Northern Exposure Season 6

Northern Exposure Season 6 :
The sixth and final season of Northern Exposure originally aired Mondays at 10:00-11:00 pm on CBS from September 19 to December 12 1994 Wednesdays at 10:00-11:00 pm from January 4 to April 26 1995 and Wednesdays at 9:00-10:00 pm from July 12 to July 26 1995.

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 1

Episode 1 - [Dinner At Seven-Thirty]
Details : Joel takes a spiritual journey to New York City after drinking orange juice that contains some Indian folk medicine and sees how life might have been. There he and his wife Shelly a corporate lawyer give a dinner party. Maurice is their doorman and Eugene their elevator operator; Maggie is the au pair for their kids; Bernard is in fashions and Chris is an inarticulate fashion photographer; Ed is a corporate raider; Ruth-Anne runs the internal medical partnership that Joel is trying to join; Holling is a singer who's got agoraphobia (fear of open places). Through the course of the evening they begin to transform into their Cicelian characters.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Diane Frolov | Writer : Andrew Schneider | Director : Michael Fresco |
Air Date : Sep. 19, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 2

Episode 2 - [Eye Of The Beholder]
Details : With Renaldo Ed participates in an investigation of possible insurance fraud being perpetrated by Hayden Keyes. Maggie And Maurice both regret their donations to the library fund-raising auction. A dollhouse from the auction Miranda's 1st birthday and her growth begin to depress Shelly.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jim Charleston | Writer : Robin Green | Writer : Mitchell Burgess |
Air Date : Sep. 26, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 3

Episode 3 - [Shofar So Good]
Details : Maurice's plans for a fox hunt with his visiting English noblewoman must be put on hold when the fox escapes and gets into the protective custody of Ruth-Anne. Firing Marilyn and his lack of concern for Hayden's well-being are two items that haunt Joel Dickensian style during his celebration of Yom Kippur. Meanwhile Holling yearns to make amends for past misdeeds.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : James Hayman |
Air Date : Oct. 03, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 4

Episode 4 - [The Letter]
Details : A letter Maggie wrote to herself as a teenager makes her re-examine her current life against the ideals she had at fifteen. Shelly ignores a chain letter and then bad luck falls on the Vincoeur household. A new barber arrives in Cicely and Chris tries to be his friend but he doesn't want anything to do with an ex-con. A lump is discovered on Joel's head so he goes to Anchorage and finds out the lump may be malignant so he starts to live his life to the fullest.
Guest Cast and Crew : Bill Cobbs | Armand Reiser as State Trooper | Writer : Meredith Stiehm | Director : Jim Charleston |
Air Date : Oct. 10, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 5

Episode 5 - [The Robe]
Details : Satan comes to Cicely as a whirlpool salesman; he offers to fulfill Shelly's fantasy of making the Brick a major casino. Ed makes a mistake and skews the results of a cold medicine test that Joel is running for John Hopkins. Chris gets a ventriloquist's dummy and adds him to his radio show but the dummy becomes more popular because he shoots straight from the hip. Maurice is convinced that Joel's cold medicine contains a new appetite suppressant and he presses Joel to tell him what it is. When that doesn't work he gets Hayden to try to steal the information. To make her fantasy come true all Shelly must do is burn Holling's old bathrobe.
Guest Cast and Crew : Shecky Greene | Director : Lorraine Senna | Writer : Sam Egan |
Air Date : Oct. 17, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 6

Episode 6 - [Zarya]
Details : Ed films Marilyn telling the story of a Russian princess and her grandfather. It seems that Lenin and Anastasia arranged to meet in Cicely to work out an agreement that would reestablish the rule of her family in Russia. Meanwhile an all-terrain vehicle is being prototyped for the Alaskan frontier.
Guest Cast and Crew : Ian Abercrombie | Writer : Diane Frolov | Director : Jim Charleston | Writer : Andrew Schneider |
Air Date : Oct. 31, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 7

Episode 7 - [Full Upright Position]
Details : Maurice welcomes his young cousin Maurice to Cicely hopefully to take over the family business. Charges of static electricity generate a new interest--and a new art project-- for Chris. Meanwhile sparks fly between Joel and Maggie on a Russian airline bound for St. Petersburg where Joel is scheduled to speak at a medical convention.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Oz Scott | Writer : Robin Green | Writer : Mitchell Burgess |
Air Date : Nov. 07, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 8

