Ben Casey

1. To the Pure

Air Date: 1961-10-02

Dr. Ben Casey is at odds with the medical board, particularly Dr. Zorba and Dr. Jensen, because of his manner toward interns. Under a reprimand, Casey tries to persuade the board to approve neurosurgery on nine-year-old Pete Salazar. After the first of three operations on the boy, Casey is accidentally jabbed with a needle while administering a rabies test to a female patient. During his thirty-day wait for a life-or-death prognosis, he is given permission to resume the surgery.

2. But Linda Only Smiled

Air Date: 1961-10-09

Little Cathy Reed is brought to the hospital for emergency treatment after an auto accident. Casey prepares a blood transfusion, but her mother won't consent.

3. The Insolent Heart

Air Date: 1961-10-16

Dr. Michael Waldman, a former professor of Casey's and a former colleague of Zorba's, comes to the hospital with a cardiovascular ailment diagnosed as fatal. Casey and Zorba want to try a new surgery on him, but the medical board is opposed.

4. I Remember a Lemon Tree

Air Date: 1961-10-23

Dr. Karl Anders is a brilliant surgeon, and Zorba wants to keep him on at the hospital. But Anders is concerned with illnesses of his own—he's addicted to morphine, and suffers from leukemia.

5. An Expensive Glass of Water

Air Date: 1961-10-30

Casey has Walter Tyson for a patient, the president of a large corporation in difficulties, who makes treatment impossible by ordering him about. Zorba and Dr. Jensen try to dissuade him from withdrawing, because his patient is a big donor to the hospital.

6. The Sound of Laughter

Air Date: 1961-11-06

Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.

7. A Few Brief Lines for Dave

Air Date: 1961-11-13

Dr. Dave Taylor returns to the hospital to do research, but Dr. Casey diagnoses him as a ""hospital bum"" afraid of competition, and also treats a woman's hypochondria.

8. Pavane for a Gentle Lady

Air Date: 1961-11-20

By degrees to the bare facts.

9. My Good Friend Krikor

Air Date: 1961-11-27

Orderly Nick Kanavaris' good friend Krikor Dakopian is committed by his family to the psychiatric ward. Dr. Casey, however, thinks the ailment is likely to be responsive to neurosurgery.

10. The Sweet Kiss of Madness

Air Date: 1961-12-04

Dr. Alan Reynolds' mental state is not improved by constant pressure from his wife to be a successful neurosurgeon. The strain increases when he treats an abused 10-year-old boy. Dr. Casey forestalls an unnecessary operation, and tries to persuade Dr. Reynolds to receive treatment.

11. A Certain Time, a Certain Darkness

Air Date: 1961-12-11

Expectant mother Ellen Parker loses her child after an auto accident. Casey examines her and finds that she is subject to chronic seizures, and these, not the accident, are responsible for the loss of her baby.

12. A Dark Night for Billy Harris

Air Date: 1961-12-18

Dr. Casey operates on Billy Harris, a holdup man shot and paralyzed, but he's also concerned about the policeman, who may have been too keen and might be mentally hampered.

13. And If I Die

Air Date: 1962-01-01

""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)

14. A Memory of Candy Stripes

Air Date: 1962-01-08

Recollections.

15. Imagine a Long, Bright Corridor

Air Date: 1962-01-15

A clean, well-lighted place.

16. A Story to Be Softly Told

Air Date: 1962-01-22

Between you, me and the nurse's station.

17. The Big Trouble with Charlie

Air Date: 1962-01-29

He's not quite himself, or is he?

18. Give My Hands an Epitaph

Air Date: 1962-02-05

Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.

19. Victory Wears a Cruel Smile

Air Date: 1962-02-12

From another point of view.

20. Odyssey of a Proud Suitcase

Air Date: 1962-02-19

A piece of baggage.

21. Behold a Pale Horse

Air Date: 1962-02-26

""And his name that sat on him was Death.""

22. For the Ladybug, One Dozen Roses

Air Date: 1962-03-05

A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.

23. To a Grand and Natural Finale

Air Date: 1962-03-12

A consummation devoutly to be wished.

