Season 3

1963–1964

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E1. For This Relief, Much Thanks

Sep 9, 1963 · 60m

A father assaults his son over a youthful fascination with Nazism.

E2. Justice to a Microbe

Sep 18, 1963 · 60m

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.

E3. With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience

Sep 25, 1963 · 60m

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.

E4. Allie

Oct 2, 1963 · 60m

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.

E5. If There Were Dreams to Sell

Oct 9, 1963 · 60m

If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy? A cottage lone and still, With bowers nigh, Shadowy, my woes to still, Until I die. Such pearl from Life's fresh crown Fain would I shake me down. Were dreams to have at will, This best would heal my ill, This would I buy.

E6. The Echo of a Silent Cheer (1)

Oct 16, 1963 · 60m

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.

E7. The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)

Oct 23, 1963 · 60m

""Love doth know no fullness nor no bounds."" (Keats)

E8. Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand

Oct 30, 1963 · 60m

Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. So the little moments, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of Eternity. So the little errors Lead the soul away From the paths of virtue Far in sin to stray. Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy, Like the Heaven above. Julia A. F. Carney, ""Little Things""

E9. Light Up the Dark Corners

Nov 6, 1963 · 60m

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.

E10. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Nov 13, 1963 · 60m

Alice laughed. ""There's no use trying,"" she said: ""one CAN'T believe impossible things."" ""I daresay you haven't had much practice,"" said the Queen. ""When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."" Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass

E11. Fire in a Sacred Fruit Tree

Nov 20, 1963 · 60m

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.

E12. Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne

Nov 27, 1963 · 60m

The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.

E13. My Love, My Love

Dec 4, 1963 · 60m

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.

E14. From Too Much Love of Living

Dec 11, 1963 · 60m

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Swinburne, ""The Garden of Proserpine""

E15. It Is Getting Dark... and We Are Lost

Dec 18, 1963 · 60m

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.

E16. The Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel

Dec 25, 1963 · 60m

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.

E17. The Light that Loses, the Night that Wins

Jan 1, 1964 · 60m

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.

E18. I'll Get on My Ice Floe and Wave Goodbye

Jan 8, 1964 · 60m

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.

E19. The Only Place Where They Know My Name

Jan 15, 1964 · 60m

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.

E20. There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz

Jan 22, 1964 · 60m

... whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

E21. One Nation Indivisible

Jan 29, 1964 · 60m

Dr. Casey directs a nationwide search for a rare blood type for a young girl who requires emergency surgery.

E22. Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such

Feb 5, 1964 · 60m

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.

E23. The Bark of a Three-Headed Hound

Feb 12, 1964 · 60m

MRS. MALAPROP: You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Sheridan, The Rivals

E24. The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Feb 19, 1964 · 60m

Life and the ""stinking fist"".

E25. A Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, and a Girl's Hand

E27. Keep Out of Reach of Adults

Mar 11, 1964 · 60m

Wise in their own conceits.

E28. Dress My Doll Pretty

Mar 18, 1964 · 60m

A peculiar treatment plan.

E29. Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep

Mar 25, 1964 · 60m

The seed of Mustard is the smallest grain, And yet the force thereto is very great, It hath a present power to purge the brain, It adds unto the stomach force and heat: All poison it expels, and it is plain, With sugar 'tis a passing sauce for meat. She that hath hap a husband bad to bury, And is therefore in heart not sad, but merry, Yet if in show good manners she will keep, Onions and Mustard-seed will make her weep. The Englishmans Doctor.    Or, The School of Salerne,    Or, Physical observations for the perfect Preserving of the body of Man in continual health Sir John Harington, 1608

E30. Make Me the First American

Apr 1, 1964 · 60m

An original.