Episode 8 - [Up River]
Details : Maurice sends Ed after Joel who's moved up river; and Joel tells Ed of the few days he and Maggie spent together where every time they got together there was gunfire. Chris hires a contractor to improve the lot around his trailer and it turns his world upside down. When Walt goes away to check his traps Ruth-Anne realizes that she's fallen in love and tries to fight it.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Diane Frolov | Writer : Andrew Schneider | Director : Michael Fresco |
Air Date : Nov. 14, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 9

Episode 9 - [Sons Of The Tundra]
Details : A new doctor and his wife move to Cicely to take over Joel's practice and his house. While settling in they get to know some quirks of the people and their new environment. After eating a trout Ed starts to see the future. Holling tries to join the Sons of the Tundra and Shelly dislikes the men only aspect. Joel stops by and trades Holling pelts for a new knife.
Air Date : Nov. 28, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 10

Episode 10 - [Realpolitik]
Details : Maggie gets elected mayor. Joel invites Phil up river for a game of golf and a test. Michelle covers Maggie's first city council meeting as mayor and Maggie makes her first motion for a centrally located dumpster but runs into opposition from the fiscal-restraint minded crowd. Maggie's power as mayor becomes a turn on for Chris. Marilyn invests money in a stud dog that doesn't want to mate.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Victor Lobl | Writer : Sam Egan |
Air Date : Dec. 12, 1994

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 11

Episode 11 - [The Great Mushroom]
Details : Maggie decides to go and see Joel in the Manonash village after she begins to have visions of him dying. The Capras are having a small get together but the whole town seems to turn out. Marilyn brings along two friends to the party and because they're snowed in they stay with the Capras whom try to figure out how to get them to leave. Ed's shaman cure for shingles has Phil intrigued he goes to Ed's to find out the secret but finds Ed's filing system less than perfect. Using a computer to database these notes makes Ed afraid.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Diane Frolov | Writer : Andrew Schneider | Director : James Hayman |
Air Date : Jan. 04, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 12

Episode 12 - [Mi Casa Su Casa]
Details : Marilyn comes to visit an old friend in the community where Joel is living and he begins to revert to his old ways. Maurice leaves Ed in charge of his house and he returns to find Ed has taken over the place. The Vincoeurs are house hunting and make an offer on Semanski's place but only after Holling gets a few little details fixed; but does he really want it?
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Robin Green | Writer : Mitchell Burgess |
Air Date : Jan. 11, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 13

Episode 13 - [Horns]
Details : The state of Alaska admits to Joel that they were wrong in over-extending his contract with his release secured Joel returns to Cicely to collect his things. Phil notices there is something wrong with Maurice's new bottled water; the effect causes males and females to reverse roles. Cal escapes and becomes a fugitive in search of an audience. The area where Joel goes does not contain a village named Greenwich.
Guest Cast and Crew : Simon Templeman as Cal Ingraham | Director : Michael Fresco |
Air Date : Jan. 18, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 14

Episode 14 - [The Mommy's Curse]
Details : When Maggie's mother and her male friend whom dies come to visit she realizes that her luck with men runs in the family. Maurice becomes jealous of Holling's friendship with Phil. Ruth-Anne and Walt's relationship is put to the test when she has him help her out in the store.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Robin Green | Director : Michael Lange | Writer : Mitchell Burgess |
Air Date : Feb. 01, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 15

Episode 15 - [The Quest]
Details : Joel finds a map and brings Maggie with him on a quest to find a mythical city they meet a belligerent gatekeeper and when faced with a crossroads Joel sees his future and departs. Phil cleans out some impacted earwax for Chris but Chris sues him for malpractice when his inner ear is damaged. Maurice lets Holling know that Michelle is writing an article on restaurants for Alaska Highways magazine but she can't find any good words to describe the food at the Brick.
Guest Cast and Crew : Clayton Norcross | Writer : Diane Frolov | Writer : Andrew Schneider |
Air Date : Feb. 08, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 16

Episode 16 - [Lucky People]
Details : The citizens get ready to celebrate founders' day; Chris and Maggie open an old garage and uncover Roslyn and Cicely's old Model T. While rebuilding the car Chris starts to show an interest in Maggie. Maurice believes that Miranda is the reincarnation of his uncle so he plans to take a personal interest in her. The Capras look at their financial situation when they wish to build a house on land they've bought. Phil has a major anxiety attack resulting from the onslaught of nature and he tries to get Maurice to buy back the property. Michelle's wish to be different nearly gets her frostbite when she decides to not wear the anonymous gifts she's received.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Janet Greek | Writer : Diane Frolov | Writer : Andrew Schneider |
Air Date : Feb. 15, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 17

Episode 17 - [The Graduate]
Details : Maggie outbids Maurice for the ownership of the town's rundown theater which she begins to run with help of Ed and Heather. Two professors come to Cicely for the oral examination for Chris' master's degree; instead they clash over Chris' dissertation. A young Canadian Air Force lieutenant claims that Holling is his father something proven because Holling sent his mother money every month for 25 years; however that is just covering up a secret from his past. The theatre business causes stress for Maggie.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Sam Egan | Director : James Hayman |
Air Date : Mar. 08, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 18

Episode 18 - [Little Italy]
Details : Ruth-Anne makes her debut on National Public Radio telling about little slices of life from Cicely. The Capras go to Cicely's Little Italy where it turns out there is an exclusive restaurant in the basement of a house and a feud with the people next door and they get caught in the middle. Maggie in her role as mayor must play marriage counselor for Shelly and Holling.
Guest Cast and Crew : Ralph Manza | Director : Stephen Cragg |
Air Date : Mar. 15, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 19

Episode 19 - [Balls]
Details : Ed resents Maurice's advice about his relationship with Heather. Chris believes that Maggie needs a new bowling partner so he holds tryouts and gets the wooly mammoth professor to be her partner. Michelle's success at bowling threatens Phil they fight about it and she moves out. Chris becomes jealous of Maggie's new partner. Lester's wants to produce Ed's script for The Shaman with one change that makes Ed think about what Maurice said to him. Michelle moves out of the house.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Scott Paulin |
Air Date : Apr. 06, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 20

Episode 20 - [Buss Stop]
Details : Michelle decides to mount a stage production of Bus Stop unaware of the curse that has plague past stage productions. Ron helps guarantee that Erick gets a coveted role and Shelly is jealous when Maggie gets the female lead. Hayden designs the sets and a stage with a trap door. Holling Erick and Chris all have issues to deal with about their parts in the play which they discuss while drinking out at Holling's still.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Robin Green | Writer : Mitchell Burgess |
Air Date : Apr. 24, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 21

Episode 21 - [Ursa Minor]
Details : Ed learns the responsibilities of parenthood when he begins caring for a lost bear cub. Maurice discovers that Cicely's population is declining. Chris uses a device that allows him to manipulate his dreams and work out some issues in his relationship with Maggie. Michelle waitresses at the Brick while continuing to work out her issues with Phil.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Sam Egan |
Air Date : Jul. 12, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 22

Episode 22 - [Let's Dance]
Details : Chris begins taking dance lessons from Marilyn but she disciplines one of her other students into giving him the lessons only she doesn't want to be seen talking to him even though they have similar interests. Philip offends Marilyn's mother when he breaks tribal protocols for manners and Michelle confirms his deficiency. Maurice and Barbara travel on a prisoner transport with Cal the violinist to bring him back to the sanitarium; however along the way she falls under the spell of his violin playing causing her to think about violating the rules and letting him go free.
Guest Cast and Crew : Ashleigh Aston Moore as Tori Spencer | Diane Delano as Officer Barbara Semanski | Simon Templeman as Cal Ingraham | Moultrie Patten as Walt | James L. Dunn as Hayden Keyes | Armenia Miles as Mrs. Whirlwind | Writer : Sam Egan |
Air Date : Jul. 19, 1995

Northern Exposure Season 6 Episode 23

Episode 23 - [Tranquility Base]
Details : Maurice's plans to ask Barbara to marry him while spending the weekend at his new summer home are in jeopardy when her style clashes with the way he wants his guests treated. Phil and Michelle continue to try to work out their differences and Ed (in his Shaman capacity) and Joel's Rabbi offer some advice. Chris is on the loose when Maggie doesn't make the journey to Maurice's but soon realizes that he is a changed man. The Vincoeurs stay locked up in their room when Holling is in heat.
Guest Cast and Crew : Armenia Miles as Mrs. Whirlwind | Director : Michael Fresco | Writer : Robin Green | Writer : Mitchell Burgess |
Air Date : Jul. 26, 1995