1. Series overview

2. Episodes
    Season 1 (1961–62)  Season 2 (1962–63)  Season 3 (1963–64)  Season 4 (1964–65)  Season 5 (1965–66) 

3. Home releases

4. References

5. External links

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.".^[1] The series starred Vincent Edwards, Sam Jaffe, Bettye Ackerman, Jeanne Bates, John Zaremba, Franchot Tone and Harry Landers.

Series overview

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Episodes

Season 1 (1961–62)

Rafael López, Maurice Manson, Adrienne Marden, Ann Morrison, Stuart Nisbet, Nelson Olmsted, Maudie Prickett

Ben Casey jeopardizes his career in order to perform a delicate brain operation on a young boy.

Dr. Casey administers a blood transfusion on a critically ill child, despite the religious objections of her mother.

Dr. Casey is reluctant to perform experimental cardiac surgery on his former instructor, who is also a friend of Dr. Zorba, but the instructor insists on having the operation.

A brilliant surgeon has developed a drug habit while battling leukemia, and is now forging prescriptions of morphine for his own use.

A business tycoon battles with Dr. Casey in an effort to keep the seriousness of his physical condition a secret from his competitors.

Children's laughter gives needed therapy to an ailing entertainer who is paralyzed after a cranial seizure.

A malingering female patient and a fear-ridden resident surgeon pose problems for Dr. Casey.

Dr. Casey clashes with a pediatrician while an elderly patient shows courage by facing her suffering gallantly.

After an orderly's friend is committed for psychiatric observation, Dr. Casey goes to court in an attempt to treat him through neurosurgery.

A doctor's ambitious wife goads him into suppressing information that would harm his career.

A woman is given psychological treatment after being ridden with guilt following an auto accident that kills her unborn child. However, Dr. Casey finds that a seizure was the cause of the accident.

Dr. Casey suspects that bullet-ridden Billy Harris is the victim of a trigger-happy policeman.

An expectant mother faces brain surgery which could cause the loss of her baby.

Dr. Casey jeopardizes his hospital career when he seeks the rehabilitation of an alcoholic patient.

Dr. Casey encounters the seamiest side of hospital life during his temporary assignment in the Main Admittance Room.

A mother hopes that an operation on her mentally retarded son will restore him to normalcy and save her marriage.

Dr. Casey discovers a doctor treating derelicts in the back section of a pool room and demands that the patients come to the hospital for proper treatment.

Dr. Casey detects signs of a serious nervous disorder in a brain surgeon about to operate.

Dr. Casey brands a staff physician incompetent after he makes an incorrect diagnosis and prescription for a young patient.

A refugee doctor meets resistance from Dr. Casey in his diagnosis for the hospital's prison-ward patient.

• Dr. Casey is drawn into a ruthless battle between a domineering father (Wynn) and his lovelorn daughter (Pleshette).

Also Starring: Suzanne Pleshette as Carolyn Stanley

Superstitions draw together a former Army ace and a terrified Native American boy.

After collapsing following his last bout, an injured boxer defies Dr. Casey's decision that he submit to a series of medical tests.

Dr. Casey faces a crucial decision when two of his patients require a rare drug, which can only be supplied to one of them.

A female patient refuses to face the passage of time and face present realities when Dr. Casey treats her for a concussion.

Dr. Casey battles ignorance, fear, superstition and demoralization for a series of indigent patients during outside medical relief.

A survivor of both the Hiroshima blast and a school fire has a psychological problem that Dr. Casey admits he can't solve.

A supervising nurse and an embittered career woman patient who is undergoing menopause test the skills of both Dr. Casey and Dr. Zorba.

• Dr. Casey performs an emergency operation to counter a threatening smallpox epidemic.
• Co-starring Ellen McRae as Dr. Leslie Fraser

A business magnate strikes an associate during a seizure, causing the man's death, and Dr. Casey refuses to release him for trial.

Tests fail to determine why the victim of a simple accident has developed mental problems.

A mother attempts to protect her daughter by claiming that her alleged suicide attempt followed the murder of her neurosurgeon husband.

Season 2 (1962–63)

After brain surgery, an orphan experiences a new loneliness, she's blind.

