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Chicago Hope Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
Team Play
Thu, Sep 23, 1999 60 mins
Doctors deal with a genitally mutilated priest (Robin Thomas) and a child with a genetic disorder. Meanwhile, new surgeon Gina Simon (Carla Gugino) must tell a woman (Veronica Cartwright) that her husband died during surgery, even though the dead man wasn't her patient. It seems that the surgeon who performed the operation (Bruce Davison) can't be found. Geiger: Mandy Patinkin. Dr. Jeremy Hanlon: Lauren Holly. Dr. Francesca Alberghetti: Barbara Hershey. Stu Brickman: Alan Rosenberg.
Episode 2
Y'gotta Have Heart
Thu, Sep 30, 1999 60 mins
A dilemma: two heart-transplant patients, one available heart. Geiger's choice: a potential patron (James Sloyan). Watters': the hospital's newsstand operator (Jack McGee). Meanwhile, Shutt tries to organize a party for the new doctors, and Geiger must deal with the interview process of the exclusive nursery school he wants his daughter to attend. Walter: Jack Rader. Pam Miller: Randee Heller. Cacaci: Bob Bancroft.
Episode 3
Oh What a Piece of Work Is Man
Thu, Oct 7, 1999 60 mins
A renowned surgeon, who suffers from Tourette's syndrome and an obsessive-compulsive disorder, is called on to perform a risky procedure on a newborn; a retired medical examiner gives Wilkes a package that he says contains Albert Einstein's brain; a woman wants breast implants so she can look like a Barbie doll. Meanwhile, an accident victim arrives in the E.R. with burns over 80 percent of his body.
Episode 4
Vigilance and Care
Thu, Oct 14, 1999 45 mins
After a ghetto teen (Derrex Brady) with a 92 mph fastball breaks his arm on the mound, McNeil tries to fix it with cutting-edge surgery. He fails and the boy's mother sues. Meanwhile, a 4-year-old girl who can't---or won't---talk arrives in the ER after being hit by a motorist. "She rode right into traffic," the driver (Matthew Kaminsky) tells Shutt. "She saw me coming."
Episode 5
Humpty Dumpty
Thu, Oct 21, 1999 44 mins
After obnoxious Dr. Joe Cacaci (Bob Bancroft) jumps off a sixth-story rooftop (but doesn't die), his fiancée (Molly Hagan) claims that somebody pushed him. Moreover, the Cacaci she describes is the sweetest guy in the world---and his ex-wives all agree. Melody: Doran Clark. Majeski: John F. O'Donohue. Katherine: Julie Osburn. Janice: Callan White. Helen: Myra Turley.
Episode 6
Upstairs, Downstairs
Thu, Oct 28, 1999 60 mins
Watters must cope with a rat infestation in the hospital---and the rat who's leaking news of a controversial procedure to the tabloids. The procedure: taking sperm from a dead man to implant it in his widow. Dr. Kai Chang: B.D. Wong. Antonia Carver: Alison Martin. Harvey Passman: Time Winters. Fabozzi: John Ales. Brickman: Alan Rosenberg. Mr. Carver: Christopher Lawford. Mrs. Carver: Mary Anne McGarry. Alberghetti: Barbara Hershey. Watters: Hector Elizondo.
Episode 7
White Rabbit
Thu, Nov 11, 1999 60 mins
A virus that a TV reporter calls a "killer influenza" has invaded Chicago Hope, which is quickly quarantined. Shutt is a confirmed victim, and Alberghetti and Stu Brickman are also ill. Meanwhile, a 5-year-old girl (Megan Corletto) who was with the first victim when she died is missing, as is the dead woman's pet white rabbit. Hudgins: Brad Blaisdell. Merton: Grand L. Bush. Berryman: Eddie Kehler. Stu Brickman: Alan Rosenberg. Joan Berryman: Tricia Cast. Julie Toback: Elsa Raven.
Episode 8
The Heart to Heart
Thu, Nov 18, 1999 60 mins
A liver arrives at Chicago Hope, intended for a patient who needs a heart-lung transplant immediately. What to do? Alberghetti has heard of a radical procedure developed by a Sri Lankan surgeon (Cavi Raz). "It doesn't make any medical sense," Geiger says, but it has worked on goats and besides, there are no other options. Nor is there a surgeon on hand who knows how to perform it. Myra Devaney: Laurie O'Brien. Robert Devaney: Nathan West. Marcia Lindsay: Michelle Azar.
Episode 9
The Golden Hour
Thu, Dec 9, 1999 60 mins
Shutt and McNeil must improvise survival equipment when they find themselves holed-up in a bookie joint that had just been shot up---with the shooter sniping outside. Meanwhile, Alberghetti and Hanlon must be creative as well: their patient was stabbed 30 times, and the knife is embedded in her heart. Larry: Jack Laufer. Amanda: Liann Pattison. Ralph: David Vegh. Sally Barnes: Karina Arroyave. Leonard: Stephen Lee. Det. Norm Davis: Phill Lewis. Dan Muckler: Scott Klace.
Episode 10
Hanlon's Choice
Thu, Jan 6, 2000 60 mins
Hanlon (Lauren Holly) treats a Hmong woman (Tzi Ma) with a cancerous lesion (and a family that is skeptical, to say the least, of Western medicine) while battling her mercenary department head (Bruce Davison) over OR access for her pro-bono patients. And Alberghetti's caseload includes a 22-year-old (Eric Balfour) whose multiple body piercings might very well have led to his heart failing. Meanwhile, McNeil and Watters are appalled by what they find on a link to Chicago Hope's new Web site.
