The WORST episodes of Chicago Hope
Every episode of Chicago Hope ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Chicago Hope!
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 - Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/1996
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.
#2 - Who Turned Out the Lights?
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1995
A violent storm on Halloween night knocks out the hospital's power immediately following the arrival of several auto-accident victims. Nyland and Atkisson briefly renew their romance. A new doctor shows up for duty, and is immediately put to work delivering a baby.
#3 - Thoughts of You
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/20/2000
McNeil goes against procedure and red tape and performs a hip replacement surgery. Shutt and Simon transplant a computer into a patients brain. Alberghetti tries to ignore her feelings for Miller.
#4 - Take My Wife, Please
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1997
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.
#5 - Wild Cards
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1995
Geiger second-guess Austin's choice of a non-surgical treatment for a heart patient. Grad gets a surprise visit from an old beau. Hancock asks for Camille's help in coordinating a new home health care program.
#6 - Upstairs, Downstairs
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1999
A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.
#7 - Food Chains
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1994
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.
#8 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1994
Camille serves Aaron with divorce papers; Phillip benches Arthur from further surgery when Arthur's resting tremor begins to endanger patients; Aaron removes a brain tumor from an elderly patient; Jeffrey and Aaron separate conjoined twins.
#9 - Three Men and a Lady
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1996
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.
#10 - Devoted Attachment
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/6/2000
McNeil's friend is shot. Pancreatic cancer effects one of the conjoined twins that have entered the hospital.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Hearts and Minds
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/1996
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.
#13 - Genevieve and Fat Boy
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1994
After Karen begins having seizures, Aaron discovers that she is terminally ill from the multiple brain metastases of a melanoma; Jeffrey resents having to perform surgery on a mobster about to enter the witness protection program; when the residents attempt to pull a practical joke on Jeffrey, they unwittingly provide comfort to a dying Karen.
#14 - Death Be Proud
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1994
Jeffrey strongly objects when his old nemesis is hired into the plastic surgery department, but they are able to set aside their differences to bring some peace to the mother of a young girl who dies during surgery; a nurse impedes Aaron's plan to allow Karen to die peacefully.
#15 - Heartbreak
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/1/1995
Camille has an innocent and unavoidable mishap in the operating room during a heart transplant on the rabbi who performed her wedding ceremony to Aaron, and blames herself when the rabbi dies later, even though her mishap had nothing to do with his death; an inexperienced new nurse stands up to Arthur; wracked with guilt, Camille reveals the operating room mishap to the rabbi's widow, and only Alan's ingenuity in demanding an autopsy keeps the hospital from a major lawsuit; Aaron and Camille have it out over his lack of emotional support after the rabbi's death, and each of them admit to the hurt caused by their divorce.
#16 - Liver Let Die
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1996
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.
#17 - Colonel of Truth
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1997
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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Vigilance and Care
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1999
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.
#20 - Letting Go
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/20/2000
After a strain of hepatitis invades the hospital, the staff is forced to bring in a specialist in the disease -- Keith's estranged aunt.
#21 - Guns 'n' Roses
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1997
Gang warfare breaks out in the E.R.; Kate refuses to perform a heart transplant; Billy and Diane get back together.
#22 - Split Decisions
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1997
Wilkes saves a motorist who was attempting suicide. Austin falls for a politician.
#23 - From Soup to Nuts
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1995
Watters blames Birch for their poor showing after they're ambushed by a state senator during televised health-care hearings. Sutton operates on a pregnant woman's unborn child. Laurie remarries and asks Geiger to attend the ceremony, which will be presided over by ""Evita Peron.""
#24 - Cold Hearts
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/30/2000
Shutt and Simon invent a procedure and use it to save the life of a girl. McNeil treat a wrestler who's been using steroids.
#25 - Objects are Closer Than They Appear
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/25/1998
After the mysterious death of a seemingly healthy 15 year-old Dr. Wilkes decides to investigate. A lesbian wants her lover to die with dignity and fights her family to get her wishes.