The Best Episodes of Ben Casey

Dr. 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)

Director: Sydney Pollack

Writer: N/A

""To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."" (George Herbert)

Director: Vince Edwards

Writer: Howard Head

Between you, me and the nurse's station.

Director: Alex March

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Vince Edwards

Writer: Jack Laird

Dr. Alan Reynolds' mental state is not improved by constant pressure from his wife to be a successful neurosurgeon. The strain increases when he treats an abused 10-year-old boy. Dr. Casey forestalls an unnecessary operation, and tries to persuade Dr. Reynolds to receive treatment.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller

Writer: N/A

A gentle occupation.

Director: Irving Lerner

Writer: Gilbert Ralston

A clean, well-lighted place.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: Jack Laird

A consummation devoutly to be wished.

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: N/A

A vision of loveliness.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: N/A

Sorrow and pity.

Director: Fielder Cook

Writer: N/A

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Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

A wandering minstrel, he, with some disfigurement.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Gilbert Ralston

""And his name that sat on him was Death.""

Director: N/A

Writer: Jack Laird

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""

Director: Richard C. Sarafian

Writer: N/A

""As to moral courage, he [Napoleon] had very rarely found it, he said, that of two hours past midnight; which is to say, courage unawares.""

Director: John Erman

Writer: N/A

It's a long shift that has no surgery.

Director: Sydney Pollack

Writer: Oliver Crawford

To hell and gone.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writer: Gilbert Ralston

It being reckoned that Jesus was actually born in September.

Director: Allen Reisner

Writer: N/A

Shadow and substance.

Director: John Meredyth Lucas

Writer: N/A

Dr. Casey operates on Billy Harris, a holdup man shot and paralyzed, but he's also concerned about the policeman, who may have been too keen and might be mentally hampered.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Isolation.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

Wise in their own conceits.

Director: Harmon Jones

Writer: William P. McGivern

By degrees to the bare facts.

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: N/A

Orderly Nick Kanavaris' good friend Krikor Dakopian is committed by his family to the psychiatric ward. Dr. Casey, however, thinks the ailment is likely to be responsive to neurosurgery.

Director: Irvin Kershner

Writer: N/A

Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.

Director: Alex March

Writer: N/A