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Northern Exposure Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 1991 - 1991
Episode 1
Goodbye to All That
Mon, Apr 8, 199160 mins
Hearing his New York fiancée Elaine has dumped him for another, Joel gets depressed and fears he is too old to have another lover. The men try to cheer Joel up with male bonding and even Maggie as stand-in for closure. Holling worries because his fiancée Shelly spends all her time and his money on the TV's shopping channel. Chris tries to talk some sense into her.
Episode 2
The Big Kiss
Mon, Apr 15, 199160 mins
The movie Boys Town (1938) inspires mestizo foundling Ed to start looking for his parents. As the tribal stories all contradict, he sets out on a quest for his roots, helped by the invisible Ancient spirit of chief One-Who-Waits, who appeared in his sleep, according to Joel an imaginary friend. Joel can nor more diagnose a medically sensible cause for Chris Stevens sudden loss of voice, which he attributes to the passing-by of a dream-girl. Meanwhile Holling must stand-in as radio DJ.
Episode 3
All Is Vanity
Mon, Apr 22, 199160 mins
Holling impresses Shelly with chivalrous 'bravery', but a remark from her makes him inquire about circumcision - not recommended for an adult man according to Joel. After Chris broadcasts the locally unprecedented procedure, Holling dares not pull out. Maggie pretends to her visiting father, Frank O'Connell, she has a 'perfect boy-friend', without warning Dr. Joel Fleischman that he's the man for the job - so he enjoys overdoing it. Mayor Maurice commandeers first Ed as the outdoors 'morgue guard', then Joel as a reluctant 'coroner' to help him start the investigation for a John Doe corpse, who is soon claimed by the locals although nobody knows him.
Episode 4
What I Did for Love
Mon, Apr 29, 199160 mins
Joel finally has a chance to return home for two weeks: he gets a substitute doctor, fellow Jewish New Yorker David Ginsberg. Joel instantly takes a growing dislike to him and is suspicious. Maggie tells only Chris and him about her premonition that the flight back would be fatal for Joel. Maurice's intimate astronaut-groupie, Ingred Klochner, consults Joel about the man's sleep-breathing disorder, while he always refused a medical examination.
Episode 5
Spring Break
Mon, May 6, 199160 mins
To Joel's shocked surprise, the impending ice-meltdown submerges Cicely in its annual crazy spring days, including a crime-wave (this year car radio thefts) and lustful cravings. Holling looks for fist-fights, ending up with a surprising outside opponent. Even Joel has his first wet dream, kisses Maggie -who dreams of him- and has an Indian date. Ed finds the thief. Then there's the annual 'bull run'- men in the buff.
Episode 6
War and Peace
Mon, May 13, 199160 mins
Joel prescribes Valium to Holling who fears his dreams, but the Canadian gets frightfully groggy and prefers to use another approach. The whole town celebrates the visit of Nikolai Ivanovich Appolanov, a pop singer known even in New York, who organizes Cecily's annual Russian festival. Patriotic bad chess loser, Maurice, dares him to a duel. Chris holds the annual reading of War and Peace, with original side-comments. Ed has a hot night with a saucy firm girl and considers marriage, but she prefers Chris.
Episode 7
Slow Dance
Mon, May 20, 199160 mins
Joel is startled to hear that Maggie reported her boy-friend Rick Pederson's color blindness to the FAA - that's likely to cost him his professional pilot's license. Anyhow, satellite debris actually crushes Rick, a fatal fluke leaving him and the satellite physically inseparable. Maurice finds and hosts buyers (Ronald Arthur Bantz and Erick Reese Hillman) for a Russian fur-trapper's historic 'Arctic palace' to convert into a hotel, then regrets it but finds their offer hard to resist. Chris offers a positive perspective. Shelly is strangely jealous of Holling's intimate old friend Anita and even of the gray-haired shopkeeper.
