Season 1
7.9/1027 votesTo the Pure
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1961
Dr. Ben Casey is at odds with the medical board, particularly Dr. Zorba and Dr. Jensen, because of his manner toward interns. Under a reprimand, Casey tries to persuade the board to approve neurosurgery on nine-year-old Pete Salazar. After the first of three operations on the boy, Casey is accidentally jabbed with a needle while administering a rabies test to a female patient. During his thirty-day wait for a life-or-death prognosis, he is given permission to resume the surgery.
Director: Fielder Cook
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/1019 votes
But Linda Only Smiled
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1961
Little Cathy Reed is brought to the hospital for emergency treatment after an auto accident. Casey prepares a blood transfusion, but her mother won't consent.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: William Bast
- 8.0/1018 votes
The Insolent Heart
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1961
Dr. Michael Waldman, a former professor of Casey's and a former colleague of Zorba's, comes to the hospital with a cardiovascular ailment diagnosed as fatal. Casey and Zorba want to try a new surgery on him, but the medical board is opposed.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/1025 votes
I Remember a Lemon Tree
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1961
Dr. Karl Anders is a brilliant surgeon, and Zorba wants to keep him on at the hospital. But Anders is concerned with illnesses of his own—he's addicted to morphine, and suffers from leukemia.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Jack Laird
- 8.0/1024 votes
An Expensive Glass of Water
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1961
Casey has Walter Tyson for a patient, the president of a large corporation in difficulties, who makes treatment impossible by ordering him about. Zorba and Dr. Jensen try to dissuade him from withdrawing, because his patient is a big donor to the hospital.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller, Fielder Cook
Writer: Gilbert Ralston
- 8.2/1018 votes
The Sound of Laughter
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1961
Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.
Director: Irving Lerner, Fielder Cook
Writer: Gilbert Ralston
- 8.4/1022 votes
Pavane for a Gentle Lady
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1961
By degrees to the bare facts.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Unknown
- 8.5/1014 votes
My Good Friend Krikor
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1961
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: Unknown
- 9.1/1014 votes
The Sweet Kiss of Madness
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1961
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: Unknown
- 8.3/1017 votes
A Certain Time, a Certain Darkness
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1961
Expectant mother Ellen Parker loses her child after an auto accident. Casey examines her and finds that she is subject to chronic seizures, and these, not the accident, are responsible for the loss of her baby.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Gilbert Ralston
- 9.0/1021 votes
Imagine a Long, Bright Corridor
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1962
A clean, well-lighted place.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Jack Laird
- 9.3/1017 votes
A Story to Be Softly Told
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1962
Between you, me and the nurse's station.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Unknown
- 8.2/1015 votes
The Big Trouble with Charlie
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1962
He's not quite himself, or is he?
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writer: Unknown
- 8.4/1012 votes
Give My Hands an Epitaph
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1962
Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Unknown
- 8.3/1012 votes
Victory Wears a Cruel Smile
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1962
From another point of view.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Unknown
- 7.9/1012 votes
Odyssey of a Proud Suitcase
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1962
A piece of baggage.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Gilbert Ralston
- 8.7/1015 votes
Behold a Pale Horse
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1962
""And his name that sat on him was Death.""
Director: Unknown
Writer: Jack Laird
- 8.2/1016 votes
For the Ladybug, One Dozen Roses
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1962
A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writer: Unknown
- 8.8/1011 votes
To a Grand and Natural Finale
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1962
A consummation devoutly to be wished.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/1017 votes
Monument to an Aged Hunter
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1962
Souvenirs and trophies.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writer: Gilbert Ralston
- 8.1/1010 votes
All the Clocks are Ticking
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1962
As time goes by.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/1011 votes
Among Others a Girl Named Abilene
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/2/1962
A Texas rose.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Jack Laird
- 8.8/1012 votes
A Pleasant Thing for the Eyes
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/16/1962
A vision of loveliness.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Unknown
- 8.6/1012 votes
And Eve Wore a Veil of Tears
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/23/1962
Sorrow and pity.
Director: Fielder Cook
Writer: Unknown
- 8.1/1010 votes
Preferably, the Less-Used Arm
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/30/1962
Might and main.
Director: Fielder Cook
Writer: Gilbert Ralston
- 7.3/1013 votes
An Uncommonly Innocent Killing
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/7/1962
Qualifications for the deed.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 8.2/1012 votes
So Oft It Chances in Particular Men
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/21/1962
So oft it chances in particular men That (for some vicious mole of nature in them, As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin) By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit, that too much o'erleavens The form of plausive manners—that (these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star) Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault. The dram of evil Doth all the noble substance of a doubt, To his own scandal. Hamlet
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 8.4/1011 votes
When You See an Evil Man
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/28/1962
The patient and the ill.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writer: Gilbert Ralston