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Chicago Hope
Chicago Hope was a popular CBS drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 4, 2000. It took place in a fictional private charity hospital.
The show starred Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, a hot shot surgeon with emotional problems stemming from the psychiatric condition of his wife, played by Kim Greist. Adam Arkin played Patinkin's colleague and best friend and Peter MacNicol and Hector Elizondo featured as house counsel and director of medicine respectively. Christine Lahti joined in the second season as a talented cardiac surgeon with a feminist chip on her shoulder who vies with Patinkin for the chief of surgery position.
The pilot episode of Chicago Hope was broadcast the day before NBC's ER, however, after that first week the two shows went head-to-head in primetime, Thursday night at 10pm. Despite the critical acclaim that Chicago Hope received, ER's first season proved a ratings winner and in 1995 Chicago Hope was moved to Monday nights at 10pm.
The show stayed in that slot and performed well, with ratings peaking at 11.9 and 20% share, however in the second season Kelley and Patinkin decided to leave the show and Chicago Hope began its slow descent to cancellation. In 1999 both Kelley and Patinkin returned with a revamped cast including the additions of Barbara Hershey and Lauren Holly and the loss of Lahti, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Stacy Edwards. They also moved the show back to Thursday nights against NBC's Frasier and ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; however, this proved too daunting of a task, and the show was cancelled in May 2000.
In the UK, seasons 1 and 2, originally aired on BBC One. More recently all seasons of the show have been shown on ITV3.
In the USA episodes air on The Discovery Health Channel but the last episodes of season 6 and the first episodes of season one do not usually ai
Chicago Hope Episodes
Chicago Hope 1st Season 1994
1. 1- 1 2M79 18 Sep 94 Pilot
2. 1- 2 2M01 22 Sep 94 Over the Rainbow
3. 1- 3 2M03 29 Sep 94 Food Chains
4. 1- 4 2M02 6 Oct 94 With the Greatest of Ease
5. 1- 5 2M04 13 Oct 94 You Gotta Have Heart
6. 1- 6 2M06 20 Oct 94 Shutt Down
7. 1- 7 2M05 3 Nov 94 Genevieve and Fat Boy
8. 1- 8 2M07 10 Nov 94 Death Be Proud
9. 1- 9 2M08 1 Jan 95 Heartbreak
10. 1-10 2M09 2 Jan 95 The Quarantine
11. 1-11 2M10 9 Jan 95 Love and Hope
12. 1-12 2M11 16 Jan 95 Great White Hope
13. 1-13 2M12 23 Jan 95 Small Sacrifices
14. 1-14 2M13 6 Feb 95 Cutting Edges
15. 1-15 2M14 13 Feb 95 Life Support
16. 1-16 2M15 20 Feb 95 Freeze Outs
17. 1-17 2M16 27 Feb 95 Growth Pains
18. 1-18 2M17 13 Mar 95 Informed Consent
19. 1-19 2M18 20 Mar 95 Internal Affairs
20. 1-20 2M19 8 May 95 The Virus
21. 1-21 2M20 15 May 95 Full Moon
22. 1-22 2M21 22 May 95 Songs from the Cuckoo Birds
Chicago Hope 2nd Season 1995
23. 2- 1 3M01 18 Sep 95 Hello Goodbye
24. 2- 2 3M02 25 Sep 95 Rise from the Dead
25. 2- 3 3M03 2 Oct 95 A Coupla Stiffs
26. 2- 4 3M04 9 Oct 95 Every Day a Little Death
27. 2- 5 3M13 16 Oct 95 Wild Cards
28. 2- 6 3M05 30 Oct 95 Who Turned out the Lights?
