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List of House episodes

The following is an episode list for the medical drama House. The series began on FOX on November 16, 2004 in the United States and was quickly picked up for a full season of 22 episodes. The series began to garner high ratings and critical praise in the United States when the show was placed in the time slot following American Idol during the spring of its first season. Now, House airs in 28 countries.

As of the fourth season, there are a total of 73 episodes of House produced. The third season debuted on September 5, 2006 and ended on May 29, 2007. The fourth season premiered on September 25, 2007.

The first, second, and third seasons are available on DVD.

Seasons

Season Episodes Originally
aired
Region 1 DVD
release date
Region 2 DVD
release date
Region 4 DVD
release date
1 22 20042005 August 30, 2005 February 27, 2006 November 28, 2005
2 24 20052006 August 22, 2006 October 23, 2006 October 23, 2006
3 24 20062007 August 21, 2007 November 5, 2007 September 19, 2007
4 24 20072008 TBA TBA TBA

Season 1: 2004-2005

Episode # Title Writer(s) Director Original airdate[1] Final Diagnosis
1 (1-01) "Pilot" David Shore Bryan Singer November 16, 2004 Neurocysticercosis

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.[2] 

2 (1-02) "Paternity" Lawrence Kaplow Peter O'Fallon November 23, 2004 Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

A 16 year old lacrosse player has double vision, night terrors and frequent hallucinations

3 (1-03) "Occam's Razor" David Shore Bryan Singer November 30, 2004 Colchicine poisoning

Dr. House and his team struggle to find out why a college student collapsed after having sex with his girlfriend. 

4 (1-04) "Maternity" Peter Blake Newton Thomas Sigel December 7, 2004 Echovirus 11

A number of newborn babies acquire unknown diseases simultaneously. 

5 (1-05) "Damned If You Do" Sara B. Cooper Greg Yaitanes December 14, 2004 Copper allergy

Dr. House's approach raises questions when he treats a nun for what he believes to be an allergy, and accidentally almost kills her. 

6 (1-06) "The Socratic Method" John Mankiewicz Peter Medak December 21, 2004 Vitamin K deficiency and Wilson's disease

When a schizophrenic mother has a deep-vein thrombosis, a strange phone call causes House to question her (in)sanity once again. 

7 (1-07) "Fidelity" Thomas L. Moran Bryan Spicer December 28, 2004 African trypanosomiasis

A woman comes down with symptoms of African sleeping sickness, but there seems to be no way she could have contracted it. 

8 (1-08) "Poison" Matt Witten Guy Ferland January 25, 2005 Phosmet poisoning

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. 

9 (1-09) "DNR" David Foster Frederick King Keller February 1, 2005 Arteriovenous malformation

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. 

10 (1-10) "Histories" Joel Thompson Dan Attias February 8, 2005 Tuberculosis and Rabies

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. 

11 (1-11) "Detox" Lawrence Kaplow and Thomas L. Moran Nelson McCormick February 15, 2005 Naphthalene poisoning

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. 

12 (1-12) "Sports Medicine" John Mankiewicz and David Shore Keith Gordon February 22, 2005 Cadmium poisoning

When a baseball star suddenly breaks his arm while pitching, he finds out he has a bizarre case of bone loss. 

13 (1-13) "Cursed" Matt Witten and Peter Blake Daniel Sackheim March 1, 2005 Anthrax and Leprosy

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. 

14 (1-14) "Control" Lawrence Kaplow Randy Zisk March 15, 2005 Congestive heart failure onset by Bulimia and regular use of Ipecac.

A woman is admitted to the hospital after having leg pain during a conference. 

15 (1-15) "Mob Rules" David Foster and John Mankiewicz Tim Hunter March 22, 2005 Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency

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. 

16 (1-16) "Heavy" Thomas L. Moran Fred Gerber March 29, 2005 Cushing's syndrome

House struggles with finding out why an obese ten-year-old had a heart attack. 

17 (1-17) "Role Model" Matt Witten Peter O'Fallon April 12, 2005 Epstein-Barr virus

When a presidential hopeful falls ill at a campaign, House is forced to take the case by Vogler. 

18 (1-18) "Babies & Bathwater" Peter Blake and David Shore (teleplay)
Peter Blake (story)
Bill Johnson April 19, 2005 Small cell carcinoma

A pregnant woman must make a tough choice between her life and that of her unborn child's. 

19 (1-19) "Kids" Thomas L. Moran and Lawrence Kaplow Deran Sarafian May 3, 2005 Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Amid the chaos of a meningitis outbreak, House sees a patient whose symptoms don't quite add up to the outbreak. 

20 (1-20) "Love Hurts" Sara B. Cooper Bryan Spicer May 10, 2005 Fulminating osteomyelitis

After House's reckless manner to a panicked man accidentally triggers a stroke, the man faces dire consequences. 