• Mrs Tarlow is about to give birth. On the drive to the hospital, she, her husband and her daughter are involved in an auto accident.
• Co-starring: Michael Constantine as Engineer Andersen, Jerry Paris as Mr. Tarlow, Jack Elam as Felix Gault

A wealthy man portends to be a modern-day King Lear, as he tries to decide which of his three estranged daughters will get his riches.

A condemned convict and an embittered blind woman are about to have their lives cross as each heads into an uncertain future.

Parents who refuse to allow any surgery on their son provoke the wrath of Casey.

Casey tries to revive racing driver Lou Carson's will to live after he's diagnosed with a circulatory disease that for the most part is incurable.

A man with amnesia attempts to put his past back together leading up to surgery that could restore his memory totally .. or not.

A promising young architect who is about to marry the girl of his dreams is suddenly diagnosed with a brain tumor, ending the marriage plans after her father finds out about the illness.

A slow middle-aged man nicknamed Rabbits resides at a local fire station where he is cared for by the firemen. After a bike accident hospitalizes Rabbits, his sister threatens to institutionalize him.

"Plumduff" Lewis, an elderly nurse known for her kindness, and uselessness, gets recruited by Casey when his holiday accident load becomes more than he can handle.

A drunk salesman tries to talk a disabled woman out of filing a law suit against him after he runs over her with his car.

Casey finds himself in the middle of a legal wrangle when a lawyer pressures him to testify in court that brain surgery on Lester Partridge will do away with the convict's murderous tendencies.

Casey wonders why hospital clown Stanley Schultz, who has performed for patients for eight years, refuses to entertain the patients in neurosurgery.

When a surgeon discovers he has a disorder that causes him to lose his balance, he determines to continue in his career.

Casey tries to help a lawyer kick her morphine habit, but encounters resistance, lies and manipulation when she gets a guileless young man to smuggle dope into her hospital room. He is visiting his mother, who is in the hospital for treatment of injuries received in a beating.

Dr. Zorba uncovers Faith's secret, that she is a drug addict who gets a young man to smuggle in morphine for her after Zorba refuses her any more morphine shots.

Don Spruance, Evelyn Ward

Movie star Miles Houghton collapses during the filming of a multimillion-dollar production and Casey's diagnosis is if Houghton returns to work, he will die.

A psychiatrist claims that he can cure Casey's patient without the aid of neurosurgery.

Although he's still an intern, Jimmy Peabody is raising funds to finance a medical clinic of his own, and one of the sources he's depending on is wealthy Adam Garrett, an elderly patient at County General.

Dr. Casey admires surgeon Alvin MacKenzie, but he can't understand why his colleague has erected such a cold barrier between himself and his patients.

After an infant dies of head injuries, Casey learns that her sister was also hurt at about the same time - and he begins to doubt that the children were really accident victims.

Greta Bauer's mother is dominating not only her career as a pianist, but her personal life as well - and her aunt Alice refuses to undergo crucial surgery unless she is assured that Greta will have her freedom.

• An eccentric is picketing County General which proves embarrassing for his student-nurse daughter and exasperating for Casey.
• Special guest star Ray Walston as Councilman York

• Casey tangles with an apparently self-destructive 39-year-old football star who refuses to undergo desperately needed surgery.

Also starring: Lee Kinsolving as Terrence Dunne Jr.

Despite surgery, Julie Carr may go blind – and now her fiancee has left her to face the darkness alone.

Bud Forrest frowns on his financially pressed father's plans to complete his long-delayed internship.

Architect Burton Strang's lifelong ambition to design a new type of cathedral is thwarted by a strange partial paralysis, which Casey believes to be surgically curable. But a colleague, Dr Freel, disagrees.

A singer refuses to let an inoperable brain tumor prevent her from fulfilling a concert commitment.

de:Jan Shutan, Charles Wagenheim

Staff psychiatrist Louise Chapelle has skid row patient Robert Anderson transferred to her care – but his revelations under narcosynthesis disturb her profoundly.

An adopted child requires a series of major operations.

Casey runs head-on into the problem of medical quackery when one of his colleagues seeks treatment from a charlatan.

Season 3 (1963–64)

A musician is disturbed by the conflict between himself and his cruelly authoritarian father. The events of this episode continued in the first episode of Breaking Point the following week.

