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The following is a list of episodes from the Fox medical drama, House. The series has concluded its second season with a total of 46 episodes so far.
In the United States, the theme for House is taken from "Teardrop" by Massive Attack. A majority of the score is by Jon Ehrlich and Jason Derlatka.
Series
| Image | Season | No. of episodes | Originally aired | DVD Region 1 release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-2005 | 22 | 2004 – 2005 | August 30, 2005 | |
| 2005-2006 | 24 | 2005 – 2006 | August 22, 2006 |
Season 1: 2004-2005
| Title | Writer | Director | Airdate | Episode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Pilot" | David Shore | Bryan Singer | November 16, 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| A young kindergarten teacher, Rebecca Adler, who suffers from seizures, collapses in her classroom after uncontrolled gibberish slips out her mouth while she is about to teach her students. She is taken to Dr. House and his team of experts who, at first, identify a possible tumor. | |||||
| "Paternity" | Lawrence Kaplow | Peter O'Fallon | November 23, 2004 | 2 | 2 |
| A 16-year old lacrosse player starts suffering from double vision, night terrors and frequent hallucinations. House and his team must diagnose the mystery brain condition which is causing all these symptoms before it progresses to a fatal stage. Meanwhile House must deal with a patient looking to set up a lawsuit and a mother who doesn't believe in vaccinations. | |||||
| "Occams's Razor" | David Shore | Bryan Singer | November 30, 2004 | 3 | 3 |
| A college student (Brandon Merell) collapses after rowdy sex with his girlfriend. Dr. House and his team try to determine why he collapsed while his condition seems to get worse hour by hour, and he has too many symptoms to establish only one disease. | |||||
| "Maternity" | Peter Blake | Newton Thomas Sigel | December 7, 2004 | 4 | 4 |
| A number of newborn babies acquire unknown diseases simultaneously. House and his aides must race against the clock to save them and avoid further spread of the disease. | |||||
| "Damned If You Do" | Sara B. Cooper | Greg Yaitanes | December 14, 2004 | 5 | 5 |
| Dr. House's approach raises questions when he treats a nun for what he believes to be an allergy, and accidentally almost killing her. House must prove that he did not make an almost fatal mistake before the nun dies. | |||||
| "The Socratic Method" | John Mankiewicz | Peter Medak | December 21, 2004 | 6 | 6 |
| When it appears that Lucy Palmeiro, a schizophrenic mom with deep vein thrombosis, is lying about her alcohol intake, Dr. House is the lone voice of reason. Under the scrutiny of her hyper-vigilant teenage son, House takes Lucy off all her medication and secretly sends Foreman and Chase to search her apartment for clues. An anonymous call to Social Services makes House question whether Lucy is really schizophrenic, and causes Lucy's son, Lucas, to blame Dr. House for making the call. (It is revealed to be House's birthday during this episode, and though he annoyedly opposes its celebration, he accidentally runs into Happy Birthday whilst playing on his piano) | |||||
| "Fidelity" | Thomas L. Moran | Bryan Spicer | December 28, 2004 | 7 | 7 |
| A woman (Elyse Snow) comes down with symptoms of African sleeping sickness, but there seems to be no way she could have contracted it. House and his aides zone in on two possible diagnoses, and it takes some tough questions to get the right one. | |||||
| "Poison" | Matt Witten | Guy Ferland | January 25, 2005 | 8 | 8 |
| House and his team investigate the mysterious poisoning of high-school student Matt Davis. When another teen who has all of the same symptoms, but almost nothing else in common with Matt, House and his team must figure out what they did that was the same. Also, they are further hindered by Matt's worrisome and bothersome mother, who assumes the doctors are incompetent. | |||||
| "DNR" | David Foster | Fred Keller | February 1, 2005 | 9 | 9 |