21 (1-21) "Three Stories" David Shore Paris Barclay May 17, 2005 Streptococcus, osteosarcoma, leg infarction, lead poisoning

House gives a lecture to a class of students on diagnostics in which all three given patients have leg pain. 

22 (1-22) "Honeymoon" Lawrence Kaplow and John Mankiewicz Frederick King Keller May 24, 2005 Acute intermittent porphyria

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: 2005-2006

Episode # Title Writer(s) Director Original airdate[3] Final Diagnosis
23 (2-01) "Acceptance" Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner Dan Attias September 13, 2005 Methanol poisoning and pheochromocytoma

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. 

24 (2-02) "Autopsy" Lawrence Kaplow Deran Sarafian September 20, 2005 Thrombosis

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. 

25 (2-03) "Humpty Dumpty" Matt Witten Dan Attias September 27, 2005 Psittacosis

A roofer with asthma inexplicably falls unconscious off Dr. Cuddy's roof. 

26 (2-04) "TB or Not TB" David Foster Peter O'Fallon November 1, 2005 Nesidioblastoma and tuberculosis

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

27 (2-05) "Daddy's Boy" Thomas L. Moran Greg Yaitanes November 8, 2005 Spinal tumor and radiation poisoning

A student who just graduated from Princeton experiences severe spasms at graduation party. Meanwhile, House's parents drop by. 

28 (2-06) "Spin" Sara Hess Fred Gerber November 15, 2005 Air embolism, pure red cell aplasia, thymoma, and myasthenia gravis

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. 

29 (2-07) "Hunting" Liz Friedman Gloria Muzio November 22, 2005 Echinococcosis

Dr. House finally relents in treating a neighbor with AIDS, only to find that his sickness may be more than it first appears. 

30 (2-08) "The Mistake" Peter Blake David Semel November 29, 2005 Behcet's Disease, then Hepatitis C and Cancer

After a patient dies under Chase's watch, he and House must face a board of doctors to hear their fates. 

31 (2-09) "Deception" Michael R. Perry Deran Sarafian December 13, 2005 Clostridium perfringens

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. 

32 (2-10) "Failure to Communicate" Doris Egan Jace Alexander January 10, 2006 Cerebral malaria

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

33 (2-11) "Need to Know" Pamela Davis David Semel February 7, 2006 Hepatocellular adenoma

House and Stacy try to repair their relationship while the rest of the team tries to diagnose a woman who flails randomly. 

34 (2-12) "Distractions" Lawrence Kaplow Dan Attias February 14, 2006 Serotonin syndrome

Logistical problems arise when House and his team can't do all of their normal tests on a sick burn victim. 

35 (2-13) "Skin Deep" Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & David Shore (teleplay)
Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner (story)
Jim Hayman February 20, 2006 Male pseudohermaphroditism and testicular cancer

Dr. House treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction and, in the process, uncovers startling secrets about the girl. 

36 (2-14) "Sex Kills" Matt Witten David Semel March 7, 2006 Brucellosis

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. 

37 (2-15) "Clueless" Thomas L. Moran Deran Sarafian March 28, 2006 Gold poisoning

When a man can't breathe after roleplaying with his wife, House must question the motives for the marriage. 

38 (2-16) "Safe" Peter Blake Felix Alcala April 4, 2006 Tick paralysis

A teenage heart recipient suffers anaphylaxis in her cleanroom, but House and his team can not pinpoint the source of the allergen. 

39 (2-17) "All In" David Foster Fred Gerber April 11, 2006 Erdheim-Chester disease

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. 

40 (2-18) "Sleeping Dogs Lie" Sara Hess Greg Yaitanes April 18, 2006 Bubonic plague

House tries to determine why a woman cannot sleep. 

41 (2-19) "House vs. God" Doris Egan John F. Showalter April 25, 2006 Tuberous sclerosis and herpes encephalitis

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. 

42 (2-20) "Euphoria, Part 1" Matthew V. Lewis Deran Sarafian May 2, 2006 No diagnosis

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. 

43 (2-21) "Euphoria, Part 2" Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & David Shore Deran Sarafian May 3, 2006 Legionellosis (induced) and primary amoebic meningoencephalitis

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. 

44 (2-22) "Forever" Liz Friedman Daniel Sackheim May 9, 2006 Celiac disease and MALT lymphoma

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. 

45 (2-23) "Who's Your Daddy?" John Mankiewicz & Lawrence Kaplow (teleplay)
Charles M. Duncan & John Mankiewicz (story)
Martha Mitchell May 16, 2006 Haemochromatosis and zygomycosis

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. 

46 (2-24) "No Reason" David Shore (teleplay)
Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (story)
David Shore May 23, 2006 Hallucination - House
No patients diagnosed

When a man with a swollen tongue is admitted to the hospital, House is shot by a mysterious man. 

