Product Description

The northern lights are shining down on all 24 hilarious offbeat episodes of The Complete Fifth Season of the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning series Northern Exposure! Reunite with Dr. Joel Fleischman (Emmy nominee Rob Morrow) Maggie (Emmy nominee Janine Turner) Chris (Emmy nominee John Corbett) and the rest of the beloved and quirky residents of Cicely Alaska as they take on evil spirits cannibalistic ancestors and the birth of a new resident. Digitally restored for outstanding picture and audio quality this 5-disc collection brings all the heartwarming episodes of Season Five to DVD for the first time ever. Follow the moose to fun today!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 025192666421 Manufacturer No: 61026664

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7922 in DVD
• Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
• Released on: 2006-11-14
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 5
• Dimensions: .70 pounds
• Running time: 1095 minutes

Amazon.com
Welcome back to Cicely, Alaska, where whimsy and magical realism are always in season. While Northern Exposure's heart is as big as all outdoors, its charms are starting to wear a little thin in its penultimate season, particularly John Cullum's New Age-y DJ McDreamy, Chris (one longs for that season 1 episode in which he lost his voice). But there is compensation in such sweet, unexpected moments as the one in "A River Doesn't Run Through It," in which bush pilot Maggie O'Connell (Janine Turner) finds the tape recorder of Dr. Joel Fleishman (Rob Morrow), who is out in the field, and, missing his voice, sits down to listen to one of his tapes. The long-awaited thawing of what Joel calls their "bizarre" relationship is this season's biggest development. Their efforts to "go out" and be nicer to each other are frustrated by such nuisances as a dust-mite allergy ("Mite Makes Right"). Another blessed event is the birth of Shelley's (Cynthia Geary) so-called "Little Pooper," but not before she freaks at impending motherhood ("Baby Blues") and has a series of laundromat encounters with her future child at different stages in her life, from Barbie-playing adolescent to aspiring Dallas Cowboy cheerleader ("Hello, I Love You"). Aspiring young filmmaker and shaman Ed (Darren E. Burrows) finds himself at a crossroads in "Rosebud," one of his better episodes, in which he is charged with organizing a film festival to put Cicely on the map. Peter Bogdanovich, as himself, regales one and all with his Orson Welles stories, and encourages Ed to finally make a movie. A quintessential love-it-or-hate-it Northern Exposure episode is "Mr. Sandman," in which the Northern Lights cause the residents to swap their dreams. The season ends on a heartwarming grace note with "Lovers and Madmen," in which Joel, who has always kept himself aloof from the close-knit community (in "Rosebud," he resists joining the volunteer fire department), at last accepts that he has become a "Cicelian," after discovering a frozen wooly mammoth. Too bad the series couldn't have ended here before finally jumping the caribou in its last season. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

No French subtitles
It is a fabulous show...a wonder of freshness and originality, a joy to watch. So my complaint is rather small, especially compared to the missing music:

I found Seasons 1-3 to be a wonderful aid to working on my French vocabulary and reading ability. Even without a French soundtrack, the subtitles were a great resource. I was completely blindsided by their disappearance after Season 3 (although the product descriptions accurately reflects this).

Northern Exposure 5th season still enjoyable
I always enjoyed this series. This season was one of the best
in the program.

What is not to love
Quirky people, a great setting, excellent writing and a town DJ with a voice like butter, who could ask for anything more? In my opinion this is the best of TV, it was very different and refreshing, nothing "cookie cutter" about it. Great memorable characters, Chris Stevens, Adam, Shelly, Holling and Ed, to name a few. I have been watching it during the writers strike. If you don't have all of the seasons yet get them, enjoy!