| Legendary jazz musician John Henry Giles is checked into the clinic after a recording session gone bad. He was previously diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and signs a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order to avoid a lingering death. House disagrees with the diagnosis and goes against everyone's wishes when he violates the DNR to save Giles' life. The decision lands House in court, drives Foreman to consider taking another job, and results in Giles' paralysis worsening. But when the patient inexplicably starts getting better, the team has to figure out the mystery in reverse and find out why his condition is improving. Meanwhile, Dr. Foreman meets with an old friend who offers him a West Coast partnership. | |||||
| "Histories" | Joel Thompson | Dan Attias | February 8, 2005 | 10 | 10 |
| Dr. Foreman believes that Victoria Madsen, a homeless woman who is having seizures, is only looking for a place to sleep and a free meal ticket. But her case strikes a personal chord with Dr. Wilson, who doesn't want her to fall through the cracks of the system and persuades House to take her case. Her drawings may lead them to the answer to her illness, and a deeper insight into her life. | |||||
| "Detox" | Lawrence Kaplow and Thomas L. Moran | Nelson McCormick | February 15, 2005 | 11 | 11 |
| While trying to determine why a young patient won't stop bleeding, House takes Cuddy's challenge and goes off Vicodin for a week in exchange for no clinic duty for a month. If House and his team can't determine the source of his patient's blood loss, the 16-year-old car accident victim will die in a matter of days. As House's withdrawal symptoms become more and more severe, his directives for his patient are more harsh and risky than usual, forcing Foreman and Cameron to fear he may not be thinking clearly enough to save the patient's life. | |||||
| "Sports Medicine" | John Mankiewicz and David Shore | Keith Gordon | February 22, 2005 | 12 | 12 |
| A severely broken arm reveals a bizarre case of bone loss and ends the comeback plans of major league pitcher Hank Wiggen. House suspects Hank—with a history of drug abuse—is lying about using steroids. When Hank's kidneys start to fail, his wife offers to donate hers, but she would have to abort her early pregnancy. Forced into an impossible solution, and admitting failure as an addict, Hank tries to take his own life. House and his team must isolate and fix the problem soon if this pitcher's life, as well his career, are to be saved. In one memorable scene House diagnoses 4 patients in a waiting room in 80 seconds. Executive producer Bryan Singer guest stars in the season 1 episode "Sports Medicine". Shortly after the opening credits, Chase remarks that the patient of the week's history shows "None of the usual suspects (a movie directed by Singer)". | |||||
| "Cursed " | Matt Witten and David Blake | Daniel Sackheim | March 1, 2005 | 13 | 13 |
| 12-year-old Gabe believes he's cursed after a Ouija board tells him he's going to die, and his father makes increasing demands on House as they try to diagnose the boy's pneumonia-like symptoms and incongruous rash. Meanwhile, Chase's estranged father, a renowned doctor from Australia, visits and House invites him to sit in, much to Chase's discomfort. When House diagnoses the boy's illness, the young patient is forced to face the idea that his father may not be everything he believes. | |||||
| "Control" | Lawrence Kaplow | Randall Zisk | March 15, 2005 | 14 | 14 |
| Billionaire entrepreneur Edward Vogler donates $100 million to the hospital, on the condition that he become the new Chairman of the Board. As a businessman, Vogler intends to turn the clinic into a profitable venture in his biotech enterprise, running it like any other business. Meanwhile, a businesswoman who has it all—perfect life, perfect body, perfect job—finds herself inexplicably paralyzed. When he discovers her secret, House must risk his job and his medical license to get her a necessary transplant. | |||||
| "MOB Rules" | David Foster and John Mankiewicz | Tim Hunter | March 22, 2005 | 15 | 15 |
| House treats a man serving as a witness to a mob case, and whose commanding mobster brother warns House not to release his patient — or his diagnosis. | |||||
| "Heavy" | Thomas L. Moran | Fred Gerber | March 29, 2005 | 16 | 16 |
| House must fire one of his doctors, under orders from Vogler. The team must deal with an overweight 10-year old child who suffered a heart attack as the result of taking diet pills. House is also faced with a woman who won't accept surgery for a 30 lb. tumor because she wants to remain overweight. | |||||
