Sign the petition for the release of the complete Northern Exposure series

Regular readers please forgive me as I use this space to promote one of my few fanaticisms.

I wish that I could buy the entire series of Northern Exposure on DVD (or at all). A few select episodes are available on VHS, but nothing close to the complete series sets available for other shows (The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Sex and the City, Star Trek TNG, X-Files, even Buffy the Vampire Slayer!).

The customer base is certainly there (unless I have the economics of DVD production completely wrong). We will buy it!

So, I would like to start a petition to Universal Playback:

We, the undersigned, kindly request the release of a complete Northern Exposure series DVD box set. Thanks.

View the current signatures and Sign up (way at the bottom of this page).

Update: The petition is closed - thanks for all of the signatures. I don't think it had anything to do with us, but there is news that NX may eventually be released on DVD.

I'll get us started - Steven Garrity.
Metta Spencer []
How about putting the whole Northern Exposure series on DVD?
Marie Lynaugh []
I would love to see the whole Northern Exposure series on VHS and DVD.
Please make it available to buy.
Esther Shomper []
I would like to buy Northern Exposure on DVD.
I will buy the entire Northern Exposure series on DVD when it is produced.
I'd love to see the entire "Northern Exposure" series on DVD, and will also pledge to buy a copy. Already have all the eps available on laser disc and about half of the ones on VHS (unfortunately, they're mostly the same episodes), and my collection of complete home-recorded tapes from the original airings. But, DVD quality and convenience beat all these hands down. (I'm shopping for a DVD player now, in anticipation of the July 2 release of the "1776" Director's Cut.)
Madelyn Grossman []
I would also love to see the complete series of Northern Exposure on DVD and VHS.
Matthew Cloner []
I would definitely purchase an entire set of Northern Exposure if they were available on DVD. It's a lot cheaper than converting my existing collection of VHS analog tapes to DVD.
Daniel Burka []
I too would love to own the complete Northern Exposure series on DVD.
Peter Rukavina []
We, the undersigned, kindly request that you stop polluting the world with that inane show Northern Exposure: please stop syndicating it, selling it on VHS, and certainly don't release it on DVD. It's time for the series to die a quick and painless death.
Konstantinos []
(I thought they called it "Sex *and* the city".)
While I have no real opinion on the substance of this petition, I recommend agreeing with most every demand made by Steven Garrity, a man of immense global power and, still, a true friend to the downtrodden. Style speaks from every move he makes. Evenings, he builds brass instruments as a hobby all of which he has shipped exclusively to outposts of the Salvation Army in the southern hemisphere. He speaks esperanto with wit and needs no guide to the subways of the world.
Peter: You are a total party-pooper. Do you subscribe to the Hallmark Channel or something? We NX fans are content to enjoy our show in the privacy of our own homes - we won't chase you around and make you watch it or anything.

Konstantinos: Right you are (re: Sex and the City). Fixed - thanks.

Alan: You are a teller of the truth. Of all brass insturments, I love the French horn the most of all. Much respect.

Let the petition continue!

I just spent the evening reminiscing about Maurice Minnifield, Joel Fleishman, and the gang with two die hard Northern Exposure fans.

I'll definitely buy a copy.

