Chicago Hope
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Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series created by David E. Kelley,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> that originally aired for six seasons on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000, with a total of 141 episodes. The series is set in a fictional private charitable hospital in Chicago, Illinois.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
OverviewEdit
The show starred Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, a hot-shot surgeon with emotional issues stemming from the psychiatric condition of his wife (played by Kim Greist), who drowned their infant son. Adam Arkin plays Dr. Aaron Shutt, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and Geiger's best friend. Thomas Gibson played Dr. Daniel Nyland, a promiscuous ER doctor and trauma surgeon who was later suspended due to his having an affair with a patient's family member and later was injured in a car crash. Dr. Keith Wilkes played by Rocky Carroll, often clashed with Nyland and was known for his back-to-basics and rough demeanor. He was good friends with Peter Berg's character, Dr. Billy Kronk. Kronk was known for his cowboyish demeanor and known to be very cocky, as showed in an episode where he cuts off a man's injured leg with a chainsaw in a scene where Kronk helps out at an accident site. Peter MacNicol, Alan Rosenberg, and Héctor Elizondo feature as the hospital's in-house attorneys and chief of staff, respectively. Christine Lahti joined in the second season as Dr. Kate Austin, a talented heart surgeon with a chip on her shoulder, vying with Geiger for the chief of surgery position. She was known fighting in a custody battle with her malicious ex-husband and businessman, Tommy Wilmette, played by Ron Silver. Mr. Wilmette did everything he could to get Austin to lose custody of their daughter. He purchased the hospital at the end of Season 2. Dr. Austin is suspended because she and her daughter go AWOL on a trip to New Zealand. Mr. Wilmette was upset because it took him three months to find his ex-wife and daughter. In Season 3, the doctors want Mr. Wilmette to sell the hospital and the doctors would run it. The doctors viewed that Wilmette did not know how to run a hospital and cut too many costs that involved patient care. Mr. Wilmette later met with Senator Kennedy at the White House to talk about Healthcare Reform. In Season 2, Geiger resigns from Chicago Hope after trying to save Alan Birch from a deadly gunshot wound to his heart.
Geiger adopted Birch's baby daughter. Geiger later rejoins the doctors at the end of Season 5 when he becomes Chairman of the Board and fires half of the doctors. In Season 4, Dr. Shutt became a psychiatrist and temporarily loses his ability to operate after suffering from a brain aneurysm. In Season 6, Shutt returns to Neurosurgery and works alongside Carla Gugino's character, Dr. Gina Simon.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
EpisodesEdit
Template:See also Chicago Hope ran six seasons, airing a total of 141 episodes. List of Chicago Hope episodes
CrossoversEdit
Fyvush Finkel and Kathy Baker appeared as their Picket Fences characters in the first season. Likewise, Mandy Patinkin and Héctor Elizondo brought their Chicago Hope characters to Picket Fences that year. Both Adam Arkin and Lauren Holly had previously appeared on Picket Fences as a lawyer and as a deputy sheriff, respectively.
Mandy Patinkin appears in an uncredited role as Geiger in a 1995 episode of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street. Chicago Hope producer John Tinker shot this footage as a favor to his St. Elsewhere colleague Tom Fontana.Template:Citation needed
Chicago Hope characters crossed over to Early Edition early in that show's run. Rocky Carroll, Jayne Brook, and Héctor Elizondo all guest-starred in scenes taking place in the hospital.
CharactersEdit
| Name | Portrayed by | Occupation | Season | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||
| Aaron Shutt | Adam Arkin | Neurosurgeon | colspan="6" Template:CMain | |||||
| Phillip Watters | Hector Elizondo | Hospital Chief of Staff | colspan="6" Template:CMain | |||||
| Jeffrey Geiger | Mandy Patinkin | Cardiac Surgeon | colspan="2" Template:CMain | colspan="3" Template:CRecurring | colspan="1" Template:CMain | |||
| Danny Nyland | Thomas Gibson | E.R. surgeon, chief of trauma | colspan="3" Template:CMain | colspan="3" Template:CNone | ||||
| Camille Shutt | Roxanne Hart | Nurse | colspan="2" Template:CMain | colspan="4" Template:CNone | ||||
| Alan Birch | Peter MacNicol | Hospital Attorney | colspan="2" Template:CMain | colspan="4" Template:CNone | ||||
| Arthur Thurmond | E. G. Marshall | Template:CMain | colspan="5" Template:CNone | |||||
| Angela Giandamenicio | Roma Maffia | Template:CMain | colspan="5" Template:CNone | |||||
| Billy Kronk | Peter Berg<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | E.R. Doctor | Template:CGuest | colspan="4" Template:CMain | Template:CNone | |||
| Dennis Hancock | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Clinic Physician | Template:CGuest | colspan="4" Template:CMain | Template:CNone | |||
| Diane Grad | Jayne Brook | Internal Med/Research Scientist | Template:CGuest | colspan="4" Template:CMain | Template:CNone | |||
| Kate Austin | Christine Lahti | Cardiac surgeon | Template:CNone | colspan="4" Template:CMain | Template:CNone | |||
| John Sutton | Jamey Sheridan | OB/GYN | Template:CNone | Template:CMain | colspan="4" Template:CNone | |||
| Keith Wilkes | Rocky Carroll | E.R. Doctor | colspan="2" Template:CNone | colspan="4" Template:CMain | ||||
| Jack McNeil | Mark Harmon | Orthopedic Surgeon | colspan="2" Template:CNone | colspan="4" Template:CMain | ||||
| Lisa Catera | Stacy Edwards | Neurosurgeon | colspan="3" Template:CNone | colspan="2" Template:CMain | Template:CNone | |||
| Robert Yeats | Eric Stoltz | colspan="4" Template:CNone | Template:CMain | Template:CNone | ||||
| Gina Simon | Carla Gugino | Neurosurgeon | colspan="5" Template:CNone | Template:CMain | ||||
| Francesca Alberghetti | Barbara Hershey | Cardiac Surgeon | colspan="5" Template:CNone | Template:CMain | ||||
| Jeremy Hanlon | Lauren Holly | Plastic Surgeon | colspan="5" Template:CNone | Template:CMain | ||||
| Stuart Brickman | Alan Rosenberg | Hospital Attorney | colspan="5" Template:CNone | Template:CMain | ||||
ProductionEdit
With the exception of some infrequent on-location scenes, the vast majority of Chicago Hope was filmed on sound stages at the studios of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, located in the Century City area of Los Angeles. Three of the cast (Harmon, Carroll and Holly) would later go on to star together in NCIS.
