8.0/1033 votes#1 - Sarindipity
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1998
A poisonous gas is released in a bank and the doctors try to contain the gas, that is threatening many lives including Dr. Hancock.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich
7.4/1025 votes#2 - Austin Space
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1998
A cardiologist in NASA's Doctors in space program has a heart attack and Kate takes the doctors place in the program. Dr. Shutt has a patient who needs to tell his father, an Orthodox Rabbi, that he is gay.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: N/A
7.6/1040 votes#3 - Wag the Doc
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1998
Hancock accuses Watters and Austin of racism when they refuse to operate on a black patient. One of Shutt's patients commits suicide when the medicine needed isn't covered by insurance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1027 votes#4 - The Breast and the Brightest
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1998
Grad accuses a mother are starving her infant to death. Shutt and Catera disagree over a neurological patient. Austin announces her plans with NASA, and Watters taked away her status as Chief of Surgery. Yeats uses his ""sixth sense"" to diagnose a patient.
Director: Martha Mitchell
Writer: Barbara Hall
8.1/1029 votes#5 - One Hundred and One Damnations
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1998
The hospital prepares for the Doctor of the Year party, and several old friends drop by. Watters goes into a virus-induced coma and gets some words of wisdom from Alan Birch. Camille Shutt returns for the party and Aaron discovers he still has feeling for her. Dr. Nyland returns to the hospital and reveals that he has really changed his life. Geiger also visits the hospital.
Director: Michael Pressman
Writer: John Tinker, Barbara Hall
7.9/1036 votes#6 - Viagra-Vated Assault
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1998
Kate discovers that a patient is using Viagra to cheat on his wife; Jack gives a blood transfusion even though it's against the patient's Jehovah's Witness religion; a musician fears his creativity may be stifled by the medicine Aaron prescribes for his bipolar disorder; Joe's son drives the staff crazy as he roams the hospital behaving exactly like his father.
Director: Rob Corn
Writer: N/A
7.7/1028 votes#7 - Austin, We Have a Problem
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1998
Gordan teaches Kate how to fly. Hancock accuses a police officer of shooting a homeless African-American.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: N/A
7.9/1031 votes#8 - The Other Cheek
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1998
A celebrity dies and news crews invade the hospital to cover the story.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: N/A
7.6/1032 votes#9 - Tantric Turkey
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1998
Billy's mother shows up at the hospital and announces she is about to give birth. The star of the road company version on ""Jesus Christ Superstar"" comes to the hospital when the star is ill. Yeats former teacher comes to the hospital with chest pains.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1022 votes#10 - Gun with the Wind
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1998
Wilkes must face the parents of a child brought into the ER when it becomes clear that Raymond was responsible for the child's injury. NASA starts interview Kate's colleagues. One of Aaron's patients is attracted to him.
Director: Sandy Smolan
Writer: Linda Loiselle Guzik
7.9/1022 votes#11 - McNeil and Pray
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1998
A member of Jack's basketball team sustains a near-fatal injury during a game; Bobby disagrees about the need for his patient to have heart surgery.
Director: James R. Bagdonas
Writer: N/A
7.9/1025 votes#12 - Adventures in Babysitting
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1999
Aaron struggles with the loss of a patient; Billy is attracted to Emily's babysitter; a couple asks Bobby and Dennis for help in creating a baby with a genius I.Q.; Joe tries to decide who should go into the hospital's fallout shelter in an emergency.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1024 votes#13 - Karmic Relief
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1999
Kate discovers that she has developed an ovarian cyst which could destroy her plans with NASA. After Kate hears this news she agrees to go to a retreat... that Yeats is leading.
Director: Adam Arkin
Writer: Barbara Hall
7.4/1026 votes#14 - Playing Through
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1999
During surgery to resolve an HIV-positive woman's post-partum complications, Diane accidentally cuts herself and is exposed to the virus; problems arise between Jack and Lisa when he discovers that she's been seeing Robert; a homeless man takes shelter in the hospital's main entrance; an unidentified man is hit by a train after trying to save a child; Jack takes up golf in the hospital.
Director: Kenny Ortega
Writer: Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich
7.5/1077 votes#15 - Big Hand for the Little Lady
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1999
McNeil performs a hand transplant on the patient, and uses the patient's dead mother's hand. Kate is accepted by NASA. An old childhood friends visits Watters and asks for one of his kidneys.
Director: Rob Corn
Writer: N/A
7.8/1023 votes#16 - Home is Where the Heartache Is
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/1999
Jack returns after his brother's death; fearing the impact of HMOs on his practice, Joe begins to sell doorway products; Billy's friend comes to the hospital for a heart transplant, and ends up getting an experimental procedure after the hospital receives the wrong organ.
Director: Oz Scott
Writer: N/A
7.8/1025 votes#17 - A Goy and His Dog
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/1999
Billy ponders euthanasia when Gordy is diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis; Lisa tries to help a woman with metastatic breast cancer get into an experimental group even though the woman doesn't fit the study parameters; Aaron's patient confesses to murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1031 votes#18 - Teacher's Pet
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/24/1999
Kate confronts a world renowned surgeon who's harassed her in the past; Diane's patient has a flesh-eating bacterial infection.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1032 votes#19 - Vanishing Acts
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/1999
Diane tries to help grieving parents when their three year old child dies; Aaron is institutionalized after an experiment backfires.
Director: Michael Schultz
Writer: N/A
7.5/1027 votes#20 - From Here to Maternity
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/1999
A mother gives birth to twins, one black and one white. Kate is threatened with a lawsuit after making a rude comment.
Director: Mark Harmon
Writer: N/A
7.6/1090 votes#21 - And Baby Makes 10
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/21/1999
Dr. Hancock's patient, who was using fertility drugs, gives birth to 8 babies.
Director: Martha Mitchell
Writer: N/A
7.8/1037 votes#22 - Kiss of Death
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/28/1999
Kate meets up with an old boyfriend, who turns out to be an ex-husband. Lisa tried to prolong the like of a pregnant woman with brain cancer. Cacaci forces Aaron to investigate his charge that Phillip had an affair with a patient.
Director: James R. Bagdonas
Writer: N/A
7.5/1030 votes#23 - The Heavens Can Wait
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/17/1999
The E.R. is flooded with teenagers poisoned by an unknown rave drug; Kate and Sara are hit by a drunk driver; Phillip's fate is decided.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: N/A
7.8/1036 votes#24 - Curing Cancer
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/1999
Aaron consults Dr. Gina Simon, a pediatric neurosurgeon after being presented with a 9-week old baby suffering from seizures. Jeffrey Geiger returns to the hospital and promptly fires half the staff, whom then sue to get their jobs back.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: David E. Kelley
The Best Episodes of Chicago Hope Season 5
Every episode of Chicago Hope Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Chicago Hope Season 5!
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Sarindipity" is the best rated episode of "Chicago Hope" season 5. It scored 8/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by Bill D'Elia and written by Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich, it aired on 9/30/1998. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Austin Space".