1. To The Pure  

First aired: 10/2/1961    Production Code: 5731-1

Dr. Ben Casey is at odds with the medical board at his hospital, particularly Dr. Zorba and Dr. Jensen, because of his manner toward interns. Under a reprimand, Casey tries to persuade the board to approve neurosurgery on nine-year-old Pete Salazar.

After the first of three operations on the boy, Casey is accidentally jabbed with a needle while administering a rabies test to a female patient. During his thirty-day wait for a life-or-death prognosis, he is given permission to resume the surgery.

2. But Linda Only Smiled  

First aired: 10/9/1961    Production Code: 5731-6

Young Cathy Reed is rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment after an auto accident. Casey prepares a blood transfusion, but her stubborn mother won't consent because of her own beliefs.

3. The Insolent Heart  

First aired: 10/16/1961

Dr. Michael Waldman, a former professor of Casey's and a former colleague of Zorba's, comes to the hospital with a cardiovascular ailment diagnosed as fatal. Casey and Zorba want to try a new surgery on him, but the medical board is opposed to the experimental procedure.

4. I Remember a Lemon Tree  

First aired: 10/23/1961    Production Code: 5731-8

Dr. Karl Anders is a brilliant surgeon, and Zorba wants to keep him on at the hospital. But Anders is concerned with illnesses of his own—he's addicted to morphine, and suffers from leukemia.

5. An Expensive Glass of Water  

First aired: 10/30/1961

Casey has Walter Tyson for a patient, the president of a large corporation in difficulties, who makes treatment impossible by ordering him about. Zorba and Dr. Jensen try to dissuade him from withdrawing, because his patient is a big donor to the hospital.

6. The Sound of Laughter  

First aired: 11/6/1961

Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.

7. A Few Brief Lines for Dave  

First aired: 11/13/1961

Dr. Dave Taylor returns to the hospital to do research, but Dr. Casey diagnoses him as a "hospital bum" afraid of competition, and also treats a woman's hypochondria.

8. Pavane for a Gentle Lady  

First aired: 11/20/1961

Casey disputes the diagnosis of a pediatrician that a patient requires brain surgery.

9. My Good Friend Krikor  

First aired: 11/27/1961

Orderly Nick Kanavaris' good friend Krikor Dakopian is committed by his family to the psychiatric ward. Dr. Casey, however, thinks the ailment is likely to be responsive to neurosurgery.

10. The Sweet Kiss of Madness  

First aired: 12/4/1961

Dr. Alan Reynolds' mental state is not improved by constant pressure from his wife to be a successful neurosurgeon. The strain increases when he treats an abused 10-year-old boy. Dr. Casey forestalls an unnecessary operation, and tries to persuade Dr. Reynolds to receive treatment.

11. A Certain Time, a Certain Darkness  

First aired: 12/11/1961    Production Code: 5731-13

Expectant mother Ellen Parker loses her child after an auto accident. Casey examines her and finds that she is subject to chronic seizures, and these, not the accident, are responsible for the loss of her baby.

12. A Dark Night for Billy Harris  

First aired: 12/18/1961

Dr. Casey operates on Billy Harris, a holdup man shot and paralyzed, but he's also concerned about the policeman, who may have been too keen and might be mentally hampered.

13. And If I Die  

First aired: 1/1/1962

An expectant mother learns she has a brain tumor.

14. A Memory of Candy Stripes  

First aired: 1/8/1962

A derelict is taken from a flophouse, and put to work in the hospital lab by wary Casey.

15. Imagine a Long, Bright Corridor  

First aired: 1/15/1962

Casey is assigned to the admitting ward, run by a super-efficient and overbearing nurse

16. A Story to Be Softly Told  

First aired: 1/22/1962

A doctor is seriously disturbed by his wife's overemotional attitude toward their retarded son.

17. Big Trouble with Charlie  

First aired: 1/29/1962

Casey learns that Dr. Charles Kozelka is moonlighting in Pumpernickel's Casino giving free treatment to slum dwellers.

18. Give My Hands an Epitaph  

First aired: 2/5/1962

With a delicate operation on his agenda, neurosurgeon Philip Walton tries to conceal his growing difficulty in coordinating his hands.

19. Victory Wears a Cruel Smile  

First aired: 2/12/1962

Casey becomes the target of a lawsuit when he publicly brands a staff physician unfit to practice medicine.

20. Odyssey of a Proud Suitcase  

First aired: 2/19/1962

Casey suspects that a patient is malingering to avoid prosecution.

21. Behold a Pale Horse  

First aired: 2/26/1962

Aftering receiving the diagnosis that her husband hasn't long to live, she begs Casey to do all he can.

22. For the Ladybug, One Dozen Roses  

First aired: 3/5/1962

Casey wants former fighter pilot Eddie Smith to display some of his wartime bravery by agreeing to a necessary operation.

23. To a Grand and Natural Finale  

First aired: 3/12/1962

Middleweight boxing contender Gunner Garrison collapses after a fight. At the hospital, Dr. Casey examines the young man and says that he will have to conduct an extensive series of tests before Gunner can hope to re-enter the ring.

24. Monument to an Aged Hunter  

First aired: 3/19/1962

Casey has prescribed a new antibiotic to save the life of patient Robert Stanton. But the drug is still extremely scarce and the only supply is located in Belgium.

25. All the Clocks are Ticking  

First aired: 3/26/1962

Casey has his hands full with Liza Bowers, a charity-ward patient who insists she's a wealthy socialite.

26. Among Others a Girl Named Abilene  

First aired: 4/2/1962

Assigned to Outside Medical Relief, Casey stumbles upon an impoverished migrant family with a variety of serious medical problems.

27. A Pleasant Thing for the Eyes  

First aired: 4/16/1962

A Japanese girl, blinded in a fire, responds poorly to treatment until she's taken under the wing of a warmhearted orderly.

28. And Eve Wore a Veil of Tears  

First aired: 4/23/1962

Casey tries to pull a successful career woman from her private world of hypochondria and self-pity.

29. Preferably, the Less-Used Arm  

First aired: 4/30/1962

A speechless smallpox patient can't give Casey the names of the people he may have infected.

30. An Uncommonly Innocent Killing  

First aired: 5/7/1962

Casey comes under fire when he tries to shield a patient who accidentally killed a man.

31. So Oft It Chances in Particular Men  

First aired: 5/21/1962

Casey defers to a psychiatrist when an accident victim suffers an unexplained mental collapse.

32. When You See an Evil Man  

First aired: 5/28/1962

Hospitalized after a suicide attempt, the wife of a murdered neurosurgeon gives Casey a startling account of her husband's death.