CHICAGO HOPE

'''Chicago Hope''' is a CBS Medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 4, 2000. It took place in a fictional private charity hospital.
The show starred Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, a hot shot surgeon with emotional problems stemming from the psychiatric condition of his wife, played by Kim Greist. Adam Arkin played Patinkin's colleague and best friend and Peter MacNicol and Hector Elizondo featured as house counsel and director of medicine respectively. Christine Lahti joined in the second season as a talented cardiac surgeon with a feminist chip on her shoulder who vies with Patinkin for the chief of surgery position.
The pilot episode of ''Chicago Hope'' was broadcast the day before NBC's ''ER'', however, after that first week the two shows went head-to-head in primetime, Thursday night at 10pm. Despite the critical acclaim that ''Chicago Hope'' received, ''ER's'' first season proved a ratings winner and in 1995 ''Chicago Hope'' was moved to Monday nights at 10pm. ER still has the same time slot to this day.
The show stayed in that slot and performed well, with ratings peaking at 11.9 and 20% share, however in the second season Kelley and Patinkin decided to leave the show and Chicago Hope began its slow descent to cancellation. In 1999 both Kelley and Patinkin returned with a revamped cast including the additions of Barbara Hershey and Lauren Holly and the loss of Lahti, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Stacy Edwards. They also moved the show back to Thursday nights against NBC's ''Frasier'' and ABC's ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire''; however, this proved too daunting of a task, and the show was cancelled in May 2000.
In the UK, seasons 1 and 2, originally aired on BBC One. More recently all seasons of the show have been shown on ITV3 and starting on September 3rd 2007, it will air on Zone Romantica in the UK and Ireland.
In the USA episodes air on The Discovery Health Channel.

Contents

Cast

Awards

Emmy awards

Trivia

See also

External links

Cast

★ Dr. Aaron Shutt (Adam Arkin)

★ Alan Birch (Peter MacNicol)

★ Dr. Phillip Watters (Hector Elizondo)

★ Dr. Kate Austin (Christine Lahti)

★ Dr. Jack McNeil (Mark Harmon)

★ Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin)

★ Dr. Billy Kronk (Peter Berg)

★ Dr. Keith Wilkes (Rocky Carroll)

★ Dr. Diane Grad (Jayne Brook)

★ Dr. Dennis Hancock (Vondie Curtis-Hall)

★ Dr. Danny Nyland (Thomas Gibson)

★ Dr. Lisa Catera (Stacy Edwards)

★ Dr. Robert Yeats (Eric Stoltz)

★ Dr. Francesca Alberghetti (Barbara Hershey)

★ Dr. Gina Simon (Carla Gugino)

★ Dr. Jeremy Hanlon (Lauren Holly)

★ Dr. John Sutton (Jamey Sheridan)

★ Dr. Arthur Thurmond (E.G. Marshall)

★ Angela Giandamenicio (Roma Maffia)

★ Nurse Camille Shutt (Roxanne Hart)

★ Timmy (Dale Wade Davis)

★ Hubert 'Hue' Miller (James Garner)

★ Tracey Doyle, R.N. (Venessia Valentino)

Awards

Over its six seasons ''Chicago Hope'' was nominated for many accolades and won more than a few, including seven Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.

Emmy awards

Year	Award	Recipient
1995	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Mandy Patinkin
1995	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Series	Tim Suhrstedt for the episode ''Over The Rainbow''
1996	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting for a Series	Debi Manwiller
1996	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Drama Series	Jeremy Kagan for the episode ''Leave Of Absence''
1997	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Hector Elizondo
1998	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series	Christine Lahti
1998	Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series	★ Russell C. Fager ★ R. Russell Smith ★ William Freesh for the episode ''Brain Salad Surgery''

Trivia

★ The series also broke a network television taboo by showing a teenager's breast after her character undergoes a reconstructive surgery. This was generally seen as relevant to the subject matter and went relatively uncriticized.

★ The name of the character that Stacy Edwards portrayed, Lisa Catera, is based on the phrase from the Cadillac commercials, "Lease a Catera".

See also

★ List of Chicago Hope episodes

External links

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