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CHICAGO HOPE: FOOD CHAINS (TV)

Summary

One 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, Dr. Jeffrey Geiger contemplates putting a baboon's heart into a waiting transplant patient; Dr. Daniel Nyland turns away from a patient who discloses she has AIDS; Dr. Arthur Thurmond cares for the woman and is outraged that a doctor would turn away; and Angela Giandamenico is caught in a compromising position in the Cat-Scan machine with a dead doctor. When word gets out that the baboon is at the hospital, protest groups, along with reporters, swarm Chicago Hope. Word also slips out to Arthur who wants to take the baboon away from Jeffrey in order to try an experiment on the AIDS patient. This leads to confrontations between Arthur and Jeffrey both privately and in front of the Subject Protections Committee. Meanwhile, the death of Dr. Hackett, the chief of staff, doesn't seem to strike a chord with anybody but Angela and Dr. Alan Birch. Daniel is in jeopardy of losing his job because of the incident and Arthur won't let him forget it. Commercials deleted. Includes scenes from a recent episode at the beginning of the program.

Details

  • NETWORK: CBS
  • DATE: September 29, 1994 Thursday 10:00 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:46:26
  • COLOR/B&W: Color
  • CATALOG ID: T:38680
  • GENRE: Drama, medical
  • SUBJECT HEADING: AIDS (Disease); Drama, medical
  • SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1994-2000
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • David E. Kelley … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
  • Michael Dinner … Co-Executive Producer
  • Michael Braverman … Co-Executive Producer
  • Dennis Cooper … Producer
  • James C. Hart … Producer
  • John Heath … Associate Producer
  • Jeremy Kagan … Director
  • Jeff Rona … Music by
  • Mark Isham … Theme 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
  • Thomas Gibson … Cast, Dr. Daniel Nyland
  • Earl Billings … Cast, Mr. Lanier
  • Melinda Culea … Cast, Dina
  • Elaine Kagan … Cast, Vicki
  • Arthur Taxier … Cast, Dr. Hackett