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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 Patinkin for the chief of surgery position. Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American actor and renowned tenor. ... Intraoperative X-Ray of a Humerus fixated by Kirschner wires Surgery (from the Greek meaning hand work) is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment. ... Greist in Brazil (film), 1985 Kimberly Bret Greist (born May 12, 1958) is an American actress. ... Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American television, film, and stage actor. ... Peter MacNicol as John Cage on Ally McBeal Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954 in Dallas, Texas) is probably best known among younger TV viewers for his role as the eccentric attorney John Cage, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in... Hector Elizondo (born December 22, 1936 in New York City) is a Puerto Rican-American actor. ... Christine Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress. ... This page is about the muscular organ, the Heart. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ...

The pilot episode of Chicago Hope was broadcast the day before NBC's ER, however, after that first week the two shows went head-to-head in primetime, Thursday night at 10pm. Despite the critical acclaim that Chicago Hope received, ER's first season proved a ratings winner and in 1995 Chicago Hope was moved to Monday nights at 10pm. A television pilot is the first episode of an intended television series. ... NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... ER is a long-running serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. ... PrimeTime is a television newsmagazine from ABC News. ...

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 the leave the show and Chicago Hope began its slow descent to cancellation. 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, and CBS moved the show back to Thursday nights. Up against NBC's Frasier and ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, though, proved too daunting of a task, and the show was cancelled in May 2000. When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are generally referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Barbara Hershey The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... This article is actively undergoing a major edit. ... It has been suggested that CBS evening news anchors be merged into this article or section. ... Frasier is a critically-acclaimed American TV sitcom whose last original episode aired on May 13, 2004. ... In the United States, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (also known simply as Millionaire) is a television game show which offers a maximum cash prize of one million dollars for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. ...

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Cast

• Dr. Aaron Shutt (Adam Arkin)
• Dr. Phillip Watters (Hector Elizondo)
• Dr. Kate Austin (Christine Lahti)
• Dr. Jack McNeil (Mark Harmon)
• Dr. Jeffrey 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)
• Alan Birch (Peter MacNicol)
• Angela Giandamenicio (Roma Maffia)
• Nurse Camille Shutt (Roxanne Hart)
• Timmy (Dale Wade Davis)
• Hubert 'Hue' Miller (James Garner)
• Tracey Doyle, R.N. (Venessia Valentino)

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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. An Emmy Award. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...

Emmy awards

Trivia

• Chicago Hope was the first show on network television (with the exception of documentaries) to feature the word "shit" without bleeping it. Mark Harmon had the "honor" to use the word in an appropriate context. Very little negative publicity resulted.

• The series also broke another network television taboo by showing a teenager's breast after her character undergoes a reconstructive surgery.

• The name of the character that Stacy Edwards portrayed, Lisa Catera, is based on the phrase from the Cadillac commercials, "Lease a Catera".

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See also

• List of Chicago Hope episodes

This is a list of all episodes of the television series Chicago Hope. ...

External links

• Chicago Hope at the Internet Movie Database