List of House episodes

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

As of the third season, there are a total of 69 episodes of House produced. The series ended its second season on May 23, 2006. The third season debuted on September 5, 2006.

Currently the first and second seasons are available on DVD.

Seasons

Season		Episodes	Originally aired	Region 1 DVD release date	Region 4 DVD release date	DVD cover
	1	22	2004 – 2005	August 30, 2005	November 28, 2005	File:HouseDVD.jpg
	2	24	2005 – 2006	August 22, 2006	October 23, 2006	File:House s2dvd.jpg
	3	24	2006 – 2007	August 28, 2007	Future Release, Date Unknown

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 young kindergarten teacher collapses in her classroom from a seizure. She is taken to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where Dr. House and his team of experts grapple to solve the mystery.
2 (1-02)	"Paternity"	Lawrence Kaplow	Peter O'Fallon	November 23, 2004	SSPE
A 16 year old lacrosse player has double vision, night terrors and frequent hallucinations.
3 (1-03)	"Occam's Razor"	David Shore	Bryan Singer	November 30, 2004	Colchicine poisoning
Dr. House and his team struggle to find out why a college student collapsed after having sex with his girlfriend.
4 (1-04)	"Maternity"	Peter Blake	Newton Thomas Sigel	December 7, 2004	Echovirus 11
A number of newborn babies acquire unknown diseases simultaneously.
5 (1-05)	"Damned If You Do"	Sara B. Cooper	Greg Yaitanes	December 14, 2004	Copper allergy
Dr. House's approach raises questions when he treats a nun for what he believes to be an allergy, and accidentally almost kills her.
6 (1-06)	"The Socratic Method"	John Mankiewicz	Peter Medak	December 21, 2004	Wilson's disease
When a schizophrenic mother has a deep-vein thrombosis, a strange phone call causes House to question her (in)sanity once again.
7 (1-07)	"Fidelity"	Thomas L. Moran	Bryan Spicer	December 28, 2004	African trypanosomiasis
A woman comes down with symptoms of African sleeping sickness, but there seems to be no way she could have contracted it.
8 (1-08)	"Poison"	Matt Witten	Guy Ferland	January 25, 2005	Phosmet poisoning
House and his team investigate the mysterious poisoning of high-school student Matt Davis but another teen is brought in with all of the same symptoms but almost nothing else in common with Matt.
9 (1-09)	"DNR"	David Foster	Frederick King Keller	February 1, 2005	Arteriovenous malformation
When a legendary jazz musician collapses mid-session, House and his team run into technical difficulties treating the man, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis but when he orders to have a DNR, House disobeys it and ends up in court.
10 (1-10)	"Histories"	Joel Thompson	Dan Attias	February 8, 2005	Tuberculosis and Rabies
When a homeless woman has a seizure, some of the employees at Princeton-Plainsboro think that she is faking her seizures in hopes of getting a free meal.
11 (1-11)	"Detox"	Lawrence Kaplow and Thomas L. Moran	Nelson McCormick	February 15, 2005	Naphthalene poisoning
Cuddy bets a month's clinic duty that House can't stay off Vicodin for a week while he tries to find out why a car crash victim won't stop bleeding.
12 (1-12)	"Sports Medicine"	John Mankiewicz and David Shore	Keith Gordon	February 22, 2005	Cadmium poisoning
When a baseball star suddenly breaks his arm while pitching, he finds out he has a bizarre case of bone loss.
13 (1-13)	"Cursed"	Matt Witten and Peter Blake	Daniel Sackheim	March 1, 2005	Anthrax and Leprosy
After consulting an Ouija board on his life, a young boy thinks that he is going to die. Chase's dad came to the hospital to meet Wilson and help House to diagnose the kid.
14 (1-14)	"Control"	Lawrence Kaplow	Randy Zisk	March 15, 2005	Congestive heart failure onset by Bulimia and regular use of Ipecac.
A woman is admitted to the hospital after having leg pain during a conference.
15 (1-15)	"Mob Rules"	David Foster and John Mankiewicz	Tim Hunter	March 22, 2005	Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
House treats a man serving as a witness to a mob case, and whose commanding mobster brother warns House not to release his patient — or the diagnosis.
16 (1-16)	"Heavy"	Thomas L. Moran	Fred Gerber	March 29, 2005	Cushing's syndrome
House struggles with finding out why an obese ten-year-old had a heart attack.
17 (1-17)	"Role Model"	Matt Witten	Peter O'Fallon	April 12, 2005	Epstein-Barr virus
When a presidential hopeful falls ill at a campaign, House is forced to take the case by Vogler.
18 (1-18)	"Babies & Bathwater"	Peter Blake and David Shore (teleplay) Peter Blake (story)	Bill Johnson	April 19, 2005	Small cell carcinoma
A pregnant woman must make a tough choice between her life and that of her unborn child's.
19 (1-19)	"Kids"	Thomas L. Moran and Lawrence Kaplow	Deran Sarafian	May 3, 2005	Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Amid the chaos of a meningitis outbreak, House sees a patient whose symptoms don't quite add up to the outbreak.
20 (1-20)	"Love Hurts"	Sara B. Cooper	Bryan Spicer	May 10, 2005	Fulminating osteomyelitis
After House's reckless manner to a panicked man accidentally triggers a stroke, the man faces dire consequences.
21 (1-21)	"Three Stories"	David Shore	Paris Barclay	May 17, 2005	Streptococcus, osteosarcoma, and leg infarction
Cuddy forces House to lecture a class of students on diagnostics in which all three given patients have leg pain.
22 (1-22)	"Honeymoon"	Lawrence Kaplow and John Mankiewicz	Frederick King Keller	May 24, 2005	Acute intermittent porphyria
After much convincing (drugging Mark's drink), Stacy's husband Mark is admitted to the hospital to undergo a battery of tests which come up negative even though his steadily growing symptoms indicate he is dying.

