7.5/1030 votes#1 - Out of Africa
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1996
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.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: John Tinker
7.1/1036 votes#2 - Back to the Future
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1996
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.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: John Tinker
7.6/1030 votes#3 - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1996
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.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich
7.6/1029 votes#4 - Liver Let Die
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1996
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.
Director: Adam Arkin
Writer: John Tinker
7.8/1029 votes#5 - Liar, Liar
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1996
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.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: N/A
7.6/1028 votes#6 - Higher Powers
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1996
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.
Director: Oz Scott
Writer: David Amann
7.7/1033 votes#7 - A Time to Kill
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1996
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.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: Tim Kring
8.1/1038 votes#8 - A Day in the Life
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1996
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.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: Sara B. Cooper
7.4/1039 votes#9 - Divided Loyalty
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1996
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.
Director: Michael Schultz
Writer: N/A
7.8/1030 votes#10 - V-Fibbing
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1996
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.
Director: Sandy Smolan
Writer: N/A
7.9/1033 votes#11 - Mummy Dearest
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1996
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.
Director: Martha Mitchell
Writer: Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich
7.3/1029 votes#12 - Split Decisions
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1997
Wilkes saves a motorist who was attempting suicide. Austin falls for a politician.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: N/A
8.0/1036 votes#13 - Verdicts
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1997
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Amann
8.3/1043 votes#14 - The Day of the Rope
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1997
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.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: John Tinker, Peter Berg
7.9/1029 votes#15 - Take My Wife, Please
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1997
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.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Tim Kring
7.7/1028 votes#16 - Missed Conception
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1997
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.
Director: Michael Pressman
Writer: N/A
7.9/1043 votes#17 - Mother, May I?
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/1997
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.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: N/A
8.0/1027 votes#18 - Growing Pains
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/10/1997
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.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Sara B. Cooper
8.0/1039 votes#19 - The Son Also Rises
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/17/1997
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.
Director: James R. Bagdonas
Writer: Tim Kring
7.9/1039 votes#20 - Second Chances
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/7/1997
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.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: N/A
7.6/1027 votes#21 - Positive I.D.s
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/1997
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Amann
7.4/1027 votes#22 - Leggo My Ego
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/21/1997
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.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Sara B. Cooper, Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich
7.4/1035 votes#23 - Colonel of Truth
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1997
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.
Director: Peter Berg
Writer: Tim Kring
7.2/1028 votes#24 - Lamb to the Slaughter
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/5/1997
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.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: John Tinker
7.7/1030 votes#25 - Love on the Rocks
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/12/1997
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.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: David Amann
The Best Episodes of Chicago Hope Season 3
Every episode of Chicago Hope Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Chicago Hope Season 3!
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Out of Africa" is the best rated episode of "Chicago Hope" season 3. It scored 7.5/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Bill D'Elia and written by John Tinker, it aired on 9/16/1996. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Back to the Future".