The BEST episodes of Chicago Hope season 5
Every episode of Chicago Hope season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Chicago Hope season 5!
Television medical drama in soap-opera style. Surgeons Jeffrey Geiger and Aaron Shutte battle valiantly for their patients, often coming into conflict with the hospital administration, run by Dr. Phillip Watters. Their cases are usually ethically complex, highly sensationalistic, and very melodramatic. Meanwhile, Jeffrey and Aaron, who are best friends, commiserate about the shambles their tumultuous personal lives have become....
#1 - The Breast and the Brightest
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1998
Grad accuses a mother are starving her infant to death. Shutt and Catera disagree over a neurological patient. Austin announces her plans with NASA, and Watters taked away her status as Chief of Surgery. Yeats uses his ""sixth sense"" to diagnose a patient.
#2 - McNeil and Pray
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1998
A member of Jack's basketball team sustains a near-fatal injury during a game; Bobby disagrees about the need for his patient to have heart surgery.
#3 - Adventures in Babysitting
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1999
Aaron struggles with the loss of a patient; Billy is attracted to Emily's babysitter; a couple asks Bobby and Dennis for help in creating a baby with a genius I.Q.; Joe tries to decide who should go into the hospital's fallout shelter in an emergency.
#4 - Home is Where the Heartache Is
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/1999
Jack returns after his brother's death; fearing the impact of HMOs on his practice, Joe begins to sell doorway products; Billy's friend comes to the hospital for a heart transplant, and ends up getting an experimental procedure after the hospital receives the wrong organ.
#5 - Tantric Turkey
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1998
Billy's mother shows up at the hospital and announces she is about to give birth. The star of the road company version on ""Jesus Christ Superstar"" comes to the hospital when the star is ill. Yeats former teacher comes to the hospital with chest pains.
#6 - Austin, We Have a Problem
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1998
Gordan teaches Kate how to fly. Hancock accuses a police officer of shooting a homeless African-American.
#7 - A Goy and His Dog
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/1999
Billy ponders euthanasia when Gordy is diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis; Lisa tries to help a woman with metastatic breast cancer get into an experimental group even though the woman doesn't fit the study parameters; Aaron's patient confesses to murder.
#8 - Viagra-Vated Assault
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1998
Kate discovers that a patient is using Viagra to cheat on his wife; Jack gives a blood transfusion even though it's against the patient's Jehovah's Witness religion; a musician fears his creativity may be stifled by the medicine Aaron prescribes for his bipolar disorder; Joe's son drives the staff crazy as he roams the hospital behaving exactly like his father.
#9 - Sarindipity
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1998
A poisonous gas is released in a bank and the doctors try to contain the gas, that is threatening many lives including Dr. Hancock.
#10 - Playing Through
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1999
During surgery to resolve an HIV-positive woman's post-partum complications, Diane accidentally cuts herself and is exposed to the virus; problems arise between Jack and Lisa when he discovers that she's been seeing Robert; a homeless man takes shelter in the hospital's main entrance; an unidentified man is hit by a train after trying to save a child; Jack takes up golf in the hospital.
#11 - Teacher's Pet
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/24/1999
Kate confronts a world renowned surgeon who's harassed her in the past; Diane's patient has a flesh-eating bacterial infection.
#12 - Karmic Relief
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1999
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.
#13 - Austin Space
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1998
A cardiologist in NASA's Doctors in space program has a heart attack and Kate takes the doctors place in the program. Dr. Shutt has a patient who needs to tell his father, an Orthodox Rabbi, that he is gay.
#14 - And Baby Makes 10
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/21/1999
Dr. Hancock's patient, who was using fertility drugs, gives birth to 8 babies.
#15 - The Heavens Can Wait
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/17/1999
The E.R. is flooded with teenagers poisoned by an unknown rave drug; Kate and Sara are hit by a drunk driver; Phillip's fate is decided.
#16 - Vanishing Acts
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/1999
Diane tries to help grieving parents when their three year old child dies; Aaron is institutionalized after an experiment backfires.
#17 - One Hundred and One Damnations
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1998
The hospital prepares for the Doctor of the Year party, and several old friends drop by. Watters goes into a virus-induced coma and gets some words of wisdom from Alan Birch. Camille Shutt returns for the party and Aaron discovers he still has feeling for her. Dr. Nyland returns to the hospital and reveals that he has really changed his life. Geiger also visits the hospital.
#18 - Wag the Doc
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1998
Hancock accuses Watters and Austin of racism when they refuse to operate on a black patient. One of Shutt's patients commits suicide when the medicine needed isn't covered by insurance.
#19 - Gun with the Wind
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1998
Wilkes must face the parents of a child brought into the ER when it becomes clear that Raymond was responsible for the child's injury. NASA starts interview Kate's colleagues. One of Aaron's patients is attracted to him.
#20 - Kiss of Death
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/28/1999
Kate meets up with an old boyfriend, who turns out to be an ex-husband. Lisa tried to prolong the like of a pregnant woman with brain cancer. Cacaci forces Aaron to investigate his charge that Phillip had an affair with a patient.
#21 - The Other Cheek
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1998
A celebrity dies and news crews invade the hospital to cover the story.
#22 - Big Hand for the Little Lady
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1999
McNeil performs a hand transplant on the patient, and uses the patient's dead mother's hand. Kate is accepted by NASA. An old childhood friends visits Watters and asks for one of his kidneys.
#23 - Curing Cancer
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/1999
Aaron consults Dr. Gina Simon, a pediatric neurosurgeon after being presented with a 9-week old baby suffering from seizures. Jeffrey Geiger returns to the hospital and promptly fires half the staff, whom then sue to get their jobs back.
#24 - From Here to Maternity
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/1999
A mother gives birth to twins, one black and one white. Kate is threatened with a lawsuit after making a rude comment.