Holy fucking shit! “Northern Exposure” is STREAMING!

I'm in Spain and it's available via streaming from a couple of sources. And at least one of big Internet/cable network channels shows three episodes twice daily without commercials (somewhat scrambled in their chronology, which I rather like.) The availability in both forms got favorable attention from the newspapers.

It's a favorite American series and it was some years since I had seen it.

"Doctor in Alaska" is the title here.

Music rights rarely affect streaming. They affect physical media. Shows that were created before the streaming era aren’t as affected. The contracts were different and streaming us treated as if it were syndicated.

No this show regularly used to air syndicated on A+E and was also offered on DVD (with the music changed).

The Amazon deal restores the original soundtrack.

R2, shows like Dawson Creek and Melrose Place are streamed with music replaced

Does this mean Crazy Janine Turner is going to receive royalty checks? I wonder what she does for an income now.

I never saw this show, but decided to give it a shot since it’s highly regarded and now streaming. I started watching it about two weeks ago and I’m right now watching season three episode 17. I really like it. It’s easy to watch.

Joel can be a little much (whiny), but I like most of the characters. Marilyn cracks me up with how deadpan she is and Chris is hot as fuck. John Corbett was a smokeshow, especially with the longer hair. I might watch that Big Fat Greek movie next.

I have to assume Joel and Maggie eventually hookup. Why makes Janine Turner crazy now?

I'm watching the show. I purchased it on iTunes when it was on sale for 29.99. I have a crush on 1990s Rob Morrow

R6, she's a MAGA loon

That's a shame. I like her on the show. She's really pretty. A natural beauty. Too bad she's a moron.

Weird fun fact: she used to date Alec Baldwin. She's a right-wing nutball like r8 mentions. She's not quite as far gone as Victoria Jackson, though that may have changed. I haven't heard of her activities in ages.

I loved Northern Exposure when it first aired and never missed an episode (although I remember toward the end of its run thinking it should have ended earlier). I'm only a few episodes into the first season now and still find it largely enjoyable, mainly for the citizens of Cicely, less so for Joel and Maggie. He's OK, but Turner plays her (so far) as a borderline harpy and their Beatrice and Benedict schtick is already tired. We've seen TV before, show! I did have to laugh at Maurice canning Chris In The Morning for reading Walt Whitman on the air and then filling in for him and broadcasting nothing but show tunes. And the early '90s clothes, especially for Joel, are hilaricringe. And the soundtrack remains a treat.

"Doctor in Alaska" made me laugh, R1.

I liked Marilyn. And Ed Chigliak!

A young Rob Morrow was pure sex.

Really? He’s cute but pretty average.

I might check out that other show he was in, Numbers. Anyone watched that? Worth it?

I haven’t seen this since it first aired, and I’m enjoying the rewatch. I love Marilyn and Ruth-Anne the most. Also, I don’t remember thinking this before, but Holling is FLAMING!

I never watched the show, but one time I flipped the channel to it and it was the episode they played the Ojibway Square Dance song. I really liked and I still listen to occasionally. I think the Indian woman was visiting Seattle and wandering around while the song played.

I just started to re-watch NE this weekend. It has held up pretty well after all these years.

Rob Morrow is absolutely adorable, a very cute smile! Maggie is annoying (I remember that from the first run), the quirky characters of Cicely really make the show enjoyable. Also, some great "character" actors.

Is Cold Case streamed with music intact?

did I understand correctly from post above that the Northern Exposure DVDs sold years ago have replaced the music? thx

R18 yes. It’s on HBO max.

Loving this show all over again! Did Marilyn come off as somewhat downsy to anyone else?

My mom loved this show. She got me to watch it. I've always been a little turned off by Rob Morrow, and wasn't wild about Janine, so that was a problem, but I loved everyone else so I usually enjoyed it. Thought Ed was really cute.

[quote]Did Marilyn come off as somewhat downsy to anyone else?

No, just very quirky..

Apparently the music is intact. Lindsey Buckingham's "D.W. Suite" (his paean to then recently deceased Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson) opens and closes "Spring Break," season 2, episode 5.

[quote] Both actor and character are half Native American. One-quarter Cherokee and one-quarter Apache, Burrows has light-colored hair that he must dye bi-weekly for the show.

(About Darren E. Burrows, who played Ed.)

About the music, Daniel Lanois' "Jolie Louise" should be in the pilot episode, but instead they inserted a substitute that sounds something like it, but is a different song.

Yes, I just checked for the Daniel Lanois song in the pilot episode, R26, and it's not in the version I'm watching in Spain. I was curious because while there are still many songs throughout the series, the volume of the music is suspiciously low, such that you're aware of it as a deep background, low and mumbly and not recognizeable as songs or artists I've heard before. It's not every song, there are a fair number of recognizable songs left in place, but they appear to have culled some of the expensive/difficult songs and replaced them with quite unremarkably generic filler. With the volume dialed down on the music and the filler songs, the music is less a part of the story than it was originally.

I still love the series and it holds up fine less the music, but a pity all the same to have many instances of mumbly filler music in place of what once was carefully chosen for a scene.

i may have missed it if mentioned above....but on the DVD sets originally released, was the original licensed music intact?

thx

R28: There is at least one DVD collection advertised with original music (but read caveat about player requirements.)

My first exposure to Rob Morrow.