As of July 2026, Northern Exposure Season 4 aired in 1992 with 25 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Northern Exposure Season 4

1992 25 Episodes Comedy · Drama ⭐ 8/10

Right now you can watch Northern Exposure Season 4 on streaming — and it is funnier than its reputation suggests. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. 202 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Rob Morrow's performance alone is worth the time investment. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Northern Exposure Season 4 is worth clearing space for. Northern Exposure Season 4 does what great comedies rarely manage — it is actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. Season 4 of Northern Exposure includes 25 episodes. It aired from September 1992 to May 1993. This season stars Rob Morrow, Janine Turner and Barry Corbin. Rob Morrow and Janine Turner lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1992. Northern Exposure Season 4 earns its laughs from character rather than situation, which is why it does not wear thin the way pure farce tends to. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Northern Exposure Season 4 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Rob Morrow is funny in a way that holds up on rewatch. Put it on when you need something guaranteed to land.

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🎬 Northern Exposure Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
Northwest Passages
1992-09-28
Maggie must come to grips with her 30th birthday and the ghosts of her dead boyfriends by using an Indian ritual allowing her to lay the past to rest. Marilyn decides it's time to learn to drive and gets Ruth-Anne and Chris to give her lessons. Maurice drives the citizens crazy when he begins to wri...
E2
Midnight Sun
1992-10-05
Joel is charged with energy as the sun hasn't set and he uses his pent up energy to try to coach Cicely's basketball team to victory. Holling is distracted by Shelly's cheerleading outfit. The traveling salesman/tailor comes back to Cicely to sell his wares and he romances Ruth-Anne.
E3
Nothing's Perfect
1992-10-12
Chris kills a pet loving mathematician's dog; he falls in love with her and then while taking care of the rest of her pets, a parakeet drops dead. Maurice takes delivery of a clock he paid top dollar for and is delivered with the guy who will set it up. He becomes less than enamored with it when it ...
E4
Heroes
1992-10-19
A heavy metal rock star comes to Cicely and gets Ed to make a documentary on a rock festival he is holding with local Indian drummers. Shelly is star struck by the arrival of this star. Meanwhile Chris' mentor, Tooley, comes to Cicely in a crate and Chris ponders how to eulogize, bury and send him t...
E5
Blowing Bubbles
1992-11-02
Cicely's newest resident, Mike Monroe, is confined to live in a plastic bubble because of M.C.S. (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity), which makes him allergic to nearly everything manufactured in the twentieth century. After Maggie meets Mike she becomes interested in him. Ruth-Anne's son Matthew, the i...
E6
On Your Own
1992-11-09
The ever-quiet Bob returns to Cicely, with "The New Perception Players" and still hopes to win Marilyn's affection. Maurice receives a package from his son and it reminds him that he needs to adjust his will to cover his Korean offspring. Maggie tries to develop her relationship with Mike, by helpin...
E7
The Bad Seed
1992-11-16
Holling's less than honest daughter arrives in Cicely and begins to operate. Holling and Shelly have a disagreement about his "sterility" and starts hanging out with his daughter. Marilyn decides it may be time to move out when she decides her mother has made one too many changes she doesn't like an...
E8
Thanksgiving
1992-11-23
The Indians in Cicely celebrate Thanksgiving by throwing tomatoes at white people. Joel is Ed's first victim and he is angered because in his words he is "definitely not white." The town gets decorated with skulls and pumpkins as they also celebrate "The Day of the Dead." Joel also gets bad news in ...
E9
Do the Right Thing
1992-11-30
An ex-Soviet member of their state security comes to Maurice and offers to sell him the file of all the information they have in his dossier. Maurice is discomforted by the fact that the information in the file is legitimate and shows things about the past he would prefer not knowing, like the fact ...
E10
Crime and Punishment
1992-12-14
Chris is taken into custody for an extradition trial to bring him back to West Virginia, where he currently has a parole violation. Chris knows he is guilty and really isn't interested in his defense. Mike comes up with an angle that he can prove to the judge that the Chris Stevens that skipped bail...
E11
Survival of the Species
1993-01-04
Ed becomes gloomy about the future and begins to share Mike's visions about the future. Maggie digs up some artifacts from an ancient female in her front yard and Maurice wants to turn it into a major excavation. A young boy who runs away from a survival camp gets a job at "The Brick" to cover his r...
E12
Revelations
1993-01-11
Ruth-Anne pays off her store which gives her great satisfaction and Maurice's great pain; however, Ed feels the most pain when these two old friends begin to fight after she begins to change the store and he finds himself caught in the middle. Chris goes to religious retreat to become a monk for a c...
E13
Duets
1993-01-18
One-Who-Waits returns and has positive information on the location of Ed's father and takes Ed to the construction site where he works. Ed gets a job and tries to come up with a way to tell the foreman that he is his father. Mike asks Maggie to fly to a mountain range where he thinks he will be able...
E14
Grosse Pointe, 48230
1993-02-01
Joel accompanies Maggie as her "boyfriend," in a trip to back to Michigan, where he has been promised tickets to a Knicks - Pistons game. Maggie goes to attend her grandmother's 80th birthday party; for the event, "Grammy" has locked herself in the upstairs bathroom and Maggie is the only one allowe...
E15
Learning Curve
1993-02-08
Holling decides to go back to school to get his high school equivalency certificate. Marilyn goes on an adventure in Seattle and Joel is worried for her safety so he tries to over plan her trip for her, plans she just ignores. A worried Joel, ventures down to Seattle to locate her. Maggie is at odds...
E16
Ill Wind
1993-02-15
After breaking his nose, twice, Joel and Maggie have a wild fling in her barn. Chris saves Maurice's life, a debt that he is set on repaying. After witnessing that event and surrounded by psychic instability, Ed thinks about death in its many forms. A shepherd's flock wanders into town and he talk t...
E17
Love's Labour Mislaid
1993-02-21
Maggie forgets about having sex with Joel. Holling and Ruth-Anne go out to find a Siberian Tit, a bird rarely seen in Alaska. Ed's uncle arranges a marriage for Ed; however the bride already has a boyfriend.
E18
Northern Lights
1993-03-01
Joel goes on strike when the state of Alaska will not allow him time off for a Caribbean vacation he was planning. Chris has trouble seeking inspiration for his new sculpture. A vagrant's presence on Main St. outrages Maurice, when he learns the man is an ex-marine he tries to become his benefactor....
E19
Family Feud
1993-03-08
A totem pole carved in tribute to the Raven clan reopens a bitter rift between them and the Bear clan. Shelly gets medical advice telling her that getting married may help her to get rid of the strange hallucinations with dancers that she's been having. Joel confronts Maggie about their "whatever" a...
E20
Homesick
1993-03-15
Maggie is excited when she thinks she has "cured" her latest beau, as opposed to killing him; however she is crushed when he tells her that he leaving to work for Greenpeace in Murmansk. Holling is disgusted by Shelly's redecorating of their bed & bathroom. Maurice moves his childhood home to Cicely...

🎭 Cast of Northern Exposure Season 4

Rob Morrow
Rob Morrow
Joel Fleischman
Janine Turner
Janine Turner
Maggie O'Connell
Barry Corbin
Barry Corbin
Maurice Minnifield
John Cullum
John Cullum
Holling Vincoeur
Darren E. Burrows
Darren E. Burrows
Ed Chigliak
John Corbett
John Corbett
Chris Stevens
Cynthia Geary
Cynthia Geary
Shelly Tambo
Elaine Miles
Elaine Miles
Marilyn Whirlwind
Peg Phillips
Peg Phillips
Ruth-Anne Miller

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