Dr. Joel Fleischman arrives in Anchorage, Alaska to fulfill his part of a bargain that paid $125,000...

Ed asks Dr. Fleischman to help him convince his uncle, a traditional tribal medicine man, to seek me...

A hermit takes Joel's advice to put his affairs in order and leaves all his considerable land holdin...

Joel's mind is on helping Maurice sell Alaska as the "new Riviera" to two Japanese businessmen in ho...

A virulent strain of flu, whose only treatment is a smelly Indian concoction brewed up by Marilyn, k...

A young man from Saskatchewan further rocks the already delicate relationship between Shelly and Hol...

Maurice feels his mortality after his brother dies, and decides to adopt Chris as the Minnifield hei...

The approach of the Aurora Borealis and the constant light produces some strange behavior among the...

Joel receives a "Dear John" letter from Elaine, who has decided to marry an older judge, and a conce...

Ed's wish to know who his parents were summons up a 256-year-old Indian spirit named "One-Who-Waits"...

Holling decides to be circumcised to please Shelly, Chris and Maurice organize the town to keep watc...

Joel's plans for a vacation to New York are sidetracked by Maggie's dreams about his death in an air...

Things get a little crazy as the town waits for the annual ice breakup and the annual ""running of t...

A Soviet celebrity returns to Cicely for some relaxation, some borscht and a deadly serious chess ma...

The infamous O'Connell curse seems to have claimed another victim when a falling satellite hits Rick...

Maggie is devastated when the unveiling of a statue in Rick's memory uncovers his life and loves awa...

Maurice sulks over what he believes is an unflattering photo taken by Holling, Maggie worries about...

Maggie and Joel are forced to rough it when her plane is forced down by mechanical problems, and She...

Maggie becomes convinced that the stray dog that's adopted her is Rick reincarnated. Maurice tries t...

On Halloween Joel hits his head, presaging a visit from his twin brother Jules. Chris and Ed set out...

Chris' discovery of the frozen body of a Napoleonic Frenchman raises many questions for Joel, has Ma...

Joel's former fiancé Elaine, now a widow, comes to visit. Chris' half-brother Bernard returns just a...

Joel decides to explore the fascination of hunting by accompanying Chris and Holling on their annual...

A stranded bus of carnival performers brings romance to Marilyn, doubts about her future to Maggie,...

The holidays in Cicely see Joel experimenting with an unfamiliar Christmas tree, a clumsy Maggie sud...

Maurice hires a colorful but questionable new investigative reporter for his newspaper, Maggie tries...

Joel agrees, under pressure from Marilyn, to be adopted by a grateful village elder, but wonders if...

The death of his uncle sends Holling out to his still and into an orgy of self-doubt, Joel feels iso...

Maggie receives an unexpected visit and some unwanted news from her mother. Meanwhile, Chris searche...

The mayoral incumbent, Holling, faces opposition from an old friend with a long memory. Chris grows...

The death of an old friend sends Maurice and Holling packing off into the snowy wilderness to bury h...

The hypochondriac, Eve comes to town to ask about her latest symptoms, but Joel is preoccupied with...

An abandoned baby gets attention from the whole town and helps awaken Adam's paternal instincts whil...

As spring blossoms, Shelly suffers from a skin rash, Holling gives away eggs, Joel gets a new outloo...

Maurice becomes curious about the influx of Japanese tourists to the area during the Northern Lights...

Joel foresees sophisticated delights when he travels to Juneau for a medical conference but winds up...

As their wedding approaches, Adam debates with Joel about women and Eve lets a gung-ho Shelly take o...

Joel meets an old man who's returned to Cicely after many years. The man tells him the story of two...

Maggie must come to grips with her 30th birthday and the ghosts of her dead boyfriends by using an I...

Joel is charged with energy as the sun hasn't set and he uses his pent up energy to try to coach Cic...

Chris kills a pet loving mathematician's dog; he falls in love with her and then while taking care o...

A heavy metal rock star comes to Cicely and gets Ed to make a documentary on a rock festival he is h...

Cicely's newest resident, Mike Monroe, is confined to live in a plastic bubble because of M.C.S. (Mu...

The ever-quiet Bob returns to Cicely, with "The New Perception Players" and still hopes to win Maril...

Holling's less than honest daughter arrives in Cicely and begins to operate. Holling and Shelly have...

The Indians in Cicely celebrate Thanksgiving by throwing tomatoes at white people. Joel is Ed's firs...

An ex-Soviet member of their state security comes to Maurice and offers to sell him the file of all...

Chris is taken into custody for an extradition trial to bring him back to West Virginia, where he cu...

Ed becomes gloomy about the future and begins to share Mike's visions about the future. Maggie digs...

Ruth-Anne pays off her store which gives her great satisfaction and Maurice's great pain; however, E...

One-Who-Waits returns and has positive information on the location of Ed's father and takes Ed to th...

Joel accompanies Maggie as her "boyfriend," in a trip to back to Michigan, where he has been promise...

Holling decides to go back to school to get his high school equivalency certificate. Marilyn goes on...

After breaking his nose, twice, Joel and Maggie have a wild fling in her barn. Chris saves Maurice's...

