Chicago Hope: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Chicago Hope Season 5.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
Team Play
Sep 23, 1999 · 60 min
A priest is genitally mutilated during a mugging; a patient dies after a routine liposuction; Jeffrey refuses to perform surgery on a child.
Y'Gotta Have Heart
Sep 30, 1999 · 60 min
A heart becomes available for transplant, but there are two patients waiting and Drs. Geiger and Watters must choose which patient will receive the heart. Jeffrey tries to place Al
Oh, What a Piece of Work is Man
Oct 7, 1999 · 60 min
A doctor with Tourette's Syndrome is brought to Chicago Hope to operate on an infant with a severe heart defect. A patient comes into the ER with, what he claims to be, Albert Eins
Vigilance and Care
Oct 14, 1999 · 60 min
Dr. McNeil goes to magnificent lengths to save the arm of a young baseball star. A little girl is brought into the ER after being hit by a car.
Humpty Dumpty
Oct 21, 1999 · 60 min
The doctors fight to save Cacaci's life after he jumps from a six story building in a suicide attempt, although Cacaci's fiancee says that someone pushed him off the building.
Upstairs, Downstairs
Oct 28, 1999 · 60 min
A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.
White Rabbit
Nov 11, 1999 · 60 min
The hospital is quarantined after a deadly virus is discovered; a child is missing in the hospital.
The Heart to Heart
Nov 18, 1999 · 60 min
Dr. Alberghetti performs a surgery with another surgeon, who is in Sri Lanka.
The Golden Hour
Dec 9, 1999 · 60 min
On the way to a football game, Aaron and Jack get sidetracked... after they find themselves in a hostage situation with 3 wounded patients, a loose gunman, and the police about rea
Hanlon's Choice
Jan 6, 2000 · 60 min
Dr. Hanlon must fight against her department heads when they decide they no longer want her to perform pro-bono operations. Dr. Alberghetti tries to help a young man with a staph i
Faith, Hope & Surgery
Jan 13, 2000 · 60 min
Gina operates on a surgeon who's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Letting Go
Jan 20, 2000 · 60 min
A hepatitis scare forces Dr. Geiger to call for outside help; Dr. Simon's misdiagnosis causes her to doubt herself.
Boys Will Be Girls
Feb 3, 2000 · 60 min
A teenager is forced to live his life as a girl after the slip of a knife, and McNeil goes to court to try to help.
Gray Matters
Feb 10, 2000 · 60 min
A father is told he can only donate his liver to one of his children, after both go into liver failure. Rose Webber comes back to Chicago Hope and finds that Aaron has started a ne
Painful Cuts
Feb 17, 2000 · 60 min
Keith discovers a heart murmer while giving Alicia a physical. Jeremy performs an appendectomy on Siamese twins.
Simon Sez
Feb 24, 2000 · 60 min
A mentally challenged couple enters the hospital. The husband needs open heart surgery. The wife discovers that she can't become pregnant after she was sterilized without her conse
Cold Hearts
Mar 30, 2000 · 60 min
Shutt and Simon invent a procedure and use it to save the life of a girl. McNeil treat a wrestler who's been using steroids.
Devoted Attachment
Apr 6, 2000 · 60 min
McNeil's friend is shot. Pancreatic cancer effects one of the conjoined twins that have entered the hospital.
Miller Time
Apr 13, 2000 · 60 min
The hospital is purchased by an HMO, and immediately suffers budget cuts. During an operation that Miller is filming for a documentary, the heart stops beating on both the patient
Thoughts of You
Apr 20, 2000 · 60 min
McNeil goes against procedure and red tape and performs a hip replacement surgery. Shutt and Simon transplant a computer into a patients brain. Alberghetti tries to ignore her feel
Everybody's Special at Chicago Hope
Apr 27, 2000 · 60 min
Shutt's patient wakes up after being in a coma after 15 years. A man is denied health coverage, after saving Miller's life.
Have I Got a Deal for You
May 4, 2000 · 60 min
Rumors fly that the hospital is about to be sold again; a man seriously injured in an accident wants to be the guinea pig for the computer program he's invented that can help him m