A newly graduated doctor is offered a highly paid contract to set up his practice in Cicely. Soon he finds out that it’s Cicely, Alaska. After arrival he learns something else - it is not an ordinary town.
1 | Three Doctors |
| The whole town pitches in when Joel is stricken by "Glacier Dropsy"; Ed is confused when he is called to be a shaman; much to her disappointment, Shelly finally stops singing. |
2 | The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop |
| When the world reminds Maurice of his age, he frets himself into having a heart attack; Maggie relives childhood fantasies of being Nancy Drew, detective extraordinaire; Joel is thrilled to find traces of Yiddish in Cicely’s language and history. |
3 | Jaws of Life |
| Maurice is tormented by a wax replica of himself; Chris discovers that he may live long enough for youthful indiscretions to catch up to him; the dental mobile comes to Cicely. |
4 | Altered Egos |
| Chris is disturbed that Bernard’s girlfriend, who is also Chris’ ex-lover, cannot tell them apart in bed; Joel is obsessed that he is losing his New York edge; Marilyn snoops through Dr. Fleischman’s medical files to pick a healthy man. |
5 | A River Doesn’t Run Through It |
| Maggie is Homecoming Queen; Maurice reluctantly admits a business defeat; Ruth-Anne is audited. |
6 | Birds of a Feather |
| When Joel’s parents trek to Cicely, it ends up being a soul-searching time for all three; Holling shocks everyone when he reveals that he is bored by sports. |
7 | Rosebud |
| Maurice enlists Ed’s expertise to organize a film festival in Cicely; Joel is pressured to join Cicely’s volunteer fire department. |
8 | Heal Thyself |
| Ed is taunted by the Green Man; Holling shocks Shelly when he is disruptive during birth class; Maggie misses the weekly laundromat gossip-fest when she buys her own washer and dryer. |
9 | A Cup of Joe |
| Holling and Ruth-Anne discover that their grandfathers knew each other - and one ate the other; Chris attempts to become a licensed pilot; Joel discovers that Marilyn is a supersleuth. |
10 | First Snow |
| Joel is traumatized by the natural death of an older patient and friend; Maurice is devastated when Shelly lies about ever loving him; Maggie has a nagging sense that something is missing when she spruces up her house for winter hibernation. |
11 | Baby Blues |
| Shelly is nervous about childbirth; Ed discovers cutthroat showbiz; Maggie and Joel dislike kids. |
12 | Mr. Sandman |
| When the Aurora Borealis goes haywire, everyone in Cicely is swapping dreams; Holling develops a severe psychosomatic aversion to food; Maurice deals with his fetish for women’s footwear. |
13 | Mite Makes Right |
| Maggie becomes obsessed with dust mites; Maurice gets more than he bargained for when he invests in a rare violin; Chris reaches an artistic impasse on a sculpture. |
14 | A Bolt from the Blue |
| Maurice and Adam clash over the hired help for a fireworks display; Joel tutors a patient on the art of conversation; Ed is struck by lightning. |
15 | Hello, I Love You |
| Shelly finally gives birth; Ruth-Anne and Walt are stranded overnight; Maggie and Joel become less competitive. |
16 | Northern Hospitality |
| Maggie teaches Joel a lesson in social etiquette; Chris is shaken when a KBHR listener blames him in his suicide note; Shelly takes Randi to Canada to see her roots. |
17 | Una Volta in L’Inverno |
| Joel and Maggie are forced to take refuge in an airfield shack during a snowstorm; Ruth-Anne studies Italian with Shelly as her unlikely tutor; Walt becomes addicted to a special light visor to help his depression caused by the short days in northern areas. |
18 | Fish Story |
| Joel has an otherworldly experience when Maggie wants to prepare a Passover dinner for him; Ruth-Anne abandons the store for the open road; Holling takes up paint-by-numbers. |
19 | The Gift of the Maggie |
| Maurice learns about the give-and-take of friendship; Joel is depressed when he has no one to "talk shop" with; Chris learns a life lesson from a benevolent deer. |
20 | A Wing and a Prayer |
| Ed spreads gossip about Ruth-Anne’s love life; Maggie builds a home-kit airplane; Holling and Shelly baptize Randi. |
21 | I Feel the Earth Move |
| Ron and Erick tie the knot after eight years; Maggie develops a severe nausea that she thinks is caused by Joel. |
22 | Gran Prix |
| Maurice brings the world-renowned sport of wheelchair racing to Cicely; Ed battles External Validation to help a patient; Ted learns of the loneliness of wealth. |
23 | Blood Ties |
| Maggie’s childhood male friend from Grosse Pointe arrives in Cicely; Joel loses his confidence during the annual blood drive; Ed thinks he’s finally found his mother. |
24 | Lovers and Madmen |
| Joel discovers a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth; Maurice breaks a concert violinist out of an asylum for a private performance; Chris gets a rude awakening when his high-school crush visits. |