Sílvia Colominas []
I´d really love and need to have all the episodes of Northern Exposure in DVD because it´s the best tv show ever made. It´s a classical that will last forever in our hearts and souls. Don´t say goodbye to Our Town, Folks!!! It´s still alive and it´ll always be.
Geoff Gibson []
Even though I had a bad Northern Exposure experience, I am always about "the cause". I add my name to the petition.
Seth Hancock []
I would love to have all of Northern Exposure on DVD!!! The tapes I recorded ages ago are failing, and I do not have the Hallmark channel. I NEED MY NORTHERN EXPOSURE DVD FIX!!! I'M GETTING THE SHAKES!!!
I totally agree! They should bring the series out on DVD for all who wish to own it. And if,perhaps, the series comes out on DVD I will certainly buy it. It is one of my most favorite shows ever aired. I have several VHS copies of episodes and working on getting a few more. But all of them together would be much easier to aquire.
Guy Fleegman []
"Northern Exposure" was a wonderful television program with fine writing until the last half of the final season. The characters were memorable, and if they be deemed "quirky," then they were quirky in the best sense, not that forced irony-laden postmodern sense. Please release the tales of Fleischman and O'Connell on DVD.
Nancy Metcalf []
Please release every last episode of Northern Exposure on DVD. A&E took it off the air. I do not have the Hallmark Channel in Tallahassee. So I have to see the show somehow else.
If you make it available, I will buy it. DVD!
How could I do anything but agree? Release NX on DVD. Today.
Oystein Mikkelsen []
Please release the complete NX series on DVD. I will buy 3 copies of each box set, if necessary.
Claire Robertson []
I have been wishing and hoping for Northern Exposure to be released on DVD for ages...
Brian O'Boyle []
I would definatley buy every episode of Northern Exposure if it was made available on DVD!
I will buy and then return as many Northern Exposure DVD Sets as possible if they are released. I will also make warrenty claims on dozens of sets.
I cannot believe it is taking this long to produce a full series NX DVD set. I would buy them the day they are released.
The only place that Northern Exposure is currently available is on A&E at an ungodly hour in the morning. Please bring it to DVD!
Susanne Ingerson []
Count me in! I would love NX on DVD!
Rebecca Doshi []
Ed Chigliak would want it that way. Please put on DVD!
Chris Burrows []
I would definetely buy the lot if they were brought out on DVD. Go on, you know you want to!!!!!
Mike Petrick []
I would agree..one of my favorite tv shows should be on DVD..and would most definitly buy it!!
I would buy it!!!!!!!!!
Conversation overheard in some DVD shack in the carlingwood Mall, Ottawa:

Customer (male with female voice, no hair): mumble, mumble Red Dwarf tv series?
Clerk (pointing): Yup, over there.

Joshua Hagadorn []
Northern Exposure on DVD would make me one happy camper....
Cord Campbell []
Bring Northern Exposure to DVD with a special feature where you can input your own dialog and make marilyn talk when she usually just stares at Joel.
Shannon Mooney []
I'm shocked to find there are more than five other people who enjoy(ed) Northern Exposure. The only time I catch it anymore is at some ungodly hour, mostly preoccupied with fighting to keep my liquor-heavy eyelids from shutting.
Aaron Schaap []
Shoot dang man - i'll buy a set of Northern Exposure on DVD if you'll just let us buy it.
Steven Hamilton []
I'd love to see NX on DVD.
I would run out and buy a Northern Expousre DVD set the day it came out.
Let me put it this way: On the day 9/11, two hours after I found out what happened, I was back watching the noon Hallmark broadcast of Northern Exposure. When the apocolypse comes I will be laughing at the sexual tension between Joel and Maggie
Northern Exposure is the greatest television show of all time. Please release a DVD boxset of the whole series, my videos are wearing out : )
Hanah Grace []
I would definitely buy the entire series of Northern Exposure on DVD or VHS, and some of my friends would as well!
Adam Mercer []
YES!!! PLEASE!!!
ok, ok, i give.

except, oops, i just bought that beautiful digital camera today.

i will just have to settle for watching ffoeg's set i guess.

Brandt Baker []
I have money saved and am ready to spend when the complete Northern Exposure series is released on DVD!!!
Ernst Blofeld []
I would would part with my money this very instant if Northern Exposure DVD's were ready to sell.
Sabrina Bealer []
Please give us Northern Exposure on dvd!
I am committing to purchasing the entire series should Northern Exposure become available on DVD.
I would die to get NX on DVD!!!
The best TV show of all-time deserves to be on DVD! Make it happen.
Paul Connolly []
I and many friends would love to get Northern Exposure on DVD- C'mon Universal Playback!
Bernie Moore []
Northern Exposure is one of those TV productions that towers above the rest by virtue off its positive imaginative storey telling, the world needs more stuff like this and I would love to be able to buy it in order to relive the experience off seeing it the first time. Every body I know who saw it feels the same.
In the mean time I can recommend “Victorian Kitchen Garden” available from amazon UK it gives me the same kind of buzz although it’s a documentary check out Harry Dobson the head gardener.
Javi Loureiro []
I'll buy one for sure!

I, the over-signed, could care less if you release the entire NE collection on DVD unless this process somehow removes the show "Murder She Wrote" from the A&E line-up, in which spirit I sign (ed).

(A&E could do worse than to replace it with Northern Exposure, a fine show, but that is not of the highest importance. Pick something else: Hill Street Blues would also make a fine replacement, more Law & Order, whatever).

On the Western Coast of Canada, where I live, Murder She Wrote has a two-hour block of time every day, at least twice a day. Four hours a day.

I do not know a person here who smiles at that whistling theme music and the sight of Angela Landsbury on a bike going to solve crimes and tap away at her books. In her place I submit Janine Turner is an equally fine example of enduring American womanhood, not at all a tart, and you have to admit, would look much better on that bike than Angela Fucking Landsbury. So shit, whatever release Charles on Charge on Vinyl, whatever it takes to get rid of that show.

In closing: Whoever this petition finds—and from this chat room to God's ears— please, take my name on this (e) document as a plead for you to ask this question: does anyone need to say Murder She Wrote ever again?
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PS--Maybe, if you know someone at A&E—you reader and decider on petitions— put two hours of NE on at once, right away. Okay? And Garrity could get his fix, leave it alone.

If Northern Exposure was airing now instead of the early 90's, we wouldn't need this petition. Hell, half the people who write for the Sopranos (which is readily available on DVD)wrote for Northern Exposure. I've been dying (figuratively) to get the ENTIRE series on DVD. Please make it available. No need to sell me on it. It's a done deal.
Northern Exposure was 'dromedy' writing at it's best, a "Twin Peaks" child which turned out to be infinitely more accessable (and understandable) to viewers. Robin Green, Dian Frolov, Andrew Schneider, and David Chase all contributed stellar screenplays. I support a DVD release of the episodes. Hopefully, a corporate entity who can afford the Universal/MCA licensing fees will take this project under its wing and realize a small profit just for art's sake.
Northern Exposure will be remembered as one of the top three best television shows of all time -- mark my words. I'm all for the release of it on DVD. I'd buy it, and have several friends who would, too. Thanks.
Really glad to see there are so many others looking for Northern Exposure on DVD. Let's have it!

If you haven't already, you might want to go over to http://www.tvshowsondvd.com and let them know, too.

John Walker []
I came late to Northern Exposure, I have all the available VHS releases, but it's just not enough. I now live in Germany and have no desire to watch it dubbed. I hate that I missed whole seasons!! Please release everything. I'd buy before it came out.
PazuzuPrime []
Please release them please!!!!!!!!!!!
I would be estatic if Northern Exposure was offered on DVD.I purchased the videos that were offered a few years ago.Offer every Northern Exposure episode on DVD.
I AM WAITNG!
For the love God, release Northern Exposure on DVD already! I, and countless others, are drooling just thinking about it.

PLEASE!!

Oh Yeah. I'd buy Northern Exposure on DVD in a snap.
I would definitely buy the entire series of Northern Exposure on DVD. It's a dream I hope to see fulfilled - I've been in withdrawls for years now and was quite upset when the Hallmark channel acquired the series, because my cable company doesn't carry it.

I am putting forth my pledge and have, as of this moment, already started to save money in the event that it happens!