| "Role Model" | Matt Witten | Peter O'Fallon | April 12, 2005 | 17 | 17 |
| At a high-level campaign fundraiser, a Presidential candidate becomes violently ill. Vogler forces House to take the senator's case and offers to let him off the hook on firing a team member if he'll deliver a speech on behalf of a dishonest new drug produced by Vogler's pharmaceutical company. At first glance the senator is diagnosed with AIDS, however it is a false positive and House and his team must diagnose and treat him before he dies. | |||||
| "Babies and Bathwater" | Teleplay: Peter Blake and David Shore Story: Peter Blake | Bill Johnson | April 19, 2005 | 18 | 18 |
| While House and his team scramble to discover what's causing brain and kidney dysfunction in a pregnant woman, Vogler is on the warpath to get House fired. House diagnoses his pregnant patient's illness, but now she and her husband struggle with an emotional and heartbreaking choice: to save her life, or that of her unborn child. Meanwhile, Vogler sets up a board meeting to get rid of House, but when Wilson objects, Vogler lashes out against him and shocks Cuddy and the rest of the board with his decision. This episode ends the Vogler story arc, which began in the 14th episode, "Control". | |||||
| "Kids" | Thomas L. Moran and Lawrence Kaplow | Deran Sarafian | May 3, 2005 | 19 | 19 |
| During a meningitis outbreak which overwhelms the clinic, House is drawn to a single patient: a 12 year-old competitive diver whose symptoms don't quite match everyone else's. House, Foreman, and Chase must devise ingenious ways and locations to treat the girl's delicate condition in the middle of the chaos, and they make an unexpected discovery. Meanwhile, House asks Cameron to come back to her job but her only requirement is somewhat unusual. | |||||
| "Love Hurts" | Sara B. Cooper | Bryan Spicer | May 10, 2005 | 20 | 20 |
| House apparently triggers a stroke in a clinic patient, but the major topic of discussion is House's imminent date with Cameron, The team must deal with the patient's odd lifestyle, overbearing "friend," and reluctant parents in order to stop the strokes and try to save his life. Meanwhile, Wilson, Cuddy and the team offer House and Cameron advice while laying odds on the outcome. | |||||
| "Three Stories" | David Shore | Paris Barclay | May 17, 2005 | 21 | 21 |
| House's ex-girlfriend Stacy Warner returns—not for House but to get help for her ailing husband, Mark. While House decides whether or not to take her case, Cuddy forces him to present a lecture to a class of medical students. As he weaves the stories of three patients who all present with a similar symptom, House gives a lecture the students will never forget - he discusses three past cases, one of which is more than meets the eye. This unusual episode includes several dream sequences as well as cameos by actors including Carmen Electra. | |||||
| "Honeymoon" | Lawrence Kaplow and John Mankiewicz | Fred Keller | May 24, 2005 | 22 | 22 |
| After much convincing (and drugging Mark's drink), Stacy's husband Mark is admitted to the hospital to undergo a battery of tests. Despite the fact Mark's tests prove negative, his steadily growing symptoms indicate he is dying. While House struggles with the mystery (abdominal epilepsy) and makes increasing demands on his staff, Wilson worries about House's emotional well-being, and Cuddy considers adding a new employee to the clinic. | |||||
Season 2: 2005-2006
| Title | Writer | Director | Airdate | Episode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Acceptance" | Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner | Dan Attias | September 13, 2005 | 1 | 23 |
| A death row inmate is felled by an unknown disease and House volunteers to investigate, over the objections of most of the staff. House also has to deal with Stacy who is working closely with him. Cameron takes over some of House's clinic hours, and ends up with her own patient to deal with. | |||||
| "Autopsy" | Lawrence Kaplow | Deran Sarafian | September 20, 2005 | 2 | 24 |
| House and team struggle to diagnose a young girl whose cancer is not causing her more immediate symptoms. | |||||
| "Humpty Dumpty" | Matt Witten | Dan Attias | September 27, 2005 | 3 | 25 |
