Season 1

1. 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.

1961-10-02 • 60 min

2. 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.

1961-10-09 • 60 min

3. 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.

1961-10-16 • 60 min

4. 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.

1961-10-23 • 60 min

5. 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.

1961-10-30 • 60 min

6. The Sound of Laughter

Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.

1961-11-06 • 60 min

7. 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.

1961-11-13 • 60 min

8. Pavane for a Gentle Lady

By degrees to the bare facts.

1961-11-20 • 60 min

9. 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.

1961-11-27 • 60 min

10. 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.

1961-12-04 • 60 min

11. 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.

1961-12-11 • 60 min

12. 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.

1961-12-18 • 60 min

13. And If I Die

""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)

1962-01-01 • 60 min

14. A Memory of Candy Stripes

Recollections.

1962-01-08 • 60 min

15. Imagine a Long, Bright Corridor

A clean, well-lighted place.

1962-01-15 • 60 min

16. A Story to Be Softly Told

Between you, me and the nurse's station.

1962-01-22 • 60 min

17. The Big Trouble with Charlie

He's not quite himself, or is he?

1962-01-29 • 60 min

18. Give My Hands an Epitaph

Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.

1962-02-05 • 60 min

19. Victory Wears a Cruel Smile

From another point of view.

1962-02-12 • 60 min

20. Odyssey of a Proud Suitcase

A piece of baggage.

1962-02-19 • 60 min

21. Behold a Pale Horse

""And his name that sat on him was Death.""

1962-02-26 • 60 min

22. For the Ladybug, One Dozen Roses

A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.

1962-03-05 • 60 min

23. To a Grand and Natural Finale

A consummation devoutly to be wished.

1962-03-12 • 60 min

24. Monument to an Aged Hunter

Souvenirs and trophies.

1962-03-19 • 60 min

25. All the Clocks are Ticking

As time goes by.

1962-03-26 • 60 min

26. Among Others a Girl Named Abilene

A Texas rose.

1962-04-02 • 60 min

27. A Pleasant Thing for the Eyes

A vision of loveliness.

1962-04-16 • 60 min

28. And Eve Wore a Veil of Tears

Sorrow and pity.

1962-04-23 • 60 min

29. Preferably, the Less-Used Arm

Might and main.

1962-04-30 • 60 min

30. An Uncommonly Innocent Killing

Qualifications for the deed.

1962-05-07 • 60 min

31. 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

1962-05-21 • 60 min

32. When You See an Evil Man

The patient and the ill.

1962-05-28 • 60 min