House season 2
House | |
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Season 2 | |
No. of episodes | 24 |
Release | |
Original network | Fox |
Original release | September 13, 2005 May 23, 2006 | –
Season chronology | |
The second season of House premiered on September 13, 2005[1] and ended on May 23, 2006.[1] During the season, House tries to cope with his feelings for his ex-girlfriend Stacy Warner, who, after House diagnosed her husband with acute intermittent porphyria, has taken a job in the legal department of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.[2]
Sela Ward's chemistry with Laurie in the final two episodes of season one was strong enough to have her character return in seven episodes of the second season.[3]
Cast and characters
Main cast
- Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House
- Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Lisa Cuddy
- Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman
- Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson
- Jennifer Morrison as Dr. Allison Cameron
- Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase
Recurring cast
- Sela Ward as Stacy Warner
- Stephanie Venditto as Nurse Brenda Previn
- Currie Graham as Mark Warner
- Diane Baker as Blythe House
- R. Lee Ermey as John House
- Charles S. Dutton as Rodney Foreman
- Ron Perkins as Dr. Ron Simpson
Guest cast
Laura Allen, Yareli Arizmendi, Matthew John Armstrong, Mackenzie Astin, Christine Avila, Marshall Bell, Peter Birkenhead, Tamara Braun, Yvette Nicole Brown, Dan Butler, Scott Michael Campbell, Christopher Carley, Jewel Christian, Michelle Clunie, Aasha Davis, Thomas Dekker, Stephanie Erb, Elle Fanning, Bruce French, Erica Gimpel, Greg Grunberg, Wings Hauser, Taraji P. Henson, Howard Hesseman, Wil Horneff, Ryan Hurst, James Immekus, LL Cool J, William Katt, Mimi Kennedy, Edward Kerr, Elias Koteas, Nathan Kress, Tom Lenk, Ron Livingston, Samantha Mathis, Jayma Mays, Eddie Mills, Cynthia Nixon, Michael O'Keefe, America Olivo, Kip Pardue, Randall Park, Sasha Pieterse, Kristoffer Polaha, Clifton Powell, Keri Lynn Pratt, Cameron Richardson, Charlie Robinson, Ignacio Serricchio, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Allison Smith, Christie Lynn Smith, D. B. Sweeney, Chris Tallman, Michelle Trachtenberg, Hillary Tuck, Alanna Ubach, Stephanie Venditto, Tom Verica, JR Villarreal, and Julie Warner.
Reception
The season gained high Nielsen ratings; "No Reason" was watched by 25.47 million viewers, the show's biggest audience ever at that point.[4] Season two averaged 17.3 million viewers an episode, outperforming season one by 30%.[5] The number of viewers made it the tenth most-watched show of the 2005–2006 television season.[5]
Writer Lawrence Kaplow won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for the episode "Autopsy".[6]
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | US viewers (millions) |
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23 | 1 | "Acceptance" | Dan Attias | Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner | September 13, 2005 | 15.91[7] |
24 | 2 | "Autopsy" | Deran Sarafian | Lawrence Kaplow | September 20, 2005 | 13.64[8] |
25 | 3 | "Humpty Dumpty" | Dan Attias | Matt Witten | September 27, 2005 | 13.37[9] |
26 | 4 | "TB or Not TB" | Peter O'Fallon | David Foster | November 1, 2005 | 12.18[10] |
27 | 5 | "Daddy's Boy" | Greg Yaitanes | Thomas L. Moran | November 8, 2005 | 14.15[11] |
28 | 6 | "Spin" | Fred Gerber | Sara Hess | November 15, 2005 | 12.95[12] |
29 | 7 | "Hunting" | Gloria Muzio | Liz Friedman | November 22, 2005 | 14.72[13] |
30 | 8 | "The Mistake" | David Semel | Peter Blake | November 29, 2005 | 14.91[14] |
31 | 9 | "Deception" | Deran Sarafian | Michael R. Perry | December 13, 2005 | 14.52[15] |
32 | 10 | "Failure to Communicate" | Jace Alexander | Doris Egan | January 10, 2006 | 14.83[16] |
33 | 11 | "Need to Know" | David Semel | Pamela Davis | February 7, 2006 | 22.24[17] |
34 | 12 | "Distractions" | Dan Attias | Lawrence Kaplow | February 14, 2006 | 19.20[18] |
35 | 13 | "Skin Deep" | Jim Hayman | Story by : Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner Teleplay by : Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & David Shore | February 20, 2006 | 14.18[19] |
36 | 14 | "Sex Kills" | David Semel | Matt Witten | March 7, 2006 | 20.56[20] |
37 | 15 | "Clueless" | Deran Sarafian | Thomas L. Moran | March 28, 2006 | 21.44[21] |
38 | 16 | "Safe" | Félix Alcalá | Peter Blake | April 4, 2006 | 22.71[22] |
39 | 17 | "All In" | Fred Gerber | David Foster | April 11, 2006 | 21.20[23] |
40 | 18 | "Sleeping Dogs Lie" | Greg Yaitanes | Sara Hess | April 18, 2006 | 22.64[24] |
