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
""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)
No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth
Nov 8, 1965
A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.
The Importance of Being 65937
Nov 15, 1965
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
""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""
If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser
Dec 27, 1965
""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)
Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose
Jan 20, 1966
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
Smile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain
Jan 24, 1966
The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.
Weave Nets To Catch The Wind
Feb 7, 1966
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
""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)
Twenty-Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak, A, B, C, D ...
Feb 28, 1966
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
Self-diagnosis.