The Best Episodes of Ben Casey Season 1

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: N/A

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

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: N/A

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

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: Fielder Cook, Robert Ellis Miller

Writer: Gilbert Ralston

Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.

Director: Fielder Cook, Irving Lerner

Writer: Gilbert Ralston

Dr. Dave Taylor returns to the hospital to do research, but Dr. Casey diagnoses him as a ""hospital bum"" afraid of competition, and also treats a woman's hypochondria.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Recollections.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

A clean, well-lighted place.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: Jack Laird

Between you, me and the nurse's station.

Director: Alex March

Writer: N/A

He's not quite himself, or is he?

Director: Sydney Pollack

Writer: N/A

Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.

Director: Alex March

Writer: N/A

From another point of view.

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: N/A

A piece of baggage.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Gilbert Ralston

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Jack Laird

A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.

Director: Sydney Pollack

Writer: N/A

A consummation devoutly to be wished.

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: N/A

Souvenirs and trophies.

Director: Sydney Pollack

Writer: Gilbert Ralston

As time goes by.

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: N/A