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Ben Casey
Ben Casey: Season 5

Air Date

September 13, 1965

Episodes

26 episodes

Ben Casey

Season 5

Episodes

1. War of Nerves

September 13, 1965
60 min

The surgeon's secret.

2. O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith

September 20, 1965
60 min

3. A Nightingale Named Nathan

September 27, 1965
60 min

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

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

October 4, 1965
60 min

Le Médecin Malgré Lui

5. Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost

October 11, 1965
60 min

A proverb of great pith.

6. What to Her is Plato?

October 18, 1965
60 min

An academic debate.

7. Francini? Who is Francini?

October 25, 1965
60 min

Introduction and variations.

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

November 1, 1965
60 min

Rules of the game.

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

November 8, 1965
60 min

A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

10. The Importance of Being 65937

November 15, 1965
60 min

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

11. When Givers Prove Unkind

November 22, 1965
60 min

Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

12. The Man from Quasilia

November 29, 1965
60 min

Another county heard from.

13. Why Did the Day Go Backwards?

December 6, 1965
60 min

To see the night before.

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

December 20, 1965
60 min

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

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

December 27, 1965
60 min

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

16. In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc

January 6, 1966
60 min

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

17. Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose

January 20, 1966
60 min

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

January 17, 1966
60 min

You can get there from here.

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

January 24, 1966
60 min

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

20. Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things

January 31, 1966
60 min

Whistling in the dark.

21. Weave Nets To Catch The Wind

February 7, 1966
60 min

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

February 16, 1966
60 min

The unmoved mover.

23. Where Did All the Roses Go?

February 21, 1966
60 min

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

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

February 28, 1966
60 min

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

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

March 14, 1966
60 min

Self-diagnosis.

26. Then, Suddenly, Panic

March 21, 1966
60 min

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