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 - Mrs. McBroom and the Cloud Watcher
Release Date: 1962-10-01""But one thing is needful.""
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Episode 2 - The Night That Nothing Happened
Release Date: 1962-10-08It's a long shift that has no surgery.
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Episode 3 - In the Name of Love, a Small Corruption
Release Date: 1962-10-15A painstaking diagnosis.
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Episode 4 - Legacy from a Stranger
Release Date: 1962-10-22How do you repay such a debt?
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Episode 5 - Go Not Gently into the Night
Release Date: 1962-10-29""Brave in his burning pride.""
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Episode 6 - Behold! They Walk an Ancient Road
Release Date: 1962-11-05To hell and gone.
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Episode 7 - Of All Save Pain Bereft
Release Date: 1962-11-12Last straws.
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Episode 8 - And Even Death Shall Die
Release Date: 1962-11-19The tautological imperative.
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Episode 9 - The Fireman Who Raised Rabbits
Release Date: 1962-11-26A gentle occupation.
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Episode 10 - Between Summer and Winter, the Glorious Season
Release Date: 1962-12-03""Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...""
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Episode 11 - I Hear America Singing
Release Date: 1962-12-10I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work; The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat—the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck; The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands; The wood-cutter's song—the ploughboy's, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown; The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else; The day what belongs to the day—at night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs. Come! some of you! still be flooding The States with hundreds and thousands of mouth-songs fit for The States only. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Gr
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Episode 12 - Pack Up All My Cares and Woes
Release Date: 1962-12-17""Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me.""
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Episode 13 - Saturday, Surgery and Stanley Shultz
Release Date: 1962-12-31A sabbath diversion.
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Episode 14 - I'll Be Alright in the Morning
Release Date: 1963-01-07It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Lamentations
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Episode 15 - A Cardinal Act of Mercy (1)
Release Date: 1963-01-14Dr. 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. (Part 1 of 2)
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Episode 16 - A Cardinal Act of Mercy (2)
Release Date: 1963-01-21 -
Episode 17 - Use Neon for My Epitaph
Release Date: 1963-01-28The business has its allure.
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Episode 18 - He Thought He Saw an Albatross
Release Date: 1963-02-04He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A Penny-Postage Stamp. ""You'd best be getting home,"" he said: ""The nights are very damp!"" ... He thought he saw an Argument That proved he was the Pope: He looked again, and found it was A Bar of Mottled Soap. ""A fact so dread,"" he faintly said, ""Extinguishes all hope!"" Lewis Carroll, The Mad Gardener's Song
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Episode 19 - A Short Biographical Sketch of James Tuttle Peabody, M.D.
Release Date: 1963-02-11Although 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.
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Episode 20 - A Hundred More Pipers
Release Date: 1963-02-18The great rouse.
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Episode 21 - Suffer the Little Children
Release Date: 1963-02-25""Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.""
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Episode 22 - Rigadoon for Three Pianos
Release Date: 1963-03-04An old dance.
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Episode 23 - The White Ones Are Dolphins
Release Date: 1963-03-11The ones that got away...
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Episode 24 - Will Everyone Who Believes in Terry Dunne Please Applaud?
Release Date: 1963-03-18A circle of admirers.
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Episode 25 - For I Will Plait Thy Hair with Gold
Release Date: 1963-03-25A wandering minstrel, he, with some disfigurement.
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Episode 26 - Father Was an Intern
Release Date: 1963-04-01The occupant and the resident.
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Episode 27 - Rage Against the Dying Light
Release Date: 1963-04-15""Do not go gentle into that good night."" (Dylan Thomas)
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Episode 28 - La Vie, La Vie Intérieure
Release Date: 1963-04-22The well-furnished habitation.
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Episode 29 - My Enemy is a Bright Green Sparrow
Release Date: 1963-04-29The Sparrow in the Zoo No bars are set too close, no mesh too fine To keep me from the eagle and the lion, Whom keepers feed that I may freely dine. This goes to show that if you have the wit To be small, common, cute, and live on shit, Though the cage fret kings, you may make free with it. Howard Nemerov
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Episode 30 - Lullaby for Billy Dignan
Release Date: 1963-05-06Homage to Millet's Angelus.
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Episode 31 - Hang No Hats on Dreams
Release Date: 1963-05-13Castles in Spain.