Raven turned himself into a
- spruce needle, and floated on the river where the chief's daughter
- came for water. She drank the spruce needle. She became pregnant and
- gave birth to a boy, who was the Raven in disguise. The baby cried and
- cried until the chief gave him the ball of light to play with. As soon
- as he had the light, the Raven turned back into himself. The Raven
- carried the light into the sky. From then on, we no longer lived in
- darkness.
-
- From "Seoul Mates," as told by Marilyn Whirlwind.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The Eagle
-
- [Marilyn]: The Eagle wasn't always the Eagle.
- The Eagle, before he became the Eagle, was Yucatangee, the Talker.
- Yucatangee talked and talked. It talked so much it heard only itself.
- Not the river, not the wind, not even the Wolf.
- The Raven came and said
- "The Wolf is hungry. If you stop talking, you'll hear him. The wind
- too. And when you hear the wind, you'll fly."
-
- [Nadine]: So he stopped talking.
-
- [Marilyn]: And became its nature, the Eagle. The Eagle soared, and its
- flight said all it needed to say.
-
- From "Birds of a Feather," as told by Marilyn Whirlwind to Nadine
- Fleischman.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The Warrior
-
- [There was] a warrior who had a fine stallion. Everyone said how lucky
- he was to have such a horse.
-
- "Maybe" he said.
-
- One day the stallion ran off. The people said the warrior was unlucky.
-
- "Maybe" he said.
-
- The next day the stallion returned, leading a string of fine ponies.
- The people said it was very lucky.
-
- "Maybe" the warrior said.
-
- Later, the warrior's son was thrown from one of the ponies and broke
- his leg. The people said it was unlucky.
-
- "Maybe" the warrior said.
-
- The next week, the chief lead a war party against another tribe. Many
- young men were killed. But, because of his broken leg, the warrior's
- son was left behind, and so was spared.
-
- From "Bolt from the Blue" as told by Marilyn Whirlwind.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The Wedding Vows
-
- I am the sky says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. You are the earth.
- We are sky and earth united. (The ring, Joel) You are my husband. You
- are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance
- because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because
- of you. My mind think because of you. And I shall love, because of you.
- (Are you guys cool with that? Then kiss)
-
- From "Our Wedding", the wedding ceremony as recited by Chris.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Related shows and films
-
- "Local Hero" is a film by Scottish director Bill Forsythe. In Local
- Hero, an upwardly-mobile young professional (oilman) goes to a remote
- part of the world (northern Scotland) where he is initially annoyed by
- the lack of modern conveniences but eventually enchanted with the local
- culture. At one point an old Russian town friend stumbles into the
- scene, both towns are run to some extent by an enterprising man in many
- roles, and the main character deals with a kind, elderly store-keeper
- woman.
-
- "Going to Extremes" is another Brand/Falsey creation. It has been
- described as "St. Elsewhere" on the sand with characters from NX thrown
- in. Comparisons to NX are natural-- doctors thrown into a foreign
- culture with lots of colorful local characters. It was cancelled shortly
- into its first season.
-
- "Doc Hollywood" is a movie that was released in the summer of 1991. It
- stars Michael J. Fox as a doctor, who while travelling to Beverly Hills
- to begin a career as a plastic surgeon, ends up stuck in the small town
- of Grady, trying to pay off a debt by filling in as the town doctor. No
- one can be certain which came first: NX or "Doc Hollywood." Rumor has it
- that the script for DH had been floating around Hollywood for years, but
- NX was created by Brand and Falsey after talking to a doctor friend of
- theirs.
-
- A DH/NX connection is that Roberts Blossom played both the judge who
- sentenced Fox's character (Ben Stone) to community service in DH, and
- the elder Ned Svenborg [Cicely].
-
- "Twin Peaks" has also been compared to NX. TP was also filmed in the
- state of Washington (in Snoqualmie) and took place in a town filled
- with colorful characters. But while TP was mainly about a series of bad
- events in an generally evil place, NX is mainly about a series of
- slightly odd events in a generally nice place (this is entirely the
- FAQ's author's opinion, who has seen both shows and infinitely prefers
- NX over TP).
