Chicago Hope
Season 1 Episode Guide
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22
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Season 1 episodes
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Episode
1
Pilot
Sep 18, 1994
Devastating memories haunt Geiger as he readies for a difficult operation; Camille serves Dr. Shutt with divorce papers.
Episode
2
Over the Rainbow
Sep 22, 1994
Geiger goes before the executive committee after browbeating a grieving man into approving experimental surgery.
Episode
3
Food Chains
Sep 29, 1994
Drs. Geiger and Thurmond don't see eye to eye when it comes to deciding which one of their patients will benefit from a donor baboon.
Episode
4
With the Greatest of Ease
Oct 6, 1994
Members of a high wire act take a fall and land at Chicago Hope; Dr. Geiger is arrested at a local bar.
Episode
5
You Gotta Have Heart
Oct 13, 1994
A potential heart donor, a baby born without a brain, sparks disagreement between Geiger and Watters.
Episode
6
Shutt Down
Oct 20, 1994
Aaron has a crisis of confidence after feeling no impulse to save a gang kid; a boy sees his mother shot.
Episode
7
Genevieve and Fat Boy
Nov 3, 1994
Shutt begins a relationship with Antonovich, whose seizures indicate she has brain cancer; Geiger must operate on an obese mobster.
Episode
8
Death Be Proud
Nov 10, 1994
Shutt and Birch go to court to help Antonovich die with dignity; Geiger must work with a nemesis to save a girl's life.
Episode
9
Heartbreak
Jan 1, 1995
Camille fears she may have mishandled a friend's heart during surgery, causing his death; guest Teri Polo.
Episode
10
The Quarantine
Jan 2, 1995
Alan is placed in charge of the hospital when most of the staff is quarantined in the OR after being exposed to a deadly virus.
Episode
11
Love and Hope
Jan 9, 1995
A man trying to impress his new girlfriend winds up at Chicago Hope; the holidays have a wide-ranging effect on the staff.
Episode
12
Great White Hope
Jan 16, 1995
A man injects his 14-year-old son, a boxer, with steroids; Shutt is audited; Birch is drawn into a pregnant teen's life.
Episode
13
Small Sacrifices
Jan 23, 1995
The doctors try to reattach a concert flutist's finger that was bitten off by a mugger; a former patient sues; guest Fyvush Finkel.
Episode
14
Cutting Edges
Feb 6, 1995
Geiger's institutionalized wife wants a divorce so she can marry a fellow mental patient; Hancock treats a 17-year-old with breast cancer.
Episode
15
Life Support
Feb 13, 1995
The brother (Chris Penn) of a patient needing a transplant hijacks a donor heart destined for another.
Episode
16
Freeze Outs
Feb 20, 1995
The doctors attempt to revive a boy who has been frozen for three hours in the waters of Lake Michigan; an AIDS researcher joins the staff.
Episode
17
Growth Pains
Feb 27, 1995
Alan Birch's new daughter requires surgery to have the hole in her heart repaired, but Alan finds his confidence in Dr. Geiger wavering.Alan Birch'...
Episode
18
Informed Consent
Mar 13, 1995
Kronk is shocked by his girlfriend's past; Geiger and Shutt rely on an experimental procedure to save an aneurysm patient.
Episode
19
Internal Affairs
Mar 20, 1995
Old friends ask Shutt to perform controversial surgery; Kronk's actions at an accident scene are scrutinized.
Episode
20
The Virus
May 8, 1995
Terror strikes everyone at the hospital when four patients die of a mysterious virus. With Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin and E.G. Marshall.
Episode
21
Full Moon
May 15, 1995
Dr. Hancock tries to grant a patient's last wish; Dr. Geiger seeks his ex-wife's blessing to pursue Dr. Infante.
Episode
22
Songs from the Cuckoo Birds
May 22, 1995
Geiger has a sanity hearing after the state medical board suspends his license; Camille tells Aaron her feelings about Geiger.
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