Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
Season 3 episodes
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Kate returns to Chicago to face possible arrest and her ex-husband, as well as suspension at work. Aaron ponders Philip's bitterness over Aaron's apparent support of Tommy Wilmette. Dennis struggles to regain his health. Dr. Nyland returns to find a new doctor in charge of the trauma service. Kronk and Grad continue to quarrel as he prepares to leave Africa.
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Directed by Bill D'EliaWritten by John TinkerGuest stars Mae Whitman, George Gaynes, Sam Sorbo, Ron Silver, John DiMaggio, Vanessa Williams, J.A. Preston, Alexandra Bokyun Chun
Kate cares for her dying father and gets some words of wisdom from Tommy when he brings Sara for a visit; Philip recruits Dr. Jack McNeil to head up orthopedics; Diane returns, only to find that Billy has remained in Africa and that her lab has turned into a storage room; Keith places himself in legal jeopardy when he decides to help an injured drug courier evade arrest; Aaron persuades Tommy to give the hospital six months to turn itself around with Philip at the helm.
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Directed by Bill D'EliaWritten by John TinkerGuest stars Mae Whitman, George Gaynes, Darion Basco, Sam Sorbo, Ron Silver, John DiMaggio, George Murdock, Vanessa Williams
Aaron and Jack join forces in operating on a man who sustained multiple fractures in a parachute jumping accident; Diane rejoins the staff as a teaching attending in internal medicine, and quickly draws a demanding and manipulative patient who's making the staff miserable; Kate's grief over her father's death is compounded when she's carjacked on her way home from his funeral and his ashes are not recovered with the car; Diane unsuccessfully seeks some moral support from Dennis and Philip; after Tommy tells her some hard truths about creating her own misery, Kate decides to take responsibility for the choices she's made, and starts by telling Peggy Harrod the truth about her daughter's death; Jack takes one on the chin when he gives the parachutist's would-be bride some bad news; Kate returns home to find the carjacker has returned her father's ashes while burglarizing her home; Philip has it out with Aaron and reaffirms his intention to keep Tommy from closing the hospital.
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Directed by Lou AntonioWritten by Nicole Yorkin, Dawn PrestwichGuest stars Liza Snyder, Mae Whitman, Anne Ramsay, Sam Sorbo, Ron Silver, John DiMaggio, Brad William Henke, Michelle Wolff
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.
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Directed by Adam ArkinWritten by John Tinker, Linda KleinGuest stars Sam Sorbo, Maya Rudolph, John DiMaggio, Vanessa Williams, David Dunard, Cathy DeBuono, Dylan Haggerty, Mark Benninghoffen
Kate returns to duty and finds that her reinstatement comes with a cut in title, salary, staff, and office; Jack replaces the hip of an older man who has opinions on everything, including how Jack should live his life; Aaron has mixed emotions when Grace comes up with a much-needed improvement for a surgical shunt he's been developing; Kate is humbled when a young couple whose daughter needs a heart transplant chooses another doctor after they discover her change in status; Tommy thinks it would be a good idea for the hospital to advertise, and hires a publicist who manages to get under everyone's skin as she creates a commercial that ends up looking strangely familiar.
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Directed by Stephen CraggGuest stars Amy Steel, Rebecca Staab, Sam Sorbo, John DiMaggio, Vanessa Williams, Cristine Rose, Murray Rubin, Billy Keane
Austin sprays a subpoena server with mace, inspiring his fellow servers to wage war on the hospital. Hancock tries to counsel a woman in her late forties whose health is severely threatened by her pregnancy but who refuses to let the baby be delivered early. Kronk finally returns to Chicago, dressed in Masai garb, and tries to reconnect with Diane.
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Directed by Oz ScottWritten by David AmannGuest stars Kathryn Harrold, April Grace, Scott Jaeck, Maya Rudolph, John DiMaggio, Susan Ruttan, Brian Reddy, Richard Gant
Aaron faces a huge moral dilemma when he's asked to operate on a death-row inmate scheduled to be executed in two weeks. McNeil treats a feisty old lady whose daughter is an old flame os his. Dr. Watters entertains an amnesiac, believing that he's a distinguished visiting doctor.