24. Monument to an Aged Hunter

Air Date: 1962-03-19

Souvenirs and trophies.

25. All the Clocks are Ticking

Air Date: 1962-03-26

As time goes by.

26. Among Others a Girl Named Abilene

Air Date: 1962-04-02

A Texas rose.

27. A Pleasant Thing for the Eyes

Air Date: 1962-04-16

A vision of loveliness.

28. And Eve Wore a Veil of Tears

Air Date: 1962-04-23

Sorrow and pity.

29. Preferably, the Less-Used Arm

Air Date: 1962-04-30

Might and main.

30. An Uncommonly Innocent Killing

Air Date: 1962-05-07

Qualifications for the deed.

31. So Oft It Chances in Particular Men

Air Date: 1962-05-21

So oft it chances in particular men That (for some vicious mole of nature in them, As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin) By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit, that too much o'erleavens The form of plausive manners—that (these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star) Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault. The dram of evil Doth all the noble substance of a doubt, To his own scandal. Hamlet

32. When You See an Evil Man

Air Date: 1962-05-28

The patient and the ill.

1. Mrs. McBroom and the Cloud Watcher

Air Date: 1962-10-01

""But one thing is needful.""

2. The Night That Nothing Happened

Air Date: 1962-10-08

It's a long shift that has no surgery.

3. In the Name of Love, a Small Corruption

Air Date: 1962-10-15

A painstaking diagnosis.

4. Legacy from a Stranger

Air Date: 1962-10-22

How do you repay such a debt?

5. Go Not Gently into the Night

Air Date: 1962-10-29

""Brave in his burning pride.""

6. Behold! They Walk an Ancient Road

Air Date: 1962-11-05

To hell and gone.

7. Of All Save Pain Bereft

Air Date: 1962-11-12

Last straws.

8. And Even Death Shall Die

Air Date: 1962-11-19

The tautological imperative.

9. The Fireman Who Raised Rabbits

Air Date: 1962-11-26

A gentle occupation.

10. Between Summer and Winter, the Glorious Season

Air Date: 1962-12-03

""Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...""

11. I Hear America Singing

Air Date: 1962-12-10

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work; The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat—the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck; The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands; The wood-cutter's song—the ploughboy's, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown; The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else; The day what belongs to the day—at night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs. Come! some of you! still be flooding The States with hundreds and thousands of mouth-songs fit for The States only. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Gr

12. Pack Up All My Cares and Woes

Air Date: 1962-12-17

""Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me.""

13. Saturday, Surgery and Stanley Shultz

Air Date: 1962-12-31

A sabbath diversion.

14. I'll Be Alright in the Morning

Air Date: 1963-01-07

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Lamentations

15. A Cardinal Act of Mercy (1)

Air Date: 1963-01-14

Dr. Casey tries to help a lawyer kick her morphine habit, but encounters resistance, lies and manipulation when she gets a guileless young man to smuggle dope into her hospital room. He is visiting his mother, who is in the hospital for treatment of injuries received in a beating. (Part 1 of 2)

16. A Cardinal Act of Mercy (2)

Air Date: 1963-01-21

17. Use Neon for My Epitaph

Air Date: 1963-01-28

The business has its allure.

18. He Thought He Saw an Albatross

Air Date: 1963-02-04

He thought he saw an Albatross    That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was    A Penny-Postage Stamp. ""You'd best be getting home,"" he said:    ""The nights are very damp!"" ... He thought he saw an Argument    That proved he was the Pope: He looked again, and found it was    A Bar of Mottled Soap. ""A fact so dread,"" he faintly said,    ""Extinguishes all hope!"" Lewis Carroll, The Mad Gardener's Song

19. A Short Biographical Sketch of James Tuttle Peabody, M.D.

Air Date: 1963-02-11

Although he's still an intern, Jimmy Peabody is raising funds to finance a medical clinic of his own, and one of the sources he's depending on is wealthy Adam Garrett, an elderly patient at County General.

20. A Hundred More Pipers

Air Date: 1963-02-18

The great rouse.

