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S1 • E1
Chief Resident Ben Casey, M.D. is introduced as a brilliant but headstrong neurosurgeon at County General Hospital. When a young boy is admitted with a serious illness, Dr. Casey recommends a series of operations that could cure him. When the senior doctors at the hospital refuse to let him operate, he ignores them and goes directly to the boys mother, who authorizes the surgery. After the first surgery is a success, the administration agrees to let him continue the surgeries but an accidental exposure to the rabies virus threatens not only his career, but his life.

S1 • E2
A woman prevents Dr. Casey from treating her daughter's medical condition because of her religious beliefs.

S1 • E3
Though a young woman's life cannot be saved, there is a chance that the life of a severely challenged old colleague,Dr Waldman, can be prolonged somewhat through experimental surgery.

S1 • E4
A skilled young neurosurgeon hides that he has a fatal illness and that he is using morphine to cope, behaves rudely to colleagues. and asks his pregnant wife for a divorce.

S1 • E5
A ruthless tycoon, used to throwing his weight around in the boardroom, tries to do the same in the hospital, when told by Zorba to check in for possible neurosurgery.

S1 • E6
A middling night club comic struggles to get back on his feet and regain his ability to laugh at life, when his brain operation results in some loss of motor control.

S1 • E7
Casey gives a doctor returning from private practice to his old comfort zone as a resident a hard time.In a parallel story a patient that doctor tries to help is a female hypochondriac falling back as well on the hospital as a crutch.

S1 • E8
Dr. Casey is trying to ease the pain of an older patient by convincing her to undergo a dangerous operation, while simultaneously holding off on operating on a child while other pediatricians pressure him to make a decision.

S1 • E9
Nick convinces Casey to visit a psych ward patient whose family wants to put him away.Is that patient's erratic behavior possibly caused by a growth that neurosurgery can try to remove?

S1 • E10
Dr. Reynolds learns that a young patient received his injuries from his own father, but withholds the information from Dr. Casey.

S1 • E11
Casey tells off a lackluster new intern and convinces a sad young epileptic that being abandoned by her spouse, losing her baby, and being kept out of sight by stuffy parents is not the end of things.

S1 • E12
Billy Harris is shot three times while holding up a liquor store. He and the cop who shot him tell Dr. Casey two different versions of the shooting.

S1 • E13
A 38 year old woman is pregnant, and she's having fainting spells. The doctors determine she has a brain tumor that must be operated on immediately, but the risk to her or the baby is great.

S1 • E14
Casey puts a new patient, an alcoholic former doctor, to work doing blood tests while a volunteer candy striper learns not to become too attached to another patient.

S1 • E15
Ben Casey is the doctor in charge for a night in the Main Admitting Room; among others, he examines a withdrawn girl, a stabbing victim, and a juvenile delinquent.

S1 • E16
Gerry and Lee Bramson's marriage is shaky, partly because their son is mentally handicapped.

S1 • E17
Dr. Casey suspects that a fellow resident on his service, Dr. Charlie Kozelka, performed an illegal abortion.

S1 • E18
Casey's predecessor, former chief resident Dr. Philip Walton has developed a new method of doing a craniectomy in children. However, when Casey learns that Walton has Parkinson's Disease, he tries to prevent him from operating on a child.

S1 • E19
When a novice needs hospital care after seeing double, Casey uncovers malpractice by her assigned doctor and risks going to court on a slander charge for exposing the quack.

S1 • E20
An Austrian émigré doctor with 3 decades of experience bristles with resentment that he is required to do a long US hospital retraining residency and only gradually opens up to relearning from Casey and others.

S1 • E21
A pushy businessman injures himself trying to prevent his daughter's marriage.What is her harmful secret that he has hidden for 14 years and kept her in the dark about?

S1 • E22
A decorated veteran hiding his identity puts off having a 13th surgery for his back due to superstition. A Navajo boy making hospital deliveries who he bonds with is similarly afraid of the number 4.

S1 • E23
A high strung little girl recuperating near a depressed elderly man is tempted to help him kill himself. An injured black boxer avoids care and surgery as it may end his rising career.

S1 • E24
A famed aged hunter and a youth of no fame have fatal infections resisting antibiotics.A new supply of an experimental drug is enough for only one of them.Who should Casey, Zorba, and the hunter's regular doctor choose to get treatment?

S1 • E25
While his friend Dr Hoffman is sidelined with strange symptoms, Casey deals with an injured middle aged ex-heiress with delusions of grandeur, who refuses to face the facts of a biopsy.

S1 • E26
Dr. Casey spends a Saturday on Outside Medical Relief while the Neurosurgical staff, thinking Casey needs money, take up a collection for him.

S1 • E27
Aiko Tanaka suffers from a ruptured spinal disk and blindness caused by a school fire. She insists that Casey perform brain surgery to restore her sight, but he refuses, convinced that her blindness is psychological.

S1 • E28
Nurse Anna Olsen and patient Eve Porter deal with menopause.

S1 • E29
Man with head wound is put in neurosurgery ward. An intern notices he has smallpox. The ward is put in quarantine. Authorities race to vaccinate anyone who came in contact.

S1 • E30
Gene Bilstrom is a leading business man of the community but a series of incidents causes his family concern. Bilstrom is admitted to the hospital for a complete mental evaluation but there is a fear of the stigma involved.

S1 • E31
Brilliant chemist John Wickware is seemingly catatonic since his wife spent the night at a friend's house. The wife's parents want John committed . Casey thinks there is an organic cause.

S1 • E32
Casey's patient and acquaintance Alma Gardner confesses to police that she killed her husband, former staff neurologist Dr. Paul Gardner, and then attempted suicide by shooting herself in the head.

Dr. Ben Casey

Dr. David Zorba

Dr. Ted Hoffman

Miss Wills

Dr. Maggie Graham

Nick Kanavaras

Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland
Dr. Robert Ward

Dr. Harold Jensen
Miss Fleming