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Directed by James FrawleyWritten by Tim KringGuest stars Tobin Bell, Sam Sorbo, Juliana Donald, John DiMaggio, Shishir Kurup, Monique Edwards, Dave Buzzotta, Harry Shearer
Austin's cystic-fibrosis patient is just one of four patients needing transplants who have to wait in fear and hope when a potential donor appears but is prematurely pronounces dead and entered into the donor system by the inexperienced Eggert.
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Directed by Bill D'EliaWritten by Sara B. CooperGuest stars Kathryn Harrold, Jennifer Aspen, Benito Martinez, Sam Sorbo, Ron Silver, Laurie O'Brien, John DiMaggio, Vanessa Williams
Kronk puts himself and Grad into a difficult position when he treats an old hockey pal who turns up after just being released from jail with a bullet in him. Wilkes and his wife face some basic decisions about their lives when they must decide what sort of neighborhood to move to.
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Directed by Michael SchultzGuest stars Kathryn Harrold, Tony Burton, Stacey Travis, Charlayne Woodard, Sam Sorbo, John DiMaggio, Vanessa Williams, Geoffrey Rivas
Austin and Underhill both have to face the consequences when they tell the truth. McNeil contemplates surgery to prolong a jockey's career. Kronk lies to a teenage smoker with a cough.
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Directed by Sandy SmolanGuest stars Ron Silver, Robert Ito, John DiMaggio, Lily Mariye, John Franklin, Alexandra Bokyun Chun, John Prosky, Billy Keane
Diane is faced with a dilemna when she has an opportunity to examine a 500-year-old Incan mummy temporarily in town for an exhibition. An accident victim loses his memories but gains a much nicer personality, presenting Shutt and McNeil with a dilemmna.
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Directed by Martha MitchellWritten by Nicole Yorkin, Dawn PrestwichGuest stars Julian Sands, Ron Silver, Maya Rudolph, Joe Grifasi, George Gerdes, Amie Carey, Josette DiCarlo, Vince Melocchi
Wilkes saves a motorist who was attempting suicide. Austin falls for a politician.
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Directed by Randall ZiskGuest stars Kyle Howard, Michael Shulman, Charlayne Woodard, Ron Silver, Maya Rudolph, Susan Krebs, Monique Edwards, Michael Woods
A hit-and-run victim escapes serious injury but her infant twins face a desperate crisis. Hancock faces testifying in court against his brother-in-law. Patient Linda Fortin's heart continues to grow weaker as her pregnancy progresses, endangering herself and her baby.
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Written by David AmannGuest stars Robert Mailhouse, Mae Whitman, Jerry Levine, April Grace, Scott Jaeck, Marita Geraghty, Susan Ruttan, Ileen Getz
White supremacists on the run following a failed assassanation attempt against the President hole up in a grocery store with an injured member and demand a doctor from Chicago Hope to treat him.
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Directed by Stephen CraggWritten by John Tinker, Peter BergGuest stars Chris Ellis, Marc Grapey, Mike Bacarella, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Reg Rogers, JoBe Cerny, Chelcie Ross, Erica Ortega
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.
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Directed by Lou AntonioWritten by Tim KringGuest stars Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Harrold, Charlayne Woodard, John DiMaggio, Felicity Huffman, Sam McMurray, Jeremy Suarez, Amie Carey
An old friend of Austin's asks for help in getting pregnant. A cancer patient needs marijuana for her well being. Shutt's friend returns from Italy without his wife.
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Directed by Michael PressmanGuest stars Jessica Harper, Isabella Rossellini, Mae Whitman, Ron Silver, Ellen Bry, Sam McMurray, Harley Venton, Monique Edwards
Kate flies to Washington with Tommy to speak to Congress about health care. Back in Chicago, her friend Marina makes a decision about adoption. McNeil's patint Harriett Owens is hospitalized again.
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Directed by Bill D'EliaGuest stars Kathryn Harrold, Julia Stiles, Isabella Rossellini, Ron Silver, Christopher Michael Moore, Finn Carter, Jack Kemp, John Eric Bentley
Aaron and Phillip announce that they are buying the hospital from Wilmette, although their plans for keping the solvent do not please any of their colleagues. An HMO lawyer obsessed with ""patient responsibilty"" holds the reins on some lucrative coronary-bypass business. A patient with private insurance receives test after test for all of his petty complaints.
