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The Best Episodes of Chicago Hope Season 3

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 1 - Out of Africa
    7.7/10(31 votes)

    #1 - Out of Africa

    S3:E1

    Kate returns to Chicago to face possible arrest and her ex-husband, as well as suspension at work. Aaron ponders Philip's bitterness over Aaron's apparent support of Tommy Wilmette. Dennis struggles to regain his health. Dr. Nyland returns to find a new doctor in charge of the trauma service. Kronk and Grad continue to quarrel as he prepares to leave Africa.

    Director:Bill D'Elia
    Writer:John Tinker

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  2. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 2 - Back to the Future
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    #2 - Back to the Future

    S3:E2

    Kate cares for her dying father and gets some words of wisdom from Tommy when he brings Sara for a visit; Philip recruits Dr. Jack McNeil to head up orthopedics; Diane returns, only to find that Billy has remained in Africa and that her lab has turned into a storage room; Keith places himself in legal jeopardy when he decides to help an injured drug courier evade arrest; Aaron persuades Tommy to give the hospital six months to turn itself around with Philip at the helm.

    Director:Bill D'Elia
    Writer:John Tinker

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  3. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 3 - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
    7.8/10(31 votes)

    #3 - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag

    S3:E3

    Aaron and Jack join forces in operating on a man who sustained multiple fractures in a parachute jumping accident; Diane rejoins the staff as a teaching attending in internal medicine, and quickly draws a demanding and manipulative patient who's making the staff miserable; Kate's grief over her father's death is compounded when she's carjacked on her way home from his funeral and his ashes are not recovered with the car; Diane unsuccessfully seeks some moral support from Dennis and Philip; after Tommy tells her some hard truths about creating her own misery, Kate decides to take responsibility for the choices she's made, and starts by telling Peggy Harrod the truth about her daughter's death; Jack takes one on the chin when he gives the parachutist's would-be bride some bad news; Kate returns home to find the carjacker has returned her father's ashes while burglarizing her home; Philip has it out with Aaron and reaffirms his intention to keep Tommy from closing the hospital.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writers:Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich

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  4. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 4 - Liver Let Die
    7.8/10(30 votes)

    #4 - Liver Let Die

    S3:E4

    Dennis and Jack clash over the best mode of treating the arthritic knee of a world class cyclist; Aaron makes a new friend when he takes on a new research assistant; Kate and Danny have their suspensions reviewed by the board; Phillip plunges back into patient care by performing an experimental procedure on a woman who exhibits unusual complications from a liver tumor; Caroline discovers that orthopedics are not for her; Dennis faces an emotional struggle in the aftermath of his shooting.

    Director:Adam Arkin
    Writer:John Tinker

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  5. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 5 - Liar, Liar
    7.9/10(30 votes)

    #5 - Liar, Liar

    S3:E5

    Kate returns to duty and finds that her reinstatement comes with a cut in title, salary, staff, and office; Jack replaces the hip of an older man who has opinions on everything, including how Jack should live his life; Aaron has mixed emotions when Grace comes up with a much-needed improvement for a surgical shunt he's been developing; Kate is humbled when a young couple whose daughter needs a heart transplant chooses another doctor after they discover her change in status; Tommy thinks it would be a good idea for the hospital to advertise, and hires a publicist who manages to get under everyone's skin as she creates a commercial that ends up looking strangely familiar.

    Director:Stephen Cragg
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 6 - Higher Powers
    7.8/10(29 votes)

    #6 - Higher Powers

    S3:E6

    Austin sprays a subpoena server with mace, inspiring his fellow servers to wage war on the hospital. Hancock tries to counsel a woman in her late forties whose health is severely threatened by her pregnancy but who refuses to let the baby be delivered early. Kronk finally returns to Chicago, dressed in Masai garb, and tries to reconnect with Diane.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:David Amann

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  7. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 7 - A Time to Kill
    8.2/10(34 votes)

    #7 - A Time to Kill

    S3:E7

    Aaron faces a huge moral dilemma when he's asked to operate on a death-row inmate scheduled to be executed in two weeks. McNeil treats a feisty old lady whose daughter is an old flame os his. Dr. Watters entertains an amnesiac, believing that he's a distinguished visiting doctor.

