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The series House (then called House M.D.) began its first season on November 16, 2004 in the United States and was picked up for a full run of 22 episodes.
House, M.D. - Season One was initially released to DVD in Region 1 on August 30, 2005. Region 2 DVDs were released on February 27, 2006, and Region 4 DVDs were released on November 28, 2006.
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[edit] Cast
[edit] 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
[edit] Recurring Characters
Chi McBride as Edward Vogler (5 Episodes)
Sela Ward as Stacy Warner (2 Episodes)
[edit] Season 1: 2004-2005
Episode Name (original air date)
- Pilot (November 16, 2004)
- Paternity (November 23, 2004)
- Occam's Razor (November 30, 2004)
- Maternity (December 7, 2004)
- Damned If You Do (December 14, 2004)
- The Socratic Method (December 21, 2004)
- Fidelity (December 28, 2004)
- Poison (January 25, 2005)
- DNR (February 1, 2005)
- Histories (February 8, 2005)
- Detox (February 15, 2005)
- Sports Medicine (February 22, 2005)
- Cursed (March 1, 2005)
- Control (March 15, 2005)
- Mob Rules (March 22, 2005)
- Heavy (March 29, 2005)
- Role Model (April 12, 2005)
- Babies & Bathwater (April 19, 2005)
- Kids (May 3, 2005)
- Love Hurts (May 10, 2005)
- Three Stories (May 17, 2005)
- Honeymoon (May 24, 2005)
[edit] Overview
We are introduced to the brilliant, famous but extremely exasperating Gregory House. We learn that despite his considerable intellect and talents as a physician, he does next to no work at the hospital, merely coming in from 9 to 5 to oversee his three teaching fellows. This infuriates his boss, Dean of Medicine Lisa Cuddy. However she keeps him on because when the rest of the doctors are stumped, House swings into action.
House's best (and only) friend is the hospital's Head of Oncology, James Wilson, who unlike House is conscientious and considerate, but also extremely loyal to House.
He has recently hired Eric Foreman who, despite his considerable academic background appears to have been hired because he was a juvenile delinquent. House plans on using him to break into patients' homes to look for diagnostic clues. Foreman joins the two fellows on staff, Robert Chase, the longest serving (and suffering) fellow, a rich kid whose dad appears to have gotten him this job, and Allison Cameron, who apparently got her job because of her looks.
Things go well until a new chairman arrives at the hospital, billionaire businessman Edward Vogler. Vogler immediately takes a dislike to House and, after forcing out Cameron, tries to fire House because Vogler claims that House is a danger to the hospital. Instead, after forcing out Wilson too, Vogler finds himself and his $100 million donation out on the street instead.
With things back to normal, Cameron starts to let her feelings for House become known, but it is for no avail. She thinks he is totally unfeeling until House's ex-girlfriend Stacy Warner shows up, begging House to treat her husband. House successfully does so and finds himself in a position of letting his ex-girlfriend work at the hospital.
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Season 2 of House M.D. returned to television in September 2005, and contained 24 episodes. House, M.D. - Season Two was initially released to DVD on August 22, 2006.
[edit] Cast
[edit] 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
[edit] Recurring Characters
Sela Ward as Stacy Warner (7 Episodes)
Currie Graham as Mark Warner (3 Episodes)
[edit] Season 2: 2005-2006
Episode Name (original air date)
- Acceptance (September 13, 2005)
- Autopsy (September 20, 2005)
- Humpty Dumpty (September 27, 2005)
- TB or Not TB (November 1, 2005)
- Daddy's Boy (November 8, 2005)
- Spin (November 15, 2005)
- Hunting (November 22, 2005)
- The Mistake (November 29, 2005)
- Deception (December 13, 2005)
- Failure to Communicate (January 10, 2006)
- Need to Know (February 7, 2006)
- Distractions (February 14, 2006)
- Skin Deep (February 20, 2006)
- Sex Kills (March 7, 2006)
- Clueless (March 28, 2006)
- Safe (April 4, 2006)
- All In (April 11, 2006)
- Sleeping Dogs Lie (April 18, 2006)
- House vs. God (April 25, 2006)
- Euphoria (Part 1) (May 2, 2006)
- Euphoria (Part 2) (May 3, 2006)
- Forever (May 9, 2006)
- Who's Your Daddy? (May 16, 2006)
- No Reason (May 23, 2006)
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| Previous season: Season 1 | List of episodes | Next season: Season 3 |
[edit] Overview
Stacy Warner returns to PPTH, having been offically hired as the hospital general attorney. House eventually realizes that he still has feelings for her. In an attempt to prove that she feels the same way about him, he breaks into her therapists office and reads her file. House learns that she is not sleeping with her husband Mark Warner. He tries to get back with her by getting rid of a rat but soon changes his mind after learning that the rat has a tumor.
