NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Songs from the Cuckoo Birds
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/1995
Following Dr. Joseph's witnessing of Dr. Geiger's actions, the medical board suspends him until his case can be reviewed. However, there is some disagreement among the hospital's staff as to whether or not the suspension is in their best interests.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: David E. Kelley
6.6/1039 votesLoading...#2 - Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/1996
Grad and Kronk reluctantly team up to counsel an inexperienced couple on sexual techniques. Dr. Sutton finds himself unnerved by a sexually precocious young woman at Dr. Hancock's clinic. Aaron tries befriending a resident, but finds himself misinterpretted.
Director: Bill D'Elia
Writer: Sara B. Cooper
6.7/1031 votesLoading...#3 - The Parent Rap
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/1996
Kate loses her control and her compassion when her father is admitted with an operable surgical condition but refuses it on religious grounds. Geiger turns up again at the hospital, this time as part of a clown troop there to entertain the patients. Sutton delivers a baby with ambigous genitalia whose parents are equally ambigious about they feel about their offspring.
Director: Arvin Brown
Writer: Sara B. Cooper
6.8/1027 votesLoading...#4 - Ex Marks the Spot
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1996
Sutton's mind rells as wives two and three ask him for a very great personal and professional favor and wife one chacks in for a serious medical problem. Kate anxiously awaits news of who will be appointed as the new head of surgery. Dr. Shutt performs delicate surgery on a wealthy quadriplegic who cannot be anesthetized, and whose beautiful fiance attracts Nyland's attention.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Patricia Green
7.0/1028 votesLoading...#5 - Christmas Truce
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1995
Aaron is baffled when a seizure lands Camille in the ER. Nyland's holiday vacation plans are suddenly sidetracked by a delivery of supplies to Ricky's makeshift clinic with a Santa'-clad Hancock. A promising teen athlete fears that an operation could cost him the chance to play major league baseball. Grad meets a sweet but shy veterinarian.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1026 votesLoading...#6 - Three Men and a Lady
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1996
Judge Aldrich's tenure as Alan's replacement is cut short by illness; Amy, an old friend of Danny's from medical school, joins the nursing staff and clashes with Camille over the care of a terminally ill patient; Kate and Billy hook up, but decide that they won't repeat the experience after they clash professionally during experimental laser surgery on an elderly cardiac patient; Amy rebuffs Danny's advances.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: John Tinker
7.1/1026 votesLoading...#7 - Hearts and Minds
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/1996
A heart-transplant patient returns to the hospital with chest pains and emotional and personality changes that challenge the notion of what really is exchanged in a transplant. Shutt is approached by a direct, self-confident psychiatrist who insists he perform psychosurgery on a 12-year-old boy with an obsessive-compulsive disorder that severely limits the life he can lead.
Director: Martin Davidson
Writer: John Tinker
7.1/1036 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.1/1024 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.2/1030 votesLoading...#10 - Hello Goodbye
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1995
Dr. Nyland pulls a switch with Dr. Kronk in order to avoid a charity function, but they have to face the consequences over somecmisunderstandings. Misunderstanding fills Aaron's life when his father barges into the hospital with a patient who is also his fiancee. Geiger finally understands that he may be causing more ripples than he thought.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: David E. Kelley
7.2/1049 votesLoading...#11 - Every Day a Little Death
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1995
Billy arrives home just in time to save his dog Gordie from the fire that's engulfed his apartment, and ends up rooming with a reluctant Danny until he can find a new place to live; when a teething Alicia keeps her father up at nights, an exhausted Alan is thrilled when Diane offers to help out; when a racist teenager on the transplant list refuses the heart of a murdered black teenager, the hospital offers it to another candidate, but the boy's mother sues to have the heart transplanted into her son; Alan decides to get back into the social swing by asking Diane out on a date; Kate's inattention to pre-op labs results in the post-op death of the transplant patient; Danny overcomes his dislike of Gordie long enough to notice that he's critically ill, and by acting quickly, saves the dog's life.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: Patricia Green
7.2/1029 votesLoading...#12 - Stand
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1995
Shutt finds himself revitalized by a frustrated MS patient who refuses to quietly accept that Aaron can't help him. Dr. Sutton comes up with a way to exorcise Geiger's spirit from the hospital. Watters finds solace with a special visitor.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: N/A
7.2/1027 votesLoading...#13 - Life Lines
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/1996
Aaron proceeds with Eric Dipretto's psychosurgery while Austin campaigns for the position of chief of surgery and Bix continues to lose control. Kronk is determined to perform a controversial intestinal bypass on Nyland's former boss and good friend, a restauranteur who just wants to enjoy a good meal again.
Director: Dennie Gordon
Writer: Sara B. Cooper
7.2/1028 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.2/1026 votesLoading...#15 - Vigilance and Care
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1999
Dr. McNeil goes to magnificent lengths to save the arm of a young baseball star. A little girl is brought into the ER after being hit by a car.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: N/A
7.3/1033 votesLoading...#16 - Food Chains
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1994
Arthur nearly fires Danny for failing to adhere to triage protocol, thereby delaying the treatment of a critically injured prostitute with AIDS; Phillip becomes the acting chief of staff after Hackett suffers a fatal heart attack during a little afternoon delight with Angela in the MRI room; Jeffrey and Arthur argue over the future of a baboon with the potential to prolong the life of Jeffrey's patient with heart failure and Arthur's patient with AIDS.
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Writer: David E. Kelley
7.3/1055 votesLoading...#17 - Life Support
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1995
When the gun belonging to a critically wounded police officer drops out of his holster in the E.R., the distraught brother of a man waiting for a donor heart picks up the weapon and threatens the staff unless his brother receives an immediate transplant; as Aaron and Danny operate on the wounded officer, one of the exploding bullets with which he was shot goes off and severs two of Danny's fingers; Geri performs a successful reattachment, but Danny may be facing the end of his career as a surgeon.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: David E. Kelley, John Tinker
7.3/1026 votesLoading...#18 - Transplanted Affection
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1996
Watters steps in and asks Geiger to take on Austin's transplant patient as she struggles with her ex husband for custody of their daughter. Sutton brings a brain-dead woman into the hospital to deliver her baby.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: David E. Kelley
7.3/1026 votesLoading...#19 - Right to Life
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1996
Hancock's practice and his freedom are threatened when he saves the life of a hemorrhaging pregnant woman by aborting her fetus, which stirs up strong emotions when the woman denounces his actions. Kronk recoils at first from treating a drag queen with AIDS. Another new lawyer faces a baptism of fire as hospital legal counsel.
Director: Adam Arkin
Writer: Patricia Green
7.3/1028 votesLoading...#20 - Sweet Surrender
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/1996
Dr. Watters befriends a 12-year-old girl when she's admitted with an apparently self-inflected wound to her transplanted kidney. Austin has another rough day, with the shakes during a surgery and a message from her ex-husband that he might be moving to Boston and taking their daughter with him. Diane finds out about Billy's previous relationship with Kate.
Director: Michael Engler
Writer: N/A
7.3/1029 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.3/1041 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.3/1024 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.3/1024 votesLoading...#24 - Upstairs, Downstairs
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1999
A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1028 votesLoading...#25 - Gray Matters
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/2000
A father is told he can only donate his liver to one of his children, after both go into liver failure. Rose Webber comes back to Chicago Hope and finds that Aaron has started a new relationship -- with Gina.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: N/A
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Songs from the Cuckoo Birds" is the worst rated episode of "Chicago Hope". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Michael Dinner and written by David E. Kelley, it aired on 5/22/1995. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope".