FIRST SEASON (ONLY)
Episode 1 - Pilot
A young kindergarten teacher, Rebecca Adler, who suffers from seizures collapses in her classroom after uncontrolled gibberish slips out her mouth while she is about to teach her students. She is taken to Dr, House and his team of experts who identify it might be a tumor, and she might have only a week to live.
Episode 2 - Paternity
A 16-year old high school student, Dan, starts suffering from nightmares 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 doesn't believe in vaccinations.
Episode 3 - Occam's Razor
A college student collapses after rowdy sex with his girlfriend. Dr. House and his team are trying to figure out why he collapsed while his conditions seemed to get worse hour by hour, and he has too many symptons to determine the disease.
Episode 4 - Maternity
When a virus is spreading among the hospital, infecting six babies, House and his team must make decisions that could compromise the lives of the babies.
Episode 5 - Damned If You Do
House and the crew encounter a nun whose hands are red, swollen, and cracked, and in the middle of the palm the skin is almost fully peeled off and bleeding. They believe it was a case of Stigmata or just an allergic reaction to dish soap or another source. So Dr. House prescribes her some pills, but she also has asthma so, the Nun is fighting for air just minutes later. Dr. House has to inject her with Epinefrine to help her lungs get looser. Hour by Hour shes getting weaker, so her sisters, Sister Eucharist and Sister Pius, pray for her.
Episode 6 - The Socratic Method
Dr. House is intrigued by the symptoms of a schizophrenic woman, who displays mixed symptoms, including a tumor, but soon realizes the source of her problems isn't the obvious. House confronts his birthday and Chase confronts his past when the mother's son tries to keep up with her condition.
Episode 7 - Fidelity
Two men are out jogging - one of them returns back to his wife and discovers her dead asleep and brings her to the clinic. The doctors are puzzled by her symptoms, and consider everything from tumors to breast cancer to rabbit fever. When all the treatments fail, House concludes she has African sleeping sickness...but neither the woman or her wife could possibly have got it on their own. The woman will die without the proper treatment...but neither one admits to getting it through sex with someone else.
Episode 8 - Posion
When a high school student falls victim to a mysterious but lethal poisoning, House and his team jump in to find out what is killing the teen. Given a low heart rate and a clean tox screen, House sends Cameron and Chase to the teen's home to find the hot new drug House is sure he's taking. They don't find any drugs, but think they've come up with the answers, until a second unrelated student is admitted with identical symptoms. With the boys' lives hanging in the balance, House and the team have to connect the dots – fast. Meanwhile, an 82-year-old patient has become enamored with House while he helps her figure out the basis of her renewed fascination with her sexual feelings.
Episode 9 - DNR
Legendary jazz musician John Henry Giles is checked into the clinic and when he's told he's dying from ALS, he signs a DNR to avoid a slow death. House disagrees with the diagnosis and goes against everyone's wishes when he violates the DNR to save Giles' life. The decision lands House in court, drives Foreman to consider taking another job, and results in Giles' paralysis worsening. But when the patient inexplicably starts getting better, the team has to figure out the mystery in reverse and find out why his condition is improving. Meanwhile, Dr. Foreman meets with an old friend who offers him a West Coast partnership.
Episode 10 - Histories
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. Her worsening symptoms prove to be a complex mystery for House and his team, but the mystery of her identity and medical history may hold the answers to saving her life. Just as the team suspects she has contagious meningitis, the woman goes missing, only to be tasered by the police, who bring her back. But House deduces the taser may have proven yet another diagnosis, with dire results. Meanwhile, House has an audience of two medical students who are learning how to do case studies.
Episode 11 - Detox
While trying to figure out why a young patient won't 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. If House and his team can't determine the source of his patient's blood loss, the 16-year-old car victim will die in a matter of days. 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.
Episode 12 - Sports Medicine
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. Forced into an impossible solution, and admitting failure as an addict, Hank tries to take his own life. House and his team must isolate and fix the problem soon if this pitcher's life, as well his career, can be saved. Meanwhile, Foreman dates a pharameutical representative and House is stuck with two tickets and ends up going on a "date" with Cameron...to a monster truck rally.
Episode 13 - Cursed
A 12-year-old boy believes he's cursed after a Ouija board tells him he's going to die. His father, a major financial supporter of the hospital, makes escalating demands of House and the team as they try to diagnose the boy's pneumonia-like symptoms and incongruous rash. Tension intensifies when House invites Chase's estranged father, a renowned doctor visiting from Australia, into their circle of diagnosticians – much to Chase's discomfort – and House is intrigued by Chase's lack of relationship with his father. When the boy's diagnosis becomes more evident, the young patient is forced to face the idea that his father may not be everything he believes.
