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Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant, but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While his behavior can border on antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving the medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. Together with his hand-picked team of young medical experts, he'll do whatever it takes in the race against the clock to solve the case. Check out each gripping episode of House, featuring some of TV's hottest guest stars, Kathleen Quinlan, Joel Gray and John Larroquette. It's the intriguing series TV Guide's Matt Roush hails as 'the uncommon cure for the common medical drama.'![]()
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House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama, which debuted on the FOX network on November 16, 2004. The show was created by David Shore and executive produced by Shore and film director Bryan Singer. During the 2007?08 United States television season, the series was the most-watched scripted program on TV and the third-most-watched program overall, behind American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.
House stars English actor Hugh Laurie as the American title character Dr. Gregory House, a Category: wiktionary - :maverick|maverick medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. The original diagnostic team consists of Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), a...
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Season 1
- Pilot
- A young preschool teacher collapses in her classroom from a seizure. She is taken to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where Dr. House and his team of experts grapple to solve the mystery.
- Paternity
- A 16 year old lacrosse player has double vision, night terrors and frequent hallucinations.
- Occam's Razor
- Dr. House and his team struggle to find out why a college student collapsed after having sex with his girlfriend.
- Maternity
- A number of newborn babies acquire unknown diseases simultaneously.
- Damned If You Do
- Dr. House's approach raises questions when he treats a nun for what he believes to be an allergy, and accidentally almost kills her.
- The Socratic Method
- When a schizophrenic mother has a deep-vein thrombosis, a strange phone call causes House to question her (in)sanity once again.
- Fidelity
- A woman comes down with symptoms of African sleeping sickness, but there seems to be no way she could have contracted it.
- Poison
- House and his team investigate the mysterious poisoning of high-school student Matt Davis but another teen is brought in with all of the same symptoms but almost nothing else in common with Matt.
- DNR
- When a legendary jazz musician collapses mid-session, House and his team run into technical difficulties treating the man, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis but when he orders to have a DNR, House disobeys it and ends up in court.
- Histories
- When a homeless woman has a seizure, some of the employees at Princeton-Plainsboro think that she is faking her seizures in hopes of getting a free meal.
- Detox
- Cuddy bets a month's clinic duty that House can't stay off Vicodin for a week while he tries to find out why a car crash victim won't stop bleeding.
- Sports Medicine
- When a baseball star suddenly breaks his arm while pitching, he finds out he has a bizarre case of bone loss.
- Cursed
- After consulting an Ouija board on his life, a young boy thinks that he is going to die. Chase's dad came to the hospital to meet Wilson and help House to diagnose the kid.
- Control
- A woman is admitted to the hospital after having leg pain during a conference.
- Mob Rules
- 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 the diagnosis.
- Heavy
- House struggles with finding out why an obese ten-year-old had a heart attack.
- Role Model
- When a presidential hopeful falls ill at a campaign, House is forced to take the case by Vogler.
- Babies & Bathwater
- A pregnant woman must make a tough choice between her life and that of her unborn child's.
- Kids
- Amid the chaos of a meningitis outbreak, House sees a patient whose symptoms don't quite add up to the outbreak.
- Love Hurts
- After House's reckless manner to a panicked man accidentally triggers a stroke, the man faces dire consequences.
- Three Stories
- House gives a lecture to a class of students on diagnostics in which all three given patients have leg pain.
- Honeymoon
- After much convincing (drugging Mark's drink), Stacy's husband Mark is admitted to the hospital to undergo a battery of tests which come up negative even though his steadily growing symptoms indicate he is dying.
Season 2
- Acceptance
- A death row inmate is felled by an unknown disease and House volunteers to investigate, over the objections of most of the staff. Cameron ends up with her own patient with whom she has to deal.
- Autopsy
- House and team struggle to diagnose a young girl who has hallucinations and terminal cancer but she will die unless a diagnosis is found quickly.
- Humpty Dumpty
- A roofer with asthma inexplicably falls unconscious off Dr. Cuddy's roof.
- TB or Not TB
- A famous doctor gets ill when working in Africa, and is sent to House for treatment. Everyone except House believes that his illness is due to tuberculosis.
