0025192666421. New condition. DVD. Run time: 60 mins. Language: English. The opening episode of Northern Exposure s fifth season is even more surrealistic than usual which is saying quite a lot considering the quirky goings on in the Alaskan village of Cicely. Said opener is Three Doctors in which the town s New York-bred doctor Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) aspiring Native American filmmaker Ed Chigliak (Darren E. Burrows) and newlywed Shelly Tambo-Vincoeur (Cynthia Geary) find themselves enmeshed in a cosmic game of hide and seek. Other memorable season five episodes include Jaws of Life in which everyone s nerves are on edge in anticipation of the annual visit by the dentist (Jay O. Sanders); A River Doesn t Run Through It wherein sexy 31-year-old mail pilot Maggie O Donnell (Janine Turner) is asked to be the local high school s homecoming queen (and as a bonus one of the students is played by Jack Black!); Rosebud featuring director Peter Bogdanovich in a story built around Cicely s first film festival; and A Cup of Joe in which Shelly s husband Holling (John Cullum) and storekeeper Ruth-Anne (Peg Phillips) discover that one of their grandparents ate the other one during the Blizzard of 97. And there s more! The town s resident gay couple Ron (Doug Ballard) and Erick (Don R. McManus) decide to get married; Shelly gives birth to a daughter named Miranda who is promptly designated Cicely s 844th citizen; the whole town conspires to cure the redoubtable Walt Kupfer (Moultrie Patten) of his galloping depression; and in the season finale Lovers and Madmen eternal outsider Joel finally resigns himself to the fact that he is a true Son of Cicely. Hal Erickson Rovi