| A roofer who has asthma inexplicably falls unconscious and falls off of Dr. Cuddy's roof. | |||||
| "TB or Not TB" | David Foster | Peter O'Fallon | November 1, 2005 | 4 | 26 |
| A famous doctor gets ill when working in Africa, and is sent to House for treatment. Everyone except House believes that he has tuberculosis. When he refuses medication to bring attention to tuberculosis, House must prove that it is something else. | |||||
| "Daddy's Boy" | Thomas L. Moran | Greg Yaitanes | November 8, 2005 | 5 | 27 |
| A student who just graduated from Princeton experiences severe spasms at graduation party. House and his team struggles to find the reason for the symptoms but all tests return negative. Meanwhile, House's parents drop by. | |||||
| "Spin" | Sara Hess | Fred Gerber | November 15, 2005 | 6 | 28 |
| A famous cyclist is brought to House's clinic after collapsing during a race. He is surprisingly honest about several illegal medications and techniques he applied to himself, but his sickness is not caused by any of these. House believes he is not completely honest, whilst Cameron does not cope with the patient's foul play. House also gives Stacy a hard time, mainly because of her new husband, Mark, who is under therapy at the hospital. | |||||
| "Hunting" | Liz Friedman | Gloria Muzio | November 22, 2005 | 7 | 29 |
| Dr. House finally relents in treating a neighbor with AIDS, only to find that his sickness may be more than it first appears. Also, two co-workers find themselves closer than ever, while two former lovers are pulled apart. | |||||
| "The Mistake" | Peter Blake | David Semel | November 29, 2005 | 8 | 30 |
| Chase is being interrogated by the hospital board about the death of a young mother in clinic six months ago under his responsibility, together with House. Throughout the episode, the case of the mother progresses with flashbacks. Chase lies to the board about the reason for his mistake, risking his career, until House reveals that he knows why: the death of his father due to cancer. House convinces Chase that telling the truth will save him. The board finally reaches a conclusion that will greatly change the diagnostic medicine department for the next month. | |||||
| "Deception" | Michael R. Perry | Deran Sarafian | December 13, 2005 | 9 | 31 |
| House continues to butt heads with Dr. Foreman following his recent promotion to department head, with such stunts as ordering MRI exams for the entire maternity ward on the premise that "one of them might actually have needed it." Meanwhile, the team takes on a patient who fakes diseases and conditions with the help of seizure-causing drugs, finally releasing her against her will, citing her condition as Münchausen syndrome. Fortunately, House believes otherwise, and a bold stunt brings her back to the Hospital where a truly life-threatening condition is discovered in the nick of time. While Foreman is criticized lightly for the incident by Cuddy, he is nevertheless reminded that he has two weeks remaining as House's superior. | |||||
| "Failure to Communicate" | Doris Egan | Jace Alexander | January 10, 2006 | 10 | 32 |
| A famed journalist collapses in his magazine's office. While he acts nonchalant after getting up, it soon becomes clear from his word salad inflected speech that he is suffering from aphasia. While Cuddy wants to kick the patient to another hospital, Foreman wheedles her into giving the case to him. The team consults with House via telephone while he's snowed in Baltimore, with a suddenly interested Stacy. | |||||
| "Need to Know" | Pamela Davis | David Semel | February 7, 2006 | 11 | 33 |
| While the staff tries to diagnose a woman who crashed her car due to uncontrollable muscle flailing, House and Stacy try to resolve their relationship issues once and for all. Cameron refuses to get the results for her HIV test. | |||||
| "Distractions" | Lawrence Kaplow | Dan Attias | February 14, 2006 | 12 | 34 |
| After a quadbike crash the team is faced with the difficult task of treating a burn victim without being able to run standard tests. House gets back at a college rival by testing his drug by self-inducing a migraine headache. House treats himself with LSD and antidepressants, to counteract the cause of the headache. At the end of the episode, House is shown with what appears to be a female escort or prostitute. | |||||
