Shows Like Chicago Hope
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
Ranked by shared creators, cast, themes, genre, and network — not just generic recommendations.
ER
Same year, same Chicago hospital setting, same medical drama genre — its direct contemporary rival
Chicago Med
Chicago hospital medical drama, direct spiritual successor in the same city
Picket Fences
Same David E. Kelley creator and shares Lauren Holly — closest stylistic sibling
Grey's Anatomy
Long-running ensemble hospital drama balancing surgery cases with personal drama
Private Practice
Doctor-focused drama in the same network-TV ensemble medical tradition
The Resident
Hospital drama with a focus on doctors navigating institutional medicine
New Amsterdam
Big-hospital ensemble medical drama with idealistic doctors
Code Black
Ensemble hospital ER drama with high case volume and staff dynamics
The Knick
Surgical hospital drama centered on pioneering doctors and institutional politics
Hawthorne
Hospital drama from the staff perspective, similar network-TV tone
Saving Hope
Hospital ensemble drama with doctor leads, though with a supernatural twist
PULSE
ER residents juggling medical crises and personal drama in a hospital ensemble
Casualty
Long-running hospital ER drama, the British analogue to ensemble medical shows
Royal Pains
Doctor-led drama, lighter dramedy tone but adjacent in profession and patient-of-week structure
SkyMed
Medical drama centered on nurses and pilots — same genre, different setting
House
Diagnostic hospital drama with a brilliant, prickly lead doctor — frequent comparison for Chicago Hope fans
St. Elsewhere
The 1980s teaching-hospital ensemble drama that defined the format Chicago Hope inherited
The Practice
Same David E. Kelley creator and same prestige network-drama era
How Good Is Chicago Hope?
Ratings across IMDb and TMDB, plus our verdict.