21. Suffer the Little Children

Air Date: 1963-02-25

""Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.""

22. Rigadoon for Three Pianos

Air Date: 1963-03-04

An old dance.

23. The White Ones Are Dolphins

Air Date: 1963-03-11

The ones that got away...

24. Will Everyone Who Believes in Terry Dunne Please Applaud?

Air Date: 1963-03-18

A circle of admirers.

25. For I Will Plait Thy Hair with Gold

Air Date: 1963-03-25

A wandering minstrel, he, with some disfigurement.

26. Father Was an Intern

Air Date: 1963-04-01

The occupant and the resident.

27. Rage Against the Dying Light

Air Date: 1963-04-15

""Do not go gentle into that good night."" (Dylan Thomas)

28. La Vie, La Vie Intérieure

Air Date: 1963-04-22

The well-furnished habitation.

29. My Enemy is a Bright Green Sparrow

Air Date: 1963-04-29

The Sparrow in the Zoo No bars are set too close, no mesh too fine To keep me from the eagle and the lion, Whom keepers feed that I may freely dine. This goes to show that if you have the wit To be small, common, cute, and live on shit, Though the cage fret kings, you may make free with it. Howard Nemerov

30. Lullaby for Billy Dignan

Air Date: 1963-05-06

Homage to Millet's Angelus.

31. Hang No Hats on Dreams

Air Date: 1963-05-13

Castles in Spain.

1. For This Relief, Much Thanks

Air Date: 1963-09-09

A father assaults his son over a youthful fascination with Nazism.

2. Justice to a Microbe

Air Date: 1963-09-18

The long arm of the law of nature.

3. With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience

Air Date: 1963-09-25

""That's an old Spanish proverb.""

4. Allie

Air Date: 1963-10-02

A character out of the movies.

5. If There Were Dreams to Sell

Air Date: 1963-10-09

If there were dreams to sell,       What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell;       Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell,       And the crier rang the bell,       What would you buy? A cottage lone and still,       With bowers nigh, Shadowy, my woes to still,       Until I die. Such pearl from Life's fresh crown Fain would I shake me down. Were dreams to have at will, This best would heal my ill,       This would I buy.

6. The Echo of a Silent Cheer (1)

Air Date: 1963-10-16

""Unfelt, unheard, unseen..."" (Keats)

7. The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)

Air Date: 1963-10-23

""Love doth know no fullness nor no bounds."" (Keats)

8. Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand

Air Date: 1963-10-30

Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. So the little moments, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of Eternity. So the little errors Lead the soul away From the paths of virtue Far in sin to stray. Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy, Like the Heaven above. Julia A. F. Carney, ""Little Things""

9. Light Up the Dark Corners

Air Date: 1963-11-06

Fear of the unknown.

10. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Air Date: 1963-11-13

Alice laughed. ""There's no use trying,"" she said: ""one CAN'T believe impossible things."" ""I daresay you haven't had much practice,"" said the Queen. ""When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."" Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass

11. Fire in a Sacred Fruit Tree

Air Date: 1963-11-20

""A fence around the void.""—Hawaiian saying

12. Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne

Air Date: 1963-11-27

The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.

13. My Love, My Love

Air Date: 1963-12-04

Irreducible affinities.

14. From Too Much Love of Living

Air Date: 1963-12-11

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Swinburne, ""The Garden of Proserpine""

15. It Is Getting Dark... and We Are Lost

Air Date: 1963-12-18

The indeterminate.

16. The Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel

Air Date: 1963-12-25

Those caissons go rolling along.

17. The Light that Loses, the Night that Wins

Air Date: 1964-01-01

Dr. Ernest Farrow, a once brilliant neurosurgeon, is sent to County General for a refresher course. Learning that Farrow is paralyzed by self-doubt and recurring nightmares from the death of a patient, Casey attempts to assuage his colleague's fears and coax him back into the operating room.

18. I'll Get on My Ice Floe and Wave Goodbye

Air Date: 1964-01-08

A chip off the old block.

19. The Only Place Where They Know My Name

Air Date: 1964-01-15

The imponderables of personality.

