"Sleepless in Chicago" is the eighteenth episode of the first season of ER.
Synopsis[]
Carol Hathaway goes ahead with her plans to adopt Tatiana, but her past history makes her ineligible.
Benton continues to trade shifts so he can spend time with his mother but it all catches up with him and he has a run-in with Dr. Hicks.
Doug Ross treats an abused child. Greene, Benton, and Carter take extraordinary measures to save a man they later learned had signed a DNR.
A consultant arrives to study procedures in the ER, but all is not quite what it seems. Mark Green's wife Jen has an important announcement. Benton's mother has a serious accident when he falls asleep on the couch.
NBC Description[]
OVERTIME, UNDERAPPRECIATED: In order to make up for the time he took off to care for his mother, Benton works 48 hours straight, which worries Dr. Hicks (CCH Pounder) and has serious repercussions for Benton's mom. It also affects Carter, when Benton becomes even more demanding than normal.
Dr. Greene's personal problems go from bad to worse when his wife, Jennifer (Christine Harnos) tells him she may be falling out of love with him.
The AIDS hospice turns down Hathaway's request to adopt a Russian teen due to Hathaway's suicide attempt.
Cast[]
Main[]
- Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene
- George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross
- Sherry Stringfield as Dr. Susan Lewis
- Noah Wyle as John Carter
- Julianna Margulies as Nurse Carol Hathaway
- Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton
Supporting/Recurring[]
- Abraham Benrubi as Jerry Markovic
- Christine Harnos as Jennifer Greene
- Ving Rhames as Walter Robbins
- Beah Richards as Mrs. Benton
- CCH Pounder as Dr. Angela Hicks
- Lisa Zane as Diane Leeds
- Conni Marie Brazelton as Nurse Connie Oligario
- Ellen Crawford as Nurse Lydia Wright
- Yvette Freeman as Nurse Haleh Adams
- Dinah Lenney as Nurse Shirley
- Montae Russell as Dwight Zadro
- William H. Macy as Dr. David Morgenstern
- Deezer D as Malik McGrath
Gallery[]
Trivia/Notes[]
- Paul Manning and Christopher Chulack provided DVD commentary for this episode.
- Anthony Edwards and Robert Carradine appeared together previously in the 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds.
- Baseball player J.T. Snow makes a brief cameo in this episode.
- The poem Carter reads bedside to Mr. Klein is "Passage to India", from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Whitman published the collection of 12 poems at his own expense in 1855.
- The title of this episode is a play on the title of the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle. It starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
- This is Noah Wyle's favorite episode.
References[]
- "Nielsen Ratings - December-March 1995" (PDF). Zap2it. (May 15, 2015).
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