House cures the rat after capturing him and begins to use him as a lab rat, naming him Steve McQueen. Stacy soon realizes that he's read her file and gets mad at him. House soon gets in legal trouble over his medical billings and they fly to Baltimore together. But due to a huge snowstorm, their plane is delayed and while in the airport, they share a kiss.
Soon afterwards, House sleeps with Stacy. Meanwhile Mark confronts House because he thinks that he is losing Stacy. Stacy tells House that she is going to break up with Mark and be with House once again. But House, knowing that history is likely to repeat itself again tells her to stay with him. Stacy quits her job and leaves the hospital for good along with Mark..
With his ex gone, House's leg pain greatly increases and Wilson hopes that it means nerve regeneration, but really it is because he misses Stacy. A doctor that caught House cheating on a test nearly twenty years ago comes to the hospital to give a speech regarding a new drug. House soon exacts revenge on him.
James Wilson gets a divorce with his wife and he moves in with House. He has trouble with it at first but eventually gets used to it. He gets mad at House because he didn't invite him to his weekly poker game but soon all is forgiven.
A friend of Cuddy's falls off her roof. Cuddy attempts to work with House and his team to help him but she finds that she can't do it, she realizes that she hasn't been a real doctor is years. She decides that she wants a baby and asks Wilson to be the sperm donor. She invites him over until dinner when he begins to think that she has cancer and she never gets the courage to ask him.
After Chase ends up accidentally killing a patient, Foreman is put in charge of diagnostics. House makes him miserable and Cuddy offers him a permanent job as head of diagnostics. But House manages to save a patient that Foreman would have sent out of the hospital so Cuddy takes back the offer, knowing that House is still a good doctor. Foreman remains head of the department for a few more weeks until at some point during Deception where House finally regains control of the Department once again.
In Europhia part 1 and 2, the team face a huge crisis on their hands when Foreman is accidentally infected with a strange disease. He nearly dies from it but House, Cameron and Chase manage to save his life. It soon becomes clear that it takes some time for Foreman to recover from his near-death experience.
Chase kisses a 9-year old patient while doing an MRI. House taunts him about it. In the meantime, Chase finally learns of his father's death. Distracted, he ends up killing Kayla McGinley, a young mother of two children. He tells Kayla's brother Sam that he had a hangover leading him to sue Chase and the entire hospital for damages amounting to ten million dollars. Stacy helps him prepare for the disciplinary hearing and soon, no permanent charges are pressed against him although Chase gets a week's suspension and Foreman becomes Head of Diagnostics. House later figures out that Chase has been working extra time in the ER because his father disinherited him.
Another patient with HIV spits blood in Cameron's face and mouth. Unable to cope with the fact that she might have HIV, she gets high and sleeps with Chase. Thankfully, she soon learns that her HIV tests were negative.
At the end of the season, House is shot and gravely injured by a disgruntled former patient's husband. It's soon shown that the events involving his bust-up with Wilson and talking to his team never actually happened as they were in fact hallucinations. The season ends on a cliffhanger of some sort as House is seen being wheeled into the ER by his team and he makes a request for ketamine before losing consciousnesses altogether. </noinclude>
Season 3 of House M.D. returned to television in September 2006, and contained 24 episodes. House, M.D. - Season Three was released to DVD on August 21, 2007.
