Are any cable channels currently showing reruns of Northern Exposure? I don’t really want to buy the DVDs, I just wanted to see if this show was running anywhere now. I don’t recall it being rerun in the last 5 years or so, so I would think it should be about due.
Any other NE fans out there?
I haven’t seen it recently. It was way ahead of its time in terms of format and humor. It would probably do well as a new show today.
I liked it. Janine Turner was cute!. And her character was a pilot. The series sure died when Joel left town.
Sorry, I don’t know if it’s still being shown anywhere.
If you don’t mind paying the monthly subscription fee, you could probably get them from Netflix. Of course, in the time it would take you to watch them all, you’d have paid about the same amountof money as if you’d just bought the DVDs.
I have the first three seasons on DVD - if you do buy it, warned: the first two ‘seasons’ are only something like 7 or 8 episodes each. IIRC, it was a summer fill-in show before being picked up for a full season. But they come packed in a nifty little down parka with a moose zipper pull.
The third season is a full 20-some episodes.
I’m planning on buying the fourth season soon.
It holds up well, in my opinion. I watch it on the Playstation while riding my excercise bike. Easy way to knock off 50 minutes of exercise.
Ah, I was allowed to go to bed at 9 on mondays instead of the usual 8 (yeah, as if I were really sleeping, I was usually sneaking a book and flashlight into bed) just to see NE. Ed is still my favorite, I had *such *a crush on him!
I loved that show and watched it from beginning to end.
Some time I might rent the DVDs but I don’t think I’d buy the collection.
I bought Seasons 1 & 2 from Best Buy for $19 during some special. It’s a wonderful show, I have S3 on my Netflix queue…though I am probably going to sell off S1 & 2 at some point. I just bought it because it seemed cheap and I was bored that weekend.
NetFlix might be the best way to go. I loved the show until Joel left, my wife is a Northern Exposure Fanatic.
Northern Exposure played a pretty large part in my decision to move to the Arctic. I have Season One (avec bright orange parka) but I haven’t had S2 or S3 around the house. I’m thinking that I need to hit up my neighbour Bibliocat for them one day.
I will buy the lattes next time! I promise!
Oh yeah. Big NE fan here. I agree it was way ahead of it’s time in humor and writing styles. It was the first time I had a chance to observe a trebuchet up close albeit in a piano launch.
Great stuff.
I liked the lady pilot also but was leery of her ill-fated history with men
Oh. Right. Well, there’s still Dorinda Dursten (Holly Hunter) in Always.
I loved the show, but understood the concept of “Jump the Shark” well before Joel left. It was around the time Anthony Edwards started walking around town in a space suit.
IIRC Rob Morrow was holding out for a higher salary. So they basically wrote him out.
I agree with that. The characters began to change into caricatures. Was that in season 4?
I liked this show, but it wandered all over Channel 4 schedules until it eventually disappeared. I seem to remember that Bakersfield PD was around at the same time, but that ended up in the same black hole of scheduling hell.
Of course. No lattes required.
Probably the best show of the early 90s. And the episode Roslyn and Cecily, the origin myth of the founding of the town, is one of the best episodes of any show ever.
I bought this one for my wife recently. I think I am partial to the Fling episode however. The flight of the burnt out piano to the sounds of Enya is a lasting moment. That and the obligatory reference to the Holy Grail. I love how crestfallen Chris looked when Ed informed him about a cow being flung had already been done.
The Edwards character was a little too quirky even for NE but it was worth it for the episode where he left and he did the Environmental version of the “Grapes of Wrath” speech.
From Memory, so faulty:
Wherever there is refrigerator leaking Freon, I’ll be there.
Wherever there is a leaky oil drum, I’ll be there.
Whenever a big corporation does illegal dumping, I’ll be there.
Etc.
Jim
She was with her (Husband?) two girls on the Merry Go Round horse next to us at Six Flags, Arlington this last July 4th. She looked, in a word, stunning.
Loved the show. Who hasn’t known a Ruth.