Oct 1961 - Mar 1966
3.2
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S1 Ep1
4.8
2nd Oct 1961
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.
S1 Ep2
7.3
9th Oct 1961
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.
S1 Ep3
8.5
16th Oct 1961
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.
S1 Ep4
9.0
23rd Oct 1961
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.
S1 Ep5
10.0
30th Oct 1961
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.
S1 Ep6
6th Nov 1961
Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.
S1 Ep7
13th Nov 1961
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.
S1 Ep8
20th Nov 1961
By degrees to the bare facts.
S1 Ep9
27th Nov 1961
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.
S1 Ep10
10.0
4th Dec 1961
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.
S1 Ep11
11th Dec 1961
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.
S1 Ep12
18th Dec 1961
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.
S1 Ep13
10.0
1st Jan 1962
""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)
S1 Ep14
10.0
8th Jan 1962
Recollections.
S1 Ep15
8.5
15th Jan 1962
A clean, well-lighted place.
S1 Ep16
22nd Jan 1962
Between you, me and the nurse's station.
S1 Ep17
29th Jan 1962
He's not quite himself, or is he?
S1 Ep18
5th Feb 1962
Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.
S1 Ep19
12th Feb 1962
From another point of view.
S1 Ep20
19th Feb 1962
A piece of baggage.
S1 Ep21
26th Feb 1962
""And his name that sat on him was Death.""
S1 Ep22
5th Mar 1962
A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.
S1 Ep23
12th Mar 1962
A consummation devoutly to be wished.
S1 Ep24
19th Mar 1962
Souvenirs and trophies.
S1 Ep25
26th Mar 1962
As time goes by.
S1 Ep26
2nd Apr 1962
A Texas rose.
S1 Ep27
16th Apr 1962
A vision of loveliness.
S1 Ep28
23rd Apr 1962
Sorrow and pity.
S1 Ep29
30th Apr 1962
Might and main.
S1 Ep30
7th May 1962
Qualifications for the deed.
S1 Ep31
21st May 1962
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
S1 Ep32
28th May 1962
The patient and the ill.
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
The first episode of Ben Casey aired on October 02, 1961.
The last episode of Ben Casey aired on March 21, 1966.
There are 153 episodes of Ben Casey.
There are 5 seasons of Ben Casey.
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Ben Casey has ended.
