Ben Casey

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.

Première diffusion : 2 octobre 1961

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.

Première diffusion : 9 octobre 1961

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.

Première diffusion : 16 octobre 1961

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.

Première diffusion : 23 octobre 1961

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.

Première diffusion : 30 octobre 1961

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

Première diffusion : 6 novembre 1961

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.

Première diffusion : 13 novembre 1961

By degrees to the bare facts.

Première diffusion : 20 novembre 1961

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.

Première diffusion : 27 novembre 1961

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.

Première diffusion : 4 décembre 1961

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.

Première diffusion : 11 décembre 1961

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.

Première diffusion : 18 décembre 1961

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

Première diffusion : 1 janvier 1962

Recollections.

Première diffusion : 8 janvier 1962

A clean, well-lighted place.

Première diffusion : 15 janvier 1962

Between you, me and the nurse's station.

Première diffusion : 22 janvier 1962

He's not quite himself, or is he?

Première diffusion : 29 janvier 1962

Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.

Première diffusion : 5 février 1962

From another point of view.

Première diffusion : 12 février 1962

A piece of baggage.

Première diffusion : 19 février 1962

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

Première diffusion : 26 février 1962

A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.

Première diffusion : 5 mars 1962

A consummation devoutly to be wished.

Première diffusion : 12 mars 1962

Souvenirs and trophies.

Première diffusion : 19 mars 1962

As time goes by.

Première diffusion : 26 mars 1962

Dr. Casey spends a Saturday on Outside Medical Relief while the Neurosurgical staff, thinking Casey needs money, take up a collection for him.

Première diffusion : 2 avril 1962

A vision of loveliness.

Première diffusion : 16 avril 1962

Sorrow and pity.

Première diffusion : 23 avril 1962

Might and main.

Première diffusion : 30 avril 1962

Gene Bilstrom is a leading business man of the community but a series of incidents causes his family concern. Bilstrom is admitted to the hospital for a complete mental evaluation but there is a fear of the stigma involved.

Première diffusion : 7 mai 1962

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

Première diffusion : 21 mai 1962

The patient and the ill.

Première diffusion : 28 mai 1962

""But one thing is needful.""

Première diffusion : 1 octobre 1962

It's a long shift that has no surgery.

Première diffusion : 8 octobre 1962

A painstaking diagnosis.

Première diffusion : 15 octobre 1962

How do you repay such a debt?

Première diffusion : 22 octobre 1962

""Brave in his burning pride.""

Première diffusion : 29 octobre 1962

To hell and gone.

Première diffusion : 5 novembre 1962

Last straws.

Première diffusion : 12 novembre 1962

The tautological imperative.

Première diffusion : 19 novembre 1962

A gentle occupation.

Première diffusion : 26 novembre 1962

""Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...""

Première diffusion : 3 décembre 1962

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work; The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat—the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck; The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands; The wood-cutter's song—the ploughboy's, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown; The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else; The day what belongs to the day—at night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs. Come! some of you! still be flooding The States with hundreds and thousands of mouth-songs fit for The States only. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Gr

Première diffusion : 10 décembre 1962

""Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me.""

Première diffusion : 17 décembre 1962

A sabbath diversion.

Première diffusion : 31 décembre 1962

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Lamentations

Première diffusion : 7 janvier 1963

Dr. Casey tries to help a lawyer kick her morphine habit, but encounters resistance, lies and manipulation when she gets a guileless young man to smuggle dope into her hospital room. He is visiting his mother, who is in the hospital for treatment of injuries received in a beating. (Part 1 of 2)

Première diffusion : 14 janvier 1963

Aucun synopsis disponible.

Première diffusion : 21 janvier 1963

The business has its allure.

Première diffusion : 28 janvier 1963

He thought he saw an Albatross    That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was    A Penny-Postage Stamp. ""You'd best be getting home,"" he said:    ""The nights are very damp!"" ... He thought he saw an Argument    That proved he was the Pope: He looked again, and found it was    A Bar of Mottled Soap. ""A fact so dread,"" he faintly said,    ""Extinguishes all hope!"" Lewis Carroll, The Mad Gardener's Song

Première diffusion : 4 février 1963

Although he's still an intern, Jimmy Peabody is raising funds to finance a medical clinic of his own, and one of the sources he's depending on is wealthy Adam Garrett, an elderly patient at County General.