    Director:James Frawley
    Writer:Tim Kring

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  8. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 8 - A Day in the Life
    8.2/10(38 votes)

    #8 - A Day in the Life

    S3:E8

    Austin's cystic-fibrosis patient is just one of four patients needing transplants who have to wait in fear and hope when a potential donor appears but is prematurely pronounces dead and entered into the donor system by the inexperienced Eggert.

    Director:Bill D'Elia
    Writer:Sara B. Cooper

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  9. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 9 - Divided Loyalty
    7.9/10(39 votes)

    #9 - Divided Loyalty

    S3:E9

    Kronk puts himself and Grad into a difficult position when he treats an old hockey pal who turns up after just being released from jail with a bullet in him. Wilkes and his wife face some basic decisions about their lives when they must decide what sort of neighborhood to move to.

    Director:Michael Schultz
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 10 - V-Fibbing
    7.9/10(30 votes)

    #10 - V-Fibbing

    S3:E10

    Austin and Underhill both have to face the consequences when they tell the truth. McNeil contemplates surgery to prolong a jockey's career. Kronk lies to a teenage smoker with a cough.

    Director:Sandy Smolan
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 11 - Mummy Dearest
    8.1/10(34 votes)

    #11 - Mummy Dearest

    S3:E11

    Diane is faced with a dilemna when she has an opportunity to examine a 500-year-old Incan mummy temporarily in town for an exhibition. An accident victim loses his memories but gains a much nicer personality, presenting Shutt and McNeil with a dilemmna.

    Director:Martha Mitchell
    Writers:Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich

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  12. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 12 - Split Decisions
    7.7/10(29 votes)

    #12 - Split Decisions

    S3:E12

    Wilkes saves a motorist who was attempting suicide. Austin falls for a politician.

    Director:Randall Zisk
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 13 - Verdicts
    8.0/10(36 votes)

    #13 - Verdicts

    S3:E13

    A hit-and-run victim escapes serious injury but her infant twins face a desperate crisis. Hancock faces testifying in court against his brother-in-law. Patient Linda Fortin's heart continues to grow weaker as her pregnancy progresses, endangering herself and her baby.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Amann

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  14. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 14 - The Day of the Rope
    8.5/10(44 votes)

    #14 - The Day of the Rope

    S3:E14

    White supremacists on the run following a failed assassanation attempt against the President hole up in a grocery store with an injured member and demand a doctor from Chicago Hope to treat him.

    Director:Stephen Cragg
    Writers:John Tinker, Peter Berg

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  15. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 15 - Take My Wife, Please
    8.0/10(30 votes)

    #15 - Take My Wife, Please

    S3:E15

    Aaron's practical joker college roommate arrives for a visit and announces that he wants Aaron to marry his widow, Aaron's former girlfriend, when the malignant and inoperable tumor in his brain finally takes his life in a few weeks; Keith and Danny continue to clash; Aaron runs into an old friend as he stumbles home after a night of drinking with his college roommate; Gina has a miscarriage, but a grieving Keith wonders if it wasn't deliberate; Karen suspects that Jack's gambling again, an accusation which he denies; Maricela puts the moves on Aaron; Karen is wary when Jack finally comes to her for help.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Tim Kring

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  16. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 16 - Missed Conception
    7.9/10(29 votes)

    #16 - Missed Conception

    S3:E16

    An old friend of Austin's asks for help in getting pregnant. A cancer patient needs marijuana for her well being. Shutt's friend returns from Italy without his wife.

    Director:Michael Pressman
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 17 - Mother, May I?
    8.0/10(44 votes)

    #17 - Mother, May I?

