7.0/10134 votesLoading...#1 - Hope Never Dies
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 8/3/2017
Alex and Charlie rush to the scene of a mass casualty accident involving a bus full of teenagers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10220 votesLoading...#2 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/7/2012
In the premiere episode, the Chief of Surgery ends up in a coma, and his fiancée and fellow surgeons fight to save his life.
Director: David Wellington
Writer: Morwyn Brebner, Malcolm MacRury
7.3/1062 votesLoading...#3 - Midlife Crisis
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 3/19/2017
Alex and Charlie are confused about their relationship. Alex and Maggie disagree about a car crash survivor. Dana is forced to treat an injured motorcyclist. Zach bothers Maggie about dating.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10144 votesLoading...#4 - Blindness
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/21/2012
After Charlie’s hand moved in the last episode, Alex has high hopes for his recovery, while she treats a patient who already has multiple surgeries under his belt. Meanwhile, Charlie coaches a young man killed in a roofing accident who has unfinished business with his severely injured brother.
Director: John Fawcett
Writer: Adam Pettle, Marcus Robinson
7.4/1056 votesLoading...#5 - A Stranger Comes to Town
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 4/2/2017
Charlie tries to save the arm of a man thrown from a horse. Alex joins Manny off-site to help a runaway. A rival from Dev's past arrives at Hope Zion.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10163 votesLoading...#6 - Contact
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/14/2012
Alex Reid treats a young boy with mysterious symptoms while dealing with the arrival of Charlie's ex-wife. Elsewhere in the hospital, Joel Goran and Maggie Lin try to help a patient who refuses life-saving treatment on religious grounds.
Director: David Wellington
Writer: Morwyn Brebner
7.5/10146 votesLoading...#7 - The Fight
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/28/2012
A sleep-deprived Alex takes on a night shift in the ER where an all-star hockey enforcer may be skating full-speed towards an early death. Meanwhile, Charlie meets a suburban punk who is facing the biggest fight of his life.
Director: Kelly Makin
Writer: Marcus Robinson, Greg Nelson
7.5/10132 votesLoading...#8 - Out of Sight
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/5/2012
A high profile double hand replantation becomes Alex's (Durance) chance to prove to Kinney (Wendy Crewson) that she is still capable of being Chief Surgical Resident. In the ICU, Maggie (Ross) believes a homeless man may have been misdiagnosed.
Director: John Fawcett
Writer: Marcus Robinson, Aaron Martin
7.5/1058 votesLoading...#9 - Doctor Robot
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 4/16/2017
Alex and Maggie ask Charlie for his opinion on a patient's treatment. Zach is persuaded by a patient while transitioning the ER to an urgent care facility.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1065 votesLoading...#10 - We Need to Talk About Charlie Harris
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 7/6/2017
Alex is challenged about the value of holistic medicine. Charlie's abilities are questioned. Two filmmakers go to Hope Zion Hospital.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1054 votesLoading...#11 - La famiglia
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 7/20/2017
Alex has to put her concerns for Charlie aside when a chance to perform a cancer surgery arises.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10122 votesLoading...#12 - Consenting Adults
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/19/2012
A routine surgical procedure goes awry when Alex's patient, a soon-to-be-wed young woman, falls into a coma. While Alex struggles with a case that hits close to home, Joel treats a patient who does his own body modifications, and Charlie finds himself drawn to Alex's coma patient in the spirit world.
Director: John Fawcett
Writer: Waneta Storms, Malcolm MacRury, Marcus Robinson
7.6/1088 votesLoading...#13 - The Way We Were
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/2014
Shahir and Alex attempt a radical surgery on an Alzheimer's patient; Tom discovers his mentor is keeping a secret; Charlie is torn between Dawn's wishes and the final requests of a dead con-man.
Director: Steve DiMarco
Writer: John Krizanc
7.6/1095 votesLoading...#14 - The Heartbreak Kid
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/2014
Alex and Charlie perform a double surgery on a teenage girl; Joel works at the clinic; Maggie must pull through when she is reunited with the Zarb family.
Director: David Wharnsby
Writer: Fiona Highet
7.6/1091 votesLoading...#15 - Hearts of Glass
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/2015
Two patients need the same heart; a patient has never-before-seen orthopaedic hardware; Dr. Maggie Lin feels the pressure of the upcoming boards.
