Ben Casey (Season 5)

  • Poster for War of Nerves

    War of Nerves (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1965-09-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The surgeon's secret.

  • Poster for O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith

    O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1965-09-20

    Runtime: 60 min

  • Poster for A Nightingale Named Nathan

    A Nightingale Named Nathan (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1965-09-27

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for Run For Your Lives, Dr. Galanos Practices Here

    Run For Your Lives, Dr. Galanos Practices Here (Episode 4)

    Air date: 1965-10-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Le Médecin Malgré Lui

  • Poster for Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost

    Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost (Episode 5)

    Writer: John Meredyth Lucas

    Air date: 1965-10-11

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A proverb of great pith.

  • Poster for What to Her is Plato?

    What to Her is Plato? (Episode 6)

    Air date: 1965-10-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: An academic debate.

  • Poster for Francini? Who is Francini?

    Francini? Who is Francini? (Episode 7)

    Air date: 1965-10-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Introduction and variations.

  • Poster for Then I, and You, and All of Us Fall Down

    Then I, and You, and All of Us Fall Down (Episode 8)

    Writer: Howard Head

    Air date: 1965-11-01

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Rules of the game.

  • Poster for No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth

    No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth (Episode 9)

    Writer: Howard Head

    Air date: 1965-11-08

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

  • Poster for The Importance of Being 65937

    The Importance of Being 65937 (Episode 10)

    Air date: 1965-11-15

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for When Givers Prove Unkind

    When Givers Prove Unkind (Episode 11)

    Air date: 1965-11-22

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

  • Poster for The Man from Quasilia

    The Man from Quasilia (Episode 12)

    Writer: Oliver Crawford

    Air date: 1965-11-29

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Another county heard from.

  • Poster for Why Did the Day Go Backwards?

    Why Did the Day Go Backwards? (Episode 13)

    Air date: 1965-12-06

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: To see the night before.

  • Poster for If You Really Want to Know What Goes On In a Hospital...

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

    Air date: 1965-12-20

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser

    If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser (Episode 15)

    Air date: 1965-12-27

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc

    In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc (Episode 16)

    Writer: Howard Browne

    Air date: 1966-01-06

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose

    Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose (Episode 17)

    Air date: 1966-01-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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

  • Poster for For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus

    For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus (Episode 18)

    Air date: 1966-01-17

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: You can get there from here.

  • Poster for Smile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain

    Smile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain (Episode 19)

    Air date: 1966-01-24

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things

    Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things (Episode 20)

    Air date: 1966-01-31

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Whistling in the dark.

  • Poster for Weave Nets To Catch The Wind

    Weave Nets To Catch The Wind (Episode 21)

    Air date: 1966-02-07

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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

  • Poster for Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy

    Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy (Episode 22)

    Air date: 1966-02-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The unmoved mover.

  • Poster for Where Did All the Roses Go?

    Where Did All the Roses Go? (Episode 23)

    Air date: 1966-02-21

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for Twenty-Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak, A, B, C, D ...

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

    Air date: 1966-02-28

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: You pays your money and you takes your choice.

  • Poster for Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes The Cold Wind Of Truth

    Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes The Cold Wind Of Truth (Episode 25)

    Air date: 1966-03-14

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Self-diagnosis.

  • Poster for Then, Suddenly, Panic

    Then, Suddenly, Panic (Episode 26)

    Writer: Dean Riesner

    Air date: 1966-03-21

    Runtime: 60 min

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

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