Season 2: 2005-2006

Episode #	Title	Writer(s)	Director	Original airdate	Final Diagnosis
23 (2-01)	"Acceptance"	Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner	Dan Attias	September 13, 2005	Methanol Poisoning and Pheochromocytoma
A death row inmate is felled by an unknown disease and House volunteers to investigate, over the objections of most of the staff. Cameron ends up with her own patient with whom she has to deal.
24 (2-02)	"Autopsy"	Lawrence Kaplow	Deran Sarafian	September 20, 2005	Thrombosis
House and team struggle to diagnose a young girl who has hallucinations and terminal cancer but she will die unless a diagnosis is found quickly.
25 (2-03)	"Humpty Dumpty"	Matt Witten	Dan Attias	September 27, 2005	Psittacosis
A roofer with asthma inexplicably falls unconscious off of Dr. Cuddy's roof.
26 (2-04)	"TB or Not TB"	David Foster	Peter O'Fallon	November 1, 2005	Nesidioblastoma and Tuberculosis
A famous doctor gets ill when working in Africa, and is sent to House for treatment. Everyone except House believes that his illness is due to tuberculosis.
27 (2-05)	"Daddy's Boy"	Thomas L. Moran	Greg Yaitanes	November 8, 2005	Spinal tumor and radiation poisoning
A student who just graduated from Princeton experiences severe spasms at graduation party. Meanwhile, House's parents drop by.
28 (2-06)	"Spin"	Sara Hess	Fred Gerber	November 15, 2005	Air embolus, Pure red cell aplasia, thymoma, and myasthenia gravis
A famous cyclist is brought to House's clinic after collapsing during a race. He is surprisingly honest about several illegal medications and techniques he applied to himself, but his sickness is not caused by any of these.
29 (2-07)	"Hunting"	Liz Friedman	Gloria Muzio	November 22, 2005	Echinococcosis
Dr. House finally relents in treating a neighbor with AIDS, only to find that his sickness may be more than it first appears.
30 (2-08)	"The Mistake"	Peter Blake	David Semel	November 29, 2005	Hepatitis C
After a patient dies under Chase's watch, he and House must face a board of doctors to hear their fates.
31 (2-09)	"Deception"	Michael R. Perry	Deran Sarafian	December 13, 2005	Clostridium perfringens
A woman who has a seizure is admitted to the hospital but Cameron wants her to be discharged when they discover she has Munchausen syndrome; however, House believes she has an underlying condition.
32 (2-10)	"Failure to Communicate"	Doris Egan	Jace Alexander	January 10, 2006	Cerebral malaria
A famed journalist collapses in his magazine company's office. While he acts nonchalantly after getting up, it soon becomes clear from his word salad inflected speech that he is suffering from aphasia.
33 (2-11)	"Need to Know"	Pamela Davis	David Semel	February 7, 2006	Hepatocellular adenoma
House and Stacy try to repair their relationship while the rest of the team tries to diagnose a woman who flails randomly.
34 (2-12)	"Distractions"	Lawrence Kaplow	Dan Attias	February 14, 2006	Serotonin syndrome
Logistical problems arise when House and his team can't do all of their normal tests on a sick burn victim.
35 (2-13)	"Skin Deep"	Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & David Shore (teleplay) Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner (story)	Jim Hayman	February 20, 2006	Male Pseudohermaphroditism and Testicular cancer
Dr. House treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction and, in the process, uncovers startling secrets about the girl.
36 (2-14)	"Sex Kills"	Matt Witten	David Semel	March 7, 2006	Brucellosis
House tries to treat a man who has a seizure but doesn't realize it and needs a new heart. When the transplant committee votes "no" for a new heart, House tries to get one from a dead woman whose organs were also rejected by the committee.
37 (2-15)	"Clueless"	Thomas L. Moran	Deran Sarafian	March 28, 2006	Gold poisoning
When a man can't breathe after roleplaying with his wife, House must question the motives for the marriage.
38 (2-16)	"Safe"	Peter Blake	Felix Alcala	April 4, 2006	Tick paralysis
A teenage heart recipient suffers anaphylaxis in her cleanroom, but House and his team can not pinpoint the source of the allergen.
39 (2-17)	"All In"	David Foster	Fred Gerber	April 11, 2006	Erdheim-Chester disease
During a charity Casino Night, Cuddy gets a patient whom she dismisses as being dehydrated; however, House realizes that the patient is exhibiting the same symptoms as a woman who died under House's watch twelve years ago.
40 (2-18)	"Sleeping Dogs Lie"	Sara Hess	Greg Yaitanes	April 18, 2006	Bubonic plague
House tries to determine why a lesbian woman cannot sleep.
41 (2-19)	"House vs. God"	Doris Egan	John F. Showalter	April 25, 2006	Tuberous sclerosis and Herpes encephalitis
A teenage religious healer shows up at the hospital with an originally easily diagnosable ailment, and during his stay, he seems to shrink the tumor of a cancer patient.
42 (2-20)	"Euphoria, Part 1"	Matthew V. Lewis	Deran Sarafian	May 2, 2006	No diagnosis
House is trying to cure a crooked cop who acts turbulent and laughs uncontrollably, but he and his team are unable to determine the cause. When Foreman starts showing similar symptoms, the situation gets far worse than anybody expected.
43 (2-21)	"Euphoria, Part 2"	Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & David Shore	Deran Sarafian	May 3, 2006	Legionellosis and Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
With Foreman's condition rapidly deteriorating, the team is running out of options to test. Using the cop's progression, it seems Foreman has less than 24 hours to live.
44 (2-22)	"Forever"	Liz Friedman	Daniel Sackheim	May 9, 2006	Celiac disease
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	Zygomycosis
After a Hurricane Katrina victim hallucinates on a plane, an old friend of House takes on the role of the victim's parent, but House doesn't believe that he is really the father.
46 (2-24)	"No Reason"	David Shore (teleplay) Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (story)	David Shore	May 23, 2006	No diagnosis
When a man with a swollen tongue is admitted to the hospital, House is shot by a mysterious man.

