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The Worst Episodes of Chicago Hope

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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 Worst Episode
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    Chicago Hope Season 1 Episode 22 - Songs from the Cuckoo Birds
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Songs from the Cuckoo Birds

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:Michael Dinner
    Writer:David E. Kelley

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  2. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 18 - Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope
    6.6/10(39 votes)

    #2 - Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope

    S2:E18

    Grad and Kronk reluctantly team up to counsel an inexperienced couple on sexual techniques. Dr. Sutton finds himself unnerved by a sexually precocious young woman at Dr. Hancock's clinic. Aaron tries befriending a resident, but finds himself misinterpretted.

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

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  3. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 20 - The Parent Rap
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #3 - The Parent Rap

    S2:E20

    Kate loses her control and her compassion when her father is admitted with an operable surgical condition but refuses it on religious grounds. Geiger turns up again at the hospital, this time as part of a clown troop there to entertain the patients. Sutton delivers a baby with ambigous genitalia whose parents are equally ambigious about they feel about their offspring.

    Director:Arvin Brown
    Writer:Sara B. Cooper

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  4. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 13 - Three Men and a Lady
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #4 - Three Men and a Lady

    S2:E13

    Judge Aldrich's tenure as Alan's replacement is cut short by illness; Amy, an old friend of Danny's from medical school, joins the nursing staff and clashes with Camille over the care of a terminally ill patient; Kate and Billy hook up, but decide that they won't repeat the experience after they clash professionally during experimental laser surgery on an elderly cardiac patient; Amy rebuffs Danny's advances.

    Director:Thomas Schlamme
    Writer:John Tinker

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  5. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 15 - Hearts and Minds
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #5 - Hearts and Minds

    S2:E15

    A heart-transplant patient returns to the hospital with chest pains and emotional and personality changes that challenge the notion of what really is exchanged in a transplant. Shutt is approached by a direct, self-confident psychiatrist who insists he perform psychosurgery on a 12-year-old boy with an obsessive-compulsive disorder that severely limits the life he can lead.

    Director:Martin Davidson
    Writer:John Tinker

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  6. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 17 - Life Lines
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #6 - Life Lines

    S2:E17

    Aaron proceeds with Eric Dipretto's psychosurgery while Austin campaigns for the position of chief of surgery and Bix continues to lose control. Kronk is determined to perform a controversial intestinal bypass on Nyland's former boss and good friend, a restauranteur who just wants to enjoy a good meal again.

    Director:Dennie Gordon
    Writer:Sara B. Cooper

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  7. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 22 - Ex Marks the Spot
    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #7 - Ex Marks the Spot

    S2:E22

    Sutton's mind rells as wives two and three ask him for a very great personal and professional favor and wife one chacks in for a serious medical problem. Kate anxiously awaits news of who will be appointed as the new head of surgery. Dr. Shutt performs delicate surgery on a wealthy quadriplegic who cannot be anesthetized, and whose beautiful fiance attracts Nyland's attention.

    Director:Michael W. Watkins
    Writer:Patricia Green

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  8. Chicago Hope Season 1 Episode 3 - Food Chains
    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #8 - Food Chains

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Jeremy Kagan
    Writer:David E. Kelley

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  9. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 1 - Hello Goodbye
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    #9 - Hello Goodbye

    S2:E1

    Dr. Nyland pulls a switch with Dr. Kronk in order to avoid a charity function, but they have to face the consequences over somecmisunderstandings. Misunderstanding fills Aaron's life when his father barges into the hospital with a patient who is also his fiancee. Geiger finally understands that he may be causing more ripples than he thought.

    Director:Michael Dinner
    Writer:David E. Kelley

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

    #10 - 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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  11. Chicago Hope Season 5 Episode 13 - Karmic Relief
    7.3/10(25 votes)

    #11 - Karmic Relief

    S5:E13

    Kate discovers that she has developed an ovarian cyst which could destroy her plans with NASA. After Kate hears this news she agrees to go to a retreat... that Yeats is leading.

    Director:Adam Arkin
    Writer:Barbara Hall

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  12. Chicago Hope Season 6 Episode 4 - Vigilance and Care
    7.3/10(27 votes)

    #12 - Vigilance and Care

    S6:E4

    Dr. McNeil goes to magnificent lengths to save the arm of a young baseball star. A little girl is brought into the ER after being hit by a car.

    Director:Mel Damski
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Chicago Hope Season 6 Episode 5 - Humpty Dumpty
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #13 - Humpty Dumpty

    S6:E5

    The doctors fight to save Cacaci's life after he jumps from a six story building in a suicide attempt, although Cacaci's fiancee says that someone pushed him off the building.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Chicago Hope Season 1 Episode 15 - Life Support
    7.4/10(55 votes)

    #14 - Life Support

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writers:John Tinker, David E. Kelley

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  15. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 9 - Stand
    7.4/10(30 votes)

    #15 - Stand

    S2:E9

    Shutt finds himself revitalized by a frustrated MS patient who refuses to quietly accept that Aaron can't help him. Dr. Sutton comes up with a way to exorcise Geiger's spirit from the hospital. Watters finds solace with a special visitor.

