Having been a big fan of the 1990s TV show 'Northern Exposure' I wanted to see Alaska for myself. Ironically, when I got there, on JY's fabulous 'Ultimate Alaska' tour in May/June 2016, I discovered that the show wasn't actually filmed in the 49th state at all but in Washington, a little further south!
On the plus side, the JY tour did take us to Talkeetna which, legend has it, is the place where Northern Exposure and "Cicely, Alaska" were born. Apparently, two of the producers found themselves stopping over in Talkeetna and spending a leisurely afternoon in a bar people watching, they came to the conclusion that they had found a suitably eccentric selection of characters and places on which to base their show. For example, Ruth Anne's store in NE, in which you could buy anything and everything, was based on Nagleys General Store in Talkeetna. I can also confirm that the residents of the town, just like in "Cicely", really do largely resemble delegates at a ZZ Top convention!
Mandy