What is Ben Casey?
{{infobox television | image = Kathy Nolan Vincent Edwards Ben Casey 1963.JPG |caption = Vince Edwards as Ben Casey and guest star [[Kathleen Nolan]], 1964. | runtime = 45&ndash;48 minutes | creator = James Moser | director = | starring = [[Vince Edwards]]<br>[[Sam Jaffe]] | country = United States | executive_producer = | theme_music_composer = [[David Raksin]] | company = [[Bing Crosby Productions]] | network = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] | opentheme = | first_aired = {{Start date|1961|10|02}} | last_aired = {{End date|1966|03|21}} | num_episodes = 153 | num_seasons = 6 }} '''''Ben Casey''''' is an American medical drama [[television series]]. It ran on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from 1961 to 1966. The series starred Vince Edwards and Sam Jaffe. Ben Casey is a young, intense but idealistic [[surgery|surgeon]] at County General Hospital. His mentor is Doctor David Zorba, At the beginning of the 1965 season, Jaffe left the show and [[Franchot Tone]] replaced him as new Chief of Surgery, Doctor Daniel Niles Freeland. The show began running multi-episode stories and Casey developed a romantic relationship with a patient who had just emerged from a coma after thirteen years. In 1988, the television movie, ''The Return of Ben Casey'', with Vince Edwards in his role as Casey, aired in [[television syndication]]. The pilot was not picked up by the major networks to bring the series back.<ref>{{cite news|title= Vince Edwards, 67, the Doctor In the Hit TV Series 'Ben Casey'| newspaper = New York Times| date =1996-03-16 | url =https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E1D81639F930A25750C0A960958260 | access-date =2008-01-10 | first=William | last=Grimes}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commons category}} * {{IMDb title|id=0054519|title=Ben Casey}} * {{Tv.com show|ben-casey|Ben Casey}} * [http://www.ilovecomixarchi