Ben Casey - Season 5

1. War of Nerves

Aired: 9/13/1965

The surgeon's secret.

2. O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith

Aired: 9/20/1965

3. A Nightingale Named Nathan

Aired: 9/27/1965

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

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

Aired: 10/4/1965

Le Médecin Malgré Lui

5. Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost

Aired: 10/11/1965

A proverb of great pith.

6. What to Her is Plato?

Aired: 10/18/1965

An academic debate.

7. Francini? Who is Francini?

Aired: 10/25/1965

Introduction and variations.

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

Aired: 11/1/1965

Rules of the game.

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

Aired: 11/8/1965

A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

10. The Importance of Being 65937

Aired: 11/15/1965

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

11. When Givers Prove Unkind

Aired: 11/22/1965

Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

12. The Man from Quasilia

Aired: 11/29/1965

Another county heard from.

13. Why Did the Day Go Backwards?

Aired: 12/6/1965

To see the night before.

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

Aired: 12/20/1965

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

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

Aired: 12/27/1965

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

16. In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc

Aired: 1/6/1966

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

17. Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose

Aired: 1/20/1966

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

18. For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus

Aired: 1/17/1966

You can get there from here.

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

Aired: 1/24/1966

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

20. Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things

Aired: 1/31/1966

Whistling in the dark.

21. Weave Nets To Catch The Wind

Aired: 2/7/1966

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

22. Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy

Aired: 2/16/1966

The unmoved mover.

23. Where Did All the Roses Go?

Aired: 2/21/1966

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

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

Aired: 2/28/1966

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

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

Aired: 3/14/1966

Self-diagnosis.

26. Then, Suddenly, Panic

Aired: 3/21/1966

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