-
- NX has done an homage to TP. In "Russian Flu," Holling, Joel and Elaine
- visit a scenic waterfall (Snoqualmie Falls-- the same falls used in TP),
- there is some vague TP-type music playing in the background (which they
- hear and snap their fingers to), and they talk about coffee and cherry
- pie.
-
- "Picket Fences" is another show that is often described as "quirky,"
- a' la NX and Twin Peaks. It is set in the town of Rome, Wisconsin, and
- is currently showing on the CBS network at 10:00pm Fridays. Picket
- Fences recently won a number of 1993 Emmy awards, including best
- drama.
-
- "Mediterraneo" (Italian, 1991) Takes place during WWII, eight
- Italian soldiers who land on a small Greek island to secure it for
- the Axis forces and end up staying until the end of the war, partly
- because their ship was sunk and also because they fall in love with
- the people and the place. The main female lead is also "resourceful"
- and brunette (but definitely in a different line of work than Maggie!)
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Satellite feed times
-
- The feed for syndication has changed - it is now on Telstar 402R [T4-5]
- at 5:30am EST.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Syndication information
-
- As of September 26, 1994, NX is in syndication! The episodes are being
- shown in production order. The episodes are also edited to allow time for
- more commercials. All syndication runs off the same satellite feed (see
- above) so it is not possible that your hometown station is running the
- unedited episodes while everyone else is seeing edited episodes. Kimiye
- Tipton is currently keeping a NX Syndication Guide listing the times and
- stations for various towns.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- NX Merchandise
-
- NX merchandise is sold by a number of catalogs, and shops.
-
- Universal Studios Theme Park, Orlando, FL.
-
- Look for stuff in their souvenir shop that contains merchandise from
- their various tv shows and movies.
- (has anyone been down there lately that can confirm whether they still
- have merchandise?)
-
- Wireless, the catalog of National Public Radio
-
- There hasn't been any NX merchandise in the catalogs for a few months,
- but something may show up as a clearance item.
-
- Memory Makers - Home of Northern Exposure Gifts and Souvenirs
- PO Box 369, Roslyn, WA 98941, (509) 649-2557.
-
- This is the shop right smack in the middle of everything. They
- have everything imaginable with a NX logo on it.
- (has anyone been to Roslyn lately who can confirm that the shop is
- still open?)
-
- The CBS store.
-
- Merchandise from different CBS shows and productions. Not known if
- they are still carrying NX merchandise.
- Phone is 1-800-882-5795. AMEX, MC, and Visa accepted (no checks or
- C.O.D.)
- Hours are 9:00am to 4:00pm (California time), Monday through Friday.
- Their address is:
- 7800 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036"
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Dedication
-
- There was a dedication at the end of March 15, 1993 episode [Homesick]
- for John "Yomi" Rothlisberger, but no explanation about him.
-
- Rothlisberger was an elderly farmer who lived in Roslyn, Wash.,where the
- show is filmed, and he appeared in virtually every episode as an extra.
- When he died recently, the producers and crew felt as if they had lost
- an adopted cast member.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Videos
-
- MCA is releasing episodes of NEXP on both VHS and Laserdisc format.
-
- For those interested, here is some info:
-
- Laserdiscs: $34.98 each
-
- MCA41568LD Pilot/Aurora Borealis
- MCA41569LD Cicely/Northwest Passages
- MCA41682LD Thanksgiving/Seoul Mates
- MCA41985LD The Body in Question & Burning Down the House
- MCA42021LD The Big Feast & Northern Lights
-
- Videotapes: $14.98 each
-
- MCA81482 Pilot
- MCA81559 Cicely
- MCA81560 Spring Break
- MCA81562 Northwest Passages
- MCA81483 Aurora Borealis
- MCA81644 Thanksgiving
- MCA81645 Seoul Mates
- MCA81920 Burning Down the House
- MCA81685 The Body in Question
- MCA82016 The Big Feast
- MCA82015 Northern Lights
-
-
- PAL format:
-
- VHR1696 Pilot, Aurora Borealis, Spring Break
- VHR1697 Body in Question, Seoul Mates
- VHR1698 Burning down the house, Cicely
- VHR1699 Northwest Passage, Thanksgiving
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Voice-Overs & Other Roles
-
- The following is the current information that we have on voice-overs and
- other roles that the NX actors have undertaken currently and in the
- past. Thanks to Bill Pulliam who ran the names through the movies
- database and came up with a lot of missing stuff.
