James E. Moser
Director
Ben Casey (1961)
Season 5
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.
Released Oct. 2, 1961
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Drama
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Production Companies: Bing Crosby Productions
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S5E1 - War of Nerves
The surgeon's secret.
Sept. 13, 1965, midnight
S5E2 - O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith
None
Sept. 20, 1965, midnight
S5E3 - A Nightingale Named Nathan
""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)
Sept. 27, 1965, midnight
S5E4 - Run For Your Lives, Dr. Galanos Practices Here
Le Médecin Malgré Lui
Oct. 4, 1965, midnight
S5E5 - Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost
A proverb of great pith.
Oct. 11, 1965, midnight
S5E6 - What to Her is Plato?
An academic debate.
Oct. 18, 1965, midnight
S5E7 - Francini? Who is Francini?
Introduction and variations.
Oct. 25, 1965, midnight
S5E8 - Then I, and You, and All of Us Fall Down
Rules of the game.
Nov. 1, 1965, midnight
S5E9 - No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth
A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.
Nov. 8, 1965, midnight
S5E10 - The Importance of Being 65937
It couldn't be called ungentle, But how thoroughly departmental.
Frost
Nov. 15, 1965, midnight
S5E11 - When Givers Prove Unkind
Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.
Nov. 22, 1965, midnight
S5E12 - The Man from Quasilia
Another county heard from.
Nov. 29, 1965, midnight
S5E13 - Why Did the Day Go Backwards?
To see the night before.
Dec. 6, 1965, midnight
S5E14 - If You Really Want to Know What Goes On In a Hospital...
""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""
Dec. 20, 1965, midnight
S5E15 - If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser
""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)
Dec. 27, 1965, midnight
S5E16 - In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc
""And let slip the dogs of war.""
Jan. 6, 1966, midnight
S5E17 - Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose
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
Jan. 20, 1966, midnight
S5E18 - For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus
You can get there from here.
Jan. 17, 1966, midnight
S5E19 - Smile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain
The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.
Jan. 24, 1966, midnight
S5E20 - Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things
Whistling in the dark.
Jan. 31, 1966, midnight
S5E21 - Weave Nets To Catch The Wind
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
Feb. 7, 1966, midnight
S5E22 - Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy
The unmoved mover.
Feb. 16, 1966, midnight
S5E23 - Where Did All the Roses Go?
""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)
Feb. 21, 1966, midnight
S5E24 - Twenty-Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak, A, B, C, D ...
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Feb. 28, 1966, midnight
S5E25 - Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes The Cold Wind Of Truth
Self-diagnosis.
March 14, 1966, midnight
S5E26 - Then, Suddenly, Panic
""Fear in a handful of dust."" (Eliot)
March 21, 1966, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 9180 min.
Released: Oct. 2, 1961
Last Air Date: March 21, 1966, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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