[edit] Cast
[edit] 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
[edit] Recurring Characters
David Morse as Detective Michael Tritter (7 Episodes)
Marco Pelaez as Marco (3 Episodes)
Leighton Meester as Ali (2 Episodes)
[edit] Season 3: 2006-2007
| Episode Number | Episode Name | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 3 x 01 | Meaning | 5 September, 2006 |
| 3 x 02 | Cane & Able | 12 September, 2006 |
| 3 x 03 | Informed Consent | 19 September, 2006 |
| 3 x 04 | Lines in the Sand | 26 September, 2006 |
| 3 x 05 | Fools for Love | 31 October, 2006 |
| 3 x 06 | Que Será Será | 07 November, 2006 |
| 3 x 07 | Son of Coma Guy | 14 November, 2006 |
| 3 x 08 | Whac-A-Mole | 21 November, 2006 |
| 3 x 09 | Finding Judas | 28 November, 2006 |
| 3 x 10 | Merry Little Christmas | 12 December, 2006 |
| 3 x 11 | Words and Deeds | 09 January, 2007 |
| 3 x 12 | One Day, One Room | 30 January, 2007 |
| 3 x 13 | Needle in a Haystack | 06 February, 2007 |
| 3 x 14 | Insensitive | 13 February, 2007 |
| 3 x 15 | Half-Wit | 06 March, 2007 |
| 3 x 16 | Top Secret | 27 March, 2007 |
| 3 x 17 | Fetal Position | 03 April, 2007 |
| 3 x 18 | Airborne | 10 April, 2007 |
| 3 x 19 | Act Your Age | 17 April, 2007 |
| 3 x 20 | House Training | 24 April, 2007 |
| 3 x 21 | Family | 01 May, 2007 |
| 3 x 22 | Resignation | 08 May, 2007 |
| 3 x 23 | The Jerk | 15 May, 2007 |
| 3 x 24 | Human Error | 29 May, 2007 |
Season 4 of House M.D. returned in September 2007 and contains 16 episodes. House, M.D. - Season Four was released on DVD in region 2 on the 27th October 2008.
According to Variety magazine, FOX Broadcasting made an early decision in February 2007 to renew House for a fourth season.[1]
[edit] Cast
[edit] 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
Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub
Kal Penn as Dr. Lawrence Kutner
Olivia Wilde as Thirteen
Jennifer Morrison as Dr. Allison Cameron
Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase
[edit] Recurring Characters
Anne Dudek as Dr. Amber Volakis (14 Episodes)
Edi Gathegi as Jeffrey Cole (7 Episodes)
Andy Comeau as Travis Brennan (5 Episodes)
Carmen Argenziano as Henry Dobson (3 Episodes)
Michael Michele as Samira Terzi (2 Episodes)
[edit] Season 4: 2007-2008
| Episode Number | Episode Name | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 4 x 01 | Alone | 25 September, 2007 |
| 4 x 02 | The Right Stuff | 2 October, 2007 |
| 4 x 03 | 97 Seconds | 9 October, 2007 |
| 4 x 04 | Guardian Angels | 23 October, 2007 |
| 4 x 05 | Mirror Mirror | 30 October, 2007 |
| 4 x 06 | Whatever It Takes | 6 November, 2007 |
| 4 x 07 | Ugly | 13 November, 2007 |
| 4 x 08 | You Don't Want To Know | 20 November, 2007 |
| 4 x 09 | Games | 27 November, 2007 |
| 4 x 10 | It's a Wonderful Lie | 29 January, 2008 |
| 4 x 11 | Frozen | 3 February, 2008 |
| 4 x 12 | Don't Ever Change | 5 February, 2008 |
| 4 x 13 | No More Mr. Nice Guy | 28 April, 2008 |
| 4 x 14 | Living The Dream | 5 May, 2008 |
| 4 x 15 | House's Head | 12 May, 2008 |
| 4 x 16 | Wilson's Heart | 19 May, 2008 |
[edit] Overview
House decides he doesn't need fellows, but after he takes a long time to solve a case, Cuddy insists he hire some. House gets forty applicants together and has a reality show style contest to see who stays. Meanwhile, Cameron and Chase come back to work at the hospital, while Foreman starts work in a job similar to House's at another hospital. However, Foreman is soon fired for doing exactly what House would do and winds up back at Princeton-Plainsboro. House wants nothing to do with him, but Cuddy insists he can only hire two new fellows and must have Foreman on his team to keep an eye on him. After some false starts, House decides on a fortyish plastic surgeon, Chris Taub, and a young rehabilitation specialist, Lawrence Kutner. He also manipulates Cuddy into hiring Number 13, a beautiful but mysterious internist. Meanwhile, Foreman stays on, and becomes more and more like House with each passing day.
Meanwhile, House starts fearing the loss of his best friend when it is revealed that Wilson has been dating Amber for several months without letting House know. Meanwhile, everyone starts speculating about why Number 13 is being so guarded, and Foreman lets it slip that he thinks she is bisexual, leading to rampant speculation by the rest of the medical staff.
