Ben Casey - Season 2
1 - Mrs. McBroom and the Cloud Watcher
Air Date: October 1, 1962
""But one thing is needful.""
2 - The Night That Nothing Happened
Air Date: October 8, 1962
It's a long shift that has no surgery.
3 - In the Name of Love, a Small Corruption
Air Date: October 15, 1962
A painstaking diagnosis.
4 - Legacy from a Stranger
Air Date: October 22, 1962
How do you repay such a debt?
5 - Go Not Gently into the Night
Air Date: October 29, 1962
""Brave in his burning pride.""
6 - Behold! They Walk an Ancient Road
Air Date: November 5, 1962
To hell and gone.
7 - Of All Save Pain Bereft
Air Date: November 12, 1962
Last straws.
8 - And Even Death Shall Die
Air Date: November 19, 1962
The tautological imperative.
9 - The Fireman Who Raised Rabbits
Air Date: November 26, 1962
A gentle occupation.
10 - Between Summer and Winter, the Glorious Season
Air Date: December 3, 1962
""Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...""
11 - I Hear America Singing
Air Date: December 10, 1962
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work; The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat—the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck; The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands; The wood-cutter's song—the ploughboy's, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown; The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else; The day what belongs to the day—at night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs. Come! some of you! still be flooding The States with hundreds and thousands of mouth-songs fit for The States only. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Gr
12 - Pack Up All My Cares and Woes
Air Date: December 17, 1962
""Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me.""
13 - Saturday, Surgery and Stanley Shultz
Air Date: December 31, 1962
A sabbath diversion.
14 - I'll Be Alright in the Morning
Air Date: January 7, 1963
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Lamentations
15 - A Cardinal Act of Mercy (1)
Air Date: January 14, 1963
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)
16 - A Cardinal Act of Mercy (2)
Air Date: January 21, 1963
17 - Use Neon for My Epitaph
Air Date: January 28, 1963
The business has its allure.
18 - He Thought He Saw an Albatross
Air Date: February 4, 1963
He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A Penny-Postage Stamp. ""You'd best be getting home,"" he said: ""The nights are very damp!"" ... He thought he saw an Argument That proved he was the Pope: He looked again, and found it was A Bar of Mottled Soap. ""A fact so dread,"" he faintly said, ""Extinguishes all hope!"" Lewis Carroll, The Mad Gardener's Song
19 - A Short Biographical Sketch of James Tuttle Peabody, M.D.
Air Date: February 11, 1963
Although he's still an intern, Jimmy Peabody is raising funds to finance a medical clinic of his own, and one of the sources he's depending on is wealthy Adam Garrett, an elderly patient at County General.
20 - A Hundred More Pipers
Air Date: February 18, 1963
The great rouse.
21 - Suffer the Little Children
Air Date: February 25, 1963
""Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.""
22 - Rigadoon for Three Pianos
Air Date: March 4, 1963
Greta Bauer wants to marry fiancé Kevin Blake; however, her mother opposes the marriage and insists that Greta concentrate on a career as a concert pianist.
23 - The White Ones Are Dolphins
Air Date: March 11, 1963
The ones that got away...
24 - Will Everyone Who Believes in Terry Dunne Please Applaud?
Air Date: March 18, 1963
A circle of admirers.
25 - For I Will Plait Thy Hair with Gold
Air Date: March 25, 1963
A wandering minstrel, he, with some disfigurement.
26 - Father Was an Intern
Air Date: April 1, 1963
The occupant and the resident.
27 - Rage Against the Dying Light
Air Date: April 15, 1963
""Do not go gentle into that good night."" (Dylan Thomas)
28 - La Vie, La Vie Intérieure
Air Date: April 22, 1963
The well-furnished habitation.
29 - My Enemy is a Bright Green Sparrow
Air Date: April 29, 1963
The Sparrow in the Zoo No bars are set too close, no mesh too fine To keep me from the eagle and the lion, Whom keepers feed that I may freely dine. This goes to show that if you have the wit To be small, common, cute, and live on shit, Though the cage fret kings, you may make free with it. Howard Nemerov
30 - Lullaby for Billy Dignan
Air Date: May 6, 1963
Homage to Millet's Angelus.
31 - Hang No Hats on Dreams
Air Date: May 13, 1963
Castles in Spain.