Episode 1
Aired Sep 18, 1994
Pilot
Devastating memories haunt Geiger as he readies for a difficult operation; Camille serves Dr. Shutt with divorce papers.
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Episode 2
Aired Sep 22, 1994
Over the Rainbow
Geiger goes before the executive committee after browbeating a grieving man into approving experimental surgery.
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Episode 3
Aired Sep 29, 1994
Food Chains
Drs. Geiger and Thurmond don't see eye to eye when it comes to deciding which one of their patients will benefit from a donor baboon.
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Episode 4
Aired Oct 6, 1994
With the Greatest of Ease
Members of a high wire act take a fall and land at Chicago Hope; Dr. Geiger is arrested at a local bar.
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Episode 5
Aired Oct 13, 1994
You Gotta Have Heart
A potential heart donor, a baby born without a brain, sparks disagreement between Geiger and Watters.
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Episode 6
Aired Oct 20, 1994
Shutt Down
Aaron has a crisis of confidence after feeling no impulse to save a gang kid; a boy sees his mother shot.
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Episode 7
Aired Nov 3, 1994
Genevieve and Fat Boy
Shutt begins a relationship with Antonovich, whose seizures indicate she has brain cancer; Geiger must operate on an obese mobster.
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Episode 8
Aired Nov 10, 1994
Death Be Proud
Shutt and Birch go to court to help Antonovich die with dignity; Geiger must work with a nemesis to save a girl's life.
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Episode 9
Aired Jan 1, 1995
Heartbreak
Camille fears she may have mishandled a friend's heart during surgery, causing his death; guest Teri Polo.
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Episode 10
Aired Jan 2, 1995
The Quarantine
Alan is placed in charge of the hospital when most of the staff is quarantined in the OR after being exposed to a deadly virus.
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Episode 11
Aired Jan 9, 1995
Love & Hope
A man trying to impress his new girlfriend winds up at Chicago Hope; the holidays have a wide-ranging effect on the staff.
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Episode 12
Aired Jan 16, 1995
Great White Hope
A man injects his 14-year-old son, a boxer, with steroids; Shutt is audited; Birch is drawn into a pregnant teen's life.
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Episode 13
Aired Jan 23, 1995
Small Sacrifices
The doctors try to reattach a concert flutist's finger that was bitten off by a mugger; a former patient sues; guest Fyvush Finkel.
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Episode 14
Aired Feb 6, 1995
Cutting Edges
Geiger's institutionalized wife wants a divorce so she can marry a fellow mental patient; Hancock treats a 17-year-old with breast cancer.
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Episode 15
Aired Feb 13, 1995
Life Support
The brother (Chris Penn) of a patient needing a transplant hijacks a donor heart destined for another.
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Episode 16
Aired Feb 20, 1995
Freeze Outs
The doctors attempt to revive a boy who has been frozen for three hours in the waters of Lake Michigan; an AIDS researcher joins the staff.
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Episode 17
Aired Feb 27, 1995
Growth Pains
Alan Birch's new daughter requires surgery to have the hole in her heart repaired, but Alan finds his confidence in Dr. Geiger wavering.
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Episode 18
Aired Mar 13, 1995
Informed Consent
Kronk is shocked by his girlfriend's past; Geiger and Shutt rely on an experimental procedure to save an aneurysm patient.
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Episode 19
Aired Mar 20, 1995
Internal Affairs
Old friends ask Shutt to perform controversial surgery; Kronk's actions at an accident scene are scrutinized.
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Episode 20
Aired May 8, 1995
The Virus
Terror strikes everyone at the hospital when four patients die of a mysterious virus. With Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin and E.G. Marshall.
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Episode 21
Aired May 15, 1995
Full Moon
Dr. Hancock tries to grant a patient's last wish; Dr. Geiger seeks his ex-wife's blessing to pursue Dr. Infante.
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Episode 22
Aired May 22, 1995
Songs From the Cuckoo Birds
Geiger has a sanity hearing after the state medical board suspends his license; Camille tells Aaron her feelings about Geiger.
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