Ben Casey (Season 3)

  • Poster for For This Relief, Much Thanks

    For This Relief, Much Thanks (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1963-09-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A father assaults his son over a youthful fascination with Nazism.

  • Poster for Justice to a Microbe

    Justice to a Microbe (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1963-09-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The long arm of the law of nature.

  • Poster for With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience

    With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1963-09-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: ""That's an old Spanish proverb.""

  • Poster for Allie

    Allie (Episode 4)

    Air date: 1963-10-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A character out of the movies.

  • Poster for If There Were Dreams to Sell

    If There Were Dreams to Sell (Episode 5)

    Air date: 1963-10-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: If there were dreams to sell,       What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell;       Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell,       And the crier rang the bell,       What would you buy? A cottage lone and still,       With bowers nigh, Shadowy, my woes to still,       Until I die. Such pearl from Life's fresh crown Fain would I shake me down. Were dreams to have at will, This best would heal my ill,       This would I buy.

  • Poster for The Echo of a Silent Cheer (1)

    The Echo of a Silent Cheer (1) (Episode 6)

    Writer: William P. McGivern

    Air date: 1963-10-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: ""Unfelt, unheard, unseen..."" (Keats)

  • Poster for The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)

    The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2) (Episode 7)

    Writer: William P. McGivern

    Air date: 1963-10-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: ""Love doth know no fullness nor no bounds."" (Keats)

  • Poster for Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand

    Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1963-10-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. So the little moments, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of Eternity. So the little errors Lead the soul away From the paths of virtue Far in sin to stray. Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy, Like the Heaven above. Julia A. F. Carney, ""Little Things""

  • Poster for Light Up the Dark Corners

    Light Up the Dark Corners (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1963-11-06

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Fear of the unknown.

  • Poster for Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

    Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Episode 10)

    Writer: Don Brinkley

    Air date: 1963-11-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Alice laughed. ""There's no use trying,"" she said: ""one CAN'T believe impossible things."" ""I daresay you haven't had much practice,"" said the Queen. ""When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."" Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass

  • Poster for Fire in a Sacred Fruit Tree

    Fire in a Sacred Fruit Tree (Episode 11)

    Writer: Anthony Lawrence

    Air date: 1963-11-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: ""A fence around the void.""—Hawaiian saying

  • Poster for Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne

    Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne (Episode 12)

    Writer: Jack Laird

    Air date: 1963-11-27

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.

  • Poster for My Love, My Love

    My Love, My Love (Episode 13)

    Air date: 1963-12-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Irreducible affinities.

  • Poster for From Too Much Love of Living

    From Too Much Love of Living (Episode 14)

    Air date: 1963-12-11

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Swinburne, ""The Garden of Proserpine""

  • Poster for It Is Getting Dark... and We Are Lost

    It Is Getting Dark... and We Are Lost (Episode 15)

    Writer: Jack Laird

    Air date: 1963-12-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The indeterminate.

  • Poster for The Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel

    The Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel (Episode 16)

    Air date: 1963-12-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Those caissons go rolling along.

  • Poster for The Light that Loses, the Night that Wins

    The Light that Loses, the Night that Wins (Episode 17)

    Writer: Oliver Crawford

    Air date: 1964-01-01

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Dr. Ernest Farrow, a once brilliant neurosurgeon, is sent to County General for a refresher course. Learning that Farrow is paralyzed by self-doubt and recurring nightmares from the death of a patient, Casey attempts to assuage his colleague's fears and coax him back into the operating room.

  • Poster for I'll Get on My Ice Floe and Wave Goodbye

    I'll Get on My Ice Floe and Wave Goodbye (Episode 18)

    Writer: Fred Freiberger

    Air date: 1964-01-08

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A chip off the old block.

  • Poster for The Only Place Where They Know My Name

    The Only Place Where They Know My Name (Episode 19)

    Air date: 1964-01-15

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The imponderables of personality.

  • Poster for There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz

    There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz (Episode 20)

    Writer: Anthony Lawrence

    Air date: 1964-01-22

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: ... whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

  • Poster for One Nation Indivisible

    One Nation Indivisible (Episode 21)

    Air date: 1964-01-29

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Rare blood demands a coast-to-coast search.

  • Poster for Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such

    Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such (Episode 22)

    Writer: Dean Riesner

    Air date: 1964-02-05

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Student nurse Kathy Evans becomes the victim of an assault in a park near County General. The police are stymied in their search for the perpetrator as the attack has left Kathy with amnesia, which she is secretly faking in order to conceal the details of the crime from her prominent fiance.

  • Poster for The Bark of a Three-Headed Hound

    The Bark of a Three-Headed Hound (Episode 23)

    Writer: Meyer Dolinsky

    Air date: 1964-02-12

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: MRS. MALAPROP: You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Sheridan, The Rivals

  • Poster for The Sound of One Hand Clapping

    The Sound of One Hand Clapping (Episode 24)

    Air date: 1964-02-19

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Life and the ""stinking fist"".

  • Poster for A Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, and a Girl's Hand

    A Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, and a Girl's Hand (Episode 25)

    Air date: 1964-02-26

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Rx for a medico.

  • Poster for The Lonely Ones

    The Lonely Ones (Episode 26)

    Air date: 1964-03-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Isolation.

  • Poster for Keep Out of Reach of Adults

    Keep Out of Reach of Adults (Episode 27)

    Writer: William P. McGivern

    Air date: 1964-03-11

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Wise in their own conceits.

  • Poster for Dress My Doll Pretty

    Dress My Doll Pretty (Episode 28)

    Air date: 1964-03-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A peculiar treatment plan.

  • Poster for Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep

    Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep (Episode 29)

    Air date: 1964-03-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The seed of Mustard is the smallest grain, And yet the force thereto is very great, It hath a present power to purge the brain, It adds unto the stomach force and heat: All poison it expels, and it is plain, With sugar 'tis a passing sauce for meat. She that hath hap a husband bad to bury, And is therefore in heart not sad, but merry, Yet if in show good manners she will keep, Onions and Mustard-seed will make her weep. The Englishmans Doctor.       Or, The School of Salerne,       Or, Physical observations for the perfect Preserving of the body of Man in continual health Sir John Harington, 1608

  • Poster for Make Me the First American

    Make Me the First American (Episode 30)

    Writer: Anthony Lawrence

    Air date: 1964-04-01

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: An original.

  • Poster for Heap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out

    Heap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out (Episode 31)

    Air date: 1964-04-08

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Caroline Bulllard, a dynamic businesswoman, fears her illness is terminal. She decides to liquidate the assets of her company to use as an endowment to County General's research department. The members of Bullard's firm then accuse Casey of malfeasance.

  • Poster for For a Just Man Falleth Seven Times

    For a Just Man Falleth Seven Times (Episode 32)

    Writer: Gilbert Ralston

    Air date: 1964-04-15

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: ...and riseth up again.

  • Poster for Evidence of Things Not Seen

    Evidence of Things Not Seen (Episode 33)

    Writer: John Meredyth Lucas

    Air date: 1964-04-22

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The substance of things hoped for.

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