'Northern Exposure' Wasn't Really Filmed in Alaska
From 1990 to 1995, an obscure comedy-drama TV series about life in Alaska gained a cult-like following. Airing on CBS, Northern Exposure featured actor Rob Morrow, who played Dr. Joel Fleischman, a New York doctor who gives up city living for a small rural Alaskan town filled with eccentric residents. It was a classic fish-out-of-water story right from the start.
While viewers loved tuning in to get a taste of life in “The Last Frontier,” the television series was not really filmed in Alaska.
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