I totally loved this series when I was younger and would LOVE to see it revived on dvd.
Shelley Reid []
DVD for the greatest television show of all time, NORTHERN EXPOSURE, now please!!
What a stupendous TV series. Release it on DVD now!
Altough I have the whole series on VHS tapes, I would certainly buy it on DVD!
Regards from Croatia
Put those babies on DVD!
I would be so happy to have the Northern Exposure on DVD! I do hope you will produce it!
It doesn't matter how many times I watch the complete series, I always want the station to turn around and begin again. Having the dvds would be great!
N.E. is probably the most intelligent television show ever produced.I have seen every episode, some more than once,and I would buy the complete series on DVD if it were available.This is television for the person that's not afraid to think!!
suzanne schmalzer []
I would love to get my hands on the episode of Maurice's birthday when Adam explains to his crew, why he cooks: "Because I am hungry."
If the series goes to DVD, I will buy a copy for my friend, a technical designer who will not stop talking about the show and was saddened when it was taken off A&E.
I would definitely buy the entire Northern Exposure series if it were put on DVD. Heck, I'd buy two copies of the whole series if it would help Universal make up their minds to put this show on DVD.
M.W.McKenzie []
Count me in!
Jasmin Zinaja []
I would definitely buy a few copys of the DVD with entire Northern Exposure series.
Jeremiah D.C. []
There's money out there for the taking; I'm adding my cold hard cash to the pile, and all you have to do is release Northern Exposure on DVD. This is the perfect time to do it; people will buy, of this there is no doubt. Don't pass this up!
orion carter []
All Episods, on on Either medium Would Be Killer
Yes, Yes, Yes!!! I definately intend to buy the entire Northern Exposure series on DVD when it is produced.
I'd buy the DVD, but please make sure any release includes the UK.
I would love to see the entire Northern Exposure series available to the public on VHS and DVD. If so, I would gladly purchase the entire lot. These programs were original and special. Nothing like it is available on television today. I think if the series was broght back it would be a great success.
Please please put northern exposure on DVD! at least boxed sets of all the episodes on VHS...buffy has a dvd and she's so lame...how can such a great show be ignored? oh yeah..tv sucks.
Bill Futreal []
I'll buy a Nothern Exposure DVD...plus, I'll buy several more as gifts for friends.
Kurt Lutterman []
I would buy at least one DVD set of Northern Exposure, whatever was produced. In USA format please.
Megan Reardon []
I would purchase the entire series on DVD if it were available. I too have been wanting this for some time now.
Brian A. Dixon []
I must have "Northern Exposure," season by season, in my DVD collection!
Joe S. Scharenbroch []
Bring on the DVD.

joe s scharenbroch

Edmund Mendez []
I want my Northern Exposure complete DVD collection NOW! We have suffered enough.
Please put Northern Exposure on DVD! My home recorded tapes are wearing out.
Sonny Klamerus []
You produce it. We will buy it.
Sonny Klamerus
Tricia Gilbert []
There are very few shows I would buy the sets of. Northern Exposure is absolutely on that list. It's been the one show that maintained its integrity. Please put it all on DVD!
Adam Chamberlain []
Absolutely, please release NX in its entirety on DVD. Please also ensure that this is made available in Region 2 format. This is one must see, must buy, must have show!
please, please release northern exposure on dvd. i'll definitley buy a copy!
DVD's aren't cheap, but we gotta have 'um!
Matthew Shine []
It's very sad when a show like 'Northern Exposure' gets ignored like it has been for the past decade. With shows such as 'Air Wolf' and 'Miami Vice' now getting full DVD treatment, why not 'NX?' The fact is, for every tv season since 'Northern Exposure' ended, some network has tried, and failed, to recreate the magic that the viewers felt.

Bring back the original, and still the best.

Rosilyn Richardson []
PLEASEEE - Give us Northern Exposure on DVD, now! We *need* it.
I think all shows should be archived to DVD as the season ends. Maybe I'd watch this show if Steven could lend me the DVD instead of telling me to remember every second Monday at 3:15 on A&E or something.

ps. 100th post!

I don't even own a DVD player right now, but I think I would go out and buy one if the entire Northern Exposure series was available.
I know that both my parents and I would buy our own sets of Northern Exposure on DVD. I can't wait to have all the episodes, in order, for my very own. Thanks!
Carie Albers []
Please put the whole Northern Exposure series on DVD. I have been a fan of the show since day one. I still watch the reruns when they are on. Thanks!
Keith McGee []
Please release a complete, chronological set of DVDs of the TV series "Northern Exposure." I have been a fan of this series since it was first broadcast and watch the syndicated reruns (first on A&E and lately on Hallmark) whenever they are broadcast. I know of at least five other family members and friends who want to own their own set as well. Thanks!
Please release the complete DVD set of NX!!
I've been waiting for years for Northern Exposure to come out on DVD.

