Northern Exposure

• Rob Morrow: Dr. Joel Fleischman
• Janine Turner: Maggie O'Connell
• Barry Corbin Maurice Minnifield
• John Cullum: Holling Vincoeur
• Darren E. Burrows Ed Chigliak
• Cynthia Geary Shelly Tambo
• John Corbett: Chris Stevens
• Adam Arkin Adam

Northern Exposure (Original Title: Northern Exposure ) is an American television series from 1990 to 1995, which had great success due to their unusual appearance and laconic humor. Scene of the series was the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska. The outdoor shooting took place primarily in the city Roslyn (Washington).

Characters

The focus of the series is Dr. Joel Fleischman, a Jewish doctor from New York who has practiced for four years in the small town of Cicely, Alaska as the state has funded him his medical studies.

Other important characters that appear throughout the series are:

• Mary Margaret " Maggie " O'Connell, determined and independent bush pilot, (eg hit by a satellite, like from an oil platform and drowned, made ​​a wrong turn on a rocket test site, asleep on a mountain hike and froze ) their lovers are all died in extremely bizarre accident and is connected by a love-hate relationship with Fleischman;
• Maurice J. Minnifield, former Mercury astronaut, an aging millionaire, entrepreneur, and all-American hero who wants to make Cicely the latest boomtown;
• Holling Gustaf Vincoeur, bar owner, for many years mayor, friend of Maurice - until he unharnessed him Shelly; married to Shelly.
• Edward "Ed" Chigliak, Indian filmmakers.
• Shelly Marie Tambo Vincoeur, former Miss Northwest Passage, girlfriend and later wife of Holling;
• Christopher " Chris " Stevens, philosophical radio host, Shop priest and ex-convict;
• Marilyn Whirlwind, Indian receptionist of Dr. Fleischman;
• Ruth -Anne Miller, shop owner and part-time employer of Ed;
• Adam, barefooted hermit - star chef;
• Officer Barbara Semanski, energetic and vigorous police officer, later fiancé of Maurice Minnifield
• Mike Monroe, scientists and researchers, extreme allergy sufferers, for some time with Maggie O'Connell together

Special features of the series

The series is characterized by the fact that it allows the figures next to a personal history and personal development. Thus, the die-hard New York doctor converts over time to a man who certainly find a place in a committed community. From the audience the stories demanded tolerance and imagination. So Ed is " the Waits A " accompanied in some episodes of, an Indian who has long been dead. The fact that this is therefore invisible, prevents any of the other figures, to accept its presence. In other episodes Ed is accompanied by his little green demon " lack of confidence " or seeing characters from the Fellini film Fellini's Roma.

Overall, a picture of a small and quirky community is drawn, whose inhabitants come up with all sorts of idiosyncrasies and quirks.

Broadcast in Germany

First-run

Overall, the series Northern Exposure includes six seasons with a total of 110 episodes. Under the title Northern Exposure it was broadcast from June 10, 1992 on Wednesday evening at 23:00 clock at the private broadcaster RTL. The already late broadcast date has been moved from the third season to another hour back so that the series was broadcast from then until midnight. The broadcast of the fourth season was canceled in December 1993 in the middle of the action.

According to the preliminary end of the series on RTL was Northern Exposure seen from 5 January 1994 which also belong to the RTL Group channels VOX again from the beginning. The first season was aired on Wednesdays always at 21:00 clock, the second Tuesday at 23:00 clock. Season three and four were then every Thursday to see around midnight. The fourth season was shown on VOX with one exception for the first time completely. Series No. 53 ( Lost in the urban jungle, original title Learning Curve ) was apparently inadvertently not shown because the planned Air Date the result already shown in the previous week was resent. The series ran for VOX to July 1995.

After about a year's break was seen in the Sunday morning program of RTL from October 1996, the fifth season of Northern Exposure, the sixth and final season aired in the night from Sunday to Monday after 1:00 clock. These two squadrons were repeated in 1998 in the channel RTL II eve program.

The show never achieved the success they had in the U.S., not least due to a very late broadcast date and constantly changing timeslots in Germany. While in the U.S. very quickly formed a number of fan groups, the series remained relatively unknown in Germany.

Efforts to repeat

Following the broadcast of the series on various RTL Group channels Northern Exposure was for a long time no longer be seen on German television. For several years, a fan community endeavors under the name Dr. Fleischman is again erythrocyte count a repeat of the series on German television.

These efforts initially appeared to succeed, because the newly launched private channels The Fourth agreed to review all 110 episodes of the series from 30 September 2005. The transmission time was from 30 September 2005 first at 6:00 clock, from end of October 2005 at 16:00 clock and since November 14, 2005 at 13:00 clock. For many viewers via cable television, the consequences could not be received, since the transmitter site was switched to the program of the Fourth clock in at 16:00 or 16:30 o `clock. For the first time to see was the unaired in the 1990s episode Lost in the urban jungle. After the broadcast of the series was discontinued at the end of 2005, the first episodes of the series were to be seen again from 1 May 2006. After less than three weeks, the station presented the charisma but again.

Although the transmitter repeatedly claimed to have the right to broadcast all six seasons, was the fourth series only until the end of the fourth season and then put the broadcast and the reference to a to poor ratings. Only months later it turned out that the Fourth has the licenses for the fifth and sixth season never possessed.

Since December 2009, the series on the digital pay TV channel TNT series (including Sky and cable Germany to receive ) to see in the morning program. After the transmitter for a long time only repeated the first four seasons continuously since February 8, 2011 Ramparts also the fifth season.

DVD

As a DVD release in German language is available only from the existing eight episodes of the first season of the series. A publication of other seasons is not planned, because of the German dubbed version of the series only a complete soundtrack is present in the dialogues and the background music used are mixed together. So would all of Universal music pieces used in the original version of the series will subsequently licensed for DVD release.

In the United States, Canada ( NTSC version ) and the UK ( PAL version ) is the original English version of the series and is now fully published in six seasons. In comparison to the German version here lay the tracks with the dialogues and the music separately before, so some pieces of music originally used in the television version of the series were replaced for the DVD release with new ones.