7.6/1022 votes#1 - Guns 'n' Roses
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1997
Gang warfare breaks out in the E.R.; Kate refuses to perform a heart transplant; Billy and Diane get back together.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: John Tinker
7.6/1024 votes#2 - The Incredible Adventures of Baron von Munchausen... by Proxy
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1997
A woman may be making her daughter sick purposely. Kronk wants a child. Shutt's patient dies, and McNeil joins gamblers anonymous.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: Tim Kring
8.4/1063 votes#3 - Brain Salad Surgery
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1997
Dr. Shutt views his life as a musical after he collapses from an aneurism.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich
7.7/1026 votes#4 - Sympathy for the Devil
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1997
Dr. Kronk must decide whether or not to grant the request of a convicted child molester who wants to be castrated. Dr. Shutt struggles to regain his health after his aneurism. McNeil refuses an ""easy cure"" to a heroin addict, and Dr. Grad treats an HIV positive 14-year-old.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: N/A
7.8/1027 votes#5 - ... And the Hand Played On
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1997
Dr. Shutt may have brain damage after his aneurism, so a new neurosurgeon, Dr. Lisa Catera, is brought into the hospital. Dr. Austin gets trapped on an elevator with a sexy electrician.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barbara Hall
7.8/1024 votes#6 - The Lung and the Restless
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1997
Kate suspects that the parents of a boy who needs a liver transplant may have pressured his sister, who has cystic fibrosis, into being his donor; Diane learns that she's pregnant; Billy announces that he's going to South America; Aaron tries biofeedback.
Director: David Semel
Writer: Barbara Hall
7.8/1029 votes#7 - White Trash
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1997
Hancock and the police search trash bins for a newborn; male rape; Drs. Kronk and Grad wed at the airport. A basketball player has a heart defect.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: N/A
7.6/1024 votes#8 - Winging It
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1997
Austin and NcNeil fly to London for a conference and are forced to perform lifesaving surgery with only an airline medical kit. Shutt begins his psychiatric residency.
Director: Oz Scott
Writer: Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich
7.5/1034 votes#9 - Cabin Fever
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1997
McNeil offers his cabin to Drs. Austin, Catera, and Grad, whom each want to get away from the city for a while. While at the cabin they receive a visit from an unexpected and deadly visitor.
Director: Kristoffer Tabori
Writer: Barbara Hall
7.1/1024 votes#10 - All in the Family
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1997
Shutt has his first group counseling session with a family, and tries to help a young man whose brother commited suicide. Wilkes father comes back into his life. Hancock and McNeil try to treat a boy whom he suspects is abused, even though the child and his father deny the abuse.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: David Amann
7.6/1023 votes#11 - On Golden Pons
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1997
After a little too much holiday cheer Wilkes is charged with a DUI and must serve a community service in Dr. Hancock's clinic. Watters discovers that his accountant has left the country with Watters money. Shutt turns over a patient to Catera, and the two clash over whether she should perform a dangerous surgery on the patient. Dr. McNeil is elected to play Santa and is a huge hit in the childrens ward. Grad receives her Christmas present a little early.
Director: James R. Bagdonas
Writer: N/A
7.4/1024 votes#12 - Broken Hearts
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1998
Austin operates on a pregnant patient with a damaged heart and learns that she had taken the controversial diet pill Phen-phen. An accident reunites Watters and an old flame, the woman he had an affair with. Shutt has his first breakthrough. McNeil and Catera grow closer.
Director: Sandy Smolan
Writer: N/A
7.5/1027 votes#13 - Memento Mori
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1998
The hospital loses electricity in the dead of winter. Austin must do emergency surgery on a close friend. Pregnant, Grad feels unattractive.
Director: Michael Schultz
Writer: Tim Kring
7.3/1041 votes#14 - Psychodrama
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1998
Watters is confined to a wheelchair after a basketball injury and witnesses a murder. Austin receives a bird from Danny, the electrician she's been dating, which causes havoc in the hospital. Diane believes she has found her birthmother.
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: N/A
7.5/1044 votes#15 - The Ties that Bind
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/1998
Catera must operate on a 5-year-old who is suddenly stricken with seizures. An HIV-postive friend of Dr. Grad's talks to Diane about getting pregnant (she wants advice) and Diane (who discovered a lump in her breast) is afraid that neither of them will see their children grow up. A mother and daughter come into the ER handcuffed together.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich
7.5/1027 votes#16 - The Things We Do For Love
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/4/1998
Catera and McNeil cross roads when her facination with his brother becomes personal. Billy begins to feel ""in over his head"" with the impending birth of his child, so at a desperate attempt at freedom he becomes involved in a bar fight. Austin introduces Danny to her daughter. Watters moonlights as a stand-up comic.
Director: Christine Lahti
Writer: N/A
8.2/1022 votes#17 - Liver, Hold the Mushrooms
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/1998
A family eats poisonous mushrooms and the mother and two sons must receive a liver transplant. A donor is found for the mother and the father is a match for the two sons. The father decides to have a live donor transplant, but is told by Kronk that only one of his children can receive the organ. Austin and Cacaci have to attend a sensitivity seminar, which only makes Austin worse. With Shutt's help a patient remembers a sexual abuse that happened during childhood, but the parent vehemently deny it ever happening. Drs. Grad and Kronk get kicked out of lamaze class.
Director: Kenny Ortega
Writer: N/A
8.4/1033 votes#18 - Waging Bull
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/18/1998
Dr. McNeil attends a medical convention in Las Vegas, believing he can control his gambling addiction. After the son of a close friend dies, McNeil begins gambling again. Watters, Shutt, and Wilkes are forced to share a room in the hotel, when it is overbooked for the convention.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: N/A
7.6/1025 votes#19 - Objects are Closer Than They Appear
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 3/25/1998
After the mysterious death of a seemingly healthy 15 year-old Dr. Wilkes decides to investigate. A lesbian wants her lover to die with dignity and fights her family to get her wishes.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Amann
7.6/1025 votes#20 - Deliverance
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/1/1998
Diane goes into labor unexpectedly and when no one can find Billy she reluctantly asks Kate to be her coach. Wilkes must get a family to safety from an abusive husband/father. McNeil and Catera take dance lessons (with special guest star Kenny Ortega, who choreographed ""Brain Salad Surgery."" Billy arrives at the hospital and discovers that Diane is having a c-section after her and the baby have gone into distress during the labor.
Director: Rob Corn
Writer: Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich
7.5/1027 votes#21 - Bridge over Troubled Watters
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1998
Dr. Watters' son is found dead in his apartment and Phillip must except the fact that he committed suicide. Dr. Austin brings her daughter to the hospital and she becomes fascinated with the blood and guts aspects of her mother's work. Dr. Catera becomes uncomfortable with Dr. McNeil's romantic pursuits, until she watches one of her patients (who is in much the same situation.)
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: N/A
7.7/1053 votes#22 - Risky Business
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 4/29/1998
A famous artist has an inoperable brain tumor. She convinces Dr. Shutt to run away to California with her.
Director: Martha Mitchell
Writer: N/A
7.5/1047 votes#23 - Absent Without Leave
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/6/1998
Dr. Kronk's mother visits. Aaron spends time with Samara in California. A woman offers Dr. Hancock money to sterilize some of his patients.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1032 votes#24 - Physician, Heal Thyself
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/13/1998
As Dr. Wilkes takes his son to school gunfire errupts. The victims are brought to Chicago Hope and Wilkes finds himself having to deal with his sons post-tramatic distress. Kronk also finds himself viewing the situation in a new light, due to the recent arrival of his daughter. The situation also brings back memories of his son to Dr. Watters. Catera had to operate on the shooter, and feels conflicting emotions. Dr. McNeil pops the question to Dr. Catera. Austin is still turmoiled over the incident at the cabin.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Chicago Hope Season 4
Every episode of Chicago Hope Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Chicago Hope Season 4!
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Guns 'n' Roses" is the best rated episode of "Chicago Hope" season 4. It scored 7.6/10 based on 22 votes. Directed by Bill D'Elia and written by John Tinker, it aired on 10/1/1997. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Incredible Adventures of Baron von Munchausen... by Proxy".