Hello there. Welcome back to Northern Disclosure, where my lovely co-host, Janine Turner and I talk about episodes of Northern Exposure. In this particular one, we're going to be talking

about Dateline Sicily, and we have one of our writer-producers, Jeff Melvoine, joining us in a few

minutes. And he's just a great guy and a super smart, talented writer and producer. And he has an incredible career and, uh, it's

going to be fun to catch up with him. I just always love talking to him. Um, how you doing there,

Janine? I'm, I'm, well, good to see you, Rob. And, and I, um, he's one of my favorite writers. He's just

phenomenal writer, uh, producer. So it's, it's one of my favorite writers. He was just phenomenal writer, producer.

So it's exciting to have him on this show today.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

And this episode was very, as usual, but I mean, in particular, very intricately brilliant.

So we will get down to the nuts and bolts of that.

Yeah.

I mean, he's written a lot of Northern exposure. He wrote the episode, the two episodes, I believe, where you and I finally,

Flashman and O'Connell finally have a roll in the hay and then we forget, or Maggie forgets

that she had the roll in the hay. Remember that? I do remember it.

Excellent. Excellent episodes. I think he wrote both of those, but he can tell us.

I'll give you a little synopsis of the episode. This one's called Dayline Sicily. It was

Season 3, Episode 11. In it, Maurice attempts to enliven his newspaper by hiring a new and mysterious reporter.

Maggie tries to tell Joel about talking trees, but he's not listening, and Chris becomes a co-owner

of the brick when Holling receives an unexpected but long overdue tax bill.

What did you think of this episode?

Oh, as usual, They're all like little short

stories, aren't they? I love to read short stories. I read Leo Tolstoy's and Chekhov's short

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