29. 2- 7 3M07 6 Nov 95 From Soup to Nuts
30. 2- 8 3M08 13 Nov 95 Leave of Absence
31. 2- 9 3M09 20 Nov 95 Stand
32. 2-10 3M10 27 Nov 95 The Ethics of Hope
33. 2-11 3M11 11 Dec 95 Christmas Truce
34. 2-12 3M12 8 Jan 96 Transplanted Affection
35. 2-13 3M06 15 Jan 96 Three Men and a Lady
36. 2-14 3M14 22 Jan 96 Right to Life
37. 2-15 3M15 5 Feb 96 Hearts and Minds
38. 2-16 3M16 12 Feb 96 Women on the Verge
39. 2-17 3M17 26 Feb 96 Life Lines
40. 2-18 3M18 11 Mar 96 Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope
41. 2-19 3M19 18 Mar 96 Sweet Surrender
42. 2-20 3M20 29 Apr 96 The Parent Rap
43. 2-21 3M21 6 May 96 Quiet Riot
44. 2-22 3M22 13 May 96 Ex Marks the Spot
45. 2-23 3M23 20 May 96 Last One Out, Get the Lights
Chicago Hope 3rd Season 1996
46. 3- 1 4M01 16 Sep 96 Out of Africa (1)
47. 3- 2 4M02 23 Sep 96 Back to the Future (2)
48. 3- 3 4M03 30 Sep 96 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
49. 3- 4 4M04 7 Oct 96 Liver Let Die
50. 3- 5 4M05 14 Oct 96 Liar, Liar
51. 3- 6 4M06 21 Oct 96 Higher Powers
52. 3- 7 4M07 4 Nov 96 A Time to Kill
53. 3- 8 4M08 11 Nov 96 A Day in the Life
54. 3- 9 4M09 18 Nov 96 Divided Loyalty
55. 3-10 4M10 25 Nov 96 V-Fibbing
56. 3-11 4M11 9 Dec 96 Mummy Dearest
57. 3-12 4M12 6 Jan 97 Split Decisions
58. 3-13 4M13 13 Jan 97 Verdicts
59. 3-14 4M25 20 Jan 97 The Day of the Rope
60. 3-15 4M14 3 Feb 97 Take My Wife, Please
61. 3-16 4M15 10 Feb 97 Missed Conception (1)
62. 3-17 4M16 17 Feb 97 Mother, May I? (2)
63. 3-18 4M17 10 Mar 97 Growing Pains
64. 3-19 4M18 17 Mar 97 The Son Also Rises
65. 3-20 4M19 7 Apr 97 Second Chances
66. 3-21 4M20 13 Apr 97 Positive I.D.'s
67. 3-22 4M21 21 Apr 97 Leggo My Ego
68. 3-23 4M22 28 Apr 97 Colonel of Truth
69. 3-24 4M26 5 May 97 Lamb to the Slaughter
70. 3-25 4M23 12 May 97 Love on the Rocks
71. 3-26 4M24 19 May 97 Hope Against Hope
Chicago Hope 4th Season 1997
72. 4- 1 5M01 1 Oct 97 Guns 'n' Roses
73. 4- 2 5M02 8 Oct 97 The Incredible Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen... by Proxy
74. 4- 3 5M03 15 Oct 97 Brain Salad Surgery
75. 4- 4 5M04 22 Oct 97 Sympathy for the Devil
76. 4- 5 5M05 29 Oct 97 ...And the Hand Played On
77. 4- 6 5M06 5 Nov 97 The Lung and the Restless
78. 4- 7 5M07 12 Nov 97 White Trash
79. 4- 8 5M08 19 Nov 97 Winging It
80. 4- 9 5M09 26 Nov 97 Cabin Fever
81. 4-10 5M10 10 Dec 97 All in the Family
82. 4-11 5M12 17 Dec 97 On Golden Pons
83. 4-12 5M11 7 Jan 98 Broken Hearts
84. 4-13 5M13 14 Jan 98 Memento Mori
85. 4-14 5M14 21 Jan 98 Psychodrama
86. 4-15 5M15 4 Feb 98 The Ties That Bind
87. 4-16 4ABM16 4 Mar 98 The Things We Do for Love
