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Northern Disclosure

RERUN - S1E8: “The Aurora Borealis” with Adam Arkin and Richard Cummings

Northern Disclosure

Evergreen Podcasts

Tv & Film

4.6589 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

New episodes of Northern Disclosure will be back soon! This week, we're looking back at our discussion with Adam Arkin and Richard Cummings from Season 1! Adam Arkin and Richard Cummings join Rob and Janine this week to discuss the Season 1 finale episode, “The Aurora Borealis”. Adam and Richard discuss character nuances, the show’s creative process and the special bond formed among the cast and crew while filming “Northern Exposure”. You can also watch full video episodes on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernDisclosurePodcast Northern Disclosure is a production with Evergreen Podcasts – executive produced by Paul Anderson and Scott McCarthy for Workhouse Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, listeners, it's Janine Turner. We took a break, but we will be back with new episodes of Northern Disclosure soon where my fellow actor, Rob Morrow, and I,

0:32.5

Janine Turner, walk through every episode of Northern Exposure for this Watch podcast. And we're thrilled that

0:40.3

you're with us today for episode eight, Aurora Borealis. And of course, I don't know if you're

0:46.8

listening right now or you're watching us, but if you're watching, you can also listen. And if

0:50.7

you're listening, you can watch. Rob wanted to make sure I said that. Yeah, absolutely. You can, if you, if you want to see

0:58.9

Janine's beautiful face, you can go to the YouTube channel and it's, the name of it is Northern

1:05.0

Disclosure. And so you could watch her listen. There you go. And Rob's beautiful face.

1:09.3

Thank you. I let you know, I'm so happy, A,

1:12.1

because of our guests that we're going to introduce in a second, but, but B, this particular

1:16.4

episode, which I watched again yesterday, is, is, I would say it's certainly one of my top. I always say

1:24.8

there was 10 episodes of Northern Exposure that I thought were really

1:27.6

extraordinary out of the 110 and this is one of them. And it's certainly, if not my favorite

1:33.2

of the first season, one of two. How about you? Oh, well, one of two or three, absolutely, because

1:39.1

it was so eccentric and brilliant and the music and the scenery and the corkiness of everything.

1:47.0

Just the way opera music was played behind certain things.

1:51.0

It was just everything came together in this beautiful sort of genius and it was so quirky and fun.

1:57.0

And spiritual and metaphysical and it touched on so many philosophical points and

2:03.6

psychological points. There were so many layers. Young was quoted all the time. And he was in it.

2:08.6

I mean, he's, yeah. It was so much fun. And we should say by the way that the reason this normally we

2:14.8

tape this from our respective homes. Yes.

2:17.9

Rob and I are in the studio together. Because we happened to be in New York, so we thought, why not get together, which we'll do on occasion. They're going to do it in L.A. soon. And we might even do some live, you know, podcasts from here and there. Oh, that'd be fun. And I'll get Rob to Texas on the ranch and I'll have, you want to feed a longhorn? Yeah, I've always wanted to feed a longhorn.

2:35.0

This is number one on your list, right?

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