List of House episodes

The following is an episode list for the medical drama House. The television series debuted on FOX on November 16, 2004 in the United States and was quickly picked up for a full season of 22 episodes. House gained high ratings and critical praise there, when it was placed in the time slot following American Idol during the spring of its first season. It now airs in 28 countries. The first, second, and third seasons are available on DVD. The fourth season DVD will be released on August 19, 2008.

With the season four finale on May 19, 2008, a total of 86 episodes of House have aired. House has been renewed for a fifth season, which will premiere on September 16, 2008.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired	Region 1 DVD release date	Region 2 DVD release date	Region 4 DVD release date	Viewers (in millions)	Rank	18–49 Rating/Share (rank)
	1	22	2004–2005	August 30, 2005	February 27, 2006	November 28, 2005	13.3	#24	5.2/13 (#20)
	2	24	2005–2006	August 22, 2006	October 23, 2006	October 23, 2006	17.3	#10	6.8/16 (#6)
	3	24	2006–2007	August 21, 2007	November 19, 2007	September 19, 2007	19.4	#7	8.1/20 (#3)
	4	16	2007–2008	August 19, 2008	November 2008	August 20, 2008	18.3	#4	7.4/18 (TBA)
	5	24	2008–2009	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Season 1: 2004–2005

Episode #	Title	Writer(s)	Director	Original airdate	Final Diagnosis
1 (1-01)	"Pilot"	David Shore	Bryan Singer	November 16, 2004	Neurocysticercosis
A 29-year old preschool teacher (guest star Robin Tunney) 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 (1-02)	"Paternity"	Lawrence Kaplow	Peter O'Fallon	November 23, 2004	Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
A 16-year-old high school student, Dan, starts suffering from night terrors and frequent hallucinations, and he reveals he was hit in the head while playing lacrosse at school. Dan is apparently suffering from MS, and risky brain surgery is needed. Meanwhile House must deal with a patient looking to set up a lawsuit and a mother who does not believe in vaccinations.
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
House's prediction that two sick babies is the beginning of something worse is dreadfully correct and he and his team quarantine the hospital's maternity ward as they try to find out the source of the illness.
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 almost kills her.
6 (1-06)	"The Socratic Method"	John Mankiewicz	Peter Medak	December 21, 2004	Vitamin K deficiency, hepatocellular carcinoma, 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
Two men are out jogging – one of them returns back to his wife and discovers her dead asleep and brings her to the clinic. When all the treatments fail, House concludes she has African sleeping sickness. However, neither the woman nor her husband could possibly have ever been to Africa. The woman will die without the proper treatment, but neither one will admit to having an affair.
8 (1-08)	"Poison"	Matt Witten	Guy Ferland	January 25, 2005	Phosdrin 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	Tuberculoma and rabies
Dr. Foreman believes an uncooperative homeless woman is faking seizures to get a meal ticket at the teaching hospital. But her homelessness strikes a personal chord with Dr. Wilson and he grows determined to keep her from falling between the cracks. Meanwhile, House has an audience of two medical students who are learning how to do case studies.
11 (1-11)	"Detox"	Lawrence Kaplow and Thomas L. Moran	Nelson McCormick	February 15, 2005	Naphthalene poisoning
While trying to figure out why a young patient will not stop bleeding after a car wreck, House takes Cuddy's challenge and goes off Vicodin for a week in exchange for no clinic duty for a month. As House's withdrawal symptoms become more and more severe, his patient directives for his patient are more harsh and risky than usual, and Foreman and Cameron are afraid he may not be thinking clearly enough to save the patient's life.
12 (1-12)	"Sports Medicine"	John Mankiewicz and David Shore	Keith Gordon	February 22, 2005	Cadmium poisoning
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, as his condition worsens. When Hank's kidneys start to fail, his wife offers to donate hers, but she would have to abort her early pregnancy. Meanwhile, Foreman dates a pharmaceutical representative and House is stuck with an extra ticket to a monster truck rally.
