Everyone is having very strange dreams in Cicely. Or at least strange to them. As it seems that everyone is having dreams that belong to everyone else.

Written by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider from a story they developed with David Chase, Mr. Sandman was first broadcast on 10 January, 1994.

Chris (John Corbett) is the one who ventures the concept that people are having dreams that belong to other people. Maggie (Janine Turner) is having Holling’s (John Cullum) dreams of driving a taxi with his father in he back.

Ron (Doug Ballard) is having Maurice’s (Barry Corbin) fetishistic dreams about women’s shoes.

Holling is also suffering from a revulsion of food that is causing him other issues. He goes to Joel (Rob Morrow) with Maggie in tow to investigate the issue. And at it’s heart is Holling wanting to make sure he is a good father to his unborn child.

Joel in turn has been sleepwalking and dreaming of candy.

It’s a wonderful and charming episode. And I love the conversation between Maurice and Ruth-Anne (Peg Phillips) about sex, kinks and acceptance.

Mite Makes Right was written by Frolov and Schneider and was first aired on 17 January, 1994.

After a long enough wait, Joel has finally decided to ask Maggie out. And while Joel is really eager to see how things play out, Maggie is distracted by an obsession over dust mites and all the bacteria that make up our every day life.

It drives her to complete distraction and may hamper any actual romantic involvement between the two, unless she can find a way to deal with it.

Maurice pays an ungodly sum for a rare violin, and asks Cal (Simon Templeman) to come to Cicely to authenticate it. Unfortunately, the two begin to clash over how best to take care of it. Maurice wants to lock it away to maintain his investment. Cal insists that a musical instrument of this magnitude should be and needs to be played.

Maurice is unswayed and Cal contemplates taking drastic action to make sure the violin is treated and loved like the treasure it is.

Chris, meanwhile, is having trouble with his new sculpture, but a combination of his model, and Maggie’s obsession may help him create something new that speaks to him.

It’s a fun and charming episode, and it’s obvious that Frolov and Schneider get these characters and know how to tell the best stories with them. The stories are wonderfully eccentric, but the characters are so very human.

And that’s why we keep coming back to Cicely, week after week.