Chicago Hope
Chicago Hope
TV ShowEnded

Chicago Hope

7.3 / 10
1994
6 seasons
141 episodes
SoapDrama

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

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Cast

Seasons

  • Pilot

    1.Pilot

    18-09-199460m

    Camille serves Aaron with divorce papers; Phillip benches Arthur from further surgery when Arthur's resting tremor begins to endanger patients; Aaron removes a brain tumor from an...

  • Over the Rainbow

    2.Over the Rainbow

    10.0
    22-09-199460m

    Jeffrey runs afoul of the trustees when a grieving husband has second thoughts after allowing him to test an artificial heart on the body of the man's newly deceased wife; Alan com...

  • Food Chains

    3.Food Chains

    29-09-199460m

    Arthur nearly fires Danny for failing to adhere to triage protocol, thereby delaying the treatment of a critically injured prostitute with AIDS; Phillip becomes the acting chief of...

  • With the Greatest of Ease

    4.With the Greatest of Ease

    06-10-199460m

    Jeffrey tells Nadine about Laurie's schizophrenia and the death of his son; Aaron and Camille grieve about their impending divorce; several members of a family of trapeze artists a...

  • You Gotta Have Heart

    5.You Gotta Have Heart

    13-10-199460m

    Phillip's religious beliefs and Jeffrey's grief over the death of his son put them on opposite sides of whether to convince a young mother to remove her infant from life support so...

  • Shutt Down

    6.Shutt Down

    20-10-199460m

    Aaron, the staff, and the patients are caught in the crossfire when Antoine Metcalf, a gangbanger and career criminal, follows his latest victim into the E.R. to finish off the job...

  • Genevieve and Fat Boy

    7.Genevieve and Fat Boy

    03-11-199460m

    After Karen begins having seizures, Aaron discovers that she is terminally ill from the multiple brain metastases of a melanoma; Jeffrey resents having to perform surgery on a mobs...

  • Death Be Proud

    8.Death Be Proud

    10-11-199460m

    Jeffrey strongly objects when his old nemesis is hired into the plastic surgery department, but they are able to set aside their differences to bring some peace to the mother of a...

  • Heartbreak

    9.Heartbreak

    01-01-199560m

    Camille has an innocent and unavoidable mishap in the operating room during a heart transplant on the rabbi who performed her wedding ceremony to Aaron, and blames herself when the...

  • The Quarantine

    10.The Quarantine

    02-01-199560m

    Tensions run high as hard truths ring out when Jeffrey, Danny, Camille, Maggie, Aaron, Arthur and Phillip are quarantined in an empty operating room after a possible exposure to Eb...

  • Love and Hope

    11.Love and Hope

    09-01-199560m

    The staff has its hands full when a man suffering from the after-effects of taking amyl nitrite suffers one complication after another, thereby necessitating multiple surgeries, an...

  • Great White Hope

    12.Great White Hope

    16-01-199560m

    Phillip is unable to save a promising young boxer who succumbs to the fatal effects of steroids his father gave him to enhance his performance in the ring; a pregnant young teenage...

  • Small Sacrifices

    13.Small Sacrifices

    23-01-199560m

    Billy Kronk, a hotshot young surgeon and recreational hockey player, arrives in the E.R. with a critically ill teammate and immediately takes charge, steamrollering over Phillip; A...

  • Cutting Edges

    14.Cutting Edges

    06-02-199560m

    Laurie asks Jeffrey for a divorce so that she can marry Gilbert Weeks, a lawyer who is also a patient at the Institute; spurred by this news, Jeffrey suggests that Aaron perform an...

  • Life Support

    15.Life Support

    13-02-199560m

    When the gun belonging to a critically wounded police officer drops out of his holster in the E.R., the distraught brother of a man waiting for a donor heart picks up the weapon an...

  • Freeze Outs

    16.Freeze Outs

    20-02-199560m

    The staff works to save a young boy who was submerged in a frozen lake for several hours; Jeffrey and Geri have a little digestive mishap on their way to pursuing a relationship; D...

  • Growth Pains

    17.Growth Pains

    27-02-199560m

    An explosion sends a dry cleaner to the ER. Dr. Kadalski is pressured to change his unorthodox methods when he treats a man who compulsively pulls out his hair. A fearful Birch let...

  • Informed Consent

    18.Informed Consent

    13-03-199560m

    Dr. Kronk's feelings towards his girlfriend undergo changes when he find out about her past. Geiger's heart patient develops an aneurysm which would take him off the heart recipien...

  • Internal Affairs

    19.Internal Affairs

    20-03-199560m

    Dr. Kronk makes a rushed decision to rescue a man by amputating his leg with a chainsaw, only to discover later that the man is a place kicker. A friend of Aaron's with Parkinson's...

  • The Virus

    20.The Virus

    08-05-199560m

    When the Board of Health closes the hospital doors after several patients die from a deadly staph infection, the staff scrambles to find the source of the infection; Jeffrey and Ge...

  • Full Moon

    21.Full Moon

    15-05-199560m

    A troubled Dr. Geiger seeks a blessing from his institutionalized ex-wife so he can continue his relationship with Dr. Infante. A dying AIDS patient hopes Hancock can arrange a sur...

  • Songs from the Cuckoo Birds

    22.Songs from the Cuckoo Birds

    22-05-199560m

    Following Dr. Joseph's witnessing of Dr. Geiger's actions, the medical board suspends him until his case can be reviewed. However, there is some disagreement among the hospital's s...

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