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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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- E1 PilotNext upSep 18, 1994 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 elderly patient; Jeffrey and Aaron separate conjoined twins.
Guest stars: Margaret Colin (Karen Antonovich), Louis Guss (Joseph Collito), Joan Copeland (Mrs. Thurmond), Carolyn Seymour (Board Member), John Finn (Trevor Filburn), Linda Klein (O.R. Technician), Ping Wu (MRI Technician), Gerald McCullouch (N.D. Technician #2)
- E2 Over the RainbowSep 22, 1994 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 comes to the rescue when a patient's HMO refuses to cover Aaron's operating on her very complicated and potentially fatal brain tumor; Jeffrey visits his wife Laurie, a straitjacketed patient in a mental hospital who apologizes for drowning their son Joey; Arthur's refusal to remove his wagging finger from Jeffrey's face during an argument leaves him with a bitten digit, and enables Jeffrey to diagnose the curable medical condition that's causing Arthur's resting tremor.
Guest stars: David Newsom (Doctor in Asylum), Kim Greist (Laurie Geiger), Paul Dooley (Walter McTeague), Victoria Dillard (Nadine Winslow), Lynne Moody (Rachel Kleema), Arthur Taxier (Austin Hackett), Paul Laurence (Reporter #5), Ken Lerner (Jonathan Saunders)
- E3 Food ChainsSep 29, 1994 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 staff after Hackett suffers a fatal heart attack during a little afternoon delight with Angela in the MRI room; Jeffrey and Arthur argue over the future of a baboon with the potential to prolong the life of Jeffrey's patient with heart failure and Arthur's patient with AIDS.
Guest stars: Jerry Penacoli (Anchor Person), Bruce Gray (Mr. Wynn), Melinda Culea (Dina Russell), Earl Billings (Andrew's Uncle Harold), Michael Kopelow (Pederson), Arthur Taxier (Austin Hackett), Cassi Davis (Nurse #1), Ron Pitts (Reporter #1)
- E4 With the Greatest of EaseOct 6, 1994 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 are brought into the hospital in critical condition after a devastating accident during a circus performance; one of Aaron's former patients reveals his bigotry when he refuses to allow Nadine to remove his diseased gall bladder and insists that Aaron or another Jewish surgeon perform the procedure; Jeffrey exhibits signs of a meltdown when, in the space of a few hours, outrageous conduct in a nightclub gets him mistakenly arrested for soliciting a prostitute and he vandalizes the car of a man who stole his parking space; Phillip incorrectly attributes Aaron's angry outburst at one patient minutes after losing another young patient in surgery to tensions with Camille, and threatens to fire Camille if there's a recurrence.
Guest stars: Richard Romanus (Anthony Travelli), Louis Guss (Joseph Collito), Jamie Rose (Stacey Halmora), Victoria Dillard (Nadine Winslow), Cynthena Sanders (Receptionist), Bradford English (Desk Sergeant), Mark Lonow (Porsche Driver), Bianca Rossini (Jeanette Travelli)
- E5 You Gotta Have HeartOct 13, 1994 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 that her daughter's organs can be donated to save the life of another baby; Karen deflects a flirtation from Jeffrey, but romantic sparks fly between her and Aaron.
Guest stars: Margaret Colin (Karen Antonovich), Michael Jace (Resident), Nina Siemaszko (Gloria McKinnon), Philip Baker Hall (Mr. Wellington), Tuck Milligan (Steve Wheeler), Deirdre O'Connell (Ellen Wheeler), Lauren Tom (Nurse Julia), Tommy Redmond Hicks (Mr. Bill)
- E6 Shutt DownOct 20, 1994 · 60 min
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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 he started, and sprays a room with automatic gunfire before hospital security shoots him down; Karen joins the staff, and successfully teams with Paula to remove hematomas that are preventing Marcus Lavelle from walking, but the trauma of witnessing his mother's being injured in the E.R. shooting leaves the little boy afflicted with hysterical paralysis and still unable to move although the surgery has left him physically fine; reluctantly operating on the shooter, Aaron jokes about how easy and perhaps appropriate it might be to cause Metcalf's death through a surgical hiccup, a remark which comes back to haunt him later when Metcalf dies soon after surgery and his family sues Aaron and the hospital for failure to provide adequate care; Arthur engages in a little ex parte communication to put in a good word
Guest stars: Allen Garfield (Raymond Kadalski), Margaret Colin (Karen Antonovich), Richard Brooks (Henry Lavelle), Cynthia Martells (April Lavelle), Charlayne Woodard (Gina Wilkes), Stephen Elliott (Harold Aldrich), Sherman Augustus (Paramedic), Bari K. Willerford (Orderly)
- E7 Genevieve and Fat BoyNov 3, 1994 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 mobster about to enter the witness protection program; when the residents attempt to pull a practical joke on Jeffrey, they unwittingly provide comfort to a dying Karen.
