5x1 - War of Nerves

September 13, 1965

The surgeon's secret.

5x2 - O the Big Wheel Turns by Faith

September 20, 1965

5x3 - A Nightingale Named Nathan

September 27, 1965

""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)

5x5 - Because of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost

October 11, 1965

A proverb of great pith.

5x6 - What to Her is Plato?

October 18, 1965

An academic debate.

5x7 - Francini? Who is Francini?

October 25, 1965

Introduction and variations.

5x8 - Then I, and You, and All of Us Fall Down

November 1, 1965

Rules of the game.

5x9 - No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth

November 8, 1965

A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

5x10 - The Importance of Being 65937

November 15, 1965

It couldn't be called ungentle, But how thoroughly departmental. Frost

5x11 - When Givers Prove Unkind

November 22, 1965

Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

5x12 - The Man from Quasilia

November 29, 1965

Another county heard from.

5x13 - Why Did the Day Go Backwards?

December 6, 1965

To see the night before.

5x14 - If You Really Want to Know What Goes On In a Hospital...

December 20, 1965

""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""

5x15 - If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser

December 27, 1965

""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)

5x16 - In Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc

January 6, 1966

""And let slip the dogs of war.""

5x17 - Meantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose

January 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 from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen'd crawl toward death. King Lear

5x18 - For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus

January 17, 1966

You can get there from here.

5x19 - Smile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain

January 24, 1966

The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.

5x20 - Fun and Games and Other Tragic Things

January 31, 1966

Whistling in the dark.

5x21 - Weave Nets To Catch The Wind

February 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 upon the sun. Vain the ambition of kings, Who seek by trophies and dead things, To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. O you have wrought a miracle, and melted A heart of adamant: you have compris'd In this dumb pageant, a right excellent form Of penitence. John Webster, The Devil's Law-Case

5x22 - Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy

February 16, 1966

The unmoved mover.

5x23 - Where Did All the Roses Go?

February 21, 1966

""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)

5x24 - Twenty-Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak, A, B, C, D ...

February 28, 1966

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

5x25 - Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes The Cold Wind Of Truth

March 14, 1966

Self-diagnosis.

5x26 - Then, Suddenly, Panic

March 21, 1966

""Fear in a handful of dust."" (Eliot)