88. 4-17 4ABM18 11 Mar 98 Liver, Hold the Mushrooms
89. 4-18 4ABM17 18 Mar 98 Waging Bull
90. 4-19 4ABM19 25 Mar 98 Objects are Closer Than They Appear
91. 4-20 4ABM20 1 Apr 98 Deliverance
92. 4-21 4ABM21 8 Apr 98 Bridge over Troubled Watters
93. 4-22 4ABM22 29 Apr 98 Risky Business (1)
94. 4-23 4ABM23 6 May 98 Absent Without Leave (2)
95. 4-24 4ABM24 13 May 98 Physician, Heal Thyself
Chicago Hope 5th Season 1998
96. 5- 1 5ABM01 30 Sep 98 Sarindipity
97. 5- 2 5ABM02 7 Oct 98 Austin Space
98. 5- 3 5ABM03 14 Oct 98 Wag the Doc
99. 5- 4 5ABM04 21 Oct 98 The Breast and the Brightest
100. 5- 5 5ABM06 28 Oct 98 One Hundred and One Damnations
101. 5- 6 5ABM05 4 Nov 98 Viagra-Vated Assault
102. 5- 7 5ABM07 11 Nov 98 Austin, We Have a Problem
103. 5- 8 5ABM08 18 Nov 98 The Other Cheek
104. 5- 9 5ABM09 25 Nov 98 Tantric Turkey
105. 5-10 5ABM10 9 Dec 98 Gun with the Wind
106. 5-11 5ABM11 16 Dec 98 McNeil and Pray
107. 5-12 5ABM12 13 Jan 99 Adventures in Babysitting
108. 5-13 5ABM13 20 Jan 99 Karmic Relief
109. 5-14 5ABM14 3 Feb 99 Playing Through
110. 5-15 5ABM15 10 Feb 99 Big Hand for the Little Lady
111. 5-16 5ABM16 17 Feb 99 Home is Where the Heartache Is
112. 5-17 5ABM17 10 Mar 99 A Goy and His Dog
113. 5-18 5ABM18 24 Mar 99 Teacher's Pet
114. 5-19 5ABM19 31 Mar 99 Vanishing Acts
115. 5-20 5ABM20 14 Apr 99 From Here to Maternity
116. 5-21 5ABM21 21 Apr 99 And Baby Makes 10
117. 5-22 5ABM22 28 Apr 99 Kiss of Death
118. 5-23 5ABM23 17 May 99 The Heavens Can Wait
119. 5-24 5ABM24 19 May 99 Curing Cancer
Chicago Hope 6th Season 1999
120. 6- 1 6ABM01 23 Sep 99 Team Play
121. 6- 2 6ABM02 30 Sep 99 Y'Gotta Have Heart
122. 6- 3 6ABM03 7 Oct 99 Oh What a Piece of Work is Man
123. 6- 4 6ABM04 14 Oct 99 Vigilance and Care
124. 6- 5 6ABM05 21 Oct 99 Humpty Dumpty
125. 6- 6 6ABM06 28 Oct 99 Upstairs, Downstairs
126. 6- 7 6ABM07 11 Nov 99 White Rabbit
127. 6- 8 6ABM08 18 Nov 99 The Heart to Heart
128. 6- 9 6ABM09 9 Dec 99 The Golden Hour
129. 6-10 6ABM10 6 Jan 00 Hanlon's Choice
130. 6-11 6ABM11 13 Jan 00 Faith, Hope & Surgery
131. 6-12 6ABM12 20 Jan 00 Letting Go
132. 6-13 6ABM13 3 Feb 00 Boys Will Be Girls
133. 6-14 6ABM14 10 Feb 00 Gray Matters
134. 6-15 6ABM15 17 Feb 00 Painful Cuts
135. 6-16 6ABM16 24 Feb 00 Simon Sez
136. 6-17 6ABM17 30 Mar 00 Cold Hearts
137. 6-18 6ABM18 6 Apr 00 Devoted Attachment
138. 6-19 6ABM19 13 Apr 00 Miller Time
139. 6-20 6ABM20 20 Apr 00 Thoughts of You
140. 6-21 6ABM21 27 Apr 00 Everybody's Special at Chicago Hope
141. 6-22 6ABM22 4 May 00 Have I Got a Deal For You
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