Ben Casey
Ben Casey: Season 3

Air Date

September 9, 1963

Episodes

33 episodes

Ben Casey

Season 3

Episodes

1. For This Relief, Much Thanks

September 9, 1963
60 min

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

2. Justice to a Microbe

September 18, 1963
60 min

The long arm of the law of nature.

3. With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience

September 25, 1963
60 min

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

4. Allie

October 2, 1963
60 min

A character out of the movies.

5. If There Were Dreams to Sell

October 9, 1963
60 min

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
60 min

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

7. The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)

October 23, 1963
60 min

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

8. Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand

October 30, 1963
60 min

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
60 min

Fear of the unknown.

10. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

November 13, 1963
60 min

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
60 min

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

12. Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne

November 27, 1963
60 min

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

13. My Love, My Love

December 4, 1963
60 min

Irreducible affinities.

14. From Too Much Love of Living

December 11, 1963
60 min

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
60 min

The indeterminate.

16. The Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel

December 25, 1963
60 min

Those caissons go rolling along.

17. The Light that Loses, the Night that Wins

January 1, 1964
60 min

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
60 min

A chip off the old block.

19. The Only Place Where They Know My Name

January 15, 1964
60 min

The imponderables of personality.

20. There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz

January 22, 1964
60 min

... 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
60 min

Rare blood demands a coast-to-coast search.

22. Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such

February 5, 1964
60 min

Figments.

23. The Bark of a Three-Headed Hound

February 12, 1964
60 min

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
60 min

Life and the ""stinking fist"".

25. A Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, and a Girl's Hand

February 26, 1964
60 min

Rx for a medico.

26. The Lonely Ones

March 4, 1964
60 min

Isolation.

27. Keep Out of Reach of Adults

March 11, 1964
60 min

Wise in their own conceits.

28. Dress My Doll Pretty

March 18, 1964
60 min

A peculiar treatment plan.

29. Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep

March 25, 1964
60 min

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
60 min

An original.

31. Heap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out

April 8, 1964
60 min

The good-humored M.D.s.

32. For a Just Man Falleth Seven Times

April 15, 1964
60 min

...and riseth up again.

33. Evidence of Things Not Seen

April 22, 1964
60 min

The substance of things hoped for.