The entire hospital staff is put on emergency service to treat a patient who has a radioactive substance in his spine. Dr. Maggie Graham switches her specialty from Anesthesiology to Neurology.

A spoiled young socialite is used to getting what she wants and now she wants Dr. Casey.

A baseball star loses an eye during an accident on the field, then clashes with an African-American doctor who thinks the baseball player has no future.

11-year-old Collie Smith sees Dr. Casey as a father figure, given a family life that includes the absence of her real father, her dying grandfather and her apathetic mother.

The body-building campaign set up by David Masterson, the father of an athlete, conflicts with Dr. Casey's insistence that the boy needs an operation.

David Masterson sues County General for $1 million, claiming that an unauthorized operation on his son by Dr. Casey has left him totally and permanently paralyzed.

Though a factory worker is brought to County general with an apparent brain tumor, Dr. Casey suspects lead poisoning and begins an investigation of the factory.

An Irish sea captain's terminal disease brings him to County General, where he meets a feisty Irish nurse who eventually falls in love with him.

Patient Henry Davis abuses women, which he confesses to Dr. Graham, who is bound by doctor-patient privilege not to reveal the information.

Medical ethics come into play when debate over whether the unborn child of a refugee mother should be aborted due to health concerns.

An aging operatic diva is going blind, with her devoted secretary standing by her side.

Married pathologist Joe Garry develops multiple sclerosis, and begins running County General's ward that deals with people who have the disease. While there, he becomes attracted to one of the female patients.

Dr. Casey treats a woman who tried to commit suicide because her husband's medical career at County General is causing him to neglect her, which causes Dr. Casey to counsel the couple.

Dr. Casey desperately attempts to locate the father of a precocious girl who is found mumbling in Latin and German after having been injured in an accident.

Dr. Casey attempts to restore a stripper's self-worth, after she was heavily influenced by a hypocritical evangelist.

A once-great surgeon loses his nerve after one of his patients dies under his care, and Dr. Casey attempts to motivate him into performing another operation.

A stubborn old man is hospitalized due to a stroke and refuses to tell any of the hospital staff his name, so that he's not a burden to his family. He attempts to leave in order to attend his granddaughter's dancing debut.

An ethics debate erupts when a homeless man offers to have his eye removed for a fee so that a research biologist can conduct an experiment.

Larry Franklin is a man with a gift for religious visions, but his gift could disappear if Dr. Casey removes a blood clot from his brain.

On the Fourth of July, a young girl with a rare blood type suffers head injuries from an auto accident. However, she can't undergo life-saving surgery until the blood is obtained, resulting in Dr. Casey's mobilizing communication for a nationwide request.

After a student nurse is attacked in a park near the hospital, she fakes amnesia in order to avoid having to reveal to her fiance what she was doing in the park.

Two men are confined to the same hospital room, respectively suffering from severe lung trouble and facing brain surgery. They're both in love with the latter's wife and make a fateful bet that the surviving patient will get the other's life insurance money.

A veteran of the Korean War refuses anethesia when a bullet needs to be removed from his leg.

Knowing that a former neurosurgeon's license to practice medicine has been revoked, a desperate Dr. Casey asks him to perform surgery in the midst of an emergency, resulting in Dr. Casey's being summoned before County Hospital's Board of Inquiry.

An alcoholic schoolteacher is hit by a playground glider, and when she's treated at the hospital, Dr. Casey seeks to discover the reason for her drinking.

The operator of a health clinic who peddles phony cures attempts to convince his wife that his treatments will work on her, despite an official diagnosis by Dr. Casey of a brain tumor.

A lonely 10-year-old girl who's been hospitalized with a head injury, prefers the help of a junk dealer instead of her irresponsible mother.

A guilt-ridden Dr. Casey, who was unable to save the life of a man due to inconclusive tests, must deal with his confused widow's appeal for comfort and sympathy and her inability to cope with motherhood.

A aged and terminally ill Native American becomes a symbol of courage to a youth who's fearing his pending surgery.

A career woman puts Dr. Casey in a difficult position when she chooses to leave the assets of her firm to County General in her will.

Businessman Thomas Hardin seeks to get more enjoyment out of life, but his time left to live is diminishing rapidly.

A Catholic missioary priest seeks to heal the breach between the father of another patient and her atheist husband.