I'd buy it in a heartbeat. The existence of a devoted fan-base is obvious; I don't understand what the hold-up is!

This is probably the only show where I wouldn't even hesitate to buy the comlete DVD set.

Wayne A. Norcross []
This is one show that will last forever, especially on DVD.
Kathleen N. Norcross []
I would not hesitate to purchase Northern Exposure on DVD.
I would love to buy a copy of Northern Exposure on DVD as soon as it is made ... hopefully in time for Christmas?
Brandon Hunt []
This show would make Universal a lot of money, I can't believe it hasn't already been released!
Lucinda Arundel []
I can't believe they've left it this late, whats the hold up??? Bring it on!
YES PLEEEEEEEEEEASE. I will buy 3 complete DVD sets. Hurry UP!
Xander van der Merwe []
The VERY BEST TV series in the last 30 years !!!! Bring it ON !!!!
leah pearlman []
i'm glad to see i'm not alone in thinking that N.E. was a darn good show & of course I'd buy the DVD.
Nancy Mason []
Please release NX on DVD. I would buy it the day it was released.
Paula Garay []
NX was one of the best series ever produced. It's ridiculous that it's not available on DVD given the show's broad-based appeal and still-loyal fan base.
Bryan Sullivan []
Please put out a box set for each season, if for no other reason than that you think a little slower when you graze.
Clement Taylor []
I loved the Northern Exposure series and I always tried to free up my Monday nights at was it 10 o'clock. I would certainly purchase a DVD collection off that quirky and intriguing show.
Clem Taylor,
Doylestown, PA
Please, do the set. It will sell, at least to hardcore fans, and that is a large number.
Sherry L Heitman []
I would gladly buy the set on DVD when it becomes available.... make it available......please!
Please put it on DVD , it's the best TV series ever!!!
I'm astonished it's not already out on DVD. I am anxiously awaiting its arrival on the shelves and in the catalogs.
Tricia Arnseth []
Why is every other tv show on DVD now, but not the best one of all time??!
PLEASE!!!!!
The best show that has ever been aired has not been put on DVD? What is this world turning to? PLEASE!!! Even that slimy buffy tha slaya is available to cry out loud!!!
John Vipond []
Nothing would be worth my hard-earned dollar more than the entire NX collection on DVD. Go ahead, rob me. Please.
Northern Exposure is one of or even the best shows ever made. I was devasted when they took it off A&E. I don't get the Hallmark channel and would love to buy the entire series on DVD. I lived in Alaska for year and miss it so much, NX made me feel at home. To all out there please spread the word about the petition. Northern Exposure should live on forever!
David Reynolds []
Will gladly purchase the entire series, and I know quite a few of my friends would also.
Dan Paridge []
I am all for it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alfredo Sendín []
I'd really love to see Northern Exposure on DVD.
Lucía Vázquez []
Please, please, please, please, is it possible to think there is intelligent life on earth when Northern Exposure is not availabe on DVD (or any other format, at least here in Spain)??!!
I want NX on DVD or VHS!!! NOW!
I also would like to know how to find a discussion group on Northern Exposure. A friend of mine said he used to belong to one and can't remember how to access it. If anyone knows how, please email me!
Brian Ristola []
I would really like to see all of the Northern Exposure episodes on DVD!!!!! This is truly the best show ever!!!
Branko Vulinec []
IT MUST BE!
SHALOM...
One of the best shows ever. Seems logical that it would already be on DVD or at least on VHS, But nooooooo they decided to torchore the fans of this wonderful show. Why should we put one of the best shows ever on DVD?.. We don't want to make money and we don't want the fans to have any sourt of plesure... thats probably what Universal Studios are thinking.
Robert Carl []
Definitely would like to see all of the Northern Exposure episodes on DVD! I would buy (twice).
Andrew Germann []
I don't understand why they haven't done it already.Please hurry, i've already wasted days just searching for the DVD's. Waiting and hoping.
I want Northern Exposure DVDs!!!
Erik DeBoard []
I would buy it in a heartbeat!
I know I, and many others, would gladly purchase a Northern Exposure DVD if it were available. Please!
Kent Gerber []
I have the laser discs that have been released, but would certainly buy the DVD collection.
Thomas Harvey []
NX On DVD ASAP.
Charlie Friel []
Please release all of Northern Exposure on region 2 dvd.
Everbody, Amazon has made a petition to release all the show on DVD so go to [LINK] and enter your e-mail to sign the petition
Eileen Laird []
Yes, I too would love to buy the entire series on DVD, if release with 1 entire season's episodes per DVD.
Yes! Northern Exposure on DVD would be a treat!
DVDit (4 episodes per DVD, as in the UK release please!
I love the show, but I hate it when people treat me like a junkie...)
Why isn't Northern Exposure on DVD yet? The first few episodes are available on DVD in region 1 (non-playable on U.S. DVD players) in England -- what's the holdup here? I'd buy the entire series in a heartbeat. However, if rushing this means producing mediocre quality, then I'd rather wait. It's important that it's produced on DVD right. Paramount is the highest quality transfer of film and audio; second, but no less important, would be extras such as scripts, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes documentaries, etc. It's time to give the best TV show ever produced some attention and availability on DVD. It'll obviously be profitable and satiate fans the world over.
Donald Sehulster []
Please every NX episode on DVD!
I will by all the episodes of Northern Exposure on DVD. Please do a quality job and release them in chronological order.
I love NX! Please put on DVD!
dear universal decision makers - i guarantee i will purchase (at full retail cost) the entire catalogue of NX once you release it on DVD. thank you!
I also want NX dvd.
Jasminka
I've said it to anyone who will listen: I would buy the entire series on DVD.
Liam Westley []
And can we have a Region 2 version for the UK please.
Ditto.

