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Ben Casey

Drama

Oct 2, 19615 seasons153 episodesEndedEN

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Vince Edwards

Ben Casey

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Sam Jaffe

David Zorba

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Franchot Tone

Daniel Freeland

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Seasons

Season 1

32 episodes

Premiered Oct 2, 1961

Season 2

31 episodes

Premiered Oct 1, 1962

Season 3

33 episodes

Premiered Sep 9, 1963

Season 4

31 episodes

Premiered Sep 14, 1964

Season 5

26 episodes

Premiered Sep 13, 1965

Episodes

1–6 of 32

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Ep 1

To the Pure

Oct 2, 1961

60m

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.

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Ep 2

But Linda Only Smiled

Oct 9, 1961

60m

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.

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Ep 3

The Insolent Heart

Oct 16, 1961

60m

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.

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Ep 4

I Remember a Lemon Tree

Oct 23, 1961

60m

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 ownâ€”he's addicted to morphine, and suffers from leukemia.

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Ep 5

An Expensive Glass of Water

Oct 30, 1961

60m

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.

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Ep 6