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 · 60 min
A father assaults his son over a youthful fascination with Nazism.
With the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience
Sep 25, 1963 · 60 min
""That's an old Spanish proverb.""
If There Were Dreams to Sell
Oct 9, 1963 · 60 min
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 (1)
Oct 16, 1963 · 60 min
""Unfelt, unheard, unseen..."" (Keats)
The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)
Oct 23, 1963 · 60 min
""Love doth know no fullness nor no bounds."" (Keats)
Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand
Oct 30, 1963 · 60 min
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 · 60 min
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
Fire in a Sacred Fruit Tree
Nov 20, 1963 · 60 min
""A fence around the void.""—Hawaiian saying
Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne
Nov 27, 1963 · 60 min
The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.
From Too Much Love of Living
Dec 11, 1963 · 60 min
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 · 60 min
Those caissons go rolling along.
The Light that Loses, the Night that Wins
Jan 1, 1964 · 60 min
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
The Only Place Where They Know My Name
Jan 15, 1964 · 60 min
The imponderables of personality.
There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz
Jan 22, 1964 · 60 min
... whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
One Nation Indivisible
Jan 29, 1964 · 60 min
Rare blood demands a coast-to-coast search.
Goodbye to Blue Elephants and Such
Feb 5, 1964 · 60 min
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 · 60 min
MRS. MALAPROP: You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Sheridan, The Rivals
A Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, and a Girl's Hand
Feb 26, 1964 · 60 min
Rx for a medico.
Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep
Mar 25, 1964 · 60 min
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 · 60 min
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