Welcome back to Northern Disclosure, the podcast that explores the making, the behind the scenes, the themes, the ideas behind the TV series Northern Exposure. I'm here with my beautiful

co-host, Janine Turner. Janine, how you doing today? I'm fine. Thank you. I have my notes. I have all my

notes of all the lines from the show that I loved. I'm sure. Well, you always pick the good ones.

Oh, no, you do too.

This episode is called War and Peace.

It's the Season 2 episode 6 episode.

And it was written by one of our guests, Robin Green, and Henry Brumel, who was a great writer who passed away, I believe, in like 213.

And I think he even won an Emmy.

But Robin is here with her husband, Mitch Burgess, who also was a writer, and they were both producers on the show.

And I'll talk about them in a minute. But this show was a really interesting, unique show with some definite, unusual touches,

even for Northern Exposure.

And it was directed by one of our favorites, Bill DeLeia, who went on to have an incredible

career directing everything for David Kelly.

And we have Ilya Baskin as the guest star. And, uh, should I, what should I read the little, uh, plot about what it was. And Dana, Dana Anderson was another one of the guest stars. And she was great. You were saying before we got on, Heath, you'd like to performance. She was really good. She was really good. Yeah. She was interesting.

She was a perfect foil for Ed, right? Yeah. And she had that accent, but it just seems so real. Yeah, it did seem real. She plays a love interest to Ed Chigliak, and it's an interesting story. But I'm going to read, the audience seems to like these little plot descriptions. So this, the plot of the episode, War and Peace,

Joel prescribes Valium to Hauling, who fears his dreams.

But the Canadian gets frightfully groggy and prefers to use another approach.

The whole town celebrates the visit of Nikolai Ivanovich Apollonov, a pop singer known

even in New York, who organizes Sicily's annual Russian festival. Patriotic bad chest loser, Maurice,

dares him to a duel. Chris holds the annual reading of war in peace with original side comments,

and Ed has a hot night with a saucy farm girl and considers marriage, but she prefers Chris.

There's a lot going on in this show, aside from all the literary references, which all of our English lit major writers, we're having fun with.

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