41 | 19 | "House vs. God" | John F. Showalter | Doris Egan | April 25, 2006 | 24.52[25] |
42 | 20 | "Euphoria (Part 1)" | Deran Sarafian | Matthew V. Lewis | May 2, 2006 | 22.71[26] |
43 | 21 | "Euphoria (Part 2)" | Deran Sarafian | Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & David Shore | May 3, 2006 | 17.16[26] |
44 | 22 | "Forever" | Daniel Sackheim | Liz Friedman | May 9, 2006 | 24.29[27] |
45 | 23 | "Who's Your Daddy?" | Martha Mitchell | Story by : Charles M. Duncan & John Mankiewicz Teleplay by : John Mankiewicz & Lawrence Kaplow | May 16, 2006 | 22.38[28] |
46 | 24 | "No Reason" | David Shore | Story by : Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore Teleplay by : David Shore | May 23, 2006 | 25.47[29] |
DVD releases
Set details | Special features | |||
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Country | North America | United Kingdom | Australia |
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# episodes | 24 | |||
Aspect ratio | 1.78:1 | |||
Running time | 1044 minutes | 1008 minutes | 1037 minutes | |
Audio | Dolby Digital 5.1 | |||
Subtitles | English, Spanish | — | none | |
# of discs | 6 | |||
Region | 1 (NTSC) | 2 (PAL) | 4 (PAL) | |
Rating | NOT RATED | 15 | M | |
Release date | August 22, 2006[30] | October 23, 2006[31] | October 25, 2006[32] |
References
- General
- Challen, Paul (2007). The House that Hugh Laurie Built. ECW Press. pp. 101–334. ISBN 1-55022-803-X.
- "House Recaps". Fox. Archived from the original on 2006-09-08. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
- Specific
- ^ a b "House Season 2 guide". film.com. Retrieved July 8, 2009.
- ^ Byrne, Bridget (November 7, 2005). "Sela Ward Brings Heart to 'House'". The Washington Post. Associated Press. Retrieved April 10, 2009.
- ^ McCollum, Charlie (August 30, 2005). "TV Tonight: House with Sela Ward". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved July 8, 2009.[dead link]
- ^ de Moraes, Lisa (June 1, 2006). "Fox Crushes the Competition". The Washington Post. p. C07. Retrieved May 24, 2009.
- ^ a b "Season 2 ratings". The Hollywood Reporter. May 26, 2006. Retrieved July 4, 2008.
- ^ "2006 Awards winners". Writers Guild of America Awards. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved June 22, 2010.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. September 20, 2005. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. September 27, 2005. Archived from the original on June 1, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. October 4, 2005. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. November 8, 2005. Retrieved July 8, 2009.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. November 15, 2005. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
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- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. February 14, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
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- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. March 14, 2006. Retrieved July 8, 2009.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. April 4, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. April 11, 2006. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. April 18, 2006. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. April 25, 2006. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved October 12, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. May 2, 2006. Retrieved October 12, 2008.
- ^ a b "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. May 9, 2006. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. May 16, 2006. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. May 23, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet. May 31, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "House - Season 2". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on April 13, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
- ^ "House - Season 2 (Hugh Laurie) [DVD]". amazon. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
- ^ "House Region 4 releases". DVD Orchard. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
- Further reading
- Holtz, Andrew (October 3, 2006). The Medical Science of House, M.D.. Berkley Books. ISBN 978-0-425-21230-1.
- Jacoby, Henry (December 3, 2008). House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-31660-3.
- Wilson, Leah (November 1, 2007). House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner. Benbella Books. ISBN 1-933771-23-2.
- Benson, Kristina (August 21, 2008). House MD: House MD Season Two Unofficial Guide: The Unofficial Guide to House MD Season 2. Equity Press. ISBN 1-60332-065-2.