As of July 2026, Chicago Hope Season 4 aired in 1997 with 24 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Chicago Hope Season 4

1997 24 Episodes Soap · Drama ⭐ 7/10

If you want romantic drama that respects your intelligence, Chicago Hope Season 4 is available on streaming right now. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Jayne Brook is the anchor, and the chemistry with the rest of the cast carries every scene. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Chicago Hope Season 4 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Chicago Hope Season 4 treats its central relationship as something worth taking seriously. Season 4 of Chicago Hope includes 24 episodes. It aired from October 1997 to May 1998. This season stars Jayne Brook, Christine Lahti and Adam Arkin. Jayne Brook and Christine Lahti lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1997. What makes Chicago Hope Season 4 work is that the leads feel like people first, a couple second. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

For anyone who wants romantic drama that respects their intelligence, Chicago Hope Season 4 is a strong recommendation. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Jayne Brook carries the emotional throughline with real conviction. You will have strong feelings about it by the finale.

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🎬 Chicago Hope Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
Guns 'n' Roses
1997-10-01
Gang warfare breaks out in the E.R.; Kate refuses to perform a heart transplant; Billy and Diane get back together.
E2
The Incredible Adventures of Baron von Munchausen... by Proxy
1997-10-08
A woman may be making her daughter sick purposely. Kronk wants a child. Shutt's patient dies, and McNeil joins gamblers anonymous.
E3
Brain Salad Surgery
1997-10-15
Dr. Shutt views his life as a musical after he collapses from an aneurism.
E4
Sympathy for the Devil
1997-10-22
Dr. Kronk must decide whether or not to grant the request of a convicted child molester who wants to be castrated. Dr. Shutt struggles to regain his health after his aneurism. McNeil refuses an ""easy cure"" to a heroin addict, and Dr. Grad treats an HIV positive 14-year-old.
E5
... And the Hand Played On
1997-10-29
Dr. Shutt may have brain damage after his aneurism, so a new neurosurgeon, Dr. Lisa Catera, is brought into the hospital. Dr. Austin gets trapped on an elevator with a sexy electrician.
E6
The Lung and the Restless
1997-11-05
Kate suspects that the parents of a boy who needs a liver transplant may have pressured his sister, who has cystic fibrosis, into being his donor; Diane learns that she's pregnant; Billy announces that he's going to South America; Aaron tries biofeedback.
E7
White Trash
1997-11-12
Hancock and the police search trash bins for a newborn; male rape; Drs. Kronk and Grad wed at the airport. A basketball player has a heart defect.
E8
Winging It
1997-11-19
Austin and NcNeil fly to London for a conference and are forced to perform lifesaving surgery with only an airline medical kit. Shutt begins his psychiatric residency.
E9
Cabin Fever
1997-11-26
McNeil offers his cabin to Drs. Austin, Catera, and Grad, whom each want to get away from the city for a while. While at the cabin they receive a visit from an unexpected and deadly visitor.
E10
All in the Family
1997-12-10
Shutt has his first group counseling session with a family, and tries to help a young man whose brother commited suicide. Wilkes father comes back into his life. Hancock and McNeil try to treat a boy whom he suspects is abused, even though the child and his father deny the abuse.
E11
On Golden Pons
1997-12-17
After a little too much holiday cheer Wilkes is charged with a DUI and must serve a community service in Dr. Hancock's clinic. Watters discovers that his accountant has left the country with Watters money. Shutt turns over a patient to Catera, and the two clash over whether she should perform a dang...
E12
Broken Hearts
1998-01-07
Austin operates on a pregnant patient with a damaged heart and learns that she had taken the controversial diet pill Phen-phen. An accident reunites Watters and an old flame, the woman he had an affair with. Shutt has his first breakthrough. McNeil and Catera grow closer.
E13
Memento Mori
1998-01-14
The hospital loses electricity in the dead of winter. Austin must do emergency surgery on a close friend. Pregnant, Grad feels unattractive.
E14
Psychodrama
1998-01-21
Watters is confined to a wheelchair after a basketball injury and witnesses a murder. Austin receives a bird from Danny, the electrician she's been dating, which causes havoc in the hospital. Diane believes she has found her birthmother.
E15
The Ties that Bind
1998-02-04
Catera must operate on a 5-year-old who is suddenly stricken with seizures. An HIV-postive friend of Dr. Grad's talks to Diane about getting pregnant (she wants advice) and Diane (who discovered a lump in her breast) is afraid that neither of them will see their children grow up. A mother and daught...
E16
The Things We Do for Love
1998-03-04
Catera and McNeil cross roads when her facination with his brother becomes personal. Billy begins to feel ""in over his head"" with the impending birth of his child, so at a desperate attempt at freedom he becomes involved in a bar fight. Austin introduces Danny to her daughter. Watters moonlights a...
E17
Liver, Hold the Mushrooms
1998-03-11
A family eats poisonous mushrooms and the mother and two sons must receive a liver transplant. A donor is found for the mother and the father is a match for the two sons. The father decides to have a live donor transplant, but is told by Kronk that only one of his children can receive the organ. Aus...
E18
Waging Bull
1998-03-18
Dr. McNeil attends a medical convention in Las Vegas, believing he can control his gambling addiction. After the son of a close friend dies, McNeil begins gambling again. Watters, Shutt, and Wilkes are forced to share a room in the hotel, when it is overbooked for the convention.
E19
Objects are Closer than They Appear
1998-03-25
After the mysterious death of a seemingly healthy 15 year-old Dr. Wilkes decides to investigate. A lesbian wants her lover to die with dignity and fights her family to get her wishes.
E20
Deliverance
1998-04-01
Diane goes into labor unexpectedly and when no one can find Billy she reluctantly asks Kate to be her coach. Wilkes must get a family to safety from an abusive husband/father. McNeil and Catera take dance lessons (with special guest star Kenny Ortega, who choreographed ""Brain Salad Surgery."" Billy...

🎭 Cast of Chicago Hope Season 4

Jayne Brook
Jayne Brook
Diane Grad
Christine Lahti
Christine Lahti
Kathryn Austin
Adam Arkin
Adam Arkin
Aaron Shutt
Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon
Jack McNeil
Héctor Elizondo
Héctor Elizondo
Phillip Watters
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Dennis Hancock
Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll
Keith Wilkes
Stacy Edwards
Stacy Edwards
Lisa Catera
Peter Berg
Peter Berg
Billy Kronk

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