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  • ABC
  • Oct 10, 2000
  • ABC
  • Oct 10, 2000
Gideon's Crossing

Summary Andre Braugher (previously of Homicide: Life on the Street) stars as Ben Gideon. An unorthodox doctor of great skill, a unique bedside manner. He heads the experimental oncology ward at a fictional teaching hospital in New England. Inspired by the book "The Measure of Our Days" by Dr. Jerome Groupman, Gideon fights to save the lives of ...

Created By: Paul Attanasio

  • ABC
  • Oct 10, 2000
  • ABC
  • Oct 10, 2000
Gideon's Crossing
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 10, 2000
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
78
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Summary Andre Braugher (previously of Homicide: Life on the Street) stars as Ben Gideon. An unorthodox doctor of great skill, a unique bedside manner. He heads the experimental oncology ward at a fictional teaching hospital in New England. Inspired by the book "The Measure of Our Days" by Dr. Jerome Groupman, Gideon fights to save the lives of ...

Created By: Paul Attanasio

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Episode 1 • Oct 10, 2000
The Gift
While coping with his wife's death from cancer, Dr. Ben Gideon deals with an arrogant cancer patient who dares him to cure him.
Episode 2 • Oct 18, 2000
The Way
Gideon tries to help a breast-cancer patient who doesn't trust Western medicine. Meanwhile, Ollie attempts to treat a middle-aged man who has daily headaches from his job and Cooper has a patient with a rather embarrassing condition.
Episode 3 • Oct 25, 2000
A Routine Case
A cleaning lady Gideon has known for years comes to the hospital with leukemia.
Episode 4 • Nov 1, 2000
The Race
The mayor of Boston, a patient of Gideon's, is diagnosed with cancer, so he has to consider his treatment options before his planned race for the Senate, as well as treatments that could have an effect on his sex life.
Episode 5 • Nov 8, 2000
The Mistake
A man comes to the hospital on a Saturday morning, gets treated by six residents and dies on a Sunday night. His case his examined on a Monday morning at an "m and m" conference, and has a profound impact on those involved.
Episode 6 • Nov 15, 2000
Freak Show
Gideon has developed a drug that could revolutionize treatment for melanoma. The drug is given approval for trials and he offers it to one of his patients before learning that trial subjects must be chosen by a lottery.
Episode 7 • Nov 22, 2000
The Lottery
Gideon has developed a drug that could revolutionize treatment for melanoma. The drug is given approval for trials and he offers it to one of his patients before learning that trial subjects must be chosen by a lottery.
Episode 8 • Dec 6, 2000
Father Knows Best
A rich woman with a blood disease picks on the staff, including Gideon and Cabranes. In the meantime, the residents set out to fulfill a dying patient's last wish to be mummified.
Episode 9 • Dec 20, 2000
Is There a Wise Man in the House?
During the holidays, Gideon attempts to treat an anemic astronomer who disagrees with the hematology chief. Also, Cabranes volunteers to sing for the hospital's "holiday extravaganza", but Stiles doubts his talent.
Episode 10 • Dec 27, 2000
Clinical Enigma
A man whom Gideon once treated for cancer comes back to the hospital with a fever and a son who has a chip on his shoulder. Meanwhile, Boies is unable to determine what caused a 35-year-old woman to have a stroke.
Episode 11 • Jan 15, 2001
Hinkytown
Staffers look for bacteria that are causing infections in patients who have no connection other than the fact that they're sick.
Episode 12 • Jan 22, 2001
Dr. Cherry Must Be Stopped
The flirtatious daughter of the hospital's psychiatry chief commits suicide - after she leaves a note accusing Cherry of sexual misconduct. Also, Boies grows more anxious as preparations for the Porter malpractice trial heat up.
Episode 13 • Jan 29, 2001
Orphans
A deaf 14-year-old girl asks for a cochlear implant, but her parents, who are also deaf, are against it. A lawyer for the hospital asks Gideon out and a patient Sid pronounced dead turns out to be alive, but in a vegetative state.
Episode 14 • Feb 5, 2001
Life Sentences
A frequent drug-test volunteer to whom Ollie has gotten close is diagnosed with leukemia. He responds to an experimental treatment, only to get arrested for robbery, but the bright side is that he can't be treated in jail.
Episode 15 • Feb 12, 2001
Prodigal Dad
Boies' father comes to the hospital as a visitor, then ends up as a patient after coughing incessantly in front of Sid. In the meantime, Gideon wonders how a teenage hemophiliac has developed a resistance to the clotting factor.
Episode 16 • Mar 5, 2001
The Others
Cabranes has a psychiatric session with a multiple-personality disorder patient who threatens the hospital with a gun.
Episode 17 • Mar 12, 2001
Flashpoint
Ellenor Frutt is brought to Metropolitan General after collapsing and tells Ben that her baby comes first if anything happens to her.
Episode 18 • Mar 19, 2001
Filaments and Ligatures
Two patients are in desperate need of a liver transplant when a brain-dead accident victim shows up at the hospital, so Brucie must convince her parents to donate her organs. In the meantime,
Episode 19 • Apr 2, 2001
The Crash
Gideon is having a bad day. His son Eli has hit another boy in the head with a brick at school and one of Cabranes' patients wants a fetal-cell transplant that Ben is strictly against.
Episode 20 • Apr 9, 2001
Heart of Glass
Gideon gets severe heartburn and faints in an exam room. His EKG results are "ambiguous," but he refuses to believe there is something wrong with him, even as Cabranes says it could be a heart attack.

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Aug 9, 2014
A masterful portrayal of the bleakness of the decision-making process within the medical profession, Gideon's Crossing is challenging and arresting television. It's a cerebral approach to issues of healing and loss, made all the more dramatic by the presence of Andre Braugher. [9 Oct 2000, p.4]
By Phil Gallo FULL REVIEW
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Aug 9, 2014
Gideon's Crossing" has a fabulous actor -- Andre Braugher -- and some terrific writing by Paul Attanasio, who created but did not stay around for Braugher's last series, "Homicide: Life on the Street." With this combination, Gideon's Crossing could be the 12th doctor show on the schedule and still be worth your time. [10 Oct 2000, p.F1]
By John Levesque FULL REVIEW
90
Aug 6, 2014
if you are a fan of Braugher's work in "Homicide" and you crave quality drama, this is a pilot you do not want to miss. [10 Oct 2000, p.1F]
By David Zurawik FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 9, 2014
Aside from the dismal possibility that Braugher's return to television could be a short one, should Gideon's Crossing fail, it would be a critical blow to shows that dare to be deep. [10 Oct 2000, p.2E]
By Terry Jackson FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 8, 2014
Braugher is the rare actor who banks on control instead of pyrotechnics. And Ruben Blades gives him strong support as the hospital's administrator, Dr. Max Cabranes. [10 Oct 2000]
By Tom Long FULL REVIEW
67
Jun 13, 2013
By making Ben Gideon the head of a teaching hospital, [Paul] Attanasio created the opportunity for Braugher to use his grave, grandly expressive voice to deliver long speeches to a classroom of awestruck medical students. Unfortunately, what Attanasio intends as a showcase — a gift to both his star and his audience — ends up making Gideon seem like a boring gasbag.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW
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Aug 6, 2014
Gideon's Crossing is soulful and serious. It's also heavy-handed and ponderous, the equivalent of an hour with a philosophy grad student who just won't lighten up. [10 Oct 2000, p.C1]
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW

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