Chicago Hope
Season 3 Episode Guide
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Season 3 episodes
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Episode
1
Out of Africa (1)
Sep 16, 1996
Nyland returns from his vacation with Valerie to find he's been suspended and replaced as chief of trauma by Dr. Keith Wilkes. Kate comes back from...
Episode
2
Back to the Future (2)
Sep 23, 1996
Phillip travels to Wyoming to recruit Jack McNeil, an orthopedic surgeon. McNeil refuses, for reasons unknown. McNeil is haunted from memories of t...
Episode
3
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Sep 30, 1996
Aaron and Dr. McNeil clash when the two have conflicting ideas for a patient's treatment. Diane struggles with the transition from animal research...
Episode
4
Liver Let Die
Oct 7, 1996
Dr. Watters treats a mother with a mystifying liver ailment. Nyland and Austin return to the hospital for suspension hearings. Dr. Shutt begins to...
Episode
5
Liar, Liar
Oct 14, 1996
Life is tough for the senior doctors, with Shutt being treated like a second class citizen in the hospital and Austin learning she's been reinstate...
Episode
6
Higher Powers
Oct 21, 1996
Billy returns from Africa, leaving the peaceful Maasai for America's turbulence. Billy is threatened by a 12-year-old after his drug-dealing brothe...
Episode
7
A Time to Kill
Nov 4, 1996
Nyland treats an amnesiac who wanders away and is mistaken by Phillip for an old medical student. Aaron operates on a death row inmate who begs Aar...
Episode
8
A Day in the Life
Nov 11, 1996
A potentially brain-dead donor comes into the ER. With doctors from all over Chicago waiting, the body is first declared brain-dead, then after a r...
Episode
9
Divided Loyalty
Nov 18, 1996
Dr. Wilkes takes flak from Dennis for not giving back to his community. Billy has a tough decision to make when a childhood friend show up at his a...
Episode
10
V-Fibbing
Nov 25, 1996
Kate is faced with a dilemma when an Asian patient is diagnosed with cancer, yet her family requests the patient not be informed to save face. Firs...
Episode
11
Mummy Dearest
Dec 9, 1996
Jack, re-energized by his descent into gambling, performs a daring procedure, attaching a man's left hand onto his right arm. Aaron treats a man wh...
Episode
12
Split Decisions
Jan 6, 1997
Dr. Wilkes copes with personal and professional problems as he tries to reach a compromise with his wife regarding an unexpected pregnancy while tr...
Episode
13
Verdicts
Jan 13, 1997
The trial of Hancock's brother-in-law gets underway, with Dennis still unsure of how his sister will testify. Rumors about Phillip's personal life...
Episode
14
The Day of the Rope
Jan 20, 1997
Billy and Diane are caught in the middle of a hostage situation after two revolutionaries shoot up a political convention. Dr. Kronk risks his life...
Episode
15
Take My Wife, Please
Feb 3, 1997
Aaron reunites with an old friend, David, who has only a few months left to live. His friend suggests Aaron marry his wife, who married David over...
Episode
16
Missed Conception (1)
Feb 10, 1997
Kate's friend, feminist professor Marina, tries desperately to 'get pregnant' but has to work against, rather than with, her husband. Aaron works a...
Episode
17
Mother, May I? (2)
Feb 17, 1997
Kate and Tommy travel to Washington D.C. to speak out on Health Care Reform. Marina arranges to adopt the child of a pregnant teenager. Jack treats...
Episode
18
Growing Pains
Mar 10, 1997
Phillip and Aaron present their plan to buy Chicago Hope to the staff, where it's met with resounding complaints. Aaron tries to define his relatio...
Episode
19
The Son Also Rises
Mar 17, 1997
Aaron receives a shock when a renowned Hungarian sculptor claims to be his father. Phillip, spurred by Aaron's reunion with his father, visits his...
Episode
20
Second Chances
Apr 7, 1997
The whole staff comes together when Danny Nyland is horribly injured in a car accident. Austin tries to get a heart transplant for a Pulitzer Prize...
Episode
21
Positive I.D.s
Apr 13, 1997
Nyland, fresh off his injury leave, puts all his energy into identifying an assault victim. Billy has qualms when a patient who tested positive for...
Episode
22
Leggo My Ego
Apr 21, 1997
The hospital endures Kate's massive ego when she's followed by a newspaper reporter. Jack tries to save a dying child against the parent's explicit...
Episode
23
Colonel of Truth
Apr 28, 1997
Watters is reunited with his Vietnam C.O. when the colonel is admitted suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Phillip is baffled by the colonel's ref...
Episode
24
Lamb to the Slaughter
May 5, 1997
Assistant State's Attorney Charles Lamb interviews Chicago Hope staffers Wilkes, Nyland, McNeil, and Watters to determine responsibility in the dea...
Episode
25
Love on the Rocks
May 12, 1997
Jack has his hands full with two of Karen's patients, Harriet Owens, who hasn't moved out of his house yet, and the delusional Luke Sarison, who be...
Episode
26
Hope Against Hope
May 19, 1997
Jeffrey Geiger returns, bearing the news that he's a partner in the newly formed Hope Health Care. Kate bears with Jeffrey's advice in a critical h...
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