Northern Exposure (Alaska) Crowdfunding by "Ed"!

[kaltfeuer]

Hi everyone,

do you remeber the fanstastic TV series "Northern Exposure" from the 1990s?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Exposure

Actor Darren Burrows ("Ed Chigliak") tries to finance at least one final episode of Northern Exposure: "Home Again".

Please pick your perk (you can be part of Cicerly !) over there - but hurry - the campaign ends 17th April 2016!

http://morenoexnow.org/

[Supersonic Scientist]

Oh, I thought that the BAND Alaska were reforming and their new album was going to be called: Northern Exposure and they were crowd-funding the recording bill.

[Scrotum Scissor]

One of the finest TV-series I ever saw. It had everything - and I mean everything. You wanted to live in there, even as a grownup.

[markwoll]

It was a gem. One of the few shows I looked forward to seeing a new episode.

[Digital_Man]

I remember the show. My dad and ex step mother used to watch it. I remember it being a very good drama series. Wasn't the actor who played Ed in the Big fat Greek wedding movies?

[Jerjo]

A coworker of mine had a good friend that worked on that show. She said almost everyone was a gem to work with though Rob Morrow could be a little full of himself once the show got popular. Janine Turner was just a bitch from day one.

My two favorite episodes were Adam's wedding and of course, the catapult in the meadow.

[soundsweird]

One of my favorite series of all time, but doing a final show this many years later? No.

[-=RTFR666=-]

John Cullum is 86! Barry Corbin's 76!

[soundsweird]

and some cast members have passed away...

[JKL2000]

I didn't watch that show much, but I can see how people who did see it as a good memory. It seemed pretty good, I've just always been hesitant to get involved in series' because I just don't like that "roped in" feeling. Although it's happened recently with Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. Though I've slacked off on Walking Dead recently.

[Scrotum Scissor]

John Cullum is 86!

The guy already looked half dead on appearing in No Country for Old Men some eight or nine years back. WAIT! That was Corbett.

[kaltfeuer]

and some cast members have passed away...

"only" Peg Phillips (Ruth-Anne) so far... but time flies

[Lopez]

Rob Morrow

Didn't he leave that show to become a big movie star? Cue the crickets. A la Topher Grace from That 70s Show and Mischa Barton from The O.C.

I liked that show a lot until Rob Morrow left. He took the magic with him.

[Scrotum Scissor]

I liked that show a lot until Rob Morrow left. He took the magic with him.

True. I can still remember the expression in my first wife's face when Fleischman during one of those pseudo-surrealist semi-fourth-wall sequences leaves the woods outside of Cicely and enters a riverboat to cross the Hudson (or whatever); she looked at me in anguish, hesitantly waiting before uttering "Is...is this for real? Joel Fleischman's gone from the series? Just like that?" And then she actually started crying. I'll never forget it. We had enjoyed some 90 episodes of that show in the spur of about two years or so, typically late Saturday evenings after we'd finally succeeded at getting our kid to sleep. I think this is 15-16 years back.

[kaltfeuer]

Thank you for your memories about this series.
I used to watch it back then in the early 90s during my studies. In German TV the series was always broadcast late night. So, not many people know it (nowadays) over here.

Thanks to the excellent re-elease of the whole series we can enjoy the whole series once again in unequalled picture quality and with the original music (for the first time on DVD?) + bonus. It is limited to 3000 pcs and only available through Amazon Germany: http://www.amazon.de/Ausgerechnet-Al...rechnet+alaska
Don´t be afraid: It´s German AND English but no subtitles

[Jerjo]

By now Cynthia Geary (Shelly) must be a MILF?!

[Scrotum Scissor]

By now Cynthia Geary (Shelly) must be a MILF?!

By today's naughty standards, she was pretty much (more or less) a MILF already at the end of the series. Apparently a woman is a MILF at the turn of 25 now, and a cougar by 30.

Christ. I obviously mostly deal in old hags these days.

[ronmac]

Enjoyed the show very much, back when I watched episodic TV. I seem to have moved on from watching series, for better or worse. I am totally out of it WRT to any of the popular shows. Not sure it's a bad thing, though.

Janine Turner was just a bitch from day one.

I used to like her a lot until she opened her mouth after the show went off the air.

[Yodelgoat]

Sicily Alaska was actually a little town called Roslyn up in the Cascades in Washington state. I used to stop by there when I went skiing. The big sign on the side of the Roslyn Cafe, they changed to read Roslyn's Cafe.

I liked the earlier seasons, but they lost me in the last couple seasons. It just got too weird. Fleichman just got too "Alaskan" (nuts), playing golf using branches and rocks. It was his reluctance to embrace Sicily that made it interesting.

Ed was the kid/Shaman in the show, not the full time Radio host. He only occasionally took over that job. The "Chris" guy who was the regular radio host was the one in My great big fat Greek Wedding. "Ed" also was a bass player in a band in the Seattle Area, that never really went anywhere. I think they were part of the pre-grunge movement that totally destroyed the Seattle music scene in the 90's.

It will be interesting to see if he can crowdfund even one episode. I would watch it, if for no other reason - nostalgia.

[-=RTFR666=-]

Enjoyed the show very much, back when I watched episodic TV. I seem to have moved on from watching series, for better or worse. I am totally out of it WRT to any of the popular shows. Not sure it's a bad thing, though.

I used to like her a lot until she opened her mouth after the show went off the air.

Yup, Susan Sarandon Lite she was in Cliffhanger with Sly Stallone, and did some TV commercials. Rob Morrow had some success with the TV series Numbers - that lasted for more than a few seasons, IIRC dinnit? And didn't the Native American actress (the receptionist) pass away?

[Joe F.]

Sicily Alaska was actually a little town called Roslyn up in the Cascades in Washington state. I used to stop by there when I went skiing. The big sign on the side of the Roslyn Cafe, they changed to read Roslyn's Cafe.

Yep.

Most of the interior shots were filmed in a warehouse in Redmond, WA (suburb of Seattle). When the show ended, the company I work for rented the space to use as additional manufacturing footprint. We named the plant "Moosewerks" as a tribute to a couple of Moose. I worked in this location from late '95 until early '02.

There were remnants of the film crew left behind when we moved in (little stickers in a closet with episode names, a phone number for Industrial Light & Magic written in pencil on a wall).

We have since let the building go, and the Wiki entry is wrong in stating that we moved our HQ there.

[ronmac]

Yup, Susan Sarandon Lite

Complete opposite end of the spectrum, though.

[-=RTFR666=-]

Complete opposite end of the spectrum, though.

Yeah, I should've clarified that Blue State/Red State deal between the two of 'em...

[BravadoNJ]

very good show, a town full of very diverse personalities that had great chemistry together.

[simon moon]

Didn't he leave that show to become a big movie star? Cue the crickets. A la Topher Grace from That 70s Show and Mischa Barton from The O.C.

I liked that show a lot until Rob Morrow left. He took the magic with him.

Morrow actually has a pretty successful career going. Not 'movie star' level, but he's worked very steadily.

His latest is playing Barry Scheck in the bad OJ Trial mini-series.

Janine Turner turned into a complete wacko. A birther, and the rest of ridiculous worldview that goes along with that.