| "Skin Deep" | Russel Friend & Garret Lerner & David Shore (teleplay) Russel Friend & Garret Lerner (story) | Jim Hayman | February 20, 2006 | 13 | 35 |
| Dr. House treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction and, in the process, uncovers startling secrets about the girl. Meanwhile, Wilson hopes that House's increased leg pain indicates that his leg nerves are regenerating, and a male clinic patient suffers from high estrogen levels that allow him to experience his wife's pregnancy - including morning sickness, labor pains, and he even begins to develop breasts. It is suggested at the end of the episode that some of House's leg pains are psychosomatic. | |||||
| "Sex Kills" | Matt Witten | David Semel | March 7, 2006 | 14 | 36 |
| Dr. House tries to treat a man who has a seizure but doesn't realize it. It turns out that he got an STD from his wife, and while all of his organs are relatively healthy after treatment, he desperately needs a new heart. Because there are no hearts immediately available, House tries to get one from a dead woman whose organs were rejected. Dr. House and his team have to cure a dead woman's heart before giving it to the man. Meanwhile, another man claims to be attracted to cows, and wants House to give him a libido-repressing drug, yet it turns out that it isn't really cows that he is attracted to. Also, House continues to suspect Wilson of having an affair. | |||||
| "Clueless" | Thomas L. Moran | Deran Sarafian | March 28, 2006 | 15 | 37 |
| House and his team take on a new patient, Bob, who comes to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital after suffering from a breathing attack while role-playing in the bedroom with his wife (guest star Samantha Mathis). All the symptoms point to heavy metal poisoning, but the tests do not. Meanwhile, as the team goes through its diagnostic process, House is wreaking havoc in the clinic, telling a patient that he got a sexually transmitted disease from his wife. | |||||
| "Safe" | Peter Blake | Felix Alcala | April 4, 2006 | 16 | 38 |
| A teenage heart recipient suffers anaphylactic shock in her clean room, leading to further complications. | |||||
| "All In" | David Foster | Fred Gerber | April 11, 2006 | 17 | 39 |
| During a charity Casino Night, Cuddy gets a patient whom she dismisses as being dehydrated. However, House realizes that the patient is exhibiting the same symptoms as a woman who died under House's watch twelve years ago. House has only 12 hours to keep the new patient from dying in the same way. During the episode, House claims 42 is his lucky number, very likely a reference to the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. | |||||
| "Sleeping Dogs Lie" | Sara Hess | Greg Yaitanes | April 18, 2006 | 18 | 40 |
| While Dr. Cameron and Dr. Foreman argue over who originally wrote an article, House tries to determine why a lesbian woman can't sleep. When the patient's partner volunteers to give the woman a portion of her liver in transplant to buy time, House discovers that the dying patient intended to leave her partner. Dr. Cameron considers the ethical ramifications of not informing the patient's partner of her intent to break the relationship off. | |||||
| "House vs. God" | Doris Egan | John F. Showalter | April 25, 2006 | 19 | 41 |
| A teenage religious healer shows up at the hospital with an originally easily diagnosable ailment, and during his stay, he "supposedly" shrinks the tumor of a cancer patient. But, when the healer develops new symptoms, House must prove that the cancer patient is still dying in order to convince the healer's father to allow them to continue treating him. Also, Dr. House suspects that the cancer patient and Dr. Wilson are something more than just doctor and patient. The episode centers around House's mistrust of religion, with one of the staff even keeping "score" between House and God. In the end, House discovers that the healer has Herpes, which explains why he drinks a lot of water and how the cancer patient's tumors shrank. | |||||
| "Euphoria (Part 1)" | Matthew V. Lewis | Deran Sarafian | May 2, 2006 | 20 | 42 |