Season 4 (1964–65)

A young boy brought to County General with a head injury is found to have a hereditary disorder that his mother is evasive about. Dr. Casey also plans to operate on Jane Hancock, a woman who has been in a come for 15 years.

An brilliant, but embittered alcoholic who needs risky plastic surgery to restore her disfigured face, develops a relationship with a paralyzed patient.

A literature student working on his doctorate is in need of brain surgery before he takes his oral exams.

An artist with dreams of a great future is left color blind by a stroke. Meanwhile, Dr. Casey takes his formerly comatose patient Jane Hancock out to dinner.

The wealthy father of Jame Hancock makes Dr. Casey a lucrative offer if he'll marry her.

An ambitious doctor neglects his ailing fiance while the threat of the bubonic plague epidemic exists.

Emergency surgery is performed by Dr. Casey on Kathy Huntsinger, a "profoundly deaf" girl whose father wants to send her to a school for mentally disabled children.

A young English professor suffers a stroke just prior to getting married, and Dr. Casey refuses to baby her in order to speed her recovery.

After a man is injured in a fall, Dr. Casey requests immediate surgery. However, the man's wife insists that Dr. Arnold Swanson, a noted author of medical books, perform the operation, even though his writing is better than his surgical technique.

Lydia Mitchum, an unwed nurse puts her life and the life of her unborn child at risk when she insists on bearing the child despite suffering from a disease.

Working temporarily at a veterans' hospital, Dr. Casey clashes with the head of neurosurgery who seems more interested in boosting the morale of patients than performing surgery.

A biochemist pressures Dr. Casey into performing a cancer operation so that she can continue an important research project.

A suicidal polio victim is encouraged by the love of a war veteran.

A widowed mother of a high school student with cerebral palsy is overprotective in her attempts to shield him from life's frustrations.

An Australian veterinarian gives Dr. Casey a key clue in a baffling case of a boy's illness when it's determined that it's due to having conducted scientific research in bat caves.

While visiting San Francisco, Dr. Casey ends up giving a visiting Russian ballerina a tour of the city, while her ballet master fears that she's been kidnapped.

A diabetic refuses to take her insulin, which could result in permanent blindness, while her father is reluctant to have Dr. Casey perform a risky surgery that has only previously been performed on animals.

Dr. Casey must deal with a brilliant philosophy scholar who is suffering from an ailment that the man declares is terminal, much to the chagrin of his wife.

A precocious boy suffers self-induced epileptic seizures, which helps a welfare worker who is doing a research paper on the condition.

Jerry Dawson is considered a hypochondriac by his father because of coddling of his mother, but his fiancée urges him to make his own health decisions and fix the problems between his parents.

A dock worker with heavy family obligations is hospitalized. This circumstance causes his mother, who he financially supports along with his invalid father and sickly brother, to claim that he's faking his illness.

The clownish actions of a new neurosurgery resident draw the wrath of Dr. Casey, but they're simply a cover-up for his deep concern for his patients.

Dr. Ted Hoffman, an associate of Dr. Casey, must contend with his manipulative new stepmother who seeks to control his father's affairs.

A combative recluse lives in squalor and has three people continually providing assistance to him. However, he's accused by Dr. Casey of faking his handicapped legs in order to maintain that help.

A trio of aspiring neurosurgeons are severely tested by Dr. Casey.

The ability of a skilled surgeon (Klugman) is compromised by his infidelity to his wife (Scott) with a married woman (Berg).

A dedicated schoolteacher (Buttons) is burdened with the strong premonition that his wife (Bower) won't survive brain surgery.

While his niece lies seriously ill in the hospital, a con man (Howard Da Silva) attempts to remove valuable equipment from the hospital in piecemeal fashion.

After being stricken with appendicitis, Dr. Casey is placed in a hospital room between an Irishman (Bosley) with a brain tumor who loves to talk and an alcoholic doctor (Romero) who lost his practice and wants to die.

A medium who's wanted by the police for fraud strikes up a relationship with a boy who is faking an inability to talk.

The disturbed wife of a skilled surgeon suffers a seizure. The husband attributes the problem to her psychiatric care, but Dr. Casey believes she's simply afraid of going insane.