Season 3: 2006-2007

Episode #	Title	Writer(s)	Director	Original airdate	Final Diagnosis
47 (3-01)	"Meaning"	Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (teleplay) Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (story)	Deran Sarafian	September 5, 2006	Addison's Disease - Richard, Scurvy - Caren
House returns to work with no leg pain and decides to take on two cases at once.
48 (3-02)	"Cane and Able"	Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner (teleplay) Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (story)	Daniel Sackheim	September 12, 2006	Chimerism
House's new case is a 7-year-old boy, a product of in-vitro fertilization, who's been admitted to the hospital with rectal bleeding and proclamations of alien abductions and experimentation.
49 (3-03)	"Informed Consent"	David Foster	Laura Innes	September 19, 2006	Amyloidosis
House's patient, a renowned doctor and author, demands that the team stop the litany of medical tests and help him end his life since the possibility of a cure is slim.
50 (3-04)	"Lines in the Sand"	David Holselton	Newton Thomas Sigel	September 26, 2006	Baylisascaris
A young autistic child is admitted to the hospital for screaming, but House's team is skeptical that it actually means anything. However, after a pleural effusion, House doesn't know what to think.
51 (3-05)	"Fools for Love"	Peter Blake	David Platt	October 31, 2006	Hereditary Angioedema
House treats a young married couple with similar symptoms.
52 (3-06)	"Que Será Será"	Thomas L. Moran	Deran Sarafian	November 7, 2006	Small cell lung carcinoma
A morbidly obese man is found in a coma and admitted to the hospital. Upon waking, he demands to be discharged, and refuses to be tested for any disease possibly caused by his weight.
53 (3-07)	"Son of Coma Guy"	Doris Egan	Dan Attias	November 14, 2006	MERRF syndrome
After the son of a comatose man has a seizure, House must wake the comatose man to get answers. However, the comatose man has other plans.
54 (3-08)	"Whac-A-Mole"	Pamela Davis	Daniel Sackheim	November 21, 2006	Chronic Granulomatous Disease
When an orphan caring for two younger siblings vomits uncontrollably while working at a child's birthday party, House and his team uncover a bizarre series of symptoms and infections.
55 (3-09)	"Finding Judas"	Sara Hess	Deran Sarafian	November 28, 2006	Erythropoietic protoporphyria
A young girl whose guardianship is taken from her divorced parents and awarded to Cuddy, is suffering from what appears to be pancreatitis.
56 (3-10)	"Merry Little Christmas"	Liz Friedman	Tony To	December 12, 2006	Langerhans' cell histiocytosis
House is cut off from his supply of Vicodin completely by Cuddy, and is eventually removed from his team's case: a 15-year-old girl brought in to the hospital for treatment, suffering from a collapsed lung and anemia.
57 (3-11)	"Words and Deeds"	Leonard Dick	Daniel Sackheim	January 9, 2007	Spinal meningioma
House, while dealing with court, treats a firefighter who experiences shivering and multiple heart attacks.
58 (3-12)	"One Day, One Room"	David Shore	Juan J. Campanella	January 30, 2007	Chlamydia
While working on his clinic hours, House encounters a rape victim who demands that House treat her.
59 (3-13)	"Needle in a Haystack"	David Foster	Peter O'Fallon	February 6, 2007	Undigested toothpick
After a 16 year old is brought into the hospital, House believes that he has Wegener's granulomatosis and soon clashes with the boy's gypsy parents over medical treatment.
60 (3-14)	"Insensitive"	Matthew V. Lewis	Deran Sarafian	February 13, 2007	Tapeworm causing Vitamin B12 Deficiency
