The BEST episodes of Kingdom Hospital

Every episode of Kingdom Hospital ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kingdom Hospital!

Using the Danish miniseries "Riget" (a.k.a. "The Kingdom") as a point of inspiration, master of horror Stephen King gives Kingdom Hospital a unique and menacing American touch. Kingdom is a hospital whose bizarre population includes a brilliant surgeon who lives in the basement, a nearly blind security guard and a nurse who regularly faints at the sight of blood. But when patients and staff hear the voice of a girl crying through the halls and a patient destined for life as a paraplegic miraculously recovers, they are dismissive of any suggestion of mysticism or unseen powers at their own peril. Andrew McCarthy (Monk) plays Dr. Hook, a surgeon who lives in the hospital basement. Oscar nominee Diane Ladd (Alice) is Mrs. Druse, a hypochondriac whose psychic abilities lead her to the hospital. Fellow Oscar nominee Bruce Davison (The Practice & X-Men) will play Dr. Stegman, an arrogant, but inept physician. The series is set up to play out like

Last Updated: 2/12/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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Finale
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7.74
92 votes

#1 - Finale

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/15/2004

Directors: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Stephen King
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Death's Kingdom
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7.73
55 votes

#2 - Death's Kingdom

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/10/2004

Despite being forcibly discharged from the hospital by Dr. Stegman, Mrs. Druse recruits the semi-conscious, telepathic Peter to join her at a seance to identify the spirit whose cries continue to haunt the hospital's elevator shafts. Meanwhile, the man responsible for Peter's condition becomes acutely aware of a much stronger and frightening presence at Kingdom Hospital.

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Heartless
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7.67
36 votes

#3 - Heartless

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/22/2004

An attorney in need of a heart transplant rues the day he checked into Kingdom Hospital. Meanwhile, Hook discovers authentic newspaper clippings inside Mary's doll that reveal the horrific details of the 1869 Gates Falls Mills fire that killed scores of children on the very ground where the hospital now stands.

Hook's Kingdom
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7.64
39 votes

#4 - Hook's Kingdom

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/31/2004

The psychic Mrs. Druse is called to assist when the trapped evil spirit of a tortured teenaged boy wreaks havoc on the staff, patients and innocent spirits inhabiting Kingdom Hospital. Meanwhile Dr. Hook forges a relationship of the mortal variety.

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Butterfingers
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7.56
32 votes

#5 - Butterfingers

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/29/2004

When a retired major league baseball player attempts to take his own life and is admitted to Kingdom Hospital, he begins a chain reaction that opens up some horrific old wounds and reverses history for those -- living and dead -- who inhabit the hospital.

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The West Side of Midnight
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7.55
40 votes

#6 - The West Side of Midnight

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/2004

The ex-wife of Dr. Traff dies from a heart attack in his care, while his son Elmer has a dream involving the anteater. Lenny passes onto the other side, and tries to help Druse find out more about Mary. After a night of anger and harrassment, Stegman goes off the deep end and starts trying to find out who defaced his car. Finally, while Druse finds out through Lenny that Rickman knows what's going on in the hospital, Paul starts to use Pedersen to make sure Druse doesn't find out.

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Black Noise
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7.47
38 votes

#7 - Black Noise

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/15/2004

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The Young and the Headless
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7.45
40 votes

#8 - The Young and the Headless

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2004

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Shoulda' Stood in Bed
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7.44
27 votes

#9 - Shoulda' Stood in Bed

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/8/2004

When Peter Rickman has yet another seizure, he witnesses the eventual fate of Kingdom Hospital and makes a tangible connection with its frightening past. When Peter awakes, his drawings help Mrs. Druse make a direct connection to Mary, and serve as the key to correcting evil deeds done by the Kingdom's forefathers. Meanwhile, Brenda and Dr. Hook finally make public Stegman's guilt in the Mona Klingerman medical malpractice incident -- and send him on a crazed and violent tear for vengeance.

Seizure Day
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7.38
32 votes

#10 - Seizure Day

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/1/2004

When two different patients have seizures, they awaken to frightening visions of the living dead haunting Kingdom Hospital's halls, and the reverberations from Mona Klingerman's seizure brings Dr. Stegman's worst nightmares to the surface.

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Goodbye Kiss
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7.36
47 votes

#11 - Goodbye Kiss

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/17/2004

After seeing a girl and finding a toy doll in the elevator shaft, Dr. Hook is convinced to help Druse stay in the hospital while she finds the source of the haunting. Meanwhile, a prisoner and his girlfriend plan out a suicide pact that goes wrong when he is saved by the Kingdom Hospital staff, in a not so common fashion. We also learn that Dr. Stegman killed a patient while in surgery at his last job in Boston, and is now being accused of messing up another surgery with a young girl. The mother now has plans to sue for malpractice. And finally, Peter Rickman is visited in his mind by the beast in his painting, and also comes in contact with Mary and Paul.

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Thy Kingdom Come
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7.32
87 votes

#12 - Thy Kingdom Come

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/2004

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The Passion of Reverend Jimmy
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7.31
32 votes

#13 - The Passion of Reverend Jimmy

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/24/2004

When the reverend of the Christ-Oly-Christ mission is sacrificed, new life resurges in and around Kingdom Hospital and the mystery behind Mary's death is revealed. Meanwhile, maintenance man Jack Handlemann delivers a very destructive blow to Stegman's ego and most prized possession.

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