Episode 11
Faith, Hope & Surgery
Thu, Jan 13, 2000 60 mins
Simon's neurological operation on her mentor (James Suturius) goes awry and the man slips into a coma. But his misfortune proves to be a blessing for others, beginning with his deeply religious 79-year-old mother (Anne Haney), who suddenly no longer needs her walker after praying over him. Meanwhile, Geiger finds a researcher working on human cloning in a lab in the hospital basement; and McNeil's friendship with Alberghetti hits a snag. Morty: Sid Conrad.
Episode 12
Letting Go
Thu, Jan 20, 2000 60 mins
A railroad engineer with a drug-resistant strain of TB requires a form of surgery not performed anymore. There is an expert at it, though--- Wilkes' aunt Odelia (Fran Bennett), a brusque woman estranged from her nephew. Meanwhile, Simon is perplexed by a paranoid woman (Megan Fay) whose physical symptoms keep changing. The root cause of it, she believes, is God's revenge: she had turned away her dying twin sister. Jim Caroll: Ken Jenkins.
Episode 13
Boys Will Be Girls
Thu, Feb 3, 2000 60 mins
A troubled 14-year-old arrives in the ER with a broken leg. Paramedics assume he's a boy, but upon examining him, McNeil discovers the patient is a girl. Or is she? Meanwhile, Simon and Alberghetti offer a woman with Alzheimer's disease an experimental vaccine.
Episode 14
Gray Matters
Thu, Feb 10, 2000 60 mins
When two small children suffer sudden liver failure, their father is told that he can donate part of his own healthy liver---to one of them. He makes a snap decision, which upsets Wilkes. Meanwhile, Shutt and Simon have become an item, but he wants to keep it secret, which upsets her---as does Shutt's interest in a former colleague, who had taken a leave of absence because she suffers from seizures. McNeil writes a prescription for a cancer patient that he'll come to regret.
Episode 15
Painful Cuts
Thu, Feb 17, 2000 60 mins
Woe is Geiger (Mandy Patinkin): his daughter Alicia (Jessica Stone) has a life-threatening heart murmur and the hospital board is pressuring him---hard---to cut costs. "I will not do anything that compromises patient care," Geiger vows, and that includes operating on Alicia himself, and allowing an appendectomy to be performed on a pair of uninsured conjoined twins. Earl: Paul C. Vogt. Thurl: Peter Vogt.
Episode 16
Simon Sez
Thu, Feb 24, 2000 60 mins
A mentally challenged couple go to the ER when he (John Ritter) has trouble standing up. While there, she (Mary Ward) tells Simon that she hasn't been able to get pregnant. Simon (Carla Gugino) takes pity on her, and in so doing opens a can of worms. Meanwhile, her husband's problem turns out to require Alberghetti's services. Bates: Emily Kuroda. Gray: Alan Oppenheimer.
Episode 17
Cold Hearts
Thu, Mar 30, 2000 60 mins
McNeal struggles to be civil to an obnoxious female wrestler known as "The Death Angel" (Dot-Marie Jones), who arrives in the ER with a knee injury; Shutt struggles to come up with surgical options for an 11-year-old (Hilary Duff) with a brain aneurysm. Meanwhile, Wilkes' son Raymond (Oren Williams) demands that his father treat his ailing pet tarantula. Harry Kram: W. Earl Brown. Nina Selden: Elizabeth Dennehy. Frank Selden: William Bumiller.
Episode 18
Devoted Attachment
Thu, Apr 6, 2000 60 mins
Adult conjoined twins (Paul C. Vogt, Peter Vogt), one of whom has pancreatic cancer, refuse to be separated despite medical advice; a friend of McNeill's arrives with a gunshot wound. McNeil: Mark Harmon. Alberghetti: Barbara Hershey. Hanlon: Lauren Holly. Watters: Hector Elizondo.
Episode 19
Miller Time
Thu, Apr 13, 2000 60 mins
The hospital gets a new CEO (James Garner)---a smooth operator named Hugh Miller, who charms everyone but Watters. And when Simon proposes a radical brain operation on a fetus, Miller turns the occasion into a publicity stunt. Deborah O'Connor: K.K. Dodds. Daniel O'Connor: Garrison Hershberger. Shutt: Adam Arkin. Alberghetti: Barbara Hershey. Brickman: Alan Rosenberg.
Episode 20
Thoughts of You
Thu, Apr 20, 2000 60 mins
Shutt and Simon try to help a patient who's mute and paralyzed to communicate by putting a computer chip in his brain; McNeil gets into hot water with Miller (James Garner) for performing an operation before getting financial authorization. Misty Moss: Alyson Reed. McNeil: Mark Harmon. Shutt: Adam Arkin. Simon: Carla Gugino.
Episode 21
Everybody's Special at Chicago Hope
Thu, Apr 27, 2000 60 mins
A coma victim (Kathy Baker) awakens after 15 years; Miller learns firsthand how his cutbacks have affected the quality of care when a heart attack turns him into a patient. Miller: James Garner. Bill Wiscinski: Michael O'Neill. Dr. Hartman: Martin Cassidy. Wilkes: Rocky Carroll. Alberghetti: Barbara Hershey. Watters: Hector Elizondo.
Episode 22
Have I Got a Deal for You
Thu, May 4, 2000 60 mins
With the hospital proving to be a profit drain, Chicago Hope's new parent company decides to sell---which will mean firing the staff and selling the equipment. So Miller (James Garner) devises a way to pay off the debts and keep the hospital alive. It's a plot that involves a computer whiz (Judd Trichter) who's paralyzed and wants experimental surgery in which a computer chip could help him walk again. Sam Wah: Reggie Lee. Shutt: Adam Arkin. Watters: Hector Elizondo. Simon: Carla Gugino.
