Ben Casey
Ben Casey
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Ben Casey

5.6 / 10
1961
5 seasons
153 episodes
Drama
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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.To the Pure

    02-10-196160m

    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...

  • Ep 2

    2.But Linda Only Smiled

    09-10-196160m

    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.

  • Ep 3

    3.The Insolent Heart

    16-10-196160m

    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...

  • Ep 4

    4.I Remember a Lemon Tree

    23-10-196160m

    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 f...

  • Ep 5

    5.An Expensive Glass of Water

    30-10-196160m

    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 dissu...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Sound of Laughter

    06-11-196160m

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

  • Ep 7

    7.A Few Brief Lines for Dave

    13-11-196160m

    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.

  • Ep 8

    8.Pavane for a Gentle Lady

    20-11-196160m

    By degrees to the bare facts.

  • Ep 9

    9.My Good Friend Krikor

    27-11-196160m

    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 neuros...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Sweet Kiss of Madness

    04-12-196160m

    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....

  • Ep 11

    11.A Certain Time, a Certain Darkness

    11-12-196160m

    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 respons...

  • Ep 12

    12.A Dark Night for Billy Harris

    18-12-196160m

    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.

  • Ep 13

    13.And If I Die

    01-01-196260m

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

  • Ep 14

    14.A Memory of Candy Stripes

    08-01-196260m

    Recollections.

  • Ep 15

    15.Imagine a Long, Bright Corridor

    15-01-196260m

    A clean, well-lighted place.

  • Ep 16

    16.A Story to Be Softly Told

    22-01-196260m

    Between you, me and the nurse's station.

  • Ep 17

    17.The Big Trouble with Charlie

    29-01-196260m

    He's not quite himself, or is he?

  • Ep 18

    18.Give My Hands an Epitaph

    05-02-196260m

    Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.

  • Ep 19

    19.Victory Wears a Cruel Smile

    12-02-196260m

    From another point of view.

  • Ep 20

    20.Odyssey of a Proud Suitcase

    19-02-196260m

    A piece of baggage.

  • Ep 21

    21.Behold a Pale Horse

    26-02-196260m

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

  • Ep 22

    22.For the Ladybug, One Dozen Roses

    05-03-196260m

    A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.

  • Ep 23

    23.To a Grand and Natural Finale

    12-03-196260m

    A consummation devoutly to be wished.

  • Ep 24

    24.Monument to an Aged Hunter

    19-03-196260m

    Souvenirs and trophies.

  • Ep 25

    25.All the Clocks are Ticking

    26-03-196260m

    As time goes by.

  • Ep 26

    26.Among Others a Girl Named Abilene

    02-04-196260m

    A Texas rose.

  • Ep 27

    27.A Pleasant Thing for the Eyes

    16-04-196260m

    A vision of loveliness.

  • Ep 28

    28.And Eve Wore a Veil of Tears

    23-04-196260m

    Sorrow and pity.

  • Ep 29

    29.Preferably, the Less-Used Arm

    30-04-196260m

    Might and main.

  • Ep 30

    30.An Uncommonly Innocent Killing

    07-05-196260m

    Gene Bilstrom is a leading business man of the community but a series of incidents causes his family concern. Bilstrom is admitted to the hospital for a complete mental evaluation...

  • Ep 31

    31.So Oft It Chances in Particular Men

    21-05-196260m

    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...

  • Ep 32

    32.When You See an Evil Man

    28-05-196260m

    The patient and the ill.

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