Season 5

1. War of Nerves

The surgeon's secret.

1965-09-13 • 60 min

2. O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith

1965-09-20 • 60 min

3. A Nightingale Named Nathan

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

1965-09-27 • 60 min

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

Le Médecin Malgré Lui

1965-10-04 • 60 min

5. Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost

A proverb of great pith.

1965-10-11 • 60 min

6. What to Her is Plato?

An academic debate.

1965-10-18 • 60 min

7. Francini? Who is Francini?

Introduction and variations.

1965-10-25 • 60 min

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

Rules of the game.

1965-11-01 • 60 min

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

A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

1965-11-08 • 60 min

10. The Importance of Being 65937

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

1965-11-15 • 60 min

11. When Givers Prove Unkind

Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

1965-11-22 • 60 min

12. The Man from Quasilia

Another county heard from.

1965-11-29 • 60 min

13. Why Did the Day Go Backwards?

To see the night before.

1965-12-06 • 60 min

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

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

1965-12-20 • 60 min

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

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

1965-12-27 • 60 min

16. In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc

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

1966-01-06 • 60 min

17. Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose

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

1966-01-20 • 60 min

18. For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus

You can get there from here.

1966-01-17 • 60 min

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

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

1966-01-24 • 60 min

20. Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things

Whistling in the dark.

1966-01-31 • 60 min

21. Weave Nets To Catch The Wind

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

1966-02-07 • 60 min

22. Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy

The unmoved mover.

1966-02-16 • 60 min

23. Where Did All the Roses Go?

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

1966-02-21 • 60 min

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

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

1966-02-28 • 60 min

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

Self-diagnosis.

1966-03-14 • 60 min

26. Then, Suddenly, Panic

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

1966-03-21 • 60 min