PRESS RELEASES
APRIL 10, 2005 - WARD MAKING 'HOUSE' CALL
Sela Ward, who knows a thing or two about dramatic series, will appear in the final two episodes of House this season with the potential of becoming a recurring cast member next year, Fox has announced. Ward, who has won two Emmy awards (the first in 1994 for Sisters, the second in 2000 for Once and Again), will play an ex-love of Hugh Laurie's Dr. House.
Executive producer David Shore told Now Playing in an interview that Ward's character will appeal to Dr. House to save her dying husband. “Obviously, he didn't know she was married,” Shore says. “He didn't know anything that happened in her life. And to find out that she's married and her husband's very sick and she's coming to House to save him... he's sort of damning himself by doing what obviously he should do.” House, which has earned positive buzz and solid ratings thanks to its American Idol lead-in, received an early renewal from Fox for a full second season recently. According to Shore, the writers are already coming up with plotlines and arcs for season two. “The plan is to have this woman at least be around on occasion next year, to be back in his life a little bit,” he says. “[The plan is] just to carry that forward and start exploring the other characters in other detail.” Ward will make her debut on the show in May. MARCH 24, 2005 - FOX'S DRAMA 'HOUSE' A BUDDING HIT
Fox's drama "House," starring Hugh Laurie as a doctor with absolutely no bedside manner, hit a series high and was the most popular scripted series in prime time last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. With a huge assist from "American Idol," the series is a budding hit. It was seen by 17.3 million people last Tuesday. It obviously helped that it was on directly after an "American Idol" episode watched by 28.4 million people. The "House" audience instantly doubled in January when it took the time slot after "Idol." But in two months, "House" has gained 5 million viewers from that first airing after "American Idol," suggesting word-of-mouth is helping. Another popular freshman series, "Medium," was the most popular show on NBC last week, benefiting from a rerun of "CSI: Miami" in the same time slot. ABC is having little luck with a highly touted new series. The network showed four episodes of "Jake in Progress" in a row last Thursday and none could get much more than 7 million viewers. For the week of March 14-20, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 28.4 million; "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 24.7 million; "Survivor: Palau," CBS, 18.4 million; "House," Fox, 17.3 million; "Cold Case," CBS, 17.3 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 16 million; "Medium," NBC, 15.4 million; "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 15.2 million; "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 15 million; "CSI: Miami," CBS, 14.6 million. MARCH 18, 2005 - 'HOUSE' AROUND THE WORLD
The UK's Hallmark Channel has recently announced that they have purchased rights to air season one of 'House," with the first episode airing April 17th at 9pm. The Hallmark Channel is available on Sky Digital, NTL Digital, and Telewest Channel 190. MARCH 4, 2005 - PRESS RELEASE FROM FOX
THE DOCTOR IS "IN" FOR A SOPHOMORE SEASON AS FOX PICKS UP THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DRAMA SERIES "HOUSE" FOR SEASON 2 FOX has picked up a second season of the hit drama series HOUSE starring Hugh Laurie as Dr. Greg House, a brilliant physician with a brutally honest demeanor whose unconventional thinking and flawless instincts make him a hero to his patients, as he and his team of specialists save lives and solve the medical mysteries others can't. HOUSE fever is spreading as fans and critics across America have embraced the prickly Dr. House. Ratings for the series have continued to grow week after week, delivering the series' highest number of viewers this past Tuesday with 15.6 million. During the February sweeps ratings period, HOUSE ranked No. 1 in its Tuesday 9:00-10:00 PM hour among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34, Teens and Total Viewers. HOUSE was also among the Top 20 regular programs among Adults 18-49 (No. 13), the Top 20 regular programs in Total Viewers (No. 13), the Top 20 regular programs among Adults 18-34 (No. 11), and the Top 20 regular programs among Teens (No. 11). HOUSE is from Heel and Toe Films and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with NBC Universal Television Studio. The series was created by David Shore, and Shore, Paul Attanasio, Katie Jacobs and Bryan Singer are executive producers. MARCH 4, 2005 - FOX PRESCRIBES SECOND SEASON FOR 'HOUSE'
When critical acclaim meets a giant lead-in, you're likely to have a hit television series. Such has been the case with FOX's medical drama "House," which has taken off in the past two months with a big assist from "American Idol," which it follows on Tuesday nights. Accordingly, the network has ordered a second season of the show. "House" is the first of FOX's freshman series to earn a spot on the schedule for next season. The series stars Hugh Laurie as a brilliant, misanthropic, Vicodin-addicted diagnostician who leads a team of doctors that work on puzzling medical cases. The show premiered in November to fairly widespread critical praise but small audiences. Saddled with a weak lead-in ("The Rebel Billionaire"), "House" averaged only about 6.5 million viewers in its first two months on the air. Since "American Idol" returned in mid-January, though, its ratings have skyrocketed. The past six episodes have averaged more than 14 million viewers -- reaching a high of 15.6 million on Tuesday (March 1) -- and raising "House's" season-long average by nearly 3 million. In the just-completed February sweeps, the show led its Tuesday time period in total viewers and FOX's favored demographics of adults 18-49 and adults 18-34. FEBRUARY 10, 2005 - FOX ADDS ON TO 'HOUSE'