Tragedy strikes when House is injured in a bus crash, suffering a concussion. He is sure one of the other passengers on the bus was suffering from a medical condition, but his injury prevents him from remembering who it was or what the condition was. Finally he remembers - for some unexplained reason, Amber was on the bus with him and she was badly injured in the crash and is being treated as a Jane Doe patient at another hospital. Wilson eventually learns that the reason Amber was on the bus was to attempt to get House home safely after a night of drinking, leaving House and his friendship in risk. </noinclude>
[edit] Season 5: 2008-2009
Early reports show House as being renewed by Fox, along with several other shows. Hollywood Reporter
FOX Broadcasting Company stated in this Network Prime Time Schedule [2], that House would premiere it's 5th Season at 8:00 P.M. EST on September 2nd, 2008.
Mid-Season, House and American Idol switched around spots on the prime time schedule, leaving House to show new episodes at the same time on Mondays, rather than Tuesdays.
Amazon.com currently lists the release date of the season five DVD set as August 25, 2009.
[edit] Cast
[edit] 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
Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub
Olivia Wilde as Thirteen
Kal Penn as Dr. Lawrence Kutner
[edit] Recurring Characters
Michael Weston as Lucas Douglas (3 Episodes)
Lori Petty ad Janice Burke (3 Episodes)
Anne Dudek as Amber hallucination (4 Episodes)
[edit] Episodes
Episode Name (original air date)
- Dying Changes Everything (September 16, 2008)
- Not Cancer (September 23, 2008)
- Adverse Events (September 30, 2008)
- Birthmarks (October 14, 2008)
- Lucky Thirteen (October 21, 2008)
- Joy (October 28, 2008)
- The Itch (November 11, 2008)
- Emancipation (November 18, 2008)
- Last Resort (November 25, 2008)
- Let Them Eat Cake (December 2, 2008)
- Joy to the World (December 9, 2008)
- Painless (January 19, 2009)
- Big Baby (January 26, 2009)
- The Greater Good (February 2, 2009)
- Unfaithful (February 16, 2009)
- The Softer Side (February 23, 2009)
- The Social Contract (March 9, 2009)
- Here Kitty (March 16, 2009)
- Locked In (March 30, 2009)
- Simple Explanation (April 06, 2009)
- Saviors (April 13, 2009)
- House Divided (April 27, 2009)
- Under My Skin (May 04, 2009)
- Both Sides Now (May 11, 2009)
[edit] Overview
Wilson slowly starts to recover from Amber's untimely death, but starts to reevaluate his life and begins to contemplate resigning from his post at the hospital. House's original regret over his role in Amber's death seems to have worn off as instead of being supportive, he merely tries to convince Wilson that he is overreacting to the situation. Wilson does quit, only to return once he realizes he has as much fun with House as he did with Amber. However, later in the season, he has to come to terms with another loss - his homeless brother Danny reappears in his life when he is found in New York City. Wilson finds that Danny is now a stranger to him and that the initial incident that led to his disappearance has shaped his behavior in ways only House seems to fully comprehend.
Thirteen has to confront the reality, forced upon her by Amber's death at an early age, that she too is facing a lifetime with a devastating illness. Her behavior quickly starts to deteriorate and she is fired and then re-hired. However, she soon returns to her undisciplined ways. As a result, Foreman begins first to get concerned about her behavior, then starts to feel protective. It soon blooms into a romance, but House feels it is affecting their medical judgment and tries to make them break up.
Cuddy tries to adopt, but after House tries to convince her not to, the adoption falls through anyway. When House tries to show his condolences and Cuddy snaps at him for changing his tune, they embrace and kiss. Wilson realizes that the two are very attracted to each other and attempts to make them confront their feelings. We soon begin to realize that although they are both reluctant to begin a romantic relationship, both want the other to be more involved in their lives.
Cuddy finds another girl to adopt, Rachel. Feeling overwhelmed by both her hospital responsibilities and the demands of a new child, she accepts Wilson's suggestion that she hand over some of her hospital duties to a deputy. To handle the almost full time job of supervising House, she turns to Cameron, who is incredibly adept at handling her old boss, but soon realizes she isn't up to the challenge on a constant basis. Cuddy returns to cover all her duties and starts to make House's life as miserable as possible for keeping her away from her child, including posting signs on the elevator that it is scheduled for maintenance (which it's not) and setting up a trip wire in the doorway or part of his office.
