Ben Casey
Gritty realistic hospital drama featuring manly Dr. Casey against the medical establishment, at first, under the watchful eye of Dr. Zorba, and later under the thumb of Chief of Surgery Dr. Freeland.
Genre: Drama
Cast:Vince Edwards , Sam Jaffe , Harry Landers , Jeanne Bates , Bettye Ackerman , Nick Dennis , Franchot Tone , Don Spruance , John Zaremba , Ruth Foster , Linda Lawson , Gregory Morton , Jim McMullan , Mary Gregory , Alice Rodriguez , Leo Penn , Virginia Gregg , Ned Glass
S3.E1 ∙ For This Relief, Much Thanks
Following a fall at his father's restaurant, clarinetist Jason Landros, dressed in a Nazi uniform, is admitted to Neurosurgery.
S3.E2 ∙ Justice to a Microbe
After a worker is admitted to the hospital with a radioactive substance lodged in his spine, County General finds itself in a state of emergency with all employees on alert. Meanwhile, Casey must deal with Mike Rosario, a fellow doctor with a big desire for adulation.
S3.E3 ∙ With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience
Ben Casey's new patient is the wealthy Penelope Shattuck who is used to getting what she wants. And she has decided what she wants is marriage to the handsome doctor. Casey has other ideas.
S3.E4 ∙ Allie
During a league game, baseball player Allie Burns is injured while stealing home. Faced with the loss of an eye, Allie must learn to navigate a new world, a journey impeded by ophthalmologist Felix Martin, himself embittered by racial inequalities.
S3.E5 ∙ If There Were Dreams to Sell
Young Collie Smith lives in a world dreams. When she loses her beloved grandfather, she looks to Casey as a father figure. Her mother Jean, cynical and impoverished after a lifetime of failed dreams, fears Casey will only hurt her child with more false hopes.
S3.E6 ∙ The Echo of a Silent Cheer: Part 1
Casey recommends surgery for young athlete Larry Masterson, but clashes with his father David, who feels an operation is not necessary. When David steadfastly refuses to give medical consent for surgery, Casey seeks assistance from Masterson's estranged wife Carol.
S3.E7 ∙ The Echo of a Silent Cheer: Part 2
Athletic Larry Masterson becomes paralyzed following emergency surgery performed by Ben Casey. After Larry's father David files a lawsuit for unauthorized surgery, the hospital board forces Casey to resign from County General. He takes the witness stand at that ensuing trial in an effort to save his reputation and career.
S3.E8 ∙ Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand
Dr. Casey misdiagnoses Frank Alusik's lead poisoning, contracted at his job, as a brain tumor. This prompts Mr. Kranz, the attorney for the employer's insurance company, to make Frank an offer he considers: $15,000 plus the cost of an operation to determine if Frank has a brain tumor. However, the operation could kill Frank in the absence of a tumor. Meanwhile, Mr. Lindsey, Frank's attorney, urges Frank to sue his employer for $100,000.
S3.E9 ∙ Light Up the Dark Corners
A bar room brawl sends salty Irish sea captain Mark Cassidy to County General for treatment. There, he falls for Kathleen Dooley, a spirited nurse and equally strong personality. However, their burgeoning romance becomes threatened by Casey, who discovers that Cassidy's condition is more serious than expected.
S3.E10 ∙ Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
After being sedated prior to surgery, patient Henry Davis confesses to Dr. Maggie Graham that he recently beat up two women, one of whom died.
S3.E11 ∙ Fire in a Sacred Fruit Tree
Casey's colleague Dr. Richard Connell is in love with beautiful Yugoslavian refugee Anna Rucheck. When tests reveal that Anna is pregnant, but bearing the child could prove fatal, Dr. Connell wants the hospital to consider aborting the fetus to save Anna's life.
S3.E12 ∙ Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne
Rose Genet, an aging grand dame of opera, suffers from partial blindness. With all of her hopes and dreams quickly evaporating, she considers undergoing a dangerous surgical procedure in a last ditch effort to save her vision, much to the worry of her devoted secretary Polly.
S3.E13 ∙ My Love, My Love
Hospital pathologist Joe Garry wages a battle against his own illness, multiple sclerosis. His inattention to his wife begins to take its toll on their marriage, which is further threatened when Garry begins to develop feelings for June, another MS patient on the ward at County General.
S3.E14 ∙ From Too Much Love of Living
Married woman Eileen Pryor is brought into County General following a suicide attempt, which she survives. Henry, Eileen's physician husband, appears annoyed rather than compassionate or concerned regarding his wife's predicament. His feelings stem from a suspicion that his wife has committed adultery.