Maggie forgets about having sex with Joel. Holling and Ruth-Anne go out to find a Siberian Tit, a bi...

Joel goes on strike when the state of Alaska will not allow him time off for a Caribbean vacation he...

A totem pole carved in tribute to the Raven clan reopens a bitter rift between them and the Bear cla...

Maggie is excited when she thinks she has "cured" her latest beau, as opposed to killing him; howeve...

When Maggie distributes the invitations for Maurice's 25th Anniversary Bash for Minnifield Communica...

Joel seeks out other Jews to help him mourn his uncle and Maurice calls out the troops to go out and...

Spring comes to Cicely and Holling pays to get a job on a farm pulling a plow, because of his wish t...

Maurice's son comes to ask for his permission on his choice of a bride. There is a little hitch, Ron...

The town's oldest tree is dying. Shelly wakes up and finds that she can't talk, but she can sing. Th...

Ed wakes up in strange places with no clues about how he got there. Joel contracts "glacier dropsy"...

Maggie investigates the owners of an antique shop who are exhibiting strange behavior. Maurice begin...

Maurice is chosen to be a wax figure at Madame Tussaud's, in London, for their rugged individualist'...

Bernard is surprised when he discovers his new love once lived with Chris for 6 months. Joel starts...

Maggie is asked by the three guys in Cicely's high school senior class to be their homecoming queen...

Joel's parents come to Cicely and his father's know-it-all attitude gets on Joel's nerves and his mo...

Ed hits an impasse in his film career when Maurice has him begin to organize Cicely's first film fes...

Ed accompanies Leonard on a house call and has success with his first try at being a shaman. Joel te...

Chris suffers an anxiety attack during the written part of the exam, when he decides to become a pil...

As the town prepares for winter, a healthy elderly patient tells Joel she is dying, much to his disb...

An agent stops by to see Ed about his idea for "The Shaman" but he wants a few "little" changes made...

The aurora borealis causes the residents of Cicely to swap their dreams, exposing secrets. Maggie ha...

A musician tries to stop Maurice from storing, in his safe, a 1.6 million-dollar violin he's just bo...

The ranger from up in the fire tower asks for Joel when he is distraught over losing his current job...

Ruth-Anne and Walt take the long way back home when they pick up a couple of oak display cases; howe...

Joel discovers that his friends consider him remiss about entertaining them, so he plans a dinner pa...

Ruth-Anne tries learning Italian, so she can read Dante, and gets some help from Shelly. Walt needs...

While fishing Joel hooks "Goony," Cicely's fabled sea-monster. Ruth-Anne takes Chris's motorcycle ri...

Maurice's home catches fire and after it's extinguished there is a danger of asbestos, so he takes s...

Ed tells one person about the fact that he saw Ruth-Anne and Walt together and later she tells him a...

Ron and Erick are getting married but the preparations are driving them apart. Holling undercuts ano...

Ted tries to impress Marilyn with the rich client he's just landed and learns what makes them differ...

Though he promotes it on the air, Chris has reservations about making a donation for Maurice's blood...

Joel is the only one awestruck by his discovery of a frozen woolly mammoth. Chris gets reacquainted...

Joel takes a spiritual journey to New York City after drinking orange juice that contains some India...

With Renaldo, Ed participates in an investigation of possible insurance fraud being perpetrated by H...

Maurice's plans for a fox hunt with his visiting English noblewoman must be put on hold when the fox...

A letter Maggie wrote to herself as a teenager makes her re-examine her current life against the ide...

Satan comes to Cicely as a whirlpool salesman; he offers to fulfill Shelly's fantasy of making the B...

Ed films Marilyn telling the story of a Russian princess and her grandfather. It seems that Lenin an...

Maurice welcomes his young cousin Maurice to Cicely, hopefully to take over the family business. Cha...

Maurice sends Ed after Joel, who's moved up river; and Joel tells Ed of the few days he and Maggie s...

A new doctor and his wife move to Cicely to take over Joel's practice and his house. While settling...

Maggie gets elected mayor. Joel invites Phil up river, for a game of golf and a test. Michelle cover...

Maggie decides to go and see Joel in the Manonash village after she begins to have visions of him dy...

Marilyn comes to visit an old friend in the community where Joel is living and he begins to revert t...

The state of Alaska admits to Joel that they were wrong in over-extending his contract. With his re...

When Maggie's mother and her male friend, who dies, come to visit, she realizes that her luck with m...

Joel finds a map and brings Maggie with him on a quest to find a mythical city. They meet a bellige...

The citizens get ready to celebrate founders' day; Chris and Maggie open an old garage and uncover R...

Maggie outbids Maurice for the ownership of the town's rundown theater which she begins to run with...

Ruth-Anne makes her debut on National Public Radio telling about little slices of life from Cicely....

Ed resents Maurice's advice about his relationship with Heather. Chris believes that Maggie needs a...

Michelle decides to mount a stage production of "Bus Stop" unaware of the curse that has plagued pas...

Ed learns the responsibilities of parenthood when he begins caring for a lost bear cub. Maurice disc...

Chris begins taking dance lessons from Marilyn but she disciplines one of her other students into gi...

Maurice's plans to ask Barbara to marry him while spending the weekend at his new summer home are in...