Ben Casey
Season 3
1963 • 33 Episodes
Episodes
1. For This Relief, Much Thanks
September 9, 1963
A father assaults his son over a youthful fascination with Nazism.
2. Justice to a Microbe
September 18, 1963
The long arm of the law of nature.
3. With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience
September 25, 1963
""That's an old Spanish proverb.""
4. Allie
October 2, 1963
A character out of the movies.
5. If There Were Dreams to Sell
October 9, 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.
6. The Echo of a Silent Cheer (1)
October 16, 1963
""Unfelt, unheard, unseen..."" (Keats)
7. The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)
October 23, 1963
""Love doth know no fullness nor no bounds."" (Keats)
8. Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand
October 30, 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""
9. Light Up the Dark Corners
November 6, 1963
Fear of the unknown.
10. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
November 13, 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
11. Fire in a Sacred Fruit Tree
November 20, 1963
""A fence around the void.""—Hawaiian saying
12. Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne
November 27, 1963
The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.
13. My Love, My Love
December 4, 1963
Irreducible affinities.
14. From Too Much Love of Living
December 11, 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""
15. It Is Getting Dark... and We Are Lost
December 18, 1963
The indeterminate.
16. The Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel
December 25, 1963
Those caissons go rolling along.
17. The Light that Loses, the Night that Wins
January 1, 1964
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.
18. I'll Get on My Ice Floe and Wave Goodbye
January 8, 1964
A chip off the old block.
19. The Only Place Where They Know My Name
January 15, 1964
The imponderables of personality.
20. There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz
January 22, 1964
... whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
21. One Nation Indivisible
January 29, 1964
Rare blood demands a coast-to-coast search.
22. Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such
February 5, 1964
Figments.
23. The Bark of a Three-Headed Hound
February 12, 1964
MRS. MALAPROP: You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Sheridan, The Rivals
24. The Sound of One Hand Clapping
February 19, 1964
Life and the ""stinking fist"".
25. A Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, and a Girl's Hand
February 26, 1964
Rx for a medico.
26. The Lonely Ones
March 4, 1964
Isolation.
27. Keep Out of Reach of Adults
March 11, 1964
Wise in their own conceits.
28. Dress My Doll Pretty
March 18, 1964
A peculiar treatment plan.
29. Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep
March 25, 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
30. Make Me the First American
April 1, 1964
An original.
31. Heap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out
April 8, 1964
The good-humored M.D.s.
32. For a Just Man Falleth Seven Times
April 15, 1964
...and riseth up again.
33. Evidence of Things Not Seen
April 22, 1964
The substance of things hoped for.