13 (1-13)	"Cursed"	Matt Witten and Peter Blake	Daniel Sackheim	March 1, 2005	Anthrax and leprosy
After consulting a Ouija board on his life, a young boy thinks that he is going to die. Chase's father comes 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
Billionaire entrepreneur Edward Vogler spends $100 million on the clinic and becomes the new Chairman of the Board. As a businessman, Vogler intends to turn the clinic into a profitable venue for his biotech venture and plans to eliminate the financially draining services of Dr. House. Meanwhile, a businesswoman who has it all – perfect life, perfect body, perfect job – finds herself inexplicably paralyzed. When he diagnoses her secret, House must risk his job and his medical license to save her.
15 (1-15)	"Mob Rules"	David Foster and John Mankiewicz	Tim Hunter	March 22, 2005	Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
House is placed under a court order to discern what is ailing a mobster due for federal testimony and then the Witness Protection Program. The witness's brother and lawyer appears to work against the team and the testimony when they discover his brother has hepatitis C. Cuddy continues to battle Vogler over House's importance to the hospital.
16 (1-16)	"Heavy"	Thomas L. Moran	Fred Gerber	March 29, 2005	Cushing's disease secondary to pituitary adenoma
House and his team investigate when an overweight ten-year-old girl has a heart attack. Adding to his stress, Vogler still demands that House get rid of one member of his team. His initial choice is rejected by Vogler and House believes that he is being sold out.
17 (1-17)	"Role Model"	Matt Witten	Peter O'Fallon	April 12, 2005	Delayed-onset CVID secondary to phenytoin-mediated Epstein-Barr virus infection.
A popular U.S. senator and presidential candidate succumbs to illness at a fundraiser and Vogler assigns House to his case. He also tells House he can keep his whole team if he endorses Vogler's pharmaceutical company. The Senator's initial diagnosis seems to point to AIDS, but House and team dig deeper for another answer. Meanwhile, House handles the case of a woman who apparently got pregnant without having sex.
18 (1-18)	"Babies & Bathwater"	Peter Blake and David Shore (teleplay) Peter Blake (story)	Bill Johnson	April 19, 2005	LEMS secondary to Small cell lung carcinoma
A pregnant woman arrives at the hospital with brain and kidney problems and House must contend with both her condition and Vogler's eagerness to see the doctor removed. The couple are told they will have to decide between the mother and child's lives after the team discovers small cell lung cancer. Vogler calls a board meeting in order to get rid of House.
19 (1-19)	"Kids"	Thomas L. Moran and Lawrence Kaplow	Deran Sarafian	May 3, 2005	Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura secondary to pregnancy
House fights off a meningitis outbreak and Cuddy gives his team an hour to produce results after he singles out a young patient who does not quite fit the criteria. House tries to get Cameron to return in the wake of Vogler's departure but she asks House to tell her why he really wants her back.
20 (1-20)	"Love Hurts"	Sara B. Cooper	Bryan Spicer	May 10, 2005	Fulminating osteomyelitis
The teaching hospital buzzes with rumors of House's upcoming date with Cameron. House is harsh to a patient, and when he tries to apologize, the patient has a stroke. House also deals with an elderly couple who partake in the little blue pill.
21 (1-21)	"Three Stories"	David Shore	Paris Barclay	May 17, 2005	Streptococcal infection (farmer), Osteosarcoma (volleyball player), Thigh muscle infarction (House)
House receives a visit from an ex-girlfriend, who has come seeking his help for her husband. House gives a lecture to medical students about diagnosing patients and presents three patients that have three different reasons for their leg pain. (guest star Carmen Electra)
22 (1-22)	"Honeymoon"	Lawrence Kaplow and John Mankiewicz	Frederick King Keller	May 24, 2005	Acute intermittent porphyria
House diagnoses Mark, the husband of his former love Stacy. Although the tests do not indicate a condition and he claims to be fine outside of stomach pain, it appears that his brain is dying which leaves House puzzled. When he comes to a potential diagnosis, he has to fight against the patient's wishes to get the proper test done.

