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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Deliverance
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/1/1998
Diane goes into labor unexpectedly and when no one can find Billy she reluctantly asks Kate to be her coach. Wilkes must get a family to safety from an abusive husband/father. McNeil and Catera take dance lessons (with special guest star Kenny Ortega, who choreographed ""Brain Salad Surgery."" Billy arrives at the hospital and discovers that Diane is having a c-section after her and the baby have gone into distress during the labor.
#4 - Bridge over Troubled Watters
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1998
Dr. Watters' son is found dead in his apartment and Phillip must except the fact that he committed suicide. Dr. Austin brings her daughter to the hospital and she becomes fascinated with the blood and guts aspects of her mother's work. Dr. Catera becomes uncomfortable with Dr. McNeil's romantic pursuits, until she watches one of her patients (who is in much the same situation.)
#5 - Risky Business
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/29/1998
A famous artist has an inoperable brain tumor. She convinces Dr. Shutt to run away to California with her.
#6 - Absent Without Leave
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/6/1998
Dr. Kronk's mother visits. Aaron spends time with Samara in California. A woman offers Dr. Hancock money to sterilize some of his patients.
#7 - Physician, Heal Thyself
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/13/1998
As Dr. Wilkes takes his son to school gunfire errupts. The victims are brought to Chicago Hope and Wilkes finds himself having to deal with his sons post-tramatic distress. Kronk also finds himself viewing the situation in a new light, due to the recent arrival of his daughter. The situation also brings back memories of his son to Dr. Watters. Catera had to operate on the shooter, and feels conflicting emotions. Dr. McNeil pops the question to Dr. Catera. Austin is still turmoiled over the incident at the cabin.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Waging Bull
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/18/1998
Dr. McNeil attends a medical convention in Las Vegas, believing he can control his gambling addiction. After the son of a close friend dies, McNeil begins gambling again. Watters, Shutt, and Wilkes are forced to share a room in the hotel, when it is overbooked for the convention.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Other Cheek
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1998
A celebrity dies and news crews invade the hospital to cover the story.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Cabin Fever
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1997
McNeil offers his cabin to Drs. Austin, Catera, and Grad, whom each want to get away from the city for a while. While at the cabin they receive a visit from an unexpected and deadly visitor.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Incredible Adventures of Baron von Munchausen... by Proxy
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1997
A woman may be making her daughter sick purposely. Kronk wants a child. Shutt's patient dies, and McNeil joins gamblers anonymous.
#22 - Brain Salad Surgery
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1997
Dr. Shutt views his life as a musical after he collapses from an aneurism.
#23 - Sympathy for the Devil
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1997
Dr. Kronk must decide whether or not to grant the request of a convicted child molester who wants to be castrated. Dr. Shutt struggles to regain his health after his aneurism. McNeil refuses an ""easy cure"" to a heroin addict, and Dr. Grad treats an HIV positive 14-year-old.
#24 - ... And the Hand Played On
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1997
Dr. Shutt may have brain damage after his aneurism, so a new neurosurgeon, Dr. Lisa Catera, is brought into the hospital. Dr. Austin gets trapped on an elevator with a sexy electrician.
#25 - The Lung and the Restless
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1997
Kate suspects that the parents of a boy who needs a liver transplant may have pressured his sister, who has cystic fibrosis, into being his donor; Diane learns that she's pregnant; Billy announces that he's going to South America; Aaron tries biofeedback.