Director: Jason Priestley
Writer: Patrick Tarr
7.6/1065 votesLoading...#16 - Start Me Up
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2015
Alex struggles with being a mom, a surgeon and now mentoring a junior resident.
Director: Steve DiMarco
Writer: Noelle Carbone
7.6/1056 votesLoading...#17 - Tested and Tried
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 4/9/2017
Alex tracks down the father of a patient who needs a liver transplant. The new CEO of Hope Zion is at odds with Dawn. Zach faces trials in the E.R.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1059 votesLoading...#18 - Problem Child
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 6/29/2017
Alex tries to help patient who hurt himself breaking into a house. A friend of Dr. Dev Sekara has been beaten by the police; a heart patient wishes to open an animal sanctuary.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10124 votesLoading...#19 - A New Beginning
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/23/2012
When Joel gets cold feet in the OR, Kinney takes him with her on a Continuing Medical Education assignment in her hometown to help clear his head. During their field trip, a woman gets pinned underneath a truck and Joel and Kinney lead the rescue effort. Meanwhile, Charlie meets a newly deceased therapist who suspects it’s an emotional block that is keeping him in his coma. Encouraged by Charlie breathing on his own, Alex continues her rounds and diagnoses a fitness buff with a rare condition.
Director: Steve DiMarco
Writer: Marcus Robinson, Aaron Martin
7.7/10109 votesLoading...#20 - Vamonos
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 8/20/2013
When Alex is forced to put a patient’s gender reassignment surgery on hold, she discovers a secret in his medical history that could save his surgery, but tear his life apart. Charlie deals with a patient who is healthy, sane – and convinced she is going to die at midnight. Meanwhile, Joel secretly helps Sonja deal with a patient of hers who’s been admitted to Hope Zion Hospital.
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Adam Pettle, Amanda Fahey
7.7/1079 votesLoading...#21 - Sympathy for the Devil
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2015
On her first day back from maternity leave, Dr. Alex Reid has her hands full when a new mother comes in following a car accident.
Director: James Genn
Writer: Adam Pettle
7.7/1070 votesLoading...#22 - Beasts of Burden
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2015
Dr. Alex Reid puts her reputation on the line when she questions a senior surgeon’s methods.
Director: John Fawcett
Writer: Patrick Tarr
7.8/10128 votesLoading...#23 - Heartsick
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/26/2012
With Charlie's life hanging in the balance, Alex and Dawn go head-to-head over who gets to be his legal decision maker - but are forced to put personal matters aside when they scrub into a heart transplant surgery together. Charlie, meanwhile, is in no mood to talk to the heart donor - a deceased prisoner.
Director: David Wellington
Writer: Morwyn Brebner, Adam Pettle, Marcus Robinson
7.8/10127 votesLoading...#24 - Bea, Again
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/16/2012
Charlie’s ex-wife, Dawn, has pulled the plug on his ventilator. All that’s left now is to wait for his breathing to stop. Devastated, Alex vows to stay by Charlie’s side. Meanwhile, Charlie – resisting his death – bumps into Mack MacIlreath, a recently deceased colleague, who has come to help Charlie die. Alex decides to lawyer up and appeal to the Consent & Capacity Board. While the process gets started, Alex is pulled away to meet with a patient: a young woman named Bea, who Alex performed surgery on while working as a first year surgical resident under Dr. Charles Harris. Bea’s check-up is all clear, but Mack and Charlie fear that she was misdiagnosed. And if Alex doesn’t catch it before Bea walks out of the hospital, she could die. Elsewhere, Joel’s hand is broken and he cannot operate until it is fully healed. Stuck with doing consults, he takes the case of a choir singer who makes a “miraculous” recovery from her paralysis.
Director: Peter Wellington
Writer: Marcus Robinson, Esta Spalding
7.8/10115 votesLoading...#25 - The Law of Contagion
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/30/2012
A passenger's illness forces a plane to land; when Alex performs emergency surgery on the patient, she realizes a deadly and contagious virus may have been brought into the hospital.
Director: T.W. Peacocke
Writer: Marcus Robinson, Greg Nelson
The Worst Episodes of Saving Hope
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When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid, in...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Hope Never Dies" is the worst rated episode of "Saving Hope". It scored 7/10 based on 134 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/3/2017. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Pilot".