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 - War of Nerves
Release Date: 1965-09-13The surgeon's secret.
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Episode 2 - O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith
Release Date: 1965-09-20 -
Episode 3 - A Nightingale Named Nathan
Release Date: 1965-09-27""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)
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Episode 4 - Run For Your Lives, Dr. Galanos Practices Here
Release Date: 1965-10-04Le Médecin Malgré Lui
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Episode 5 - Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost
Release Date: 1965-10-11A proverb of great pith.
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Episode 6 - What to Her is Plato?
Release Date: 1965-10-18An academic debate.
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Episode 7 - Francini? Who is Francini?
Release Date: 1965-10-25Introduction and variations.
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Episode 8 - Then I, and You, and All of Us Fall Down
Release Date: 1965-11-01Rules of the game.
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Episode 9 - No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth
Release Date: 1965-11-08A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.
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Episode 10 - The Importance of Being 65937
Release Date: 1965-11-15It couldn't be called ungentle, But how thoroughly departmental. Frost
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Episode 11 - When Givers Prove Unkind
Release Date: 1965-11-22Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.
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Episode 12 - The Man from Quasilia
Release Date: 1965-11-29Another county heard from.
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Episode 13 - Why Did the Day Go Backwards?
Release Date: 1965-12-06To see the night before.
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Episode 14 - If You Really Want to Know What Goes On In a Hospital...
Release Date: 1965-12-20""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""
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Episode 15 - If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser
Release Date: 1965-12-27""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)
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Episode 16 - In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc
Release Date: 1966-01-06""And let slip the dogs of war.""
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Episode 17 - Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose
Release Date: 1966-01-20Meantime 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
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Episode 18 - For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus
Release Date: 1966-01-17You can get there from here.
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Episode 19 - Smile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain
Release Date: 1966-01-24The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.
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Episode 20 - Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things
Release Date: 1966-01-31Whistling in the dark.
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Episode 21 - Weave Nets To Catch The Wind
Release Date: 1966-02-07Courts 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
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Episode 22 - Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy
Release Date: 1966-02-16The unmoved mover.
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Episode 23 - Where Did All the Roses Go?
Release Date: 1966-02-21""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)
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Episode 24 - Twenty-Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak, A, B, C, D ...
Release Date: 1966-02-28You pays your money and you takes your choice.
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Episode 25 - Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes The Cold Wind Of Truth
Release Date: 1966-03-14Self-diagnosis.
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Episode 26 - Then, Suddenly, Panic
Release Date: 1966-03-21""Fear in a handful of dust."" (Eliot)