Season 5

Chicago HopeSeason 5

1998
24 Episodes

Episodes

Sarindipity
S05E01

Sarindipity

A poisonous gas is released in a bank and the doctors try to contain the gas, that is threatening many lives including Dr. Hancock.

30 Sept 199860m
Austin Space
S05E02

Austin Space

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.

07 Oct 199860m
Wag the Doc
S05E03

Wag the Doc

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.

14 Oct 199860m
The Breast and the Brightest
S05E04

The Breast and the Brightest

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.

21 Oct 199860m
One Hundred and One Damnations
S05E05

One Hundred and One Damnations

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.

28 Oct 199860m
Viagra-Vated Assault
S05E06

Viagra-Vated Assault

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.

04 Nov 199860m
Austin, We Have a Problem
S05E07

Austin, We Have a Problem

Gordan teaches Kate how to fly. Hancock accuses a police officer of shooting a homeless African-American.

11 Nov 199860m
The Other Cheek
S05E08

The Other Cheek

A celebrity dies and news crews invade the hospital to cover the story.

18 Nov 199860m
Tantric Turkey
S05E09

Tantric Turkey

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.

25 Nov 199860m
Gun with the Wind
S05E10

Gun with the Wind

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.

09 Dec 199860m
McNeil and Pray
S05E11

McNeil and Pray

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.

16 Dec 199860m
Adventures in Babysitting
S05E12

Adventures in Babysitting

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.

13 Jan 199960m
Karmic Relief
S05E13

Karmic Relief

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.

20 Jan 199960m
Playing Through
S05E14

Playing Through

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.

03 Feb 199960m
Big Hand for the Little Lady
S05E15

Big Hand for the Little Lady

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.

10 Feb 199960m
Home is Where the Heartache Is
S05E16

Home is Where the Heartache Is

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.

17 Feb 199960m
A Goy and His Dog
S05E17

A Goy and His Dog

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.

10 Mar 199960m
Teacher's Pet
S05E18

Teacher's Pet

Kate confronts a world renowned surgeon who's harassed her in the past; Diane's patient has a flesh-eating bacterial infection.

24 Mar 199960m
Vanishing Acts
S05E19

Vanishing Acts

Diane tries to help grieving parents when their three year old child dies; Aaron is institutionalized after an experiment backfires.

31 Mar 199960m
From Here to Maternity
S05E20

From Here to Maternity

A mother gives birth to twins, one black and one white. Kate is threatened with a lawsuit after making a rude comment.

14 Apr 199960m
And Baby Makes 10
S05E21

And Baby Makes 10

Dr. Hancock's patient, who was using fertility drugs, gives birth to 8 babies.

21 Apr 199960m
Kiss of Death
S05E22

Kiss of Death

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.

28 Apr 199960m
The Heavens Can Wait
S05E23

The Heavens Can Wait

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.

17 May 199960m
Curing Cancer
S05E24

Curing Cancer

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.

19 May 199960m