Medfet in Northern Exposure?

Anyone remember the TV series Northern Exposure? I remember that the critics loved it back in the day, but it seems to have completely disappeared from reruns. It is out on DVD but I have never seen a copy.

Were there any good medfet scenes in this series? I remember an episode with a cute woman patient getting her blood drawn from her arm while the doctor chatted her up, but that's about it.

I absolutely loved that show! I am a huge Rob Morrow fan because of that. He is the one that played Dr. Joel Fleishman, the doctor from New York seemingly out of place in Alaska.

I own all of them on DVD. I don't really remember any particularly good medical scenes though, but I could be mistaken. I really enjoyed the bantering relationship between the Doc and Maggie, very hot!

I also believe the woman getting her blood drawn was the woman who played Shelly, she was dating Holing, a man who was old enough to probably be her grandfather. And if memory serves me correctly, Dr. Fleishman was drawing her blood because he thought she was pregnant.

Gosh darn I love that show! It ranks up there right below M*A*S*H, and if you look at my name, you will understand that a ranking like that means something to me, lol.

Mashie:

I loved that show very much... a good combination of the rural community aspect in a primitive area (not wall to wall urban) and modern times. I don't remember any med fet aspects to the show. I think that Fleishman (Rob Morrow) did an excellent job of being what I think of as a typical New Yorker (mind you, I've only known a few Real Ones in Real Life); being dropped into a situation almost beyond his control, sort of 'Woody Allen'ish in his neurotical view of life. I guess it's the romantic in me, but I kept hoping that he and Maggie would finally get together. Oh, and that crazy Moose during the opening credits... so typical of small town on the edge of civilization. Holling, and Shelly, definitely fet material there, just not med fet. The d.j. with his closing soliloquy. Excellent writing; one never knew just what was going to happen in the next episode. The retired Astronaut was an interesting touch...

This topic kind of reminds me of the movie "Doc Hollywood" where Michael J. Fox is driving through a small town and gets stranded while on his way to the big city where he is supposed to become a doctor. If I had been in his place, I would have loved to examine the woman he fell in love with in that movie.

Cos and gfreak,

I could go on and on and on about Northern Exposure. The DJ was Chris in the morning. He always put an interesting spin on things around that town, from where he sat he could see everything. Maurice Minnifield (sp?) was the retired Astronaut. I always loved that little NASA touch he brought to the show and to the town.

There was just so much about that show that touched me. Then and now, as I view them today I see different things in them that I didn't see when I watched them the first time. I can appreciate them more, the dynamics of the relationships and the complexities with in those relationships as well.

I grew up playing in NASA itself. I could greatly appreciate a lot of what Maurice was saying, and how he still so strongly realized the true grandeur of what NASA really is. John Glen used to hold me, and there wasn't a door at the Cape I couldn't go in back then. My mother always worried that I might "catch" something from one of those astronauts, lol. But then back then it was still thought that you got a cold from being cold, etc.

As far as Rob Morrow is concerned, well, he ran around in my dreams quite a bit when that show was out, and once in a while still shows up. I don't think they could have picked a better actor for that part, and I feel it took a "true New Yorker" to be able to really play Joel as he was meant to be played.

As far as the good doctor and Maggie were concerned, I read a piece on the show called "A Better End" that ended the show much differently. This person was trying to pitch it to CBS, and honestly, I liked her version much better as it had Maggie I believe getting the good doctor back to Alaska, and them married. But the writer removed it from the net. As crazy as it sounds, after reading this woman's "better end", it helped to tie up some issues I had and settled me with Maggie and Joel. If I could find it, I would send it to you. Consequently, I believe I read something about that moose that appeared in the open credits. I believe his name was Morty, but I could be wrong there, and also if I remember, Morty showed up unexpectedly, and just fit into the theme of the show so well, he ended up staying and being incorporated into the show's logo....or maybe they had the logo and Morty showed up, chicken or the egg thing, but made for a great opening shot for sure.

gfreak, Doc Hollywood is and will remain one of my favorite movies. While it doesn't quite have that Northern Exposure charm, it is still about a big city doc being tossed into the middle of BFE. It was so cute how he saved the pig, and how she taught him to pee on things to keep the wild life from being hunted by hunters. Oh what that city slicker must have thought about that, lol.

Ahhh, good memories, good memories.