Season 2: 2005–2006

Episode #	Title	Writer(s)	Director	Original airdate	Final Diagnosis
23 (2-01)	"Acceptance"	Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner	Dan Attias	September 13, 2005	Methanol poisoning and pheochromocytoma
House is brought in for a consult on a Death Row inmate (guest star LL Cool J) with mysterious symptoms. Cameron feels the hospital's resources would be better served elsewhere, with a young cancer patient. House and Stacy try to establish a good work relationship, especially after he lies to her to secure the transfer of the inmate to the hospital.
24 (2-02)	"Autopsy"	Lawrence Kaplow	Deran Sarafian	September 20, 2005	Thrombosis
A nine-year-old cancer patient is brought before House after she experiences hallucinations. House figures out a way to help her, but it will involve serious risk. The young patient asks Chase if he will kiss her because she's never kissed a boy. They discover that she has a tumor on her heart, but when it is benign, they believe that a clot may be navigating her body.
25 (2-03)	"Humpty Dumpty"	Matt Witten	Dan Attias	September 27, 2005	Endocarditis due to psittacosis
Cuddy feels responsible when her handyman falls off her roof and starts to show weird signs. House's team amputates one hand to prevent the spread of infection, but then the other starts to show signs and they have to seek out the source before it kills the patient.
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	Cavernous angioma 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
House is confronted by a gay man with AIDS, Kalvin, who demands treatment. The patient coughs blood onto Cameron who then must be checked for the virus herself. Kalvin's father begins to show signs of illness. House makes moves on Stacy using sensitive information he got about her relationship with Mark.
30 (2-08)	"The Mistake"	Peter Blake	David Semel	November 29, 2005	Behcet's Disease, then Hepatitis C and hepatocellular carcinoma from a Liver transplant
A lawsuit is brought against Chase and House for the death of a mother who came in with stomach pains. A disciplinary committee convenes to determine whether either of them is at fault in the death.
31 (2-09)	"Deception"	Michael R. Perry	Deran Sarafian	December 13, 2005	Clostridium perfringens and Munchausen syndrome
A woman who has a seizure is admitted to the hospital but Cameron wants her to be discharged when they discover she has Munchhausen 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
Cameron worries about the potential results of her HIV test. House basks in the afterglow of his kiss with Stacy, but Wilson tries to keep a level head about things. House must dig through the life and lies of a busy housewife to find the true reason why she has shown signs of physical and mental degeneration.
34 (2-12)	"Distractions"	Lawrence Kaplow	Dan Attias	February 14, 2006	Serotonin syndrome
The team struggles to diagnose a teen suffering from spasms when his severe burns make most of their usual diagnostic tests impossible. Meanwhile, House attempts to get revenge on the doctor who turned him in for cheating in medical school.
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
House treats a teenage supermodel who gets into a catfight on the catwalk and then passes out. When her tox-screen shows heroin, she is treated for addiction. Unfortunately, her symptoms continue after she has weaned off the drugs. Meanwhile, House fights off increasingly bad leg pains.
36 (2-14)	"Sex Kills"	Matt Witten	David Semel	March 7, 2006	Brucellosis
House tries to treat a man who has a seizure but does not 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 sodium thiomalate poisoning
When a man cannot breathe after roleplaying with his wife, House must question the motives for the marriage. He also deals with Wilson's presence in his house.
38 (2-16)	"Safe"	Peter Blake	Félix Enríquez Alcalá	April 4, 2006	Tick paralysis
Melinda (guest star Michelle Trachtenberg), a troubled teenage girl who is immuno-compromised as a result of the medications she must take after a heart transplant, has a severe allergic reaction and goes into shock when her boyfriend visits her. Meanwhile, House and Wilson continue to work out the problems in their new living arrangement.
39 (2-17)	"All In"	David Foster	Fred Gerber	April 11, 2006	Erdheim-Chester disease
The hospital is hosting an oncology benefit, when a six-year-old boy is brought in exhibiting symptoms identical to those of a patient House had 12 years ago. House is convinced the boy's case is identical, and that he can predict the course of the young patient's illness, which ended in death for the first patient.
40 (2-18)	"Sleeping Dogs Lie"	Sara Hess	Greg Yaitanes	April 18, 2006	Bubonic plague
A young woman's health becomes a question of ethics. Hannah has been unable to sleep for 10 days. It is not until House discovers she will need a liver transplant that he also uncovers some vital information about her and her partner Max, which might lead to her death. Foreman is accused of plagiarism by Cameron when an article he authors appears remarkably similar to one of hers.
41 (2-19)	"House vs. God"	Doris Egan	John F. Showalter	April 25, 2006	Tuberous sclerosis and herpes encephalitis
House wants to call a 15-year-old faith-healer's bluff, but when the boy is admitted into the hospital, he touches a cancer patient and causes the cancer to go into remission. After being diagnosed, the boy refuses brain surgery, but when his condition worsens, House and his staff have to make a decision. Meanwhile, Cameron is still sour about Foreman.
42 (2-20)	"Euphoria, Part 1"	Matthew V. Lewis	Deran Sarafian	May 2, 2006	Legionellosis (cop)
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 due to infection by Naegleria fowleri (Foreman)
The police officer that had the same symptoms as Foreman has died. Fearful of his own death, Foreman contacts his father who rushes to be by his son's side. Meanwhile, House and the rest of the team are still trying to do everything they can to help Foreman.
44 (2-22)	"Forever"	Liz Friedman	Daniel Sackheim	May 9, 2006	Coeliac 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
A 16-year-old Hurricane Katrina victim suffering from horrifying hallucinations is brought to House by his former bandmate, who recently found out the girl is his daughter. Although House fears his friend is being scammed, he takes the case. As he works his way through the girl's lies so he can diagnose and treat her, he is forced to tell a few lies of his own.
46 (2-24)	"No Reason"	David Shore (teleplay) Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (story)	David Shore	May 23, 2006	Hallucination (House), No patients diagnosed
As House and his team are working on the diagnosis of a man with a swollen tongue, the husband of a former patient walks into House's office and shoots him. House continues to treat his patient from his ICU bed with the shooter, who has been shot by hospital security and handcuffed to his bed, as his roommate. When the aftereffects of the shooting begin to impact House, he starts to question his own ability to diagnose properly. As his patient's body deteriorates, House struggles through his self-doubt and must trust his team to find a way to solve the case.

