Cicely, Alaska
| Northern Exposure | |
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by |
Joshua Brand John Falsey |
| Starring |
Rob Morrow Barry Corbin Janine Turner John Cullum Darren E. Burrows John Corbett Cynthia Geary Elaine Miles Peg Phillips Paul Provenza (1994–95) Teri Polo (1994–95) |
| Theme music composer | David Schwartz |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 110 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | 1990–93: Joshua Brand and John Falsey 1994–95: David Chase, Diane Frolov, and Andrew Schneider |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | Approx 45 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) | Cine-Nevada Productions (1990) Finnegan-Pinchuk Productions (1991-1995) Falahey/Austin Street Productions (1991-1992) Brand/Falsey Productions (1992-1995) Universal Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | July 12, 1990 – July 26, 1995 |
Northern Exposure is an American comedy-drama Northern television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes. It received a total of 57 award nominations during its five-year run and won 27, including the 1992 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, two additional Primetime Emmy Awards, four Creative Arts Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globes. Critic John Leonard called Northern Exposure "the best of the best television in the past 10 years".
A recently graduated New York City physician, Dr. Joel Fleischman, is sent to practice in the town of Cicely, Alaska to fulfill his obligation after Alaska paid for his medical education. Early episodes deal with Fleischman's culture shock in the small town. While the show was nominally premised on the conflict between Fleischman's big city ways and the small-town mores of the Cicely residents, its focus shifted to dive more deeply into the quirky personalities of the eccentric townfolk.
The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991–92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a transplanted New York City doctor and the townspeople of fictional Cicely, Alaska" and its stories of "people of different backgrounds and experiences" clashing but who ultimately "strive to accept their differences and co-exist".
The series was created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, who also created the award-winning shows St. Elsewhere and I'll Fly Away.
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