Ben Casey (1961)
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Episode 1 - For This Relief, Much Thanks
Release Date: 1963-09-09A father assaults his son over a youthful fascination with Nazism.
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Episode 2 - Justice to a Microbe
Release Date: 1963-09-18The long arm of the law of nature.
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Episode 3 - With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience
Release Date: 1963-09-25""That's an old Spanish proverb.""
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Episode 4 - Allie
Release Date: 1963-10-02A character out of the movies.
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Episode 5 - If There Were Dreams to Sell
Release Date: 1963-10-09If 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.
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Episode 6 - The Echo of a Silent Cheer (1)
Release Date: 1963-10-16""Unfelt, unheard, unseen..."" (Keats)
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Episode 7 - The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)
Release Date: 1963-10-23""Love doth know no fullness nor no bounds."" (Keats)
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Episode 8 - Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand
Release Date: 1963-10-30Little 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""
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Episode 9 - Light Up the Dark Corners
Release Date: 1963-11-06Fear of the unknown.
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Episode 10 - Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Release Date: 1963-11-13Alice 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
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Episode 11 - Fire in a Sacred Fruit Tree
Release Date: 1963-11-20""A fence around the void.""—Hawaiian saying
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Episode 12 - Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne
Release Date: 1963-11-27The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.
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Episode 13 - My Love, My Love
Release Date: 1963-12-04Irreducible affinities.
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Episode 14 - From Too Much Love of Living
Release Date: 1963-12-11From 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""
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Episode 15 - It Is Getting Dark... and We Are Lost
Release Date: 1963-12-18The indeterminate.
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Episode 16 - The Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel
Release Date: 1963-12-25Those caissons go rolling along.
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Episode 17 - The Light that Loses, the Night that Wins
Release Date: 1964-01-01Dr. 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.
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Episode 18 - I'll Get on My Ice Floe and Wave Goodbye
Release Date: 1964-01-08A chip off the old block.
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Episode 19 - The Only Place Where They Know My Name
Release Date: 1964-01-15The imponderables of personality.
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Episode 20 - There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz
Release Date: 1964-01-22... whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
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Episode 21 - One Nation Indivisible
Release Date: 1964-01-29Rare blood demands a coast-to-coast search.
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Episode 22 - Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such
Release Date: 1964-02-05Figments.
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Episode 23 - The Bark of a Three-Headed Hound
Release Date: 1964-02-12MRS. MALAPROP: You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Sheridan, The Rivals
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Episode 24 - The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Release Date: 1964-02-19Life and the ""stinking fist"".
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Episode 25 - A Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, and a Girl's Hand
Release Date: 1964-02-26Rx for a medico.
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Episode 26 - The Lonely Ones
Release Date: 1964-03-04Isolation.
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Episode 27 - Keep Out of Reach of Adults
Release Date: 1964-03-11Wise in their own conceits.
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Episode 28 - Dress My Doll Pretty
Release Date: 1964-03-18A peculiar treatment plan.
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Episode 29 - Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep
Release Date: 1964-03-25The 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
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Episode 30 - Make Me the First American
Release Date: 1964-04-01An original.
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Episode 31 - Heap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out
Release Date: 1964-04-08The good-humored M.D.s.
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Episode 32 - For a Just Man Falleth Seven Times
Release Date: 1964-04-15...and riseth up again.
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Episode 33 - Evidence of Things Not Seen
Release Date: 1964-04-22The substance of things hoped for.