- Daddy's Boy
- A student who just graduated from Princeton experiences severe spasms at graduation party. Meanwhile, House's parents drop by.
- Spin
- 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.
- Hunting
- Dr. House finally relents in treating a neighbor with AIDS, only to find that his sickness may be more than it first appears.
- The Mistake
- After a patient dies under Chase's watch, he and House must face a board of doctors to hear their fates.
- Deception
- A woman who has a seizure is admitted to the hospital but Cameron wants her to be discharged when they discover she has Munchausen syndrome; however, House believes she has an underlying condition.
- Failure to Communicate
- A famed journalist collapses in his magazine company's office. While he acts nonchalantly after getting up, it soon becomes clear from his word salad inflected speech that he is suffering from aphasia.
- Need to Know
- House and Stacy try to repair their relationship while the rest of the team tries to diagnose a woman who flails randomly.
- Distractions
- Logistical problems arise when House and his team can't do all of their normal tests on a sick burn victim.
- Skin Deep
- Dr. House treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction and, in the process, uncovers startling secrets about the girl.
- Sex Kills
- House tries to treat a man who has a seizure but doesn't realize it and needs a new heart. When the transplant committee votes "no" for a new heart, House tries to get one from a dead woman whose organs were also rejected by the committee.
- Clueless
- When a man can't breathe after roleplaying with his wife, House must question the motives for the marriage.
- Safe
- A teenage heart recipient suffers anaphylaxis in her cleanroom, but House and his team can not pinpoint the source of the allergen.
- All In
- 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.
- Sleeping Dogs Lie
- House tries to determine why a woman cannot sleep.
- House vs. God
- A teenage religious healer shows up at the hospital with an originally easily diagnosable ailment, and during his stay, he seems to shrink the tumor of a cancer patient.
- Euphoria, Part 1
- 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. When Foreman starts showing similar symptoms, the situation gets far worse than anybody expected.
- Euphoria, Part 2
- With Foreman's condition rapidly deteriorating, the team is running out of options to test. Using the cop's progression, it seems Foreman has less than 24 hours to live.
- Forever
- 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.
- Who's Your Daddy?
- After a Hurricane Katrina victim hallucinates on a plane, an old friend of House takes on the role of the victim's parent, but House doesn't believe that he is really the father.
- No Reason
- When a man with a swollen tongue is admitted to the hospital, House is shot by a mysterious man.
Season 3
- Meaning
- House returns to work with no leg pain and decides to take on two cases at once.
- Cane and Able
- House's new case is a 7-year-old boy, a product of in-vitro fertilization, who's been admitted to the hospital with rectal bleeding and proclamations of alien abductions and experimentation.
- Informed Consent
- House's patient, a renowned doctor and author, demands that the team stop the litany of medical tests and help him end his life since the possibility of a cure is slim.
- Lines in the Sand
- A young autistic child is admitted to the hospital for screaming, but House's team is skeptical that it actually means anything. However, after a pleural effusion, House doesn't know what to think.
- Fools for Love
- House treats a young married couple with similar symptoms.
- Que Será Será
- A morbidly obese man is found in a coma and admitted to the hospital. Upon waking, he demands to be discharged, and refuses to be tested for any disease possibly caused by his weight.
- Son of Coma Guy
- After the son of a comatose man has a seizure, House must wake the comatose man to get answers. However, the comatose man has other plans.
- Whac-A-Mole
- When an orphan caring for two younger siblings vomits uncontrollably while working at a child's birthday party, House and his team uncover a bizarre series of symptoms and infections.
- Finding Judas
- A young girl, whose guardianship is taken from her divorced parents and awarded to Cuddy, is suffering from what appears to be pancreatitis.
- Merry Little Christmas
- House is cut off from his supply of Vicodin completely by Cuddy, and is eventually removed from his team's case: a 15-year-old girl brought in to the hospital for treatment, suffering from a collapsed lung and anemia.
- Words and Deeds
- House, while dealing with court, treats a firefighter who experiences shivering and multiple heart attacks.
- One Day, One Room
- While working on his clinic hours, House encounters a rape victim who demands that House treat her.
- Needle In A Haystack
- After a 16 year old is brought into the hospital, House believes that he has Wegener's granulomatosis and soon clashes with the boy's gypsy parents over medical treatment.
- Insensitive
- A girl with the rare inability to feel pain gets in a car accident. Once her testing is done, she begins having high fevers with multiple seizures and is rapidly deteriorating.
- Half-Wit
- A brain-damaged music savant (Special Guest Star Dave Matthews) has seizures despite being on anti-seizure medications, while everyone is shocked to learn that House has entered himself for brain cancer treatment.
- Top Secret
- House treats a US Marine returning from Iraq, who has symptoms consistent with Gulf War Syndrome. House's dream about the Marine complicates his handling of the case.
- Fetal Position
- House treats a pregnant photographer whose baby may kill her.
- Airborne
- House and Cuddy face a widespread outbreak on their plane back from a symposium in Singapore while Wilson and the team treat a woman with constant seizures.
- Act Your Age
- A 6-year-old girl suffers ailments expected in patients much older. Tensions between Chase and Cameron lead House to intentionally assign them to the same tasks, including investigating the young girl's home.
- House Training
- A con-artist loses her ability to make decisions. While House and the team struggle to find the underlying cause the case becomes personal for Foreman.
- Family
- A 14-year-old leukemia patient's only hope of survival is a bone marrow transplant from his younger brother. But when he gets sick, the team must race against time to save both kids. Meanwhile, Foreman must deal with the consequences of the previous patient's death.
- Resignation
- Speculation over Foreman's resignation continues, while a young girl named Addie is admitted after bleeding from the mouth during martial arts practice. House and Wilson are secretly concerned about each other.
- The Jerk
- House meets his match in the form of Nathan Harrison (guest star Nick Lane), an obnoxious 16-year-old chess prodigy with intense head pain and behavioral issues, who manages to annoy and offend every member of House's team during his course of treatment. Meanwhile, Foreman's frustration with House reaches a new level when he believes House sabotages his job interview with another hospital.
- Human Error
- House and the team take on the case of a young woman who, along with her husband, is rescued at sea en route from Cuba in a desperate attempt to see House and get a diagnosis for her illness. During her stay in the hospital, she develops a new symptom: her heart stops - but she keeps talking... Meanwhile, Foreman prepares for his last day at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
Season 4
- S04E01 - Alone
- When an office building collapses, House has to work fast to diagnose a young woman, Megan, who survived the disaster. Due to her injuries, Megan's only form of communication is blinking. House, without a team since Foreman and Cameron quit and he fired Chase, talks through his ideas with a janitor at the hospital. As House persists in diagnosing Megan by himself, he realizes that the case is not what it appears, and that solitude may not be the answer.
- S04E02 - The Right Stuff
- House is approached by a fighter pilot named Greta, a candidate for NASA's astronaut training program. Greta suffers from a neurological disorder in which she is converting visual images to sound, or hearing with her eyes. Knowing that NASA would reject any possibility of her becoming an astronaut if they knew of her problem, Greta begs House to treat her in secret. Meanwhile, House is ruffled when he thinks he sees Cameron, Chase and Foreman in the hospital hallways.
- S04E03 - 97 Seconds
- The final 10 fellowship candidates compete ferociously when House splits them into two teams by gender. They are assigned to diagnose and treat a wheelchair-bound man with muscular atrophy who is slowly suffocating. As the two teams are trying to one-up each other, complications arise when one team treats the patient but doesn't follow through to make sure their treatment was executed. While the students are busy with their assignment, House experiments on himself to see what happens in the moments when people hover between life and death. Meanwhile, Foreman runs his own team of fellows in his new job at another hospital, and resorts to using a very "House-like" treatment to help a patient.
- S04E04 - Guardian Angels
- While having a seizure, a funeral-home cosmetician Azura Skye hallucinates that she's being assaulted by one of the corpses she's working on. And later, in the hospital, she acts as though her dead mother is in the room with her. Meanwhile, Cameron offers advice to one of the seven candidates for House's team; and Foreman has lunch with Cuddy.