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Directed by Jim CharlestonWritten by Sara B. CooperGuest stars Rosemary Forsyth, Kathryn Harrold, Louie Anderson, Phil Reeves, Maya Rudolph, Freda Foh Shen, Christopher Michael Moore, Ken Lerner
Aaron discovers that his late father wasn't his biological parent when he meets the eccentric sculptor who is; Phillip learns something about his estranged son when an emergency arises; Kate treats an 11 year-old genius who hungers for contact with his overwhelmed father.
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Directed by James BagdonasWritten by Tim KringGuest stars Josh Keaton, Lucas Black, Alan Arkin, Jesse Borrego, Maurice Compte, Randy Oglesby, Dominic Armato, Jane Clark
Kate lobbies for another heart for a prominent author whose first transplanted organ is failing and who also has a continuing heroin addiction. McNeil's gambling problem grows worse. Danny Nyland becomes a patient when he runs into a telephone pole with his car.
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Directed by Jesús Salvador TreviñoGuest stars Kathryn Harrold, Seymour Cassel, Fran Bennett, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Nigel Gibbs, Mark Chaet, Joyce Guy, McNally Sagal
Grad tries to persuade a hesitant Kronk to perform a double mastectomy on a healthy woman does not have cancer but who does have the gene for breast cancer and a family history of the illness. Austin struggles to get a reluctant Sara into an exclusive girls school. Nyland returns to work following his accident and throws himself into trying to identify a severely beaten and comatose young woman.
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Written by David AmannGuest stars Mae Whitman, Steven Gilborn, Ellen Bry, Philip Rayburn Smith, Ken Narasaki, Doug Ballard, Mik Scriba, Nancy Anderson
Word of Billy's and Diane's engagement receives a mixed reception at the hospital; Jack returns from vacation with a windfall and a feverish belief he's on a winning streak; Kate alienates some colleagues when a reporter follows her around the hospital; Jack takes on the delicate job of operating on an infant with an exposed spinal cord.
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Directed by Lou AntonioWritten by Nicole Yorkin, Sara B. Cooper, Dawn PrestwichGuest stars Daniel Davis, Kim Lankford, Angela Shelton, Ronny Graham, Ellen Bry, Amzie Strickland, Tamara Tunie, Harry Danner
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.
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Directed by Peter BergWritten by Tim KringGuest stars Shannon Cochran, María Conchita Alonso, Mae Whitman, Ricardo Montalban, Pancho Demmings, Lisa Thornhill, Tyrin Turner, Reno Wilson
After a gang member dies in the ER, the boy's mother claims that one of the doctors suggested they ""Let him die"" so a prosecutor calls in Wilkes, Nyland, McNeil and Watters for widely varying statements about what actually happened during the crucial time period.
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Directed by Bill D'EliaWritten by Alicia Martin, John Tinker, Zachary Martin, John TinkerGuest stars John F. O'Donohue, Steve Harris, Ken Lawson, Jeremy Suarez, Malik Dillard, John Cappon, Jane Clark, Candy Ann Brown
McNeil doesn't cope well with the demands for attention from Karen, his ""roomate"" and a thereapy patient claiming that McNeil's his father. Billy lears that Aaron kissed Diane, and handles it very badly. A depressed Nyland gets one more unwelcome surprise. Phillip receives an offer from Emma.
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Directed by Stephen CraggWritten by David AmannGuest stars Joseph Maher, Kathryn Harrold, María Conchita Alonso, Rosemary Alexander, Tyrees Allen, Chris D'Elia, Maxine Stuart, Venessia Valentino
Jeffrey Geiger drops by Chicago Hope to announce that he has bought a controlling interest in the hospital, and to perform a deicate heart operation on one of Kate's patients. Kronk is forced to take over caring for his father, who's afflicted with Alzheimers. Aaron and Jack ponder the meaning of religion and God when several people claim to be seeing an image of the Virgin Mary in the hospital lobby. Wilkes takes action concerning his future.
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Directed by Bill D'EliaWritten by John Tinker, Alicia MartinGuest stars Mandy Patinkin, Charlayne Woodard, David Warshofsky, John Posey, Rick Fitts, Jeremy Suarez, Helena Apothaker, Dawn Landon
