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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!

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.

Genres:SoapDrama
Network:CBS

Season 5 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Chicago Hope" season 5 is "Sarindipity", rated 8/10 from 34 user votes. It was directed by Bill D'Elia and written by Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich. "Sarindipity" aired on 9/30/1998 and is rated 0.6 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Austin Space".

  • Sarindipity
    8.0/10 34 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

  • Austin Space
    7.4/10 26 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

  • Wag the Doc
    7.6/10 41 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

  • The Breast and the Brightest
    7.4/10 28 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

  • One Hundred and One Damnations
    8.1/10 30 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

  • Viagra-Vated Assault
    7.9/10 37 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

  • Austin, We Have a Problem
    7.7/10 29 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

  • The Other Cheek
    7.9/10 32 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

  • Tantric Turkey
    7.6/10 33 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

  • Gun with the Wind
    7.6/10 23 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

  • McNeil and Pray
    7.9/10 23 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

  • Adventures in Babysitting
    7.9/10 26 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

  • Karmic Relief
    7.3/10 25 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

  • Playing Through
    7.4/10 27 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

  • Big Hand for the Little Lady
    7.5/10 78 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

  • Home is Where the Heartache Is
    7.8/10 24 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

  • A Goy and His Dog
    7.8/10 26 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

  • Teacher's Pet
    7.6/10 32 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

  • Vanishing Acts
    8.0/10 33 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

  • From Here to Maternity
    7.5/10 28 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

  • And Baby Makes 10
    7.6/10 91 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

  • Kiss of Death
    7.8/10 38 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

  • The Heavens Can Wait
    7.5/10 31 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

  • Curing Cancer
    7.8/10 37 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