Season 3: 2006–2007

Episode #	Title	Writer(s)	Director	Original airdate	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 has recovered from multiple gunshot wounds and is back at work, taking on two cases simultaneously: Richard, paralyzed after brain cancer surgery eight years ago, who drove himself on his motorized wheelchair headfirst into a swimming pool; and Caren, a young woman paralyzed from the neck down after a yoga session. As House begins to diagnose and treat them, the team notices a distinct change in his attitude toward the patients.
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
Seven-year-old Clancy has been admitted to the hospital with rectal bleeding and claims of being tortured by aliens. The team runs tests on him, but when they get different results from the same tests, in addition to finding a metal object in his neck, they are forced to give Clancy's alien claims a little more credence. Amidst all this weirdness, Cuddy and Wilson decide it would be best not to tell House the truth about his last case, thinking that perhaps he will learn some humility if he believes that he is not always right. Cameron discovers the lie and is outraged. A frustrated House gives up on his young patient, forcing Cuddy to re-think her decision to hold back the truth.
49 (3-03)	"Informed Consent"	David Foster	Laura Innes	September 19, 2006	Congestive heart failure secondary to senile cardiac amyloidosis
House is back to using his cane and does not want to talk about it. His new patient is Ezra Powell (guest star Joel Grey), a renowned medical research pioneer who collapsed in his lab. House puts Ezra through diagnostic rigors, but the team is unable to come up with a conclusive diagnosis and Ezra's health continues to deteriorate. Becoming increasingly debilitated, Ezra ultimately demands that the team stop the litany of medical tests and help him end his life. The team members have divergent opinions on the morality of helping Ezra die, especially since the possibility of a cure is still in question. Meanwhile, the teenage daughter of a clinic patient has developed a disturbing crush on Dr. House.
50 (3-04)	"Lines in the Sand"	David Hoselton	Newton Thomas Sigel	September 26, 2006	Baylisascaris
House takes the case of Adam, a 10-year-old severely autistic boy who screams loudly for no apparent reason. Cuddy makes a minor change to House's office and House refuses to use the office until it is returned to its original state; he thus finds himself wandering the hospital in need of a temporary home, crashing in Cuddy and Wilson's offices. Meanwhile, teenager Ali from the previous episode still has a crush on House and is becoming a nuisance around the hospital.
51 (3-05)	"Fools for Love"	Peter Blake	David Platt	October 31, 2006	Hereditary angioedema
House takes the case of a young woman who has been rushed to the hospital with problems breathing and severe stomach pain after she and her husband were robbed. After her husband collapses, the team believes the couple's illnesses are related. Meanwhile, Michael Tritter, a clinic patient, causes problems for House.
52 (3-06)	"Que Sera Sera"	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
House decides to awaken a comatose patient so he can question the man regarding the family history of his son, who may have a genetic condition and the father is the only living relative. Meanwhile, Wilson confronts House about the stolen prescription pad as Tritter approaches Cameron, Chase, and Foreman in an attempt to divide the team and reveal their loyalties.
54 (3-08)	"Whac-A-Mole"	Pamela Davis	Daniel Sackheim	November 21, 2006	Chronic granulomatous disease
House's newest patient is 18-year-old Jack, brought to the hospital after experiencing a heart attack and massive vomiting. Jack has been the parent to his younger brother and sister since their parents died. After a brief review of his file, House thinks he has got the diagnosis, seals it in an envelope and turns the process into a game, challenging Cameron, Foreman and Chase to figure it out on their own. Meanwhile, in an attempt to extract a confession, Tritter makes it almost impossible for Wilson to practice medicine, driving a wedge between House and Wilson.
