Maurice's heater blows up and his house catches on fire. Chris has an encounter with a cunning deer. Maggie tries to help Joel.Maurice's heater blows up and his house catches on fire. Chris has an encounter with a cunning deer. Maggie tries to help Joel.Maurice's heater blows up and his house catches on fire. Chris has an encounter with a cunning deer. Maggie tries to help Joel.
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- TriviaIn Season 5, there is an unexplained fact that Maurice hurt his leg.
Barry Corbin, the actor who plays Maurice, fell off his horse and broke his left leg and left foot (Seattle Times, December 19, 1993).
One must go back a few episodes to see how this is brought into the story without any explanation.
Corbin's last scene before his leg injury was S05E14 ("A Bolt From The Blue") .. he is also not present in S05E15 ("Hello I Love You") which is the Walt+Ruth-Anne trip. Maurice was originally supposed to take this trip with Ruth-Anne (minus the romance story). It could be argued that the arc of Walt's relationship with Ruth-Anne was made possible by Barry Corbin's real-life injury.
The first mention of the injury is at Joel's dinner party, S05E16 ("Northern Hospitality") where it is remarked that Maurice couldn't make it "with his leg". Maurice/Corbin is not present for S05E16. Interesting how he wasn't there for the debacle with Chris's radio show (on Maurice's radio station, KBHR) being argued to blame for Edgar Hankins' suicide . And that Maddam Mayor Hancock, who id rarely seen, is the one who calls this town meeting, instead of Maurice.
S05E17 ("Una.Volta.in.L'inverno"), still no Maurice and still no mention of his injury.
Maurice/Corbin Barry doesn't show back up until S05E18 ("Fish Story"), where he jabs at Holling about his "paint by numbers" art. This is the same episode where Ruth-Anne takes her impromptu bike trip and Maurice calls a meeting about Ed re-opening the store. Maurice has two scenes here. One: at the Brick, where he is sitting, no crutches on view. Two: at the town meeting he called to order, and he is leaning on the lectern the entire time, with no crutches in sight.
He is first seen with crutches beginning with S05E19 ("The Gift Of Maggie"), and ending with S05E21 ("I Feel The Earth Move"). Viewers are left with no explanation of how he hurt his leg (in the Northern Exposure universe), or his absence for three whole episodes.
- GoofsWhen Chris is stalking the stag, you can see that someone has already walked the path in the snow that he is taking. The snow is already trodden.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1994)
Featured review
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
There are interesting things going on here. The saga of Maggie and Joel continues. She has great respect for him and comes to realize how isolated he is--professionally. He diagnoses a rare condition but can't begin to tell laymen about it because no one kows what he is talking about. Maggie makes a move that is kind but risky. Meanwhile, in another one of his surreal jaunts, Chris is unable to shoot a huge buck and then feels he is paying for it when he is rewarded in mysterious ways. Maurice, who is on crutches, has a fire in one of the sections of his house, and in the clean up, asbestos is found everywhere, so, while it is cleaned up (a week or so) he moves in with Holling and Shelly. They really overdo it in the treatment of him and it drives him nuts. Chris explains why he is so upset. Maurice also has to figure out what to do with his orchids, which will die unless treated with great care. This episode is really about how we, as individuals, handle being out of control and having our futures figured out by others.
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