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Chicago Hope is an American Emmy Award-winning CBS medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 5, 2000. It takes place in a fictional private charity hospital.
The show stars Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, a hot shot surgeon with emotional issues stemming from the psychiatric condition of his wife (Kim Greist) who drowned their infant son. Adam Arkin plays Patinkin's colleague and best friend.
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Chicago Hope is an American Emmy Award-winning CBS medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 5, 2000. It takes place in a fictional private charity hospital.
The show stars Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, a hot shot surgeon with emotional issues stemming from the psychiatric condition of his wife (Kim Greist) who drowned their infant son. Adam Arkin plays Patinkin's colleague and best friend. Peter MacNicol and Hector Elizondo feature as the house counsel and director of medicine, respectively. Christine Lahti joined in the second season as a talented cardiac surgeon with a feminist chip on her shoulder who vies with Geiger for the chief of surgery position.
The pilot episode of Chicago Hope was broadcast the day before NBC's ER in a special Sunday 8pm slot. After the first week, however, the two shows went 'head to head' in their primetime Thursday night slot. ER was the victor: its first season proved a ratings winner. Despite receiving critical acclaim, Chicago Hope was shuffled to Thursdays, and ultimately Monday nights in 1995 in a bid for higher ratings, while ER stayed in the same time slot.
The show stayed in that slot and performed well with ratings peaking at 11.9 and 20 shares. In the second season, however, Kelley and Patinkin decided to leave the show and Chicago Hope began its slow march toward cancellation. The show was moved to Wednesdays at 10pm in 1997 to make room for the Steven Bochco drama, Brooklyn South, on Mondays. In 1999, both Kelley and Patinkin returned with a revamped cast including newcomers Barbara Hershey and Lauren Holly but excluding Lahti, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Stacy Edwards. They also moved the show back to Thursday nights against NBC's Frasier and ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; however, this proved too daunting a task, and the show was canceled in May 2000.
In the UK, seasons 1 and 2 originally aired on BBC One. More recently, all seasons of the show have been shown on ITV3. Starting on September 3, 2007, it began airing on Zone Romantica in the UK and Ireland.
With the exception of some infrequent on-location scenes, the vast majority of Chicago Hope was filmed on sound stages at the studios of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation located in the Century City area of Los Angeles.
Cast
Awards
Over its six seasons Chicago Hope was nominated for many accolades and won several, including seven Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.
Emmy awards
| Year | Award | Recipient |
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| 1995 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Mandy Patinkin | | 1995 | Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Series | Tim Suhrstedt for the episode "Over The Rainbow" | | 1996 | Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting for a Series | Debi Manwiller | | 1996 | Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Drama Series | Jeremy Kagan for the episode "Leave Of Absence" | | 1997 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Hector Elizondo | | 1998 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Christine Lahti | | 1998 | Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series | Russell C. Fager, R. Russell Smith, and William Freesh for the episode "Brain Salad Surgery" | |
Crossovers
- Many of the actors have appeared together in other TV shows since Chicago Hope. Three members of the show have been on the CBS hit show NCIS: Mark Harmon plays Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Lauren Holly played Director Jenny Shepard, and Rocky Carroll plays Leon Vance, the new director after Holly's exit from the show. All three actors shared scenes together during the fifth season of NCIS. Additionally, Mandy Patinkin and Thomas Gibson worked together on the hit show Criminal Minds for two seasons.
- The name of the character that Stacy Edwards portrayed, Lisa Catera, is based on the phrase from the Cadillac commercials, "Lease a Catera".
Firsts
- The series broke a network television taboo by showing a teenager's breast after her character undergoes a reconstructive surgery. This was generally seen as relevant to the subject matter and went relatively uncriticized.
- On 18 November 1999, Chicago Hope became the first regular series episode to be broadcast in HDTV. The episode was entitled, "The Other Cheek".
- Also, the first series to use the word "shit" on network television.
Trivia
- Adam Arkin, Mandy Patinkin, and Christine Lahti (Neurologist Aaron Shutt, Cardiologist Jeffrey Geiger, and Dr. Kate Austin respectively) all appeared in the 1991 film The Doctor.
- The series has yet to be released on Region 1 DVD.
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