Season 3: 2006-2007

Episode # Title Writer(s) Director Original airdate[4] Final Diagnosis
47 (3-01) "Meaning" Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (teleplay)
Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (story)
Deran Sarafian September 5, 2006 Addison's Disease - Richard,
Scurvy - Caren

House returns to work with no leg pain and decides to take on two cases at once. 

48 (3-02) "Cane and Able" Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner (teleplay)
Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (story)
Daniel Sackheim September 12, 2006 Chimerism

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. 

49 (3-03) "Informed Consent" David Foster Laura Innes September 19, 2006 Congestive Heart Failure secondary to Senile Cardiac Amyloidosis

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. 

50 (3-04) "Lines in the Sand" David Holselton Newton Thomas Sigel September 26, 2006 Baylisascaris

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. 

51 (3-05) "Fools for Love" Peter Blake David Platt October 31, 2006 Hereditary Angioedema

House treats a young married couple with similar symptoms. 

52 (3-06) "Que Será Será" Thomas L. Moran Deran Sarafian November 7, 2006 Small cell lung carcinoma

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. 

53 (3-07) "Son of Coma Guy" Doris Egan Dan Attias November 14, 2006 MERRF syndrome

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. 

54 (3-08) "Whac-A-Mole" Pamela Davis Daniel Sackheim November 21, 2006 Chronic Granulomatous Disease

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. 

55 (3-09) "Finding Judas" Sara Hess Deran Sarafian November 28, 2006 Erythropoietic protoporphyria

A young girl, whose guardianship is taken from her divorced parents and awarded to Cuddy, is suffering from what appears to be pancreatitis. 

56 (3-10) "Merry Little Christmas" Liz Friedman Tony To December 12, 2006 Langerhans' cell histiocytosis

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. 

57 (3-11) "Words and Deeds" Leonard Dick Daniel Sackheim January 9, 2007 Spinal meningioma

House, while dealing with court, treats a firefighter who experiences shivering and multiple heart attacks

58 (3-12) "One Day, One Room" David Shore Juan J. Campanella January 30, 2007 Chlamydia

While working on his clinic hours, House encounters a rape victim who demands that House treat her. 

59 (3-13) "Needle In A Haystack" David Foster Peter O'Fallon February 6, 2007 Undigested toothpick

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. 

60 (3-14) "Insensitive" Matthew V. Lewis Deran Sarafian February 13, 2007 Fish tapeworm causing Vitamin B12 Deficiency

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. 

61 (3-15) "Half-Wit" Lawrence Kaplow Katie Jacobs March 6, 2007 Takayasu's arteritis

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. 

62 (3-16) "Top Secret" Thomas L. Moran Deran Sarafian March 27, 2007 Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

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. 

63 (3-17) "Fetal Position" Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner Matt Shakman April 3, 2007 Maternal Mirror Syndrome - Emma, Non-immune hydrops fetalis - Emma's baby

House treats a pregnant photographer whose baby may kill her. 

64 (3-18) "Airborne" David Hoselton Elodie Keene April 10, 2007 The Bends - Peng, Mass hysteria - Passengers, Methyl bromide poisoning - Fran

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. 

65 (3-19) "Act Your Age" Sara Hess Daniel Sackheim April 17, 2007 Precocious puberty due to externally applied Testosterone

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. 

66 (3-20) "House Training" Doris Egan Paul McCrane April 24, 2007 Staphylococcus aureus

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. 

67 (3-21) "Family" Liz Friedman David Straiton May 1, 2007 Histoplasmosis

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. 

68 (3-22) "Resignation" Pamela Davis Martha Mitchell May 8, 2007 Bacterial infection due to suicide attempt

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. 

69 (3-23) "The Jerk" Leonard Dick Daniel Sackheim May 15, 2007 Hemochromatosis

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. 

70 (3-24) "Human Error" Thomas L. Moran & Lawrence Kaplow Katie Jacobs May 29, 2007 Congenital heart defect (Infected Third Ostium)

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: 2007-2008

Episode # Title Writer(s) Director Original airdate[5] Final Diagnosis
71 (4-01) "Alone" Peter Blake & David Shore (teleplay)
Peter Blake (story)
Deran Sarafian September 25, 2007 Allergic reaction to cephalosporins in misidentified patient

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. 

72 (4-02) "The Right Stuff" Doris Egan & Leonard Dick Deran Sarafian October 2, 2007 Von Hippel-Lindau disease

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. 

73 (4-03) "97 Seconds" Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner David Platt October 9, 2007 Strongyloidiasis

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. 

74 (4-04) "Guardian Angels" TBA TBA October 23, 2007

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. 

75 (4-05) "Mirror Mirror" TBA TBA October 30, 2007

Foreman returns to the hospital and is assigned to oversee House's team candidates. 

76 (4-06) "Whatever it Takes" TBA TBA November 6, 2007

House is recruited by the CIA to work with Dr. Samira Terzi (guest star Michael Michele) and Dr. Curtis (Holmes Osborne) to treat a deathly ill agent.