Ben Casey: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Ben Casey Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
For This Relief, Much Thanks
Sep 9, 1963
A father assaults his son over a youthful fascination with Nazism.
With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience
Sep 25, 1963
""That's an old Spanish proverb.""
If There Were Dreams to Sell
Oct 9, 1963
If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If
The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)
Oct 23, 1963
""Love doth know no fullness nor no bounds."" (Keats)
Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand
Oct 30, 1963
Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. So the little moments, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of Eterni
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Nov 13, 1963
Alice laughed. ""There's no use trying,"" she said: ""one CAN'T believe impossible things."" ""I daresay you haven't had much practice,"" said the Queen. ""When I was your age, I
Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne
Nov 27, 1963
The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.
From Too Much Love of Living
Dec 11, 1963
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never;
The Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel
Dec 25, 1963
Those caissons go rolling along.
The Light that Loses, the Night that Wins
Jan 1, 1964
Dr. Ernest Farrow, a once brilliant neurosurgeon, is sent to County General for a refresher course. Learning that Farrow is paralyzed by self-doubt and recurring nightmares from th
There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz
Jan 22, 1964
... whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such
Feb 5, 1964
Student nurse Kathy Evans becomes the victim of an assault in a park near County General. The police are stymied in their search for the perpetrator as the attack has left Kathy wi
The Bark of a Three-Headed Hound
Feb 12, 1964
MRS. MALAPROP: You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Sheridan, The Rivals
Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep
Mar 25, 1964
The seed of Mustard is the smallest grain, And yet the force thereto is very great, It hath a present power to purge the brain, It adds unto the stomach force and heat: All
Heap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out
Apr 8, 1964
Caroline Bulllard, a dynamic businesswoman, fears her illness is terminal. She decides to liquidate the assets of her company to use as an endowment to County General's research de