CHICAGO HOPE: PILOT {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
The pilot episode in this series of medical dramas about the personal and professional lives of the staff of the state-of-the-art Chicago Hope Hospital and the ethical dilemmas they face. In this episode, the legendary Dr. Arthur Thurmond is replaced by doctors Jeffrey Geiger and Aaron Shutt in order to finish a procedure in the operating room; Shutt treats an elderly patient who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor; and Geiger is assigned to head a surgery team that will attempt to separate conjoined twins. Matters become heated between Thurmond and the chief of surgery, Dr. Phillip Watters, when Watters tells Thurmond that he has scheduled a meeting with the executive board to determine whether Arthur is still competent to perform surgery. Shutt plans to try out a new device, an ultrasonic scalpel, on his patient. Besides worrying about his patient, Shutt learns that his wife Camille, who also works in the hospital, has filed for divorce. The day before the operation to separate the twins, Geiger is told that saving both of them is the objective., but he, along with the surgery team, know the slim odds of actually saving both. The executive board decides to grant a physical to Arthur and, at the same time, inform Geiger that they have voted against the separation procedure, which causes him to question the hospital's priorities: Are they economic or ethical? Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: September 18, 1994 Sunday 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:45:47
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:38679
- GENRE: Drama, medical
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, medical; Siamese twins - drama
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1994-2000
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- David E. Kelley … Executive Producer, Writer
- Michael Braverman … Co-Executive Producer
- Michael Dinner … Co-Executive Producer
- James C. Hart … Producer
- Michael Pressman … Producer, Director
- John Heath … Associate Producer
- Mark Isham … Music by
- Mandy Patinkin … Cast, Dr. Jeffrey Geiger
- Adam Arkin … Cast, Dr. Aaron Shutt
- E.G. Marshall … Cast, Dr. Arthur Thurmond
- Roxanne Hart … Cast, Camille Shutt
- Peter MacNicol … Cast, Dr. Alan Birch
- Roma Maffia … Cast, Angela Giandamencio
- Hector Elizondo … Cast, Dr. Phillip Watters
- Margaret Colin … Cast, Dr. Antonovich
- John Finn … Cast, Dr. Trevor Filburn
- Louis Guss … Cast, Mr. Collito
- Caroline Seymour … Cast, Board Member
- Joan Copeland … Cast, Mrs. Thurmond
- Kate Simmons … Cast, Marsha Quinlann
- Tony Carlin … Cast, John Quinlann
- Anna Berger … Cast, Mary Collito
- Susan I. Schelling … Cast, Anesthesiologist
- Brittany McConnell … Cast, Quinlann Twin
- Brianna McConnell … Cast, Quinlann Twin
- Jonathon Kohl … Cast, Anesthesiologist #2
- Linda Klein … Cast, O.R. Technician
- Kathleen Arc … Cast, Thurmond's Secretary
- John Robertson … Cast, Dr. Roberts
- Gail Cohen … Cast, N.D. Technician #1
- Gerald McCullough … Cast, N.D. Technician #1
- Ping Wu … Cast, MRI Technician
- Peter Gregory … Cast, N.D. Doctor #1
- Shunil Bailey … Cast, N.D. Doctor #2