20. There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz

Air Date: 1964-01-22

... whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

21. One Nation Indivisible

Air Date: 1964-01-29

Rare blood demands a coast-to-coast search.

22. Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such

Air Date: 1964-02-05

Figments.

23. The Bark of a Three-Headed Hound

Air Date: 1964-02-12

MRS. MALAPROP: You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Sheridan, The Rivals

24. The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Air Date: 1964-02-19

Life and the ""stinking fist"".

25. A Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, and a Girl's Hand

Air Date: 1964-02-26

Rx for a medico.

26. The Lonely Ones

Air Date: 1964-03-04

Isolation.

27. Keep Out of Reach of Adults

Air Date: 1964-03-11

Wise in their own conceits.

28. Dress My Doll Pretty

Air Date: 1964-03-18

A peculiar treatment plan.

29. Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep

Air Date: 1964-03-25

The seed of Mustard is the smallest grain, And yet the force thereto is very great, It hath a present power to purge the brain, It adds unto the stomach force and heat: All poison it expels, and it is plain, With sugar 'tis a passing sauce for meat. She that hath hap a husband bad to bury, And is therefore in heart not sad, but merry, Yet if in show good manners she will keep, Onions and Mustard-seed will make her weep. The Englishmans Doctor.       Or, The School of Salerne,       Or, Physical observations for the perfect Preserving of the body of Man in continual health Sir John Harington, 1608

30. Make Me the First American

Air Date: 1964-04-01

An original.

31. Heap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out

Air Date: 1964-04-08

The good-humored M.D.s.

32. For a Just Man Falleth Seven Times

Air Date: 1964-04-15

...and riseth up again.

33. Evidence of Things Not Seen

Air Date: 1964-04-22

The substance of things hoped for.

1. August is the Month Before Christmas

Air Date: 1964-09-14

It being reckoned that Jesus was actually born in September.

2. A Bird in the Solitude Singing

Air Date: 1964-09-21

From the wreck of my past, which hath perish'd,    Thus much I at least may recall, It hath taught me that which I most cherish'd    Deserved to be dearest of all: In the desert a fountain is springing,    In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing,    Which speaks to my spirit of thee. Lord Byron

3. But Who Shall Beat the Drums?

Air Date: 1964-09-28

""There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?"" (Charles Lamb)

4. Autumn Without Red Leaves

Air Date: 1964-10-05

""The summer is over...""

5. You Fish or You Cut Bait

Air Date: 1964-10-12

The proverb put to the test.

6. For Jimmy, the Best of Everything

Air Date: 1964-10-19

The power of personality.

7. Woods Full of Question Marks

Air Date: 1964-10-26

The punctuated forest. Autism and deafness in children.

8. A Thousand Words are Mute

Air Date: 1964-11-09

A picture is most eloquent.

9. Money, a Horse, and a Knowledge of Latin

Air Date: 1964-11-16

The classical Rx, yet Dr. Swanson fails to inspire respect.

10. A Disease of the Heart Called Love

Air Date: 1964-11-23

L'amour et la mort.

11. Kill the Dream, but Spare the Dreamer

Air Date: 1964-11-30

The Freudian prescription.

12. Courage at 3 A.M.

Air Date: 1964-12-07

""As to moral courage, he [Napoleon] had very rarely found it, he said, that of two hours past midnight; which is to say, courage unawares.""

13. This Wild, Wild, Wild Waltzing World

Air Date: 1964-12-14

The whirligig of 3/4 time.

14. A Boy is Standing Outside the Door

Air Date: 1965-01-04

The threshold of knowledge.

15. Where Does the Boomerang Go?

Air Date: 1965-01-11

The parabolic return. A scientist from Australia on his last legs.

16. Pas de Deux

Air Date: 1965-01-18

A romantic ballet.

17. Every Other Minute, It's the End of the World

Air Date: 1965-01-25

Working in the hospital milieu.

18. A Rambling Discourse on Egyptian Water Clocks

Air Date: 1965-02-01

Cleopatra and the clepsydra.