| House is trying to cure a "crooked" cop who acts turbulent and laughs uncontrollably, but he and his team are unable to determine the cause. The patient's situation worsens, as he shows newer symptoms like sudden twitches and continuous pain. When Foreman, who was ordered by House to check out the cop's filthy apartment, starts showing similar symptoms, both the original patient and Foreman are placed under quarantine. As House feels the weight of losing a teammate, Foreman is desperate to find a treatment. The patient's condition worsens and worsens, diagnoses are thrown left and right, and each one is rebutted. The patient's condition then climaxes with an agonizing, painful death right in front of Foreman's eyes. House, Chase, and Cameron are no closer to diagnosing the disease and further yet from curing it. | |||||
| "Euphoria (Part 2)" | Russel Friend & Garret Lerner and David Shore | Deran Sarafian | May 3, 2006 | 21 | 43 |
| The team struggles to find out what's wrong with Foreman, as his condition deteriorates. Foreman has a visit from his father, with whom he has a strained relationship. House goes to the apartment once more, attempting to discover the cause of the disease, finding it, but not before Cameron (whom Foreman apologizes to before being placed in a comatose state) leads a team who performs a biopsy on Foreman, finding the same result. Foreman is cured, but his lobes appear to be crossed: when attempting to move something on the left side of his body moves the right instead. At one point during the episode, House sarcastically tells Cuddy that she should "call Jack Bauer" since the case had been raised to a level 3 emergency. This is in reference to the main character on Fox's other hit TV series 24, Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. | |||||
| "Forever" | Liz Friedman | Daniel Sackheim | May 9, 2006 | 22 | 44 |
| On his way out the door, a man vomits and decides to stay home from work, only to find his wife in the bathtub having a seizure, and their newborn infant drowning. House is shorthanded solving the medical mystery because Chase is taking a suspicious “break” from the team and Foreman, “just happy to be alive,” is too passive to offer new opinions. Meanwhile, Cuddy has asked Wilson out on a date that House suspects is “not a date". | |||||
| "Who's Your Daddy?" | John Mankiewicz & Lawrence Kaplow (teleplay) Charles M. Duncan & John Mankiewicz (story) | Martha Mitchell | May 16, 2006 | 23 | 45 |
| On a plane flight with her newly-found father, a Hurricane Katrina victim hallucinates a flood that overtakes the cabin of the craft. House's leg has become progressively worse and he stuggles to cope with the pain. House also suspects that his patient's father, an old friend of his, is being duped. Meanwhile, Dr. Cuddy is looking for a valid and acceptable sperm donor. | |||||
| "No Reason" | David Shore (teleplay) Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (story) | David Shore | May 23, 2006 | 24 | 46 |
| As House and his team work on the diagnosis of Vince, a man with a giant swollen tongue, disgruntled former patient Jack Moriarty (guest star Elias Koteas) walks into House’s office and shoots him. House continues to treat Vince from his hospital bed in the ICU with Moriarty, shot by hospital security and handcuffed to his bed, as his roommate. Since the shooting, House feels decreased pain in his leg. He finds out from his records that during the surgery to treat the gunshot wounds, a treatment of Ketamine to induce a coma had been given to relieve his leg pain, but he experiences neurological side effects. It becomes clear that House cannot separate fact from fiction, as hallucinations begin to get a stronger grasp on his sense of reality. He begins to question his own ability to diagnose, while hostility increases between him and Moriarty. As Vince’s body begins to deteriorate, House struggles through his own self-doubts and must try to make sense of his life and world. After several hallucinations, House determines that nothing he has experienced since the shooting is real, and decides to kill Vince, hoping that the death of his patient, or a hallucination gone too far, will snap him back into reality. His theory proves to be true, and in the final minutes of the episode we see House on a gurney being rushed into the ER moments after he was shot. Before the episode ends, House asks for Ketamine, that he supposedly received during the imagined events of the episode. | |||||
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