House comes to work in a good mood, setting everybody off. Wilson and Foreman conclude that House is taking heroin. Wilson takes House out to dinner and buys him a couple drinks, and after House drinks them, he finds him puking it up out back by a dumpster, it's there that House tells Wilson he is taking Methadone. His leg doesn't hurt anymore. In the end he ends up stopping it because it could have cost a patient his life. Kutner commits suicide and the whole team is saddened by his loss. House believed it was murder until he looked through a bunch of photos and found one showing Kutner with a blank expression; a contrast to the smile he wore in the other photos.
Not long after Kutner's suicide, House develops severe insomnia and begins to hallucinate, seeing visions of Amber. These visions are extremely vivid and House carries out actual conversations with Amber to the point where he uses a Bluetooth Headset while at the Hospital so it does not appear he's talking to himself. The hallucinations were eventually revealed to a side effect of House's continual vicodin abuse. House eventually confessed this to Cuddy who helped him through the painful detox process; as House recovered to the two started to kiss in House's apartment, it was implied that they made love afterwards. The encounter, however, was eventually revealed to be an elaborate hallucination on House's part. It is implied to be another side-effect of House's prolonged Vicodin abuse. As House realizes this, he hallucinates the ghosts of both Amber and Kutner.
Chase proposed to Cameron. Shortly thereafter, House takes over the planning of Chase's bachelor party, hiring a stripper and hosting it at Wilson's apartment. While at the bachelor party, Chase does a body shot off of Karmel(a stripper who was also at Wilson's first bachelor party, some ten years earlier). The stripper had used strawberry body butter, and as a result of his strawberry allergy, Chase went into an anaphylactic shock. After Chase recovered, he and Cameron continued with their wedding plans. Cameron revealed that she was keeping a frozen sample of her deceased first husband's sperm incase she never found a new person but still wanted to have children.
The season ends with alternating shots of Cuddy, Foreman, Taub and Thirteen enjoying Cameron and Chase's wedding and Wilson driving House to a sanitorium which House willingly enters.
[edit] Season 6: 2009-2010
House, M.D. returns for it's sixth season on September 21, 2009, with a special two-hour episode.
[edit] Cast
[edit] 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
Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub (1 Episode)
Olivia Wilde as Thirteen (3 Episodes)
[edit] Recurring Characters
Andre Braugher as Dr. Darryl Nolan (2 Episodes)
Michael Weston as Lucas Douglas
[edit] Episodes
Episode Name (original air date)
- Broken (September 21, 2009)
- Epic Fail (September 28 2009)
- The Tyrant (October 5 2009)
- Instant Karma (October 12 2009)
- Brave Heart (October 19, 2009)
- Known Unknowns
- Teamwork
- Ignorance is Bliss
- Wilson
[edit] Overview
Having willingly entered Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital, House comes under the care of Dr. Nolan, who is tasked with diagnosing the world's best diagnostician. As a voluntary patient, House can leave any time he wants, but with his medical license in jeopardy because of his psychosis, he has to rely on Dr. Nolan's approval before being allowed to return to the practice of medicine. After accepting his treatment, eventually Dr Nolan gives him his approval. However, House is soon tempted to start taking vicodin again, Dr. Nolan suggests that he quit diagnostic medicine and go into research. He does so and also takes up cooking with Wilson.
Meanwhile, Eric Foreman takes over what's left of the diagnostic department in House's absence. However, his authority and the stress of the new position start to affect his relationship with Thirteen. In addition, Chris Taub considers his loss of income, the drop down in reputation from working for Foreman instead of House, and his persistent fear of extreme medicine and once again tenders his resignation. Is it for good this time? Once House's medical license is restored, Foreman keeps lobbying Cuddy to remain as head of diagnostic medicine.
After Chase treads a thin moral line on a case involving an African dictator, he and Cameron both decide they should get out of Princeton while the getting's good. They plan to quit the hospital together and go somewhere else where they can focus on their relationship and on each other. House, starts talking to Chase about Cameron. House suggests that Cameron forgiving Chase for his misdeeds with the dictator is out of character for her. Shortly thereafter, Chase has an inexplicable change of heart and decides he wants to stay with House after all. Cameron is understandably upset and leaves.
House also has to come to terms with his attraction to Lisa Cuddy and wonders if he really still wants to pursue a relationship with her.