    Director:Mel Damski
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 11 - Christmas Truce
    7.4/10(29 votes)

    #16 - Christmas Truce

    S2:E11

    Aaron is baffled when a seizure lands Camille in the ER. Nyland's holiday vacation plans are suddenly sidetracked by a delivery of supplies to Ricky's makeshift clinic with a Santa'-clad Hancock. A promising teen athlete fears that an operation could cost him the chance to play major league baseball. Grad meets a sweet but shy veterinarian.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 12 - Transplanted Affection
    7.4/10(27 votes)

    #17 - Transplanted Affection

    S2:E12

    Watters steps in and asks Geiger to take on Austin's transplant patient as she struggles with her ex husband for custody of their daughter. Sutton brings a brain-dead woman into the hospital to deliver her baby.

    Director:Michael Dinner
    Writer:David E. Kelley

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  18. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 14 - Right to Life
    7.4/10(26 votes)

    #18 - Right to Life

    S2:E14

    Hancock's practice and his freedom are threatened when he saves the life of a hemorrhaging pregnant woman by aborting her fetus, which stirs up strong emotions when the woman denounces his actions. Kronk recoils at first from treating a drag queen with AIDS. Another new lawyer faces a baptism of fire as hospital legal counsel.

    Director:Adam Arkin
    Writer:Patricia Green

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  19. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 19 - Sweet Surrender
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #19 - Sweet Surrender

    S2:E19

    Dr. Watters befriends a 12-year-old girl when she's admitted with an apparently self-inflected wound to her transplanted kidney. Austin has another rough day, with the shakes during a surgery and a message from her ex-husband that he might be moving to Boston and taking their daughter with him. Diane finds out about Billy's previous relationship with Kate.

    Director:Michael Engler
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Chicago Hope Season 4 Episode 14 - Psychodrama
    7.4/10(42 votes)

    #20 - Psychodrama

    S4:E14

    Watters is confined to a wheelchair after a basketball injury and witnesses a murder. Austin receives a bird from Danny, the electrician she's been dating, which causes havoc in the hospital. Diane believes she has found her birthmother.

    Director:Patrick R. Norris
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Chicago Hope Season 6 Episode 6 - Upstairs, Downstairs
    7.4/10(25 votes)

    #21 - Upstairs, Downstairs

    S6:E6

    A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Chicago Hope Season 6 Episode 14 - Gray Matters
    7.4/10(29 votes)

    #22 - Gray Matters

    S6:E14

    A father is told he can only donate his liver to one of his children, after both go into liver failure. Rose Webber comes back to Chicago Hope and finds that Aaron has started a new relationship -- with Gina.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 3 - A Coupla Stiffs
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #23 - A Coupla Stiffs

    S2:E3

    Dennis struggles over whether he should listen to his gut, or to Jeffrey's advice, in treating a man who doesn't speak English; Aaron is upset when Alan gives Camille advice about their property settlement; after Billy recommends amputation to a man with a gangrenous leg, Diane offers the use of maggots as an alternative treatment, but the patient has a great deal of difficulty in overcoming the ""ick"" factor of Diane's suggestion; Phillip seriously injures his opponent in a charity boxing match; Aaron and Camille sign the papers that finalize their divorce.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:John Tinker

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  24. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 16 - Women on the Verge
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    #24 - Women on the Verge

    S2:E16

    A friend of Kronk's seeks his advice about a health problem she thinks resulted from her sex-change operation. Austin treats an impressionable teenage boy with a heart condition and a crush on her. Dr. Konstadt, off her medication, acts injudiciously when Shutt seeks permission from a reluctant board to perform surgery on Eric.

    Director:Rodman Flender
    Writer:John Tinker

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  25. Chicago Hope Season 2 Episode 23 - Last One Out, Get the Lights
    7.5/10(38 votes)

    #25 - Last One Out, Get the Lights

    S2:E23

    Tommy places a bid to buy out the hospital with the intention of firing Kate as soon as the deal goes through; as Valerie continues her affair with Danny, Jack lets Danny know that he's aware of their relationship; Elizabeth is readmitted after Andy beats her again, and Andy takes his revenge when Dennis attempts to help his sister escape the cycle of spousal abuse; a mysterious biohazard accompanies a patient admitted to the E.R., and immediately begins to fell the staff; after Kate pleads the hospital's case, Jack agrees to counter Tommy's offer, but only if Phillip fires Danny; Kate and Tommy threaten to expose each other's secrets; after Diane's work for the last two years is called into question and her grant money is suspended, she decides to go to Africa to do research with a colleague; Tommy courts Aaron's support; feeling under-appreciated and ill-respected, Camille resigns; realizing that Tommy will stop at nothing to destroy her, a desperate Kate flees with their daughter an

    Director:Bill D'Elia
    Writer:John Tinker

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Songs from the Cuckoo Birds" is the worst rated episode of "Chicago Hope". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Michael Dinner and written by David E. Kelley, it aired on 5/22/1995. This episode scored 6.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope".