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....

Last Updated: 11/18/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
The Breast and the Brightest
star
8.80
10 votes

#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.

Directors: Martha Mitchell
Writer: Barbara Hall
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McNeil and Pray
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8.78
9 votes

#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.

Directors: James Bagdonas
Writer: Stephen Beck
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Adventures in Babysitting
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8.71
7 votes

#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.

Directors: James C. Hart
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Home is Where the Heartache Is
star
8.67
9 votes

#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.

Directors: Oz Scott
Writer: Josh Reims
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Tantric Turkey
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8.60
10 votes

#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.

Directors: John Heath
Writer: David Yorkin
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Austin, We Have a Problem
star
8.56
9 votes

#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.

Directors: Lou Antonio
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A Goy and His Dog
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8.56
9 votes

#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.

Directors: Richard Gershman
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Viagra-Vated Assault
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8.50
8 votes

#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.

Directors: Rob Corn
Writer: Josh Reims
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Sarindipity
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8.42
12 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill D'Elia
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Playing Through
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8.40
10 votes

#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.

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Teacher's Pet
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8.33
9 votes

#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.

Directors: John Heath
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Karmic Relief
star
8.30
10 votes

#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.

Directors: Adam Arkin
Writer: Barbara Hall
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Austin Space
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8.25
12 votes

#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.

Directors: Stephen Cragg
Writer: Jan Oxenberg
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And Baby Makes 10
star
8.22
9 votes

#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.

Directors: Martha Mitchell
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The Heavens Can Wait
star
8.22
9 votes

#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.

Writer: Jan Oxenberg
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Vanishing Acts
star
8.18
11 votes

#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.

Directors: Michael Schultz
Writer: Ellen Herman
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One Hundred and One Damnations
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8.17
12 votes

#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.

Directors: Michael Pressman
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Wag the Doc
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8.10
10 votes

#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.

Directors: James C. Hart
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Gun with the Wind
star
8.10
10 votes

#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.

Directors: Sandy Smolan
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Kiss of Death
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7.89
9 votes

#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.

Directors: James Bagdonas
Writer: Ellen Herman
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The Other Cheek
star
7.82
11 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill D'Elia
Writer: Ellen Herman
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Big Hand for the Little Lady
star
7.60
10 votes

#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.

Directors: Rob Corn
Writer: Jan Oxenberg
Curing Cancer
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7.50
8 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill D'Elia
From Here to Maternity
star
7.44
9 votes

#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.

Directors: Mark Harmon