-
- Adam Arkin
-
- All Together Now, Babies, Big Wave Dave's, Chicago Hope,
- Chu Chu and the Philly Flash, The Doctor, Full Moon High, Heat Wave,
- It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy, The Monitors, Necessary Parties,
- Pearl, Personal Foul, A Promise to Keep, Teachers Only, Tough Cookies,
- Under the Rainbow, A Year in the Life
- Baseball (voice-over)
-
- Doug Ballard
-
- Fearless, Sunset Grill
-
- Darren Burrows
-
- Casualties of War, Class of 1999, Cry Baby, Dazed and Confused, Dragnet,
- Hard Times on Planet Earth, TV101, 976-EVIL
-
- John Corbett
-
- Flight of the Intruder, MTV motorcycle series, The Osiris Chronicles,
- Wonder Years, Tombstone
- Isuzu (commercial, voice-over)
-
- Barry Corbin
-
- Any Which Way You Can, Ballad of Gregorio Cortez,
- Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Bitter Harvest, Boone, C.A.T. Squad,
- Career Opportunities, The Chase, Conagher, Critters 2: The Main Course,
- A Death in California, The Defiant Ones, Fantasies, Fatal Vision,
- Firefighter, Flight #90: Disaster on the Potomac, Ghost Dad,
- Hard Traveling, Honkytonk Man, The Hot Spot,
- I Know My First Name Is Steven, It Takes Two, The Keys,
- LBJ: The Early Years, Last Flight Out, Lonesome Dove,
- Man Against the Mob, The Man Who Loved Women, MASH(tv), Murder in Texas,
- My Science Project, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,
- Nothing in Common, Off the Mark, The People Across the Lake,
- Permanent Record, Prime Suspect, Rage, The Ratings Game,
- Red King, White Knight, Secret Witness, Short Time, Six Pack, Spies,
- Spooner, Stir Crazy, Stranger on My Land, The Thorn Birds, Under Cover,
- Under Siege, Urban Cowboy, WarGames, Warm Hearts, Cold Feet,
- What Comes Around, Who's Harry Crumb?, Young Harry Houdini
- Dominicks' (commercial), Portland General Electric (commercial),
- Lipton Iced Tea (commercial, voice-over), Moon Shot (voice of Deke
- Slayton)
-
- John Cullum
-
- 1776 (film), The Act, All the Way Home, Buck James,
- Carl Sandburg - Echoes and Silences, Edge of Night, Doctors,
- Hawaii, Tom Brown's School Days (aka Adventures at Rugby),
- The Day After, Hamlet, The Man Without a Country,
- Marie (aka Marie: A True Story), Mattie's Choice,
- Money, Power, Murder, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Broadway),
- One Life to Live, The Prodigal, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,
- Shenandoah, Shootdown, Spenser for Hire, Sweet Country,
- Quantum Leap (episode "Catch a Falling Star", with Janine Turner),
- With a Vengeance
- EggBeaters (commercial, voice-over)
- Washington Mutual Bank (comm., voice-over)
-
- Richard Cummings, Jr.
-
- Eve of Destruction, Hyundai (commercial, voice-over), Project X,
- thirtysomething, Throb, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk
- The Wall Street Journal (commercial, voice-over)
-
- Diane Delano
-
- Bakersfield, P.D., Heart Like a Wheel, LA Law, Quantum Leap,
- Miracle Mile, Platypus Man, The River Wild, Sleepwalkers (aka Stephen
- King's Sleepwalkers), Wild Card
-
- Anthony Edwards
-
- Delta Heat, Downtown, El Diablo, E.R., Fast Times at Ridgemont High,
- Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story, Gotcha!, Hawks,
- Heart Like a Wheel, High School U.S.A., Hometown Boy Makes Good,
- How I Got Into College, The Killing of Randy Webster, Landslide,
- Miracle Mile, Mr. North, Pet Sematary II, Revenge of the Nerds,
- Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, Summer Heat, The Sure Thing,
- Top Gun, It Takes Two
-
- Cynthia Geary
-
- Adam 12, Dangerous Curves, Divorce Court, Fame (TV),
- For the Love of Mike, Rich Girl, Superior Court,
- To Grandmother's House We Go, Us, War Dancing, The Young & the Restless,
- 8 Seconds
-
- Graham Greene
-
- Benefit of the Doubt, The Broken Chain, Clearcut, Cooperstown,
- Dances with Wolves, Earth and the American Dream,
- The Last of His Tribe, Maverick, North, Powwow Highway,
- Rain Without Thunder, Revolution, Running Brave, Savage Land,
- Thunderheart
-
- Jessica Lundy
-
- Doogie Howser, M.D., Hope and Gloria, The Second Half, Seinfeld
-
- Valerie Mahaffey
-
- Fresno, Her Secret Life (aka Code Name: Dancer), L.A. Law, Quantum Leap,
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder, The Powers That Be,
- Till Death Us Do Part, Wings, Woman of the House, Women of Valor
-
- Don McManus (note: this may or may not be Don R. McManus (Erick))
-
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Double Standard, Gunsmoke: The Long Ride,
- Head Office, Josh and S.A.M., Killer Party, Knight Rider 2010,
- Telling Secrets, True Colors, White Mile
-
- Rob Morrow
-
- Fame, Private Resort, Saturday Night Live, Spencer for Hire, Tattingers,
- Quiz Show
- Mastercard (commercial, voice-over), Dentyne (commerical)
-
- Peg Phillips
-
- Chase, Dangerous Affections, Dogfight, Plainclothes,
- Waiting for the Light
- Dominick's (commercial)
-
- Teri Polo
-
- Mystery Date, Aspen Extreme, Golden Gate
-
- Paul Provenza
-
- Comedy Tonight, Comics Only, Empty Nest, The Facts of Life,
- Pursuit of Happiness, The Sunday Comics
-
- Rita Taggart
-
- 1941, Almost Grown, Born to Be Sold, The Cartier Affair,
- The China Syndrome, Coach, Coupe de Ville, Crossing the Bridge,
- The Horror Show (aka House III), Inmates: A Love Story, Mae West,
- Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case, Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris,
- Splash, Too, Straight Time, Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home!,
- The Webbers, Weeds
-
- Janine Turner
-
- The A-Team, The Ambulance, Behind the Screen, Cliffhanger, General
- Hospital, Knights of the City, Knight Rider, The Love Boat,
- Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear, Quantum Leap (episode "Catch a
- Falling Star", with John Cullum), Steel Magnolias,
- Tai-Pan, Young Doctors in Love
- Chevrolet (commercial)
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Did Cynthia Geary do her own singing?
-
- In the episode "Old Tree," Shelly discovers that she can no longer talk;
- all that comes out of her mouth is music. After both airings of this
- show, the latest burning alt.tv.northern-exp question was "Did she do
- her own singing?" (Shelly is now song-less, having lost the ability
- during her 18th week of pregnancy [The Three Doctors].)
-
- Yes, Cynthia Geary did all of her own singing for this episode. She has a
- degree in voice from Univ. of Mississippi. The songs in the brick and
- their apartment were pre-recorded and played back during filming (lip-
- synched); the scene in Joel's office is live and a'capella.
-
- The song about the lady and the snake is not original; that is, the story
- goes back a long time (other versions of the parable include a frog and
- a scorpion.) All of her other songs were written for the show.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Contacts
-
- Pipeline Productions has shut down and can no longer accept
- mail about the show.
-
- To order copies of scripts:
-
- Script City
- 8033 Sunset Blvd.
- Suite 1500
- Hollywood, CA 90046
- 1-800-676-2522
-
- They have a limited set of scripts, for only these episodes:
- The Pilot, A-Hunting We Will Go, Animals R Us, The Big Kiss, Blowing
- Bubbles, The Body in Question, The Bumpy Road To Love, Burning Down the
- House, Cicely, Dateline: Cicely, Democracy in America, The Final Frontier,
- Get Real, Head Thyself, Homesick, It Happened in Juneau, Jules et Joel
- (incomplete), My Mother/My Sister, Northern Hospitality, On Your Own, Our
- Tribe, Our Wedding, Oy Wilderness, A River Doesn't Run Through It, Roots,
- Seoul Mates, Thanksgiving, Things Become Extinct, Wake-Up Call.
-
- The Pilot script costs $19.95. All others cost $14.95.
-
- =======================================================================
-
- Acknowledgements
-
- Much thanks to the following people for helping to edit this document,
- and for helping with contributions to this document (whether they realize
- it or not :-):
-
- Richard Ahrens, Iain Anderson, Melanie Arabsky, Fred Azier, Pam Baker,
- Jason Bassford, Andy Bates, Rob Bednark, Terje Berg, Fred Bertelsen,
- Tin Blaskovic, Greg Bole, Brian Boutel, David Bowen, Ken Brody,
- Melissa Brown, Rodney Brown, Stan Brown, Denise Bryngelson, John Cohen,
- Tad Cook, Claudio Costa, Cliff Chen, Terence Chua, Michael E. Costello,
- Tony Daniel, Eric DeMund, Anton de Weger, Adam Dobrzycki, Peter Douglas,
- Maureen Dyokas, James Easton, Ulrich Fieseler, Nick C. Fotis, Ralph Foy,
- Brian Fristensky, Howard Gershen, Maria Giannoni, Gordan Gledec,
- Gary Goldberg, Dan Goldstein, Lee Groves, F.F. Jacot, Guillarmod,
- V. M. Haas, Eric R. Hanson, Rob Heerdink, Peter Hillstrom,
- Doug Hogarth, Anthony Horan, Wendy Hui, Tatsuaki Ihata, Heather Jarman,
- Thomas E. Janzen, Kay Jones, Kerrin Rhys Jones, Joe Kirby, Larry Klaes,
- Visa Kopu, Sascha Krasny, Anne R. Kubelik, Herman Kuiper, Sean Lamont,
- Jack Lee, Michael Lefever, Chris Lehto, Larry J Lennhoff, Wm. Linden,
- Joe Lynn, Rick Maddy, Declan Malone, Matt Mccoy, Michael Robert McGrade,
- Bob McQueer, Doug Merrett, George Mitchell, Pekka Makela, Davorin Mestric,
- David G. Moore, Tim Moors, Ronan Mullally, Andrew P. Murphy, Aaron Naas,
- Bill Newman, Henry W. Nunes, Il Hwan Oh, Tom Owens, Tomasz Papszun,
- Tomaz Craig Patten, Louise Penberthy, Pascal Peng, Aveline Perez,
- Kate Perkins, George Pete, Tim Pierce, Richard J. Pugh, Bill Pulliam,
- A.E. Rednick, Darren Reiniger, Douglas J Renze, Evan Rosser, Martin Rothaemel,
- Gunther Sablon, Melissa Safran, Timothy W. Saffel, Erin Sasaki, AJ Schricker,
- Debbie Schwartz, Jude Shabry, Tim Short, Craig Smith, Forrest Smith,
- Werenfried Spit, Hal Stein, Gary Stephens, Rick Stickle, Kimiye Tipton,
- Wendy Toiwan Hui, Lee Tsen-Ta, Micheal Tucker, Steven Vest, Larry W. Virden,
- Steve Webb, Jeff Witzer, Gordon Wong, David Yang, Artur Zaroda,
- Oliver Zechlin, Eriks Ziemelis,
- Reid (urrraymon@msuvx1.memst.edu), pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz,
- Dan <johnkey@maths.tcd.ie>, The Bean <kds52568@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>,
- <a1burokas@aol.com>, <joel@cs.utexas.edu>, yox@news.delphi.com,
- jailbait@valhalla.intercon.com, ZOOL190@csc.canterbury.ac.nz,
- mertonb@aol.com (MertonB), dougho@microsoft.com, CECILS@delphi.com,
- SANT_M@CHO004.CHO.GE.COM (Martan), Brenda <frsbear@aol.com>,
- Kristi <racer@racerrecords.com>
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