A girl with the rare inability to feel pain gets in a car accident. Once her testing is done, she begins having high fevers, and paranoid delusions, and is rapidly deteriorating.
61 (3-15)	"Half-Wit"	Lawrence Kaplow	Katie Jacobs	March 6, 2007	Takayasu's arteritis
A brain-damaged music savant has seizures despite being on anti-seizure medications, while everyone is shocked to learn that House has entered himself for brain cancer treatment.
62 (3-16)	"Top Secret"	Thomas L. Moran	Deran Sarafian	March 27, 2007	Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
House treats a US Marine returning from Iraq, who has symptoms consistent with Gulf War Syndrome. House's dream about the Marine complicates his handling of the case.
63 (3-17)	"Fetal Position"	Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner	Matt Shakman	April 3, 2007	Maternal Mirror Syndrome - Emma, Non-immune hydrops fetalis - Emma's baby
House treats a pregnant photographer whose baby may kill her.
64 (3-18)	"Airborne"	David Hoselton	Elodie Keene	April 10, 2007	The Bends - Peng, Mass hysteria - Passengers, Methyl bromide poisoning - Fran
House and Cuddy face a widespread outbreak on their plane back from a symposium in Singapore while Wilson and the team treat a woman with constant seizures.
65 (3-19)	"Act Your Age"	Sara Hess	Daniel Sackheim	April 17, 2007	Precocious puberty due to externally applied Testosterone
A 6-year-old girl suffers ailments expected in patients much older. Tensions between Chase and Cameron lead House to intentionally assign them to the same tasks, including investigating the young girl's home.
66 (3-20)	"House Training"	Doris Egan	Paul McCrane	April 24, 2007	Staphylococcus aureus
A con-artist loses her ability to make decisions. While House and the team struggle to find the underlying cause the case becomes personal for Foreman.
67 (3-21)	"Family"	Liz Friedman	David Straiton	May 1, 2007	Histoplasmosis
A 14-year-old leukemia patient's only hope of survival is a bone marrow transplant from his younger brother. But when he gets sick, the team must race against time to save both kids. Meanwhile, Foreman must deal with the consequences of the previous patient's death.
68 (3-22)	"Resignation"	Pamela Davis	Martha Mitchell	May 8, 2007	Bacterial infection due to suicide attempt
Speculation over Foreman's resignation continues, while a young girl named Addie is admitted after bleeding from the mouth during martial arts practice. House and Wilson are secretly concerned about each other.
69 (3-23)	"The Jerk"	Leonard Dick	Daniel Sackheim	May 15, 2007	Haemochromatosis
House meets his match in the form of Nathan Harrison (guest star Nick Lane), an obnoxious 16-year-old chess prodigy with intense head pain and behavioral issues, who manages to annoy and offend every member of House's team during his course of treatment. Meanwhile, Foreman's frustration with House reaches a new level when he believes House sabotages his job interview with another hospital.
70 (3-24)	"Human Error "	Lawrence Kaplow & Thomas L. Moran	Katie Jacobs	May 29, 2007	Unknown
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. Meanwhile, Foreman prepares for his last day at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

External links

• FOX.com House official site
• Television Without PityHouse recaps
• epguides.com House Episode Guide
• TVGuide Full list of House Episodes
• House M.D. Guide
• Politedissent Reviews of episodes focusing on the medical aspects
• Have-dog.com List of music by episode used in the series