55 (3-09)	"Finding Judas"	Sara Hess	Deran Sarafian	November 28, 2006	Erythropoietic protoporphyria
House and the team take on the case of Alice, a young girl with pancreatitis. Since her divorced parents cannot agree on how to proceed with her treatment and will not let House bully them into making a decision, House's only option is to take them to court and let a judge rule on the matter. Meanwhile, House's reduced access to Vicodin is beginning to take its toll and he asks Cuddy for more of the medication, but instead of writing a prescription, she strictly rations his pills.
56 (3-10)	"Merry Little Christmas"	Liz Friedman	Tony To	December 12, 2006	Langerhans cell histiocytosis
It is Christmas at Princeton-Plainsboro and Wilson has a present for House. He and Detective Tritter have struck a deal and House has three days to accept it. Cuddy receives a patient afflicted with dwarfism, who has a variety of symptoms and is recovering from a recently collapsed lung, and House takes on the case. Cuddy is eventually forced to make a difficult and potentially life-threatening choice between her patient's life and House's life.
57 (3-11)	"Words and Deeds"	Leonard Dick	Daniel Sackheim	January 9, 2007	Spinal meningioma
House is forced to respond in court to the criminal charges against him regarding illegal possession of narcotics, and the judge sets a date for a preliminary hearing. Cuddy insists that House apologize to Detective Tritter. Meanwhile, the most recent case at the hospital is a firefighter suffering from disorientation and extreme body temperatures. Because of misinterpreted information, the firefighter is eventually forced to make a decision to undergo a radical brain treatment which will have a serious effect on his current life.
58 (3-12)	"One Day, One Room"	David Shore	Juan J. Campanella	January 30, 2007	Chlamydia and pregnancy due to rape
House has beaten the drug charges and is back at the hospital after a short stint in rehab. Tired of House's disdain for patients, Cuddy turns his clinic duty into a game, with the stakes raised to a level that speaks to House: challenge. There, House encounters Eve, who has tested positive for an STD and admits she has very recently been raped. She refuses to be treated by anyone but House. Cameron encounters a homeless man who is very different from how he originally seemed.
59 (3-13)	"Needle in a Haystack"	David Foster	Peter O'Fallon	February 6, 2007	Undigested toothpick
16-year-old Stevie Lipa is admitted to Princeton-Plainsboro with a serious respiratory condition and internal bleeding. He is assigned to House, but House is busy fulfilling a dare given to him by Cuddy. A startling secret is revealed about Stevie, and the team encounters troubles with his parents. Foreman is forced to ask Stevie to lie directly to his parents, risking his medical license.
60 (3-14)	"Insensitive"	Matthew V. Lewis	Deran Sarafian	February 13, 2007	Diphyllobothrium latum 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)
A famous, pregnant photographer, Emma Sloan, is brought to the hospital after suffering a stroke in the middle of a photo shoot with Tyson Ritter. Although Emma's condition initially stabilizes, her health takes a turn for the worse when her kidneys fail. As her health continues to deteriorate, Emma is more concerned about her baby's well-being than her own. Meanwhile, the secret relationship between Cameron and Chase is exposed to Foreman and Cuddy, and House makes extravagant plans to take a much-needed vacation.
64 (3-18)	"Airborne"	David Hoselton	Elodie Keene	April 10, 2007	Decompression sickness (Peng), Mass hysteria (Other 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 six-year-old girl suffers ailments expected in much older patients. 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 infection
A scam 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	Haemochromatosis
House meets his match in the form of Nathan Harrison, 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 coronary artery 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

Note: Season interrupted by 2007-2008 WGA Strike, with the number of episodes condensed to 16 instead of the normal 24.

