Ben Casey (TV Series) If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser (1965) User Reviews

If You Play Your Cards...

[nelsevrian · 5/10 · 23 November 2016]

Except for the members of the Davy Jones (who unfortunately DIED back in 2012!!) Fan Club, this is NOT a good BC episode! The scene where Jones and another junkie, try to KILL Dr. Casey in the County General parking lot with a knife, is a SCREAM-and belongs in one of Miss Wills' (Jeanne Bates') later horror films! Jones plays a middle-class kid who sniffs glue (!)-and Dr. Casey wants to show him what REAL suffering is like! Dr. Freeland (Franchot Tone-a notorious real-life Hollywood alcoholic cast when Sam Jaffe quit the series in 1965) is muddled and miscast in this episode (and series). No wonder Jones soon switched to music with "The Monkees" on NBC the next year!