Season 1 poster

Season 1

(1990)

Cast

Rob Morrow as Joel Fleischman
Rob Morrow

as Joel Fleischman

Janine Turner as Maggie O'Connell
Janine Turner

as Maggie O'Connell

Barry Corbin as Maurice Minnifield
Barry Corbin

as Maurice Minnifield

John Cullum as Holling Vincoeur
John Cullum

as Holling Vincoeur

Darren E. Burrows as Ed Chigliak
Darren E. Burrows

as Ed Chigliak

John Corbett as Chris Stevens
John Corbett

as Chris Stevens

Cynthia Geary as Shelly Tambo
Cynthia Geary

as Shelly Tambo

Episodes

Pilot poster

Pilot 7.0

July 12, 1990

Dr. Joel Fleischman arrives in Anchorage, Alaska to fulfill his part of a bargain that paid $125,000 for his medical ed…

Brains, Know How and Native Intelligence poster

Brains, Know How and Native Intelligence 4.9

July 19, 1990

Ed asks Dr. Fleischman to help him convince his uncle, a traditional tribal medicine man, to seek medical treatment for…

Soapy Sanderson poster

Soapy Sanderson 6.8

July 26, 1990

A hermit takes Joel's advice to put his affairs in order and leaves all his considerable land holdings to be jointly ad…

Dreams, Schemes and Putting Greens poster

Dreams, Schemes and Putting Greens 7.0

August 2, 1990

Joel's mind is on helping Maurice sell Alaska as the "new Riviera" to two Japanese businessmen in hopes of becoming the…

Russian Flu poster

Russian Flu 7.2

August 9, 1990

A virulent strain of flu, whose only treatment is a smelly Indian concoction brewed up by Marilyn, keeps Joel from enjo…

Sex, Lies and Ed's Tapes poster

Sex, Lies and Ed's Tapes 7.0

August 16, 1990

A young man from Saskatchewan further rocks the already delicate relationship between Shelly and Holling. Ed suffers fr…

A Kodiak Moment poster

A Kodiak Moment 7.2

August 23, 1990

Maurice feels his mortality after his brother dies, and decides to adopt Chris as the Minnifield heir, but the title do…

Aurora Borealis: A Fairy Tale for Big People poster

Aurora Borealis: A Fairy Tale for Big People 7.8

August 30, 1990

The approach of the Aurora Borealis and the constant light produces some strange behavior among the residents of Cicely…