FirstsEdit
The series broke a network television taboo by showing a teenager's breast after her character underwent reconstructive surgery. This was generally seen as relevant to the subject matter and went relatively uncriticized.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On November 18, 1998, Chicago Hope became the first regular series episode to be broadcast in HDTV.<ref>CEA: Digital America – HDTV Template:Webarchive</ref> The episode was entitled "The Other Cheek".
Mark Harmon's character uttered the word "shit" during a trauma. Little criticism was made, although it did inspire the South Park episode It Hits the Fan.Template:Citation needed
BroadcastEdit
Domestic rerunsEdit
Reruns of Chicago Hope aired on Pop (then the TV Guide Network) from 2010 to 2012. OWN also aired reruns of Chicago Hope on a semi-regular basis.
InternationalEdit
In the UK, seasons 1 and 2 originally aired on BBC One. More recently, all seasons of the show have been shown on ITV3. Starting on September 3, 2007, it began airing on Zone Romantica in the UK and Ireland. It was also shown on Sky One in the UK and Ireland in its prime-time slots. In Australia, the series originally aired on the Seven Network. In Germany, the first seasons were shown in the 1990s. In Hungary, the series aired on Viasat3.
In Indonesia, the series originally aired on RCTI, starting from October 1998 ended from July 2002. As of November 2013, it was airing on British channel True Entertainment. In New Zealand, the series originally aired on TV2, now TVNZ 2.
Home mediaEdit
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| DVD Name | Ep# | Release dates | ||
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| Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | ||
| Season One | 22 | Template:TableTBA | March 5, 2012 | Template:TableTBA |
| Season Two | 23 | Template:TableTBA | July 23, 2012 | Template:TableTBA |
| Season Three | 26 | Template:TableTBA | November 5, 2012 | Template:TableTBA |
| Season Four | 24 | Template:TableTBA | March 18, 2013 | Template:TableTBA |
| Season Five | 24 | Template:TableTBA | September 16, 2013 | Template:TableTBA |
| Season Six | 22 | Template:TableTBA | July 21, 2014 | Template:TableTBA |
| The Complete Collection | 141 | Template:TableTBA | December 14, 2015<ref>Template:Citation</ref> | Template:TableTBA |
ReceptionEdit
The pilot episode of Chicago Hope aired the day before NBC's ER in a special Sunday, 8Template:Nbspp.m. time slot. After the first week, however, the two Chicago-based hospital dramas went "head to head" in their primetime 10Template:Nbspp.m. Thursday night slot. ER was the victor: its first season proved a ratings winner. Despite receiving critical acclaim, Chicago Hope was shifted to 9Template:Nbspp.m. Thursdays, and ultimately to Monday nights in 1995 in a bid for higher ratings, while ER remained in its time slot.
Chicago Hope remained in the Monday slot and performed well, with ratings peaking at 11.9, with a 20 share. In the second season, however, Kelley and Patinkin decided to leave the show. The show was moved to Wednesdays at 10Template:Nbspp.m. in 1997 to make room for the Steven Bochco drama, Brooklyn South, on Mondays. In 1999, both Kelley and Patinkin returned, with a revamped cast now including Barbara Hershey and Lauren Holly, but excluding Lahti, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Stacy Edwards. CBS also moved the show back to Thursday nights, against NBC's Frasier and ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The show was canceled in May 2000.