Guest stars: Margaret Colin (Karen Antonovich), Jon Favreau (Tim Carney), Taylor Nichols (Gary Slater), Kristen Johnston (Wendy Smythe), Sherman Augustus (Paramedic), Deirdre O'Connell (Ellen Wheeler), Christopher Curry (Jim Dolan), John H. Brennan (Brad)
- E8 Death Be ProudNov 10, 1994 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 young girl who dies during surgery; a nurse impedes Aaron's plan to allow Karen to die peacefully.
Guest stars: Allen Garfield (Raymond Kadalski), Margaret Colin (Karen Antonovich), Jon Favreau (Tim Carney), Jamie Rose (Stacey Halmora), Jacklyn Zeman (Soap Nurse), Salome Jens (Board Member), Stephen Elliott (Harold Aldrich), Diane Venora (Geri Infante)
- E9 HeartbreakJan 1, 1995 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 rabbi dies later, even though her mishap had nothing to do with his death; an inexperienced new nurse stands up to Arthur; wracked with guilt, Camille reveals the operating room mishap to the rabbi's widow, and only Alan's ingenuity in demanding an autopsy keeps the hospital from a major lawsuit; Aaron and Camille have it out over his lack of emotional support after the rabbi's death, and each of them admit to the hurt caused by their divorce.
Guest stars: Todd Field (Josh Taubler), Jamie Rose (Stacey Halmora), David Margulies (Taubler's Attorney), Doris Belack (Mrs. Taubler), Nehemiah Persoff (Rabbi Ben Taubler), Teri Polo (Sarah Jane Petty), Joyce Guy (Nurse), Estelle Harris (Speaker at Funeral (uncredited))
- E10 The QuarantineJan 2, 1995 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 Ebola; Jeffrey and Danny perform an emergency bypass after Arthur has a massive heart attack; Aaron and Camille reconcile.
Guest stars: Robyn Lively (Maggie Atkisson), Michael McKenzie (Reporter #2), Wendy Alane Wright (Police Officer (uncredited))
- E11 Love and HopeJan 9, 1995 · 60 min
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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, and Alan takes one for the team right on the nose when he strains credulity in attempting to put the patient's situation in the best possible light; Geri and Jeffrey make peace; Camille contemplates having some plastic surgery after Aaron suffers from performance anxiety on their first post-reconciliation date; Jeffrey agrees to help Laurie put on the Institute's Christmas concert, but the preparations for the event begin to overwhelm her and put additional strain on her already fragile state; Danny and Maggie can't keep their hands off each other; Jeffrey confesses his despair about Laurie's condition and its effect on his life to Camille.
Guest stars: Stephen Root (Trumpet Playing Mental Patient), Kim Greist (Laurie Geiger), Jeremy Piven (Godfrey Nabbott), O-Lan Jones (Mental Patient), Lauren Tom (Nurse Julia), Diane Venora (Geri Infante), Brent Hinkley (Heckling Mental Patient), Robyn Lively (Maggie Atkisson)
- E12 Great White HopeJan 16, 1995 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 teenager carrying a baby with a heart defect seeks Alan's help when she is unable to find adoptive parents for her infant; Aaron fires Angela after his tax audit reveals that she's been embezzling money from his pension plan.
Guest stars: Heather McComb (Melissa Connel), Vicellous Shannon (Lannie Sutton), Joyce Guy (Nurse), Ivory Ocean (Martin Sutton), Karen Ludwig (Susan Reichert), Alvin Walker (Lt. Myers), Doug Yasuda (Paramedic #1), Carlease Burke (Nurse #2)
- E13 Small SacrificesJan 23, 1995 · 60 min
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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; Alan deflects a suit by Nabbott, but not before bristling at Harold's ""toad"" routine in court and being thrown into jail for contempt; Billy convinces a psychotic mugger with a history of pica who has bitten off the finger of a concert flautist during a robbery to submit to an endoscopy to retrieve the digit; as Geri successfully completes the reattachment, Billy and Phillip discover a second finger in the thief's digestive tract, and realize that the musician has been given a digit belonging to yet another of the mugger's victims.
Guest stars: Peter Berg (Billy Kronk), Mike Starr (Mugger (uncredited)), Pruitt Taylor Vince (Walter Platt), Stephen Elliott (Harold Aldrich), Jeremy Piven (Godfrey Nabbott), Diane Venora (Geri Infante), Richard Edson (Anthony Tedesco), Fyvush Finkel (Douglas Wambaugh)
- E14 Cutting EdgesFeb 6, 1995 · 60 min
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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 experimental procedure which may cure Laurie's schizophrenia; fearful that Laurie will no longer love him if she is cured, Gilbert goes to court to stop the procedure, citing Jeffrey's conflict of interest and contesting his guardianship of Laurie; although she is torn between the two men that she loves, Laurie decides that her future is with Gilbert and declines the surgery; Billy becomes a member of the staff, and agrees to do a consultation on Tamara, a teenaged patient of an old friend, Dr. Dennis Hancock; after Tamara is diagnosed with breast cancer and refuses to have a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery despite warnings from Billy and Geri that she will die without the surgery, Dennis uses just the right approach to change her mind and allay her fears of disfigurement.