Première diffusion : 11 février 1963

The great rouse.

Première diffusion : 18 février 1963

""Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.""

Première diffusion : 25 février 1963

Greta Bauer wants to marry fiancé Kevin Blake; however, her mother opposes the marriage and insists that Greta concentrate on a career as a concert pianist.

Première diffusion : 4 mars 1963

The ones that got away...

Première diffusion : 11 mars 1963

A circle of admirers.

Première diffusion : 18 mars 1963

A wandering minstrel, he, with some disfigurement.

Première diffusion : 25 mars 1963

The occupant and the resident.

Première diffusion : 1 avril 1963

""Do not go gentle into that good night."" (Dylan Thomas)

Première diffusion : 15 avril 1963

The well-furnished habitation.

Première diffusion : 22 avril 1963

The Sparrow in the Zoo No bars are set too close, no mesh too fine To keep me from the eagle and the lion, Whom keepers feed that I may freely dine. This goes to show that if you have the wit To be small, common, cute, and live on shit, Though the cage fret kings, you may make free with it. Howard Nemerov

Première diffusion : 29 avril 1963

Homage to Millet's Angelus.

Première diffusion : 6 mai 1963

Castles in Spain.

Première diffusion : 13 mai 1963

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

Première diffusion : 9 septembre 1963

The long arm of the law of nature.

Première diffusion : 18 septembre 1963

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

Première diffusion : 25 septembre 1963

A character out of the movies.

Première diffusion : 2 octobre 1963

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.

Première diffusion : 9 octobre 1963

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

Première diffusion : 16 octobre 1963

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

Première diffusion : 23 octobre 1963

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""

Première diffusion : 30 octobre 1963

Fear of the unknown.

Première diffusion : 6 novembre 1963

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

Première diffusion : 13 novembre 1963

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

Première diffusion : 20 novembre 1963

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

Première diffusion : 27 novembre 1963

Irreducible affinities.

Première diffusion : 4 décembre 1963

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""

Première diffusion : 11 décembre 1963

The indeterminate.

Première diffusion : 18 décembre 1963

Those caissons go rolling along.

Première diffusion : 25 décembre 1963

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.

Première diffusion : 1 janvier 1964

A chip off the old block.

Première diffusion : 8 janvier 1964

The imponderables of personality.

Première diffusion : 15 janvier 1964

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

Première diffusion : 22 janvier 1964

Rare blood demands a coast-to-coast search.

Première diffusion : 29 janvier 1964

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.

Première diffusion : 5 février 1964

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

Première diffusion : 12 février 1964

Life and the ""stinking fist"".

Première diffusion : 19 février 1964

Rx for a medico.

Première diffusion : 26 février 1964

Isolation.

Première diffusion : 4 mars 1964

Wise in their own conceits.

Première diffusion : 11 mars 1964

A peculiar treatment plan.

Première diffusion : 18 mars 1964

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

Première diffusion : 25 mars 1964

An original.

Première diffusion : 1 avril 1964

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.

Première diffusion : 8 avril 1964

...and riseth up again.

Première diffusion : 15 avril 1964

The substance of things hoped for.

Première diffusion : 22 avril 1964

It being reckoned that Jesus was actually born in September.

Première diffusion : 14 septembre 1964

From the wreck of my past, which hath perish'd,    Thus much I at least may recall, It hath taught me that which I most cherish'd    Deserved to be dearest of all: In the desert a fountain is springing,    In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing,    Which speaks to my spirit of thee. Lord Byron

Première diffusion : 21 septembre 1964

""There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?"" (Charles Lamb)

Première diffusion : 28 septembre 1964

""The summer is over...""

Première diffusion : 5 octobre 1964

The proverb put to the test.

Première diffusion : 12 octobre 1964

The power of personality.

Première diffusion : 19 octobre 1964

The punctuated forest. Autism and deafness in children.