- S04E05 - Mirror Mirror
- Foreman returns to the hospital and is assigned to oversee House's team candidates. A man is mugged and suffers from a respiratory arrest. He has no memories of who he is, but instead reads the personality of the most dominant person in the room, applying it to himself to create a temporary identity. His accuracy of being a judge of character intrigues House, who manipulates the man to judge others and ultimately judges whether House is more dominant than Cuddy.
- S04E06 - Whatever it Takes
- House is recruited by the CIA to help diagnose a deathly ill agent. The agent's medical case is spearheaded by Dr. Samira Terzi, who offers very little information on the agent's history or previous assignments. With limited information to go on, House uses some unorthodox methods to try to crack the code and determine a diagnosis in time to save his patient's life.
- S04E07 - Ugly
- House and his team are followed by a documentary film crew as they treat a teenager with a major facial deformity who suffered a heart attack prior to a reconstructive procedure. As they work to diagnose the teen, House finds himself distracted by several of the candidates vying for a spot on his team, causing him to question his own motives for having chosen them.
- S04E08 - You Don't Want to Know
- House encounters a magician whose heart failed while performing an underwater escape act. While the remaining fellowship candidates work to diagnose him, House is determined to prove that he's a scam artist faking his ailments to cover up the fact that he nearly drowned during his act. In the meantime, House pits his team against one another in a challenge involving Cuddy, granting the winner immunity from elimination and a chance to nominate two other candidates to be put on the chopping block.
- S04E09 - Games
- House assigns the candidates to a particularly challenging case involving an uncooperative punk guitarist with a history of drug abuse and civil disobedience while Cuddy orders House to make a final decision and hire his new team. House promises a guaranteed position on his team for the candidate who correctly diagnoses the patient. Meanwhile, Wilson informs a former patient that he had misdiagnosed him with terminal cancer and is now going to live.
- S04E10 - It's a Wonderful Lie
- House and the team treat a woman who suffers from a sudden paralysis of the hands that causes an injury to her daughter while she's spotting her at an indoor rock-climbing wall. As House probes the woman and her injured daughter for any leads as to what might be causing her condition, he is convinced that the woman is withholding information.
- S04E11 - Frozen
- When Dr. Cate Milton (guest star Mira Sorvino), a psychiatrist trapped at the South Pole and the research station's only doctor, becomes ill in the middle of her assignment, she and Dr. House are thrust into a long-distance relationship of sorts. Unable to get Cate out or any additional medical supplies to the South Pole station, House and his team must resort to treating her via webcam.
- S04E12 - Don't Ever Change
- House and the team encounter a woman (guest star Laura Silverman) admitted to Princeton-Plainsboro after she collapsed at her wedding. Her test results come up negative for a variety of common diseases, which leads the team to suspect foul play. When they discover the woman had been a music producer living in the fast lane until she began to practice Hasidic Judaism.
- S04E13 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
- House suspects an emergency room patient has a bigger problem than the E.R. initially diagnosed based on the fact that the patient is too nice. A skeptical House questions the patient's sunny disposition as the team tries to get to the bottom of his illness, but disagrees with House that niceness is a symptom.
- S04E14 - Living the Dream
- House is convinced one of the actors on his favorite soap opera (guest star Jason Lewis) "Prescription Passion" has a serious medical condition after observing his symptoms on television. House decides to intervene and take matters into his own hands, but both the actor and House's own team dismiss House's assessment and do not believe there is anything wrong with him.
- S04E15 - House's Head
- House is in a bus accident and loses four hours of his memory. He slowly pieces together that a fellow bus passenger was exhibiting signs of a deadly illness. But the details of who it is or how House got on the bus in the first place are locked inside his brain, and he's desperate to add up the fleeting flashes in order to save someone who might not even know he or she could be dying.
- S04E16 - Wilson's Heart
- Clues inside House's head hold the key to a patient's condition, and House's friendship with Wilson is tested beyond limits as murky memories from the bus accident the night before threaten to change their lives forever.
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I love House, M.D. He is so funny, I laugh so much at this show. He is so sarcastic. Great show. Posted August 26, 2007 |
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