| Synopsis
(1): |
After braving the endless miles of wilderness and a bizarre moose encounter, Dr. Phillip Capra and his wife, Michelle
Schowdoski-Capra are in Cicely. Fresh from Los Angeles, they try to adjust
to a less than state of-the-art way of life when their cabin needs refurbishing,
the office needs upgrading, wild animals come and go at will in their house
and they have a brush with the supernatural. Nevertheless, they decide to commit
themselves to the change in scenery and sign a two-year contract.
Holling desperately
wants to join the exclusive men's club, Sons of the Tundra, and is willing to
pay the ten thousand dollars to do it. Even though he isn't the usual sort to
be initiated into the club, Maurice invites Holling
to a club dinner to meet the members. Shelly's anger
at their blatant discrimination against women leaves Holling questioning the
morality in joining such a club even though the business advantages would be
great When the snobbish club refuses his initiation because his greatgranddaddy
was a Huguenot, Holling happily moves ahead to expand his business without them.
Meanwhile, Ed
eats a raven spirit disguised as a trout and develops the ability to see the
near future. When he foresees Hayden accidentally
breaking his foot, he visits Phil in advance for treatment advice.
Phil, believing
Ed to be delusional, doubts his ability until Ed predicts the dent in Phil's
car just before it happens.
Joel, now a burly,
bearded mountain man dressed in buckskin and furs, surfaces with a phone call
to Maggie from Manonash asking for the Kensai Toothpick
hunting knife she had ordered last year for his birthday but sent back because
he didn't want it. Later, in perfect Adam fashion, he briefly appears at Holling's
to trade fur pelts for a hunting knife and disappears as quickly as he arrived. |
Details
(Production Bible): |
NEW RECRUITS: Dr. Phillip Capra: 36, "energetic, tightly wound, a man bravely
trying to make sense of the 1990's". Graduate of Washington University in St.
Louis and UCLA Med School -- board certified in internal medicine and gastro-enterology.
Speaks French, enjoys biking and is a club-rated tennis player.
Michelle Capra:
(Schowdoski-Capra) 34, "witty, attractive, insecure". Professional journalist,
former model and actress at the Redondo Beach Theatre in the Round.
Sons of the Tundra
motto: "Glacies Frangenda Est."
Sons of the Tundra
greeting -- a two-finger salute off the right temple.
Wine of choice:
1988 Cos D'Estournel
Hunting knife
of choice: Kenai Toothpick -- bone handle-, Solingen steel.
Brick averages
190 on all-you-can-eat spaghetti nights.
Summer of '38
Holling and Lon Guysberg left school in eleventh grade to lay railroad timbers
outside Dawson.
Lester does not
like Huguenots. |
Music:
(Note music listed is from the original TV airings. The DVD may differ.) |
[Help!
I need names of missing tunes from the original airings - email
me.]
• Going Up the Country - Canned Heat
[Michelle and Phil drive to Cicely.]
• Proud Mary - John Fogerty
[Ed hums while preparing to eat the fish.]
• catchy
little tune in the Brick when Lester, Gil and Maurice talk about the sons of
the tundra.
• country
tune - A Thousand Miles to Nowhere? when Holling gets his letter from Sons of
the Tundra.
• Ain't That Love - Ray Charles
[Holling, Shelly and Randi drive off in the
Brick mobile.] |