In 2008, former co-stars Rocky Carroll (Dr. Keith Wilkes); Mark Harmon (Dr. Jack McNeil) and Lauren Holly (Dr. Jeremy Hanlon) worked together on the series NCIS. Holly left the show after three seasons, while Carroll remains with the cast today. Harmon would depart in 2021. In addition, Carroll has a recurring role as his NCIS character, Director Leon Vance, on that series's spin off, NCIS: Los Angeles. Jayne Brook (Dr. Diane Grad) and Stacy Edwards have also guest starred on NCIS as well.
Thomas Gibson would later star alongside Patinkin in the highly successful Criminal Minds, as well as Shemar Moore who was a guest star on Chicago Hope during Season 4. Patinkin later left the show early in its third season.
Nielsen ratingsEdit
Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of Chicago Hope.
Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May Nielsen ratings.
| Season | Timeslot<ref group="nb">Times listed are Eastern Time</ref> | Season premiere | Season finale | TV season | Ranking | Viewers (in millions of households) | |
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| 1st | Thursday, 10:00 p.m. | September 18, 1994 | May 22, 1995 | 1994–1995 | 29 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2nd | Monday 10:00 p.m. | September 18, 1995 | May 20, 1996 | 1995–1996 | 24 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 3rd | Monday 10:00 p.m. | September 16, 1996 | May 19, 1997 | 1996–1997 | 30 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 4th | Wednesday 10:00 p.m. | October 1, 1997 | May 13, 1998 | 1997–1998 | 39 | 8.9 | |
| 5th | Wednesday 10:00 p.m. | September 30, 1998 | May 19, 1999 | 1998–1999 | 73 | 9.9 | |
| 6th | Thursday 9:00 p.m. | September 23, 1999 | May 4, 2000 | 1999–2000 | 62 | 9.4 |
Awards and nominationsEdit
Over its six seasons, Chicago Hope was nominated for many accolades and won several, including seven Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Awards.
Emmy awardsEdit
Golden Globe AwardsEdit
Screen Actors Guild AwardEdit
Other awardsEdit
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Work | Result |
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| 1998 | ALMA Awards | Outstanding Individual Performance in a Television Series in a Crossover Role | Hector Elizondo | Template:Nom | |
| 1999 | ALMA Awards | Outstanding Drama Series | Template:Nom | ||
| Outstanding Individual Performance in a Television Series in a Crossover Role | Hector Elizondo | Template:Nom | |||
| 2000 | ALMA Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | Hector Elizondo | Template:Won | |
| 1998 | American Choreography Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Television – Episodic | Kenny Ortega | Template:Won | |
| 1995 | American Cinema Editors Awards | Best Edited One-Hour Series for Television | Lori Jane Coleman | "Pilot" | Template:Won |
| 1996 | American Cinema Editors Awards | Best Edited One-Hour Series for Television | Alec Smight | "Love and Hope" | Template:Nom |
| Randy Roberts | "The Quarantine" | Template:Nom | |||
| 1997 | American Cinema Editors Awards | Best Edited One-Hour Series for Television | Randy Roberts | "Transplanted Affection" | Template:Won |
| 1999 | American Cinema Editors Awards | Best Edited One-Hour Series for Television | Alec Smight | "Gun With The Wind" | Template:Nom |
| 1995 | American Society of Cinematographers | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series | Tim Suhrstedt | Template:Nom | |
| 1996 | American Society of Cinematographers | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series | Kenneth Zunder | "Leave of Absence" | Template:Nom |
| 1997 | American Society of Cinematographers | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series | James R. Bagdonas | "Time to Kill" | Template:Nom |
| 1998 | American Society of Cinematographers | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series | James R. Bagdonas | "Hope Against Hope" | Template:Nom |
| 1995 | Casting Society of America | Best Casting for TV, Dramatic Episodic | Steve Jacobs | Template:Nom | |
| 1996 | Casting Society of America | Best Casting for TV, Dramatic Episodic | Debi Manwiller | Template:Nom | |
| 1997 | Casting Society of America | Best Casting for TV, Dramatic Episodic | Debi Manwiller | Template:Nom | |
| 1997 | Cinema Audio Society Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series | Greg Orloff, R. Russell Smith, Russell C. Fager | "Quiet Riot" | Template:Nom |
| 1998 | Cinema Audio Society Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series | R. Russell Smith, William Freesh, Russell C. Fager | "Brain Salad Surgery" | Template:Won |
| 1999 | Cinema Audio Society Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series | R. Russell Smith, William Freesh, Russell C. Fager | "100 and One Damnations" | Template:Nom |
| 1995 | Directors Guild of America Award | Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series | Michael Pressman | "Pilot" | Template:Nom |
| 1997 | GLAAD Media Award | Outstanding TV Drama Series | Template:Won | ||
| 1999 | GLAAD Media Award | Outstanding TV Drama Series | Template:Won | ||
| 2001 | GLAAD Media Award | Outstanding TV Individual Episode (In a Series Without A Regular Gay Character) | "Boys Will Be Girls" | Template:Nom | |
| 1997 | Satellite Awards | Satellite Award for Best Television Series – Drama | Template:Nom | ||
| Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Christine Lahti | Template:Won | |||
| Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Hector Elizondo | Template:Nom | |||
| 1999 | YoungStar Award | Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama TV Series | Mae Whitman | Template:Nom |
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