Season 5 (1965–66)

Two biological warfare researchers develop puzzling neurological symptoms, including bleeding of the brain, which Dr. Casey believes can be stopped by undergoing a risky, unproven surgery.

After undergoing tests, it's determined that a young woman is faking an attack of polio. Meanwhile, Dr. Casey must deal with a malpractice suit and the resignation of a valuable doctor.

After Jewish cantor Nathan Birnbaum (Da Silva) loses his voice, he believes that it's punishment from God for blasphemy, and that he's beyond help.

A philosophical conflict between an aging Latin American revolutionary (Persoff) and his son (Ansara) finds Dr. Casey stuck in the middle.

A medical malpractice case that was filed against Dr. Casey is reviewed by the hospital board.

A young woman (Sommars) who has no money or friends finds herself unable to sign different authorization papers, thereby baffling Dr. Casey and his staff.

A new orderly is suspected of taking hospital supplies in order to give them to impoverished patients.

A highly acclaimed doctor (Clark) who has just returned from working in Africa is hospitalized.

In the midst of the medical malpractice lawsuit against him, Dr. Casey has to pick up one of his interns who was involved in a riot at a coffeehouse.

A proud police officer (Carey) who's facing major surgery makes the decision to hide his identity from Dr. Casey.

Alec Bateman (Joslyn), a wealthy tycoon who's hospitalized, decides that Dr. Casey would be the ideal husband for his stubborn daughter Claudia (Marsh). He makes a large donation to the hospital--but the gift is contingent on Dr. Casey working with Claudia to develop an arts and sciences foundation.

A foreign exchange intern is given such a hard time by Dr. Casey that hospital authorities demand that Dr. Casey explain his actions.

Steven Marlo, Dennis Robertson

The acting chief of neurosurgery, Dr. Manning Taylor (Hyde-White), fires Dr. Casey and then suffers a stroke. This takes place while Dr. Casey is continually frustrated as he tries to get a case history from a badly beaten girl.

A writer has himself committed to the hospital in an attempt to uncover damaging material for an article.

After the daughter (Y. Craig) of Stefan Dyboski suffers a brain injury, he files a criminal complaint against her husband, Gregg Carter (Jones). However, he's unaware that Carter is under observation at the hospital.

Despite the need for immediate surgery after William Benbrook slips into a coma, Dr. Casey must convince his wife Leona (Brooks) that the miracle drug that she's read about won't help him.

A hit-and-run driver (Alfred Ryder) confesses his crime to a priest, with Dr. Casey later accusing the priest of interfering with medical procedure.

Despite suffering from heart trouble that results in him being hospitalized, a rabble-rousing writer (Dane Clark) refuses to give Dr. Casey and details of his medical history.

Eva Robinson (Wynter) is suffering from painful facial neuralgia, causing her to beg Dr. Casey to operate, despite the fact that she would become horribly disfigured.

After being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given a year to live, Paula Jordan decides to enjoy life and develops a crush on Dr. Casey in the process.

Anna Medalle (Cooper) is a controlling and stubborn mother who attempts to hide symptoms of a serious illness from her son.

An unwed and pregnant teenager (Brooke Bundy) is involved in an accident, but refuses to undergo necessary surgery because of her fear that the operation will kill her unborn child.

Owen Carter, whose identical twin brother Oren needs brain surgery after a traffic accident, suffers sympathetic pain. Even though Dr. Casey has determined that the injured man is in no condition to have the operation, a nurse decides to reverse his orders.

Floyd Allen (Harris) is an 8-year-old boy who's hospitalized after attacking his teacher. A subsequent analysis determines that he's suffering from brain damage that can be controlled through both medical and psychiatric treatment.

Dr. Casey must deal with two patients who attempt to self-diagnose their illnesses: Joan Lloyd

(Mills) is a librarian who believes psychosis is behind her headaches, while Jerry Brewster (Lipton) is a pianist who believes that an organic cause is behind pain in his hands.

Two patients in the same room at the hospital have similar issues: Pat Mason (Grant) looks to be suffering from brain damage, while Charlie Boyd, a singer and dancer, could have a brain tumor.

Home releases

References

External links

• {{IMDb episodes|0054519|Ben Casey}}
• {{Tv.com episodes|ben-casey|title=Ben Casey}}

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