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Post by madvicks on Mar 20, 2007 6:54:35 GMT -5
Chicago Hope was a popular CBS drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 4, 2000. It took place in a fictional private charity hospital.
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.
Ironically, Chicago Hope's pilot was shown before ER's but the two shows ended up going head to head, I presume Chicago Hope lost out to ER because of Gorgeous George!
Still, Hope gave us Peter Berg, Mark Harmon and who cannot love Mandy Patinkin?
I always enjoyed Chicago Hope and its a shame it never really did as well as ER with the viewing demographics.
Anybody a fan or remember the show?
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Post by larnov on Mar 8, 2009 10:25:15 GMT -5
I do remember the show...I chose Hope over ER..I thought and still think it was a far superior show. Mandy Patinkin was the main reason I watched the first episode.
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Post by madvicks on Mar 8, 2009 11:40:42 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum! Yes, Mandy with his whipping trousers were always a fascination for me, plus Peter Berg, Peter MacNicol, Adam Arkin, Hector Elizonodo and then later the Silver Fox himself Mark Harmon! ;D A shame that ER dominated as CH always had a lot of feeling and substance to it and was not so in your face as ER.
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