List of episodes of the series «Ben Casey»

To the Pure

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

But Linda Only Smiled

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

The Insolent Heart

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

I Remember a Lemon Tree

• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

An Expensive Glass of Water

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

The Sound of Laughter

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.

A Few Brief Lines for Dave

• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Pavane for a Gentle Lady

• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  By degrees to the bare facts.

My Good Friend Krikor

• Episode number: 9
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

The Sweet Kiss of Madness

• Episode number: 10
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

A Certain Time, a Certain Darkness

• Episode number: 11
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

A Dark Night for Billy Harris

• Episode number: 12
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

And If I Die

• Episode number: 13
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  ""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)

A Memory of Candy Stripes

• Episode number: 14
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  Recollections.

Imagine a Long, Bright Corridor

• Episode number: 15
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  A clean, well-lighted place.

A Story to Be Softly Told

• Episode number: 16
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  Between you, me and the nurse's station.

The Big Trouble with Charlie

• Episode number: 17
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  He's not quite himself, or is he?

Give My Hands an Epitaph

• Episode number: 18
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.

Victory Wears a Cruel Smile

• Episode number: 19
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  From another point of view.

Odyssey of a Proud Suitcase

• Episode number: 20
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  A piece of baggage.

Behold a Pale Horse

• Episode number: 21
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  ""And his name that sat on him was Death.""

For the Ladybug, One Dozen Roses

• Episode number: 22
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.

To a Grand and Natural Finale

• Episode number: 23
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  A consummation devoutly to be wished.

Monument to an Aged Hunter

• Episode number: 24
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  Souvenirs and trophies.

All the Clocks are Ticking

• Episode number: 25
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  As time goes by.

Among Others a Girl Named Abilene

• Episode number: 26
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  A Texas rose.

A Pleasant Thing for the Eyes

• Episode number: 27
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  A vision of loveliness.

And Eve Wore a Veil of Tears

• Episode number: 28
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  Sorrow and pity.

Preferably, the Less-Used Arm

• Episode number: 29
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  Might and main.

An Uncommonly Innocent Killing

• Episode number: 30
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  Qualifications for the deed.

So Oft It Chances in Particular Men

• Episode number: 31
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  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

When You See an Evil Man

• Episode number: 32
• Episode duration: 60 min.
• Episode description:
  The patient and the ill.