Guest stars: Vondie Curtis-Hall (Dennis Hancock), Peter Berg (Billy Kronk), Elise Neal (Tamara Parnett), Kim Greist (Laurie Geiger), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Mrs. Parnett), Stephen Elliott (Harold Aldrich), O-Lan Jones (Mental Patient), Jeff Perry (Gilbert Weeks)
- E15 Life SupportFeb 13, 1995 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 and threatens the staff unless his brother receives an immediate transplant; as Aaron and Danny operate on the wounded officer, one of the exploding bullets with which he was shot goes off and severs two of Danny's fingers; Geri performs a successful reattachment, but Danny may be facing the end of his career as a surgeon.
Guest stars: Vondie Curtis-Hall (Dennis Hancock), Peter Berg (Billy Kronk), Allen Garfield (Raymond Kadalski), Chris Penn (Kevin Fitzpatrick), Jon Polito (Bill Ranford), Scott Burkholder (Michael Fitzpatrick), Diane Venora (Geri Infante), William Allen Young (Sgt. Robb (uncredited))
- E16 Freeze OutsFeb 20, 1995 · 60 min
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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; Dennis fights to get an experimental treatment for a patient with AIDS, and finds an unexpected ally in Alan.
Guest stars: Jayne Brook (Diane Grad), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Dennis Hancock), Peter Berg (Billy Kronk), Mary Kay Place (Joanna Kenneally), Sherman Augustus (Paramedic), Johann Carlo (Mrs. Concannon), Obba Babatundé (Charles Ellis), Diane Venora (Geri Infante)
- E17 Growth PainsFeb 27, 1995 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 lets off steam at Jeffrey as baby Alicia's condition worsens.
Guest stars: Jayne Brook (Diane Grad), Peter Berg (Billy Kronk), Allen Garfield (Raymond Kadalski), Leo Burmester (Dalton Robertson), Diane Venora (Geri Infante), Robyn Lively (Maggie Atkisson), Todd Graff (Louis Bagley), Ann Dowd (Eleanor Robertson)
- E18 Informed ConsentMar 13, 1995 · 60 min
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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 recipient list unless highly experimental methods are tried. Meanwhile, Dr. Hancock's ejection from his clinic leads to bringing the HMO provider into the courtroom.
Guest stars: Jayne Brook (Diane Grad), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Dennis Hancock), Peter Berg (Billy Kronk), Montrose Hagins (Mildred Snell), Allan Rich (Ned Tannen), Carroll Baker (Sylvie Tannen), John Finn (Trevor Filburn), Mia Sara (Annie Rueman)
- E19 Internal AffairsMar 20, 1995 · 60 min
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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 disease comes to him for an operation...bringing his own donor material. A ex-nurse is admitted into the hospital and is given special treatment by Dr. Nyland, whom she used to date.
Guest stars: Jayne Brook (Diane Grad), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Dennis Hancock), Peter Berg (Billy Kronk), Miguel Pérez (Officer Plumb), Susan Gibney (Deputy D.A. Johnson), Marcia Gay Harden (Barbara Tomilson), David Marshall Grant (Stephen Tomilson), David Barry Gray (John Sagonner)
- E20 The VirusMay 8, 1995 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 Geri help each other work through feelings of grief, loss, and guilt.
Guest stars: Jayne Brook (Diane Grad), Peter Berg (Billy Kronk), Ken Jenkins (Stanley McGee), Caroline Lagerfelt (Nurse Holder), Stephen Elliott (Harold Aldrich), Matt McGrath (Scott Callahan), Diane Venora (Geri Infante), Meg Gibson (Sandra Broten)
- E21 Full MoonMay 15, 1995 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 surgical procedure that would allow him to see one more sunrise.
Guest stars: Jayne Brook (Diane Grad), Kim Greist (Laurie Geiger), Jeff Perry (Gilbert Weeks), Obba Babatundé (Charles Ellis), Diane Venora (Geri Infante), Stephen Tobolowsky (Ted Joseph), Cotter Smith (Bob Marinak)
- E22 Songs from the Cuckoo BirdsMay 22, 1995 · 60 min
Synopsis
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 staff as to whether or not the suspension is in their best interests.
Guest stars: Vondie Curtis-Hall (Dennis Hancock), Peter Berg (Billy Kronk), Charles Cioffi (Board Member), Kim Greist (Laurie Geiger), Dean Stockwell (Robert St. Clair), Jeffrey Nordling (Mr. Schepps), Diane Venora (Geri Infante), Stephen Tobolowsky (Ted Joseph)
Cast & crew
Created by David E. Kelley
Adam Arkin
Mark Harmon
Héctor Elizondo
Rocky Carroll
Lauren Holly
Barbara Hershey
Mandy Patinkin
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