19. When I am Grown to Man's Estate

Air Date: 1965-02-08

Looking Forward When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. Robert Louis Stevenson

20. A Man, a Maid, and a Marionette

Air Date: 1965-02-22

Various strings and attachments.

21. A Dipperful of Water from a Poisoned Well

Air Date: 1965-03-01

Shadow and substance.

22. A Little Fun to Match the Sorrow

Air Date: 1965-03-08

Dr. Green practices the best medicine, but Dr. Zorba and Dr. Casey are rather saturnine on his manner.

23. Minus That Rusty Old Hacksaw

Air Date: 1965-03-15

Modern medicine.

24. Eulogy in Four Flats

Air Date: 1965-03-22

The key of mourning.

25. Three Li'l Lambs

Air Date: 1965-03-29

""To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."" (George Herbert)

26. A Slave is On the Throne

Air Date: 1965-04-12

Gen. 41:41

27. Journeys End in Lovers Meeting

Air Date: 1965-04-19

Euthanasia. ""Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.""—Twelfth Night

28. The Day They Stole County General

Air Date: 1965-04-26

A change of management.

29. Did Your Mother Come From Ireland, Ben Casey?

Air Date: 1965-05-03

A son of the auld sod.

30. From Sutter's Crick...and Beyond Farewell

Air Date: 1965-05-10

A memorable rapprochement.

31. A Horse Named Stravinsky

Air Date: 1965-05-17

A mount with a legendary moniker.

1. War of Nerves

Air Date: 1965-09-13

The surgeon's secret.

2. O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith

Air Date: 1965-09-20

3. A Nightingale Named Nathan

Air Date: 1965-09-27

""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)

4. Run For Your Lives, Dr. Galanos Practices Here

Air Date: 1965-10-04

Le Médecin Malgré Lui

5. Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost

Air Date: 1965-10-11

A proverb of great pith.

6. What to Her is Plato?

Air Date: 1965-10-18

An academic debate.

7. Francini? Who is Francini?

Air Date: 1965-10-25

Introduction and variations.

8. Then I, and You, and All of Us Fall Down

Air Date: 1965-11-01

Rules of the game.

9. No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth

Air Date: 1965-11-08

A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

10. The Importance of Being 65937

Air Date: 1965-11-15

It couldn't be called ungentle, But how thoroughly departmental. Frost

11. When Givers Prove Unkind

Air Date: 1965-11-22

Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

12. The Man from Quasilia

Air Date: 1965-11-29

Another county heard from.

13. Why Did the Day Go Backwards?

Air Date: 1965-12-06

To see the night before.

14. If You Really Want to Know What Goes On In a Hospital...

Air Date: 1965-12-20

""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""

15. If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser

Air Date: 1965-12-27

""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)

16. In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc

Air Date: 1966-01-06

""And let slip the dogs of war.""

17. Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose

Air Date: 1966-01-20

Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen'd crawl toward death. King Lear

18. For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus

Air Date: 1966-01-17

You can get there from here.

19. Smile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain

Air Date: 1966-01-24

The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.

20. Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things

Air Date: 1966-01-31

Whistling in the dark.

21. Weave Nets To Catch The Wind

Air Date: 1966-02-07

Courts adieu, and all delights, All bewitching appetites; Sweetest breath, and clearest eye, Like perfumes go out and die; And consequently this is done, As shadows wait upon the sun. Vain the ambition of kings, Who seek by trophies and dead things, To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. O you have wrought a miracle, and melted A heart of adamant: you have compris'd In this dumb pageant, a right excellent form Of penitence. John Webster, The Devil's Law-Case

22. Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy

Air Date: 1966-02-16

The unmoved mover.

23. Where Did All the Roses Go?

Air Date: 1966-02-21

""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)

24. Twenty-Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak, A, B, C, D ...

Air Date: 1966-02-28

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

25. Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes The Cold Wind Of Truth

Air Date: 1966-03-14

Self-diagnosis.

26. Then, Suddenly, Panic

Air Date: 1966-03-21

""Fear in a handful of dust."" (Eliot)