S3.E15 ∙ It Is Getting Dark... And We Are Lost
A young girl, critically injured in an accident, is brought into County General. Her presence baffles Casey as she will not identify herself, tells lies, and quotes proverbs in Latin and German. Casey attempts to the solve mystery of his unusual patient.
S3.E16 ∙ The Last Splintered Spoke of the Old Burlesque Wheel
Casey successfully operates on nightclub stripper Dede Blake. However, he finds he must also help Dede recover her self-respect, which has been lost through a past alliance with the intimidating Jonas King, a self-styled fire-and-brimstone evangelist.
S3.E17 ∙ The Light That Loses, the Night That Wins
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.
S3.E18 ∙ I'll Get on My Ice Floe and Wave Goodbye
An elderly man, hospitalized following a stroke, withholds personal information from the staff of County General, for fear he will become an inconvenience and burden to his family. He decides to leave the hospital in order to secretly attend the debut of his granddaughter in a dance recital.
S3.E19 ∙ The Only Place Where They Know My Name
Casey's latest case involves one of contemporary medical ethics. Clarence Simmons, his patient, is an impoverished homeless man who wants to offer his own eye for a fee, in order to help in the research of prominent zoologist Dr. Roger O'Hara.
S3.E20 ∙ There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz
Casey discovers that Larry Walker, a man known for having religious visions, has brain blood clot. The physician is unsure where the operation will end the experiences which are lucrative to the Walker family.
S3.E21 ∙ One Nation Indivisible
Dr. Casey directs a nationwide search for a rare blood type for a young girl who requires emergency surgery.
S3.E22 ∙ Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such
Student nurse Kathy Evans becomes the victim of an assault in a park near County General. The police are stymied in their search for the perpetrator as the attack has left Kathy with amnesia, which she is secretly faking in order to conceal the details of the crime from her prominent fiance.
S3.E23 ∙ The Bark of a Three-Headed Hound
Link Hansen and Art Stone share a room at County General, each awaiting serious and potentially fatal operations. Hansen, an arrogant intellectual harbors an internal hatred of Stone, a typical middle-class man. The two strike an unusual pact that the survivor will inherit the other's life insurance benefits, while Hansen has plans to scare Stone to death.
S3.E24 ∙ The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Casey treats Neil Herrick, a Korean War veteran with shrapnel lodged near a nerve in his leg. Although surgery is mandated, Herrick refuses the use on anesthesia based on his belief in Zen philosophy. Meanwhile, fellow patient Jonathan Taylor begins to idolize Herrick.
S3.E25 ∙ A Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, a Girl's Hand
During a disaster situation, Casey enlists the services of surgeon Dr. M.V. Halloran. When it comes to light that he knew Halloran was operating under a revoked medical license, the hospital board decides to censure him, despite the fact that Halloran's skill saved three patients.
S3.E26 ∙ The Lonely Ones
Nursery school teacher Julie Carr is admitted to County General after being hit by a playground glider swing. Confined to the hospital, Julie's secret alcoholism suddenly comes to light, and Casey attempts to uncover the root of her drinking problem.
S3.E27 ∙ Keep Out of Reach of Adults
Casey faces a conundrum while treating Gwen Hamilton for a malignant tumor. He prescribes immediate surgery, while Gwen's husband Dr. Paul Hamilton convinces her that an operation isn't necessary. The problem: Hamilton owns an exclusive clinic based on homeopathic remedies and fears his wife's surgery will damage his business.
S3.E28 ∙ Dress My Doll Pretty
Ben Casey has an urgent case, a young teenager Elaine Miller, who needs several operations. The patient also comes with a hysterical mother Gloria who is causing problems at the hospital.
S3.E29 ∙ Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep
After losing patient Glen Kietner due to inconclusive test results, Casey finds himself compelled to help his young widow Audrey. Unable to cope with the responsibilities of single parenthood, Audrey begins to rely more and more on Casey's kindness.
S3.E30 ∙ Make Me the First American
Native American John Whistler, an older man, is needing dangerous brain surgery. But before he agrees to the operation he wants to locate his estranged son Daniel.
S3.E31 ∙ Heap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out
Caroline Bulllard, a dynamic businesswoman, fears her illness is terminal. She decides to liquidate the assets of her company to use as an endowment to County General's research department. The members of Bullard's firm then accuse Casey of malfeasance.
S3.E32 ∙ For a Just Man Falleth Seven Times
Thomas Hardin is a hard-driven businessman who has never had time to enjoy life. When he learns he has very little of it left, he Seeks comfort in a nearby tavern, he makes a last ditch effort at enjoying life and meets a woman not much older than his estranged daughter.
S3.E33 ∙ The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Catholic priest Father Francis Thompson learns he is dying. He enlists Casey's assistance in helping him to affect a reconciliation between another patient's ill-tempered father and her atheist husband, all before the birth of her first child.