    S3:E17

    Kate flies to Washington with Tommy to speak to Congress about health care. Back in Chicago, her friend Marina makes a decision about adoption. McNeil's patint Harriett Owens is hospitalized again.

    Director:Bill D'Elia
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 18 - Growing Pains
    8.1/10(28 votes)

    #18 - Growing Pains

    S3:E18

    Aaron and Phillip announce that they are buying the hospital from Wilmette, although their plans for keping the solvent do not please any of their colleagues. An HMO lawyer obsessed with ""patient responsibilty"" holds the reins on some lucrative coronary-bypass business. A patient with private insurance receives test after test for all of his petty complaints.

    Director:Jim Charleston
    Writer:Sara B. Cooper

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  19. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 19 - The Son Also Rises
    8.1/10(41 votes)

    #19 - The Son Also Rises

    S3:E19

    Aaron discovers that his late father wasn't his biological parent when he meets the eccentric sculptor who is; Phillip learns something about his estranged son when an emergency arises; Kate treats an 11 year-old genius who hungers for contact with his overwhelmed father.

    Director:James R. Bagdonas
    Writer:Tim Kring

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  20. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 20 - Second Chances
    8.0/10(40 votes)

    #20 - Second Chances

    S3:E20

    Kate lobbies for another heart for a prominent author whose first transplanted organ is failing and who also has a continuing heroin addiction. McNeil's gambling problem grows worse. Danny Nyland becomes a patient when he runs into a telephone pole with his car.

    Director:Jesús Salvador Treviño
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 21 - Positive I.D.s
    7.8/10(28 votes)

    #21 - Positive I.D.s

    S3:E21

    Grad tries to persuade a hesitant Kronk to perform a double mastectomy on a healthy woman does not have cancer but who does have the gene for breast cancer and a family history of the illness. Austin struggles to get a reluctant Sara into an exclusive girls school. Nyland returns to work following his accident and throws himself into trying to identify a severely beaten and comatose young woman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Amann

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  22. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 22 - Leggo My Ego
    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #22 - Leggo My Ego

    S3:E22

    Word of Billy's and Diane's engagement receives a mixed reception at the hospital; Jack returns from vacation with a windfall and a feverish belief he's on a winning streak; Kate alienates some colleagues when a reporter follows her around the hospital; Jack takes on the delicate job of operating on an infant with an exposed spinal cord.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writers:Nicole Yorkin, Sara B. Cooper, Dawn Prestwich

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  23. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 23 - Colonel of Truth
    7.8/10(36 votes)

    #23 - Colonel of Truth

    S3:E23

    Kate finds herself in a no-win situation when a child is injured during one of Sara's softball games. Phillip's Colonel from Vietnam is admitted with rheumatoid arthritis but refuses treatment. Nyland is suspended again. Shutt get a TV gig.

    Director:Peter Berg
    Writer:Tim Kring

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  24. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 24 - Lamb to the Slaughter
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #24 - Lamb to the Slaughter

    S3:E24

    After a gang member dies in the ER, the boy's mother claims that one of the doctors suggested they ""Let him die"" so a prosecutor calls in Wilkes, Nyland, McNeil and Watters for widely varying statements about what actually happened during the crucial time period.

    Director:Bill D'Elia
    Writer:John Tinker

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  25. Chicago Hope Season 3 Episode 25 - Love on the Rocks
    7.9/10(31 votes)

    #25 - Love on the Rocks

    S3:E25

    McNeil doesn't cope well with the demands for attention from Karen, his ""roomate"" and a thereapy patient claiming that McNeil's his father. Billy lears that Aaron kissed Diane, and handles it very badly. A depressed Nyland gets one more unwelcome surprise. Phillip receives an offer from Emma.

    Director:Stephen Cragg
    Writer:David Amann

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Out of Africa" is the best rated episode of "Chicago Hope" season 3. It scored 7.7/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by Bill D'Elia and written by John Tinker, it aired on 9/16/1996. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Back to the Future".