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Ben Casey

Season 5

1965 · 26 episodes

  1. 1. War of Nerves

    1965-09-13 · 60m

    The surgeon's secret.

  2. 2. O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith

    1965-09-20 · 60m

  3. 3. A Nightingale Named Nathan

    1965-09-27 · 60m

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

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

    1965-10-04 · 60m

    Le Médecin Malgré Lui

  5. 5. Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost

    1965-10-11 · 60m

    A proverb of great pith.

  6. 6. What to Her is Plato?

    1965-10-18 · 60m

    An academic debate.

  7. 7. Francini? Who is Francini?

    1965-10-25 · 60m

    Introduction and variations.

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

    1965-11-01 · 60m

    Rules of the game.

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

    1965-11-08 · 60m

    A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

  10. 10. The Importance of Being 65937

    1965-11-15 · 60m

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

  11. 11. When Givers Prove Unkind

    1965-11-22 · 60m

    Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

  12. 12. The Man from Quasilia

    1965-11-29 · 60m

    Another county heard from.

  13. 13. Why Did the Day Go Backwards?

    1965-12-06 · 60m

    To see the night before.

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

    1965-12-20 · 60m

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

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

    1965-12-27 · 60m

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

  16. 16. In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc

    1966-01-06 · 60m

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

  17. 17. Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose

    1966-01-20 · 60m

    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. 18. For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus

    1966-01-17 · 60m

    You can get there from here.

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

    1966-01-24 · 60m

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

  20. 20. Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things

    1966-01-31 · 60m

    Whistling in the dark.

  21. 21. Weave Nets To Catch The Wind

    1966-02-07 · 60m

    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. 22. Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy

    1966-02-16 · 60m

    The unmoved mover.

  23. 23. Where Did All the Roses Go?

    1966-02-21 · 60m

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

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

    1966-02-28 · 60m

    You pays your money and you takes your choice.

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

    1966-03-14 · 60m

    Self-diagnosis.

  26. 26. Then, Suddenly, Panic

    1966-03-21 · 60m

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

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