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Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Episode 1 - August is the Month Before Christmas
Release Date: 1964-09-14It being reckoned that Jesus was actually born in September.
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Episode 2 - A Bird in the Solitude Singing
Release Date: 1964-09-21From the wreck of my past, which hath perish'd, Thus much I at least may recall, It hath taught me that which I most cherish'd Deserved to be dearest of all: In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. Lord Byron
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Episode 3 - But Who Shall Beat the Drums?
Release Date: 1964-09-28""There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?"" (Charles Lamb)
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Episode 4 - Autumn Without Red Leaves
Release Date: 1964-10-05""The summer is over...""
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Episode 5 - You Fish or You Cut Bait
Release Date: 1964-10-12The proverb put to the test.
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Episode 6 - For Jimmy, the Best of Everything
Release Date: 1964-10-19The power of personality.
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Episode 7 - Woods Full of Question Marks
Release Date: 1964-10-26The punctuated forest. Autism and deafness in children.
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Episode 8 - A Thousand Words are Mute
Release Date: 1964-11-09A picture is most eloquent.
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Episode 9 - Money, a Horse, and a Knowledge of Latin
Release Date: 1964-11-16The classical Rx, yet Dr. Swanson fails to inspire respect.
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Episode 10 - A Disease of the Heart Called Love
Release Date: 1964-11-23L'amour et la mort.
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Episode 11 - Kill the Dream, but Spare the Dreamer
Release Date: 1964-11-30The Freudian prescription.
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Episode 12 - Courage at 3 A.M.
Release Date: 1964-12-07""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.""
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Episode 13 - This Wild, Wild, Wild Waltzing World
Release Date: 1964-12-14The whirligig of 3/4 time.
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Episode 14 - A Boy is Standing Outside the Door
Release Date: 1965-01-04The threshold of knowledge.
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Episode 15 - Where Does the Boomerang Go?
Release Date: 1965-01-11The parabolic return. A scientist from Australia on his last legs.
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Episode 16 - Pas de Deux
Release Date: 1965-01-18A romantic ballet.
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Episode 17 - Every Other Minute, It's the End of the World
Release Date: 1965-01-25Working in the hospital milieu.
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Episode 18 - A Rambling Discourse on Egyptian Water Clocks
Release Date: 1965-02-01Cleopatra and the clepsydra.
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Episode 19 - When I am Grown to Man's Estate
Release Date: 1965-02-08Looking Forward When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Episode 20 - A Man, a Maid, and a Marionette
Release Date: 1965-02-22Various strings and attachments.
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Episode 21 - A Dipperful of Water from a Poisoned Well
Release Date: 1965-03-01Shadow and substance.
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Episode 22 - A Little Fun to Match the Sorrow
Release Date: 1965-03-08Dr. Green practices the best medicine, but Dr. Zorba and Dr. Casey are rather saturnine on his manner.
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Episode 23 - Minus That Rusty Old Hacksaw
Release Date: 1965-03-15Modern medicine.
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Episode 24 - Eulogy in Four Flats
Release Date: 1965-03-22The key of mourning.
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Episode 25 - Three Li'l Lambs
Release Date: 1965-03-29""To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."" (George Herbert)
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Episode 26 - A Slave is On the Throne
Release Date: 1965-04-12Gen. 41:41
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Episode 27 - Journeys End in Lovers Meeting
Release Date: 1965-04-19Euthanasia. ""Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.""—Twelfth Night
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Episode 28 - The Day They Stole County General
Release Date: 1965-04-26A change of management.
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Episode 29 - Did Your Mother Come From Ireland, Ben Casey?
Release Date: 1965-05-03A son of the auld sod.
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Episode 30 - From Sutter's Crick...and Beyond Farewell
Release Date: 1965-05-10A memorable rapprochement.
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Episode 31 - A Horse Named Stravinsky
Release Date: 1965-05-17A mount with a legendary moniker.