Chicago Hope
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| Chicago Hope | |
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| Format | Drama |
| Created by | David E. Kelley |
| Starring | Adam Arkin Héctor Elizondo Vondie Curtis-Hall Barbara Hershey Peter Berg Thomas Gibson Rocky Carroll Mandy Patinkin Jayne Brook E. G. Marshall |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 141 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Henry Bromwell Bill D'Elia David E. Kelley John Tinker |
| Running time | 60 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | September 18, 1994 – May 4, 2000 |
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Chicago Hope is a CBS Medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. It took place in a fictional private charity hospital.
The show starred Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, a hot shot surgeon with emotional problems stemming from the psychiatric condition of his wife, played by Kim Greist. Adam Arkin played Patinkin's colleague and best friend and Peter MacNicol and Hector Elizondo featured as 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. However, after that first week the two shows went head-to-head in their primetime, Thursday night at 10pm slot, ER was the clear victor. Despite the critical acclaim that Chicago Hope received, ER's first season proved a ratings winner and after a quick shuffle to Thursdays at 9pm, Chicago Hope was moved to Monday nights at 10pm in 1995. ER still has the same time slot to this day.
The show stayed in that slot and performed well, with ratings peaking at 11.9 and 20 share, however in the second season Kelley and Patinkin decided to leave the show and Chicago Hope began its slow descent to cancellation. The show was moved to Wednesdays, 10pm in 1997 to make room for Steven Bochco drama Brooklyn South on Mondays. In 1999, both Kelley and Patinkin returned with a revamped cast including the additions of Barbara Hershey and Lauren Holly and the loss of 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 of a task, and the show was cancelled 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 and starting on September 3rd 2007, it will air on Zone Romantica in the UK and Ireland.
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[edit] Cast
- Dr. Aaron Shutt (Adam Arkin)
- Alan Birch (Peter MacNicol)
- Dr. Phillip Watters (Hector Elizondo)
- Dr. Kate Austin (Christine Lahti)
- Dr. Jack McNeil (Mark Harmon)
- Dr. Geoffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin)
- Dr. Billy Kronk (Peter Berg)
- Dr. Keith Wilkes (Rocky Carroll)
- Dr. Diane Grad (Jayne Brook)
- Dr. Dennis Hancock (Vondie Curtis-Hall)
- Dr. Danny Nyland (Thomas Gibson)
- Dr. Lisa Catera (Stacy Edwards)
- Dr. Robert Yeats (Eric Stoltz)
- Dr. Francesca Alberghetti (Barbara Hershey)
- Dr. Gina Simon (Carla Gugino)
- Dr. Jeremy Hanlon (Lauren Holly)
- Dr. John Sutton (Jamey Sheridan)
- Dr. Arthur Thurmond (E.G. Marshall)
- Angela Giandamenicio (Roma Maffia)
- Nurse Camille Shutt (Roxanne Hart)
- Timmy (Dale Wade Davis)
- Hubert 'Hue' Miller (James Garner)
- Tracey Doyle, R.N. (Venessia Valentino)
[edit] Awards
Over its six seasons Chicago Hope was nominated for many accolades and won more than a few, including seven Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.
[edit] 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 |
for the episode Brain Salad Surgery |
[edit] Trivia
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- The series also 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.
- Fyvush Finkel and Kathy Baker appeared as their Picket Fences characters in season 1. Likewise, Adam Arkin and Hector Elizondo brought their "Chicago Hope" characters to Picket Fences that year.
- Mandy Patinkin appears in a non-speaking role as Geiger in a 1994 episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. "Hope" producer John Tinker shot this footage as a favor to his St. Elsewhere colleague Tom Fontana.
- The name of the character that Stacy Edwards portrayed, Lisa Catera, is based on the phrase from the Cadillac commercials, "Lease a Catera".
- On November 18, 1999, "Chicago Hope" became the first regular series episode to be broadcast in HDTV.[1] The episode was entitled, "The Other Cheek".
- 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.
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