As of July 2026, Boston Public Season 4 aired in 2003 with 15 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Boston Public Season 4

2003 15 Episodes Drama ⭐ 8/10

If you want a drama that takes its characters as seriously as its plot, Boston Public Season 4 is available on streaming right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. Its 8/10 TMDB score, built from 50 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Chi McBride sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Boston Public Season 4 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Boston Public Season 4 takes its time building the world its characters inhabit, and the patience pays off. Season 4 of Boston Public includes 15 episodes. It aired from September 2003 to March 2005. This season stars Chi McBride, Anthony Heald and Loretta Devine. Chi McBride and Anthony Heald lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2003. The writing trusts the audience to sit with ambiguity rather than wrapping everything up in a tidy conclusion — it is the approach that separates good drama from great. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Viewers drawn to character-driven storytelling will find plenty to sit with in Boston Public Season 4. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Chi McBride anchors a cast that never overplays its hand. The kind of drama that stays with you well after the finale.

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🎬 Boston Public Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
Chapter Sixty-Seven
2003-09-19
Ronnie witnesses an attempted rape, then receives a shock when she presses for legal action on behalf of the victim (guest star Amanda Fuller); Hanson tries to prevent a student from being expelled for drugs.
E2
Chapter Sixty-Eight
2003-09-26
After a cheerleader is attacked, blame falls on another student's mother (Sean Young); Carmen goes head to head with a ""bad boy"" student (Milo Ventigmilia); Hansen copes with a student who says he is the son of God.
E3
Chapter Sixty-Nine
2003-10-03
A female student files a serious sexual-harassment charge against Danny; a classroom debate over the U.S. involvement in Iraq turns violent; the tension between Harper and Guber over Marylin reaches the boiling point.
E4
Chapter Seventy
2003-10-17
An enraged student slaps Marla's face in front of the class, and Marla slaps her back; Hanson discovers Allison behaves like a bully at school; Carmen asks Harper to remove Jake from her class.
E5
Chapter Seventy-One
2003-10-24
An investment banker, convicted of securities fraud, avoids jail time by agreeing to community service: teaching math at Winslow High. A sexy and eccentric woman smashes into Guber's car and then crashes her way into his life.
E6
Chapter Seventy-Two
2003-10-31
A student discovers Harper and Marilyn have been secretly dating and threatens to go to the school board; Hanson and Claire try to assist a student who is having trouble with his dad.
E7
Chapter Seventy-Three
2003-11-07
Charlie Bixby (Dennis Miller) takes an unconventional approach when volunteering at a teen hotline; Marla decides to try in vitro fertilization and asks Harper to be the donor; Carmen reveals a secret from her past.
E8
Chapter Seventy-Four
2003-12-05
Harper decides to call the FBI when he learns that a student has been accessing a terrorist recruitment web site from the school library; Ronnie learns that one of her students has HIV.
E9
Chapter Seventy-Six
2003-12-19
Guber contends with a student who thinks he is Jesus and is using school funds to feed the homeless; Marla mistakenly books R.E.M. for a school fund-raiser.
E10
Chapter Seventy-Five
2004-01-09
Guber discovers the high-school drum line's freshman hazing involves physical abuse; a student-produced TV documentary about Ronnie worries her; a father is sentenced to being handcuffed to his son for a week.
E11
Chapter Seventy-Seven
2004-01-16
An overachieving student sues the school when she has to share presidency of the honor society with a black student in a wheelchair; Marlo begins her in-vitro process.
E12
Chapter Seventy-Eight
2004-01-23
Views on affirmative action divide the students; the teachers hope to quell the resulting tensions by debating the subject in front of the student body.
E13
Chapter Seventy-Nine
2004-01-30
Henry gives bad advice to a brainiac student who wants to become an artist; Marla has a miscarriage; Rainy is thrown out of her foster home.
E14
Chapter Eighty
2005-03-01
A former student of Winslow High dies in Iraq while serving the U.S. Army. Principal Harper receives a letter from the deceased student which brings back old memories back to the days when he took care of him and pulled him away from a life in the gutter. Danny Hanson struggles with a student in his...
E15
Chapter Eighty-One
2005-03-02
Ronnie catches a male teacher hugging a female student; Hanson worries that he may be a control freak following an incident in his Drivers' Education class; several students are caught photographing themselves nude with only words written across their bodies.

🎭 Cast of Boston Public Season 4

Chi McBride
Chi McBride
Steven Harper
Anthony Heald
Anthony Heald
Scott Guber
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine
Marla Hendricks
Jeri Ryan
Jeri Ryan
Ronnie Cooke
Sharon Leal
Sharon Leal
Marilyn Sudor
Fyvush Finkel
Fyvush Finkel
Harvey Lipschultz
Michael Rapaport
Michael Rapaport
Danny Hanson
Natalia Baron
Natalia Baron
Carmen Torres

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