Première diffusion : 26 octobre 1964

A picture is most eloquent.

Première diffusion : 9 novembre 1964

The classical Rx, yet Dr. Swanson fails to inspire respect.

Première diffusion : 16 novembre 1964

L'amour et la mort.

Première diffusion : 23 novembre 1964

The Freudian prescription.

Première diffusion : 30 novembre 1964

""As to moral courage, he [Napoleon] had very rarely found it, he said, that of two hours past midnight; which is to say, courage unawares.""

Première diffusion : 7 décembre 1964

The whirligig of 3/4 time.

Première diffusion : 14 décembre 1964

The threshold of knowledge.

Première diffusion : 4 janvier 1965

Australian veterinarian Dr. Geoffrey Collicott inspires his ward mates at County General. Although diagnosed himself with a terminal illness, his expertise could save the life of young Luke Creely, whose mysterious medical malady has Casey and his colleagues baffled.

Première diffusion : 11 janvier 1965

A romantic ballet.

Première diffusion : 18 janvier 1965

Working in the hospital milieu.

Première diffusion : 25 janvier 1965

Cleopatra and the clepsydra.

Première diffusion : 1 février 1965

Looking Forward When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. Robert Louis Stevenson

Première diffusion : 8 février 1965

Various strings and attachments.

Première diffusion : 22 février 1965

Wesley Boone, a strapping dockworker and the sole breadwinner for his parents and brother, is admitted to County General suffering from muscular problems. The case becomes complicated for Casey when Boone's indomitable mother accuses her son of malingering in order to shirk family responsibilities.

Première diffusion : 1 mars 1965

Dr. Green practices the best medicine, but Dr. Zorba and Dr. Casey are rather saturnine on his manner.

Première diffusion : 8 mars 1965

Modern medicine.

Première diffusion : 15 mars 1965

The key of mourning.

Première diffusion : 22 mars 1965

""To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."" (George Herbert)

Première diffusion : 29 mars 1965

Casey's colleague, surgeon Dr. Bill Justin, finds his work affected by several personal problems including his wealthy but inattentive wife Jeanne and his lover Felice. When Bill develops symptoms of a nervous disorder, Casey is on hand to help solve his problems.

Première diffusion : 12 avril 1965

Euthanasia. ""Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.""—Twelfth Night

Première diffusion : 19 avril 1965

A change of management.

Première diffusion : 26 avril 1965

A son of the auld sod.

Première diffusion : 3 mai 1965

A memorable rapprochement.

Première diffusion : 10 mai 1965

A mount with a legendary moniker.

Première diffusion : 17 mai 1965

The surgeon's secret.

Première diffusion : 13 septembre 1965

Aucun synopsis disponible.

Première diffusion : 20 septembre 1965

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

Première diffusion : 27 septembre 1965

Le Médecin Malgré Lui

Première diffusion : 4 octobre 1965

A proverb of great pith.

Première diffusion : 11 octobre 1965

An academic debate.

Première diffusion : 18 octobre 1965

Introduction and variations.

Première diffusion : 25 octobre 1965

Rules of the game.

Première diffusion : 1 novembre 1965

A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

Première diffusion : 8 novembre 1965

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

Première diffusion : 15 novembre 1965

Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

Première diffusion : 22 novembre 1965

Another county heard from.

Première diffusion : 29 novembre 1965

To see the night before.

Première diffusion : 6 décembre 1965

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

Première diffusion : 20 décembre 1965

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

Première diffusion : 27 décembre 1965

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

Première diffusion : 6 janvier 1966

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

Première diffusion : 20 janvier 1966

You can get there from here.

Première diffusion : 17 janvier 1966

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

Première diffusion : 24 janvier 1966

Whistling in the dark.

Première diffusion : 31 janvier 1966

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

Première diffusion : 7 février 1966

The unmoved mover.

Première diffusion : 16 février 1966

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

Première diffusion : 21 février 1966

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Première diffusion : 28 février 1966

Self-diagnosis.

Première diffusion : 14 mars 1966

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

Première diffusion : 21 mars 1966