Plot summary
Dr. Joel Fleischman arrives in Alaska and is informed that due to a surplus of doctors, instead of working in a modern hospital in Anchorage, he will be the sole doctor in the remote village of Cicely for the next four years, the service he owes as payment for his student loan. He tries frantically to get out of the assignment before realizing the penalties are too steep. Many of the main characters are introduced.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, List of Northern Exposure episodes. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.