Northern Exposure: Season 1

A doctor from New York City adjusts to life in a rural town in Alaska.

Joel (Rob Morrow) attempts to treat Ed's (Darren E. Burrows) uncle (Frank Sotonoma), an American Indian medicine man who rejects modern methods. With Janine Turner.

Maggie (Janine Turner) admires Joel (Rob Morrow) when he proposes donating some recently inherited land back to the Indians, until she discovers his true motive. With Darren E. Burrows.

Holling (John Cullum) leaves an expectant Shelly (Cynthia Geary) waiting at the altar; Joel (Rob Morrow) convinces some Japanese investors to buy his way out of Cicely.

A flu epidemic in Cicely spoils Joel's (Rob Morrow) romantic reunion with his visiting fiancee, Elaine (Jessica Lundy), who is befriended by Maggie (Janine Turner).

A shocked Holling (John Cullum) learns that Shelly (Cynthia Geary) is married when her husband (Brandon Douglas) arrives in Cicely to ask for a divorce.

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.

While Joel gives Ed golf lessons, the Indian warns him Adam is around, the never actually seen monster-prankster, blamed for all kinds of weirdness for some 15 years. Passing the night in his car in the woods after diagnosing a park ranger Burns, Joel is apparently robbed, actually taken in, by very human loner Vietnam vet Adam. Chris is delighted his instinctive sculptural inspiration fits the astronomical phenomenon Aurora Borealis (northern light). Chris accepts help from lost motor-biker Bernard, and discovers they share a lot, even an identity essential.