Can we preserve one good moment from televisions history? Please?

I would buy a release of Northern Exposure on DVD.

It's well past time. I urge a DVD distribution of Northern Exposure Series.
Darren Elliott []
It's time! I have every episode on VHS and they're starting to get blurry!!! DVD! DVD! DVD!!!!!!
Jeff Barkstrom []
We is my DVD?
What's the hold up? Let's get these episodes on DVD for everyone to enjoy once again. It's the simple economics of supply and demand. Supply them and we will buy them. Twin Peaks is out there... why isn't Northern Exposure? Afraid to compete? I don't understand the logic behind not releasing them. It just means more money in your all's pockets. Come on, let's get the ball rolling.
Chad Hayworth []
I own every Northern Exposure show available on VHS and would pay $2,000 to have every episode ever made on DVD.

- Chad Hayworth

Mike Campbell []
I would like an affordable set of the entire series on DVD.
Aaron Felton []
Hello There,
I would certainly buy a release of Northern Exposure on DVD
I would be very interested in purchasing the complete Northern Exposure series on DVD.
I would immediately purchase the complete Northern Exposure series on DVD.
Chuck Michel []
Do it and get it done!!!!!
I've looked evverywhere for Northern Exposure on DVD. I just assumed it would already be out there. Why isn't it? There's a lot of money to be made, and a huge fan base to be appeased! I'd buy every single DVD of N.E. available!
I have been looking, and waiting! Hope it happens soon!
Richard Harrison []
Please release Northern Exposure Complete TV series on DVD - ASAP !!!!!
Matthew Winslow []
I need this DVD to live. Don't let me waste away. Please, release the show in season boxed sets. Thanks
I would buy the entire series on dvd in a heartbeat!!
I would love to be able to purchase the entire Northern Exposure series on DVD.
Rob McConnell []
I'd buy the whole lot on DVD. And fly to US to collect it if need be! (I'm from England)
Jim & Liz Grayson []
We literally wore out our VCR taping every episode of Northern Exposure. When A&E cancelled it, we cried. When Hallmark picked it up (chopped up as it was), we rejoiced and toasted our TV. Put the entire, and uncut, series on DVD, and we can purge the video drawer of our cabinet. Thanks!!
please release dvd's for us to buy!!!
Jean-Luc Glorieux []
Please, bring Northern Exposure to DVD! I'd buy the whole series in a flash.
I have been waiting for a very long time.... I will buy the entire NX series immediately when released.
Mike Pluta [