A spot behind the "American Idol" juggernaut has been just what the doctor ordered for FOX's first-year series "House," and the network is rewarding its improved performance. FOX has picked up four additional episodes of the medical drama, bringing its total for the season to 22. Last month the network added five episodes to its initial order of 13, which would have filled most of the rest of the season, given usual rerun patterns and the occasional pre-emption for extended "Idol" episodes. In fact, FOX may hold the additional episodes for summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter, as the net continues its year-round programming strategy. Ratings for "House," which stars Hugh Laurie as a brilliant but misanthropic doctor, have taken off since "Idol" became its lead-in in late January. The show was drawing only about 6.5 million viewers a week prior to that; since then, all three episodes have drawn more than 12 million people. Tuesday's (Feb. 8) episode was the show's highest-rated yet, clocking in at close to 15 million viewers. JANUARY 27, 2005 - MCBRIDE MOVES INTO FOX'S 'HOUSE'
Chi McBride, who starred on FOX's "Boston Public," is returning to the network for a guest-starring arc on "House." McBride has signed on for five episodes of the first-year drama, where he'll play a wealthy businessman whose nine-figure donation to the hospital allows him to become chairman of its board. Once there, he decides Dr. House's (Hugh Laurie) diagnostic team are a drain on the hospital's resources. Naturally, that doesn't go over too well with the misanthropic House, who disdains hospital higher-ups even more than he does patients. McBride's episodes are set to begin airing in March.
McBride played Principal Steven Harper for all four seasons of "Boston Public." His other TV credits include "The John Larroquette Show" and UPN's notorious "Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer." On the big screen, he's appeared in "I, Robot," "The Terminal," "Narc" and "Gone in Sixty Seconds," among others. JANUARY 5, 2005 - BUILDING 'HOUSE' IS HARD WORK
Creator David Shore is celebrating getting an order for the back-five episodes for his FOX drama "House" -- after a mid-November premiere, the show needs only 18 total episodes to finish out the season -- but he's not celebrating too much. "FOX haven't sent me any big, extravagant gifts," he says. "I'm absolutely shocked, that's no way to run a network. They don't want you to feel too comfortable. They can't do that." Besides, there's no time for partying, because Shore now needs five more medical mysteries for the misanthropic but brilliant diagnostician Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) and his intrepid medical team (Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer) to figure out, with several twists, turns and near-disasters each.
"It's a lot of fun to write for 'House,'" Shore says, "but it's tricky to come up with these medical stories, make them interesting and make them work over 45 minutes. I'm very proud of what we've done, but I have no medical background. "Any sort of really good puzzle with really brilliant deductions -- they have to be brilliant." Anytime one says "puzzle" and "brilliant deduction" in the same sentence, one can't help but think of the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick, Dr. Watson. And indeed, Holmes -- and the real-life physician that inspired him, Dr. Joseph Bell -- were very much inspirations for "House." Shore now has a whole new appreciation for Holmes' creator. "My heart goes out to the late, great Arthur Conan Doyle. How'd he do that, and make him smart every time?" Reminded that Doyle was himself a physician (which no doubt helped), Shore sighs. "He actually was." Shore also hopes to draw more parallels to Holmes by drawing House's best, and likely only, friend, oncologist Dr. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), into the Watson role. "We're looking for Wilson to step up in that regard, as House's everyman, leaning over his shoulder and going, 'How'd you do that?' And more important, 'Why'd you do that?' "I think we've done a great job with House. He's a really interesting character, and we would like to bring up everybody else and find their strengths. The stronger the people around him are, the more interesting House becomes." As far as plot twists, expect Dr. Chase's (Spencer) background to come up again in an episode likely to air in early March. His past as a seminarian was revealed in the Dec. 14 episode. Says Shore, "It does bubble back up. His father's coming to town, played by Patrick Bauchau. It's a very difficult relationship." There will also be more fireworks between House and his sharp-witted boss, medical administrator Dr. Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein). "As FOX said to me the other day," Shore says, "even if she just comes in and comments on House spilling coffee, I want to hear that. She's not your typical boss, which I like. She is telling him to cut it out, cool it off, but she knows who's dealing with and knows she can't just say, 'Stop it now.' He's right a lot of the time, but he's not right all the time. They need each other. "If House were to just have complete free rein, he'd probably kill people right, left and center." Shore says there's also a story dealing with secrets in Dr. Cameron's (Morrison) past, and a little surprise for House at season's end. "We're going to bring somebody in who's even nastier to House," Shore says, "somebody who really doesn't like House, doesn't want him there and has the power." "House" is currently off the schedule, returning on Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 9 p.m. ET, airing right after the Tuesday edition of FOX's powerhouse music-competition series "American Idol."
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