Episode #	Title	Writer(s)	Director	Original airdate	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 sounds to visual images. 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 spinal muscular atrophy who is slowly suffocating. As the two teams try to one-up each other, complications arise. 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"	David Hoselton	Deran Sarafian	October 23, 2007	Ergotism
While having a seizure, a funeral home cosmetician hallucinates that she's being violently raped by one of the corpses she's working on. 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; Foreman has lunch with Cuddy.
75 (4-05)	"Mirror Mirror"	David Foster	David Platt	October 30, 2007	Eperythrozoon (Rickettsiaceae resulting from exposure to pig feces)
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.
76 (4-06)	"Whatever It Takes"	Thomas L. Moran & Peter Blake (teleplay) Thomas L. Moran (story)	Juan J. Campanella	November 6, 2007	Selenosis ("John"); Heat stroke and Thallium poisoning (Casey)
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. Meanwhile, Foreman faces resistance from the remaining six fellowship candidates when they question his judgment and argue over the diagnosis of a female drag car racer who passed out after a race.
77 (4-07)	"Ugly"	Sean Whitesell	David Straiton	November 13, 2007	Lyme disease
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.
78 (4-08)	"You Don't Want to Know"	Sara Hess	Lesli Linka Glatter	November 20, 2007	Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in systemic lupus erythematosis
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.
79 (4-09)	"Games"	Eli Attie	Deran Sarafian	November 27, 2007	Measles
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.
80 (4-10)	"It's a Wonderful Lie"	Pamela Davis	Matt Shakman	January 29, 2008	Breast cancer in displaced breast tissue
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.
81 (4-11)	"Frozen"	Liz Friedman	David Straiton	February 3, 2008	Fat embolism from unrepaired broken toe
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. This episode originally aired in the United States outside of its regular time slot, immediately following FOX's broadcast of Super Bowl XLII post-game show.
82 (4-12)	"Don't Ever Change"	Leonard Dick & Doris Egan	Deran Sarafian	February 5, 2008	Nephroptosis
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, House insists that people do not change, and that her seemingly rash decision may be a symptom of the underlying condition.
83 (4-13)	"No More Mr. Nice Guy"	David Hoselton & David Shore	Deran Sarafian	April 28, 2008	Chagas' disease
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. Meanwhile, House and Amber are at odds about how much time they each get to spend with Wilson, and Cuddy demands House give his team performance reviews.
84 (4-14)	"Living the Dream"	Sara Hess & Liz Friedman	David Straiton	May 5, 2008	Cinchonism
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. Meanwhile, much to House’s delight, Amber and Wilson have their first argument, and Cuddy tries to keep up appearances when an inspector makes an unexpected visit to Princeton-Plainsboro.
85 (4-15)	"House's Head"	Peter Blake & David Foster & Doris Egan & Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner	Greg Yaitanes	May 12, 2008	Air embolism from dental work (bus driver)
House finds himself dazed, confused and covered in blood after surviving a bus accident that left dozens seriously injured. Unable to clearly recall the events leading up to the crash due to his head injuries, House becomes convinced through his flashbacks that a fellow bus passenger was exhibiting signs of a deadly illness prior to the crash. Much to the team's dismay, House pushes through the pain of his own injuries, desperate to piece together the fragments of his shattered memory in order to save someone who might not even know he or she could be dying.
86 (4-16)	"Wilson's Heart"	Peter Blake & David Foster & Doris Egan & Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner	Katie Jacobs	May 19, 2008	Amantadine poisoning
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.

Season 5: 2008–2009

House's fifth season will begin airing on September 16, 2008. It will air in a new timeslot, Tuesday 8/7c.

External links

• FOX.com House Official Site
• Episode List for House M.D. at IMDb
• Episode Guide at The House M.D. Guide
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• epguides.com House Episode Guide
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• Polite Dissent Reviews of episodes focusing on the medical aspects
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