October 2, 1961 · 60 min
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.
October 9, 1961 · 60 min
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.
October 16, 1961 · 60 min
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.
October 23, 1961 · 60 min
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.
October 30, 1961 · 60 min
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.
November 6, 1961 · 60 min
Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.
November 13, 1961 · 60 min
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.
November 20, 1961 · 60 min
By degrees to the bare facts.
November 27, 1961 · 60 min
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.
December 4, 1961 · 60 min
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.
December 11, 1961 · 60 min
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.
December 18, 1961 · 60 min
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.
January 1, 1962 · 60 min
""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)
January 8, 1962 · 60 min
Recollections.
January 15, 1962 · 60 min
A clean, well-lighted place.
January 22, 1962 · 60 min
Between you, me and the nurse's station.
January 29, 1962 · 60 min
He's not quite himself, or is he?
February 5, 1962 · 60 min
Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.
February 12, 1962 · 60 min
From another point of view.
February 19, 1962 · 60 min
A piece of baggage.
February 26, 1962 · 60 min
""And his name that sat on him was Death.""
March 5, 1962 · 60 min
A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.
March 12, 1962 · 60 min
A consummation devoutly to be wished.
March 19, 1962 · 60 min
Souvenirs and trophies.
March 26, 1962 · 60 min
As time goes by.
April 2, 1962 · 60 min
Dr. Casey spends a Saturday on Outside Medical Relief while the Neurosurgical staff, thinking Casey needs money, take up a collection for him.
April 16, 1962 · 60 min
A vision of loveliness.
April 23, 1962 · 60 min
Sorrow and pity.
April 30, 1962 · 60 min
Might and main.
May 7, 1962 · 60 min
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.
May 21, 1962 · 60 min
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
May 28, 1962 · 60 min
The patient and the ill.
