Ben Casey: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
A Nightingale Named Nathan
Sep 27, 1965 · 60 min
""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)
Run For Your Lives, Dr. Galanos Practices Here
Oct 4, 1965 · 60 min
Le Médecin Malgré Lui
Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost
Oct 11, 1965 · 60 min
A proverb of great pith.
No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth
Nov 8, 1965 · 60 min
A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.
The Importance of Being 65937
Nov 15, 1965 · 60 min
It couldn't be called ungentle, But how thoroughly departmental. Frost
If You Really Want to Know What Goes On In a Hospital...
Dec 20, 1965 · 60 min
""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""
If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser
Dec 27, 1965 · 60 min
""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)
Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose
Jan 20, 1966 · 60 min
Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business
For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus
Jan 17, 1966 · 60 min
You can get there from here.
Smile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain
Jan 24, 1966 · 60 min
The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.
Weave Nets To Catch The Wind
Feb 7, 1966 · 60 min
Courts adieu, and all delights, All bewitching appetites; Sweetest breath, and clearest eye, Like perfumes go out and die; And consequently this is done, As shadows wait
Where Did All the Roses Go?
Feb 21, 1966 · 60 min
""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)
Twenty-Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak, A, B, C, D ...
Feb 28, 1966 · 60 min
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes The Cold Wind Of Truth
Mar 14, 1966 · 60 min
Self-diagnosis.