Season
Episodes
To the Pure
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By degrees to the bare facts.
My Good Friend Krikor
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
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
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
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
""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)
A Memory of Candy Stripes
Recollections.
Imagine a Long, Bright Corridor
A clean, well-lighted place.
A Story to Be Softly Told
Between you, me and the nurse's station.
The Big Trouble with Charlie
He's not quite himself, or is he?
Give My Hands an Epitaph
Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.
Victory Wears a Cruel Smile
From another point of view.
Odyssey of a Proud Suitcase
A piece of baggage.
Behold a Pale Horse
""And his name that sat on him was Death.""
For the Ladybug, One Dozen Roses
A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.
To a Grand and Natural Finale
A consummation devoutly to be wished.
Monument to an Aged Hunter
Souvenirs and trophies.
All the Clocks are Ticking
As time goes by.
Among Others a Girl Named Abilene
A Texas rose.
A Pleasant Thing for the Eyes
A vision of loveliness.
And Eve Wore a Veil of Tears
Sorrow and pity.
Preferably, the Less-Used Arm
Might and main.
An Uncommonly Innocent Killing
Qualifications for the deed.
So Oft It Chances in Particular Men
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
The patient and the ill.
Cast
Vince Edwards
Ben Casey
Sam Jaffe
David Zorba
Franchot Tone
Daniel Freeland