House

Season 1 Episode Guide

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Season 1 episodes

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Episode

1

Pilot

Nov 16, 2004

Dr. Gregory House and his team take medical cases only after everyone else has failed to diagnose a patient. A Kindergarten teacher begins speaking...

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2

Paternity

Nov 23, 2004

When a teenage lacrosse player is stricken with an unidentifiable brain disease, Dr. House and the team hustle to give his parents answers. Chase b...

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3

Occam's Razor

Nov 30, 2004

A college student collapses after rowdy sex with his girlfriend. While House and his team attempt to determine the cause, the student's condition c...

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4

Maternity

Dec 7, 2004

Dr. House exasperates his boss, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, when he suggests that two sick newborn babies in one hospital add up to an epidemic from a spreadin...

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5

Damned If You Do

Dec 14, 2004

When a nun comes into the clinic with swollen arms, rash, and bleeding in her palms, Dr. House's diagnosis is a bad allergy, not stigmata as she be...

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6

The Socratic Method

Dec 21, 2004

While dodging Cuddy in the emergency room, House runs into the son of a schizophrenic woman diagnosed with alcoholism. Intrigued by her schizophren...

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7

Fidelity

Dec 28, 2004

After Ed Snow discovers his wife Elyse constantly sleeping for several days, she is admitted to the hospital. Dr. Cameron is very interested in the...

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8

Poison

Jan 25, 2005

When a high school student falls victim to a mysterious but lethal poisoning, House and his team investigate what is killing the teen. Suddenly, a...

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9

DNR

Feb 1, 2005

Legendary jazz musician John Henry Giles checks into Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital believing he's dying from ALS and signs a DNR to avoid...

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10

Histories

Feb 8, 2005

Dr. Foreman believes an uncooperative homeless woman is faking seizures to get a free meal ticket at the teaching hospital. But her homelessness st...

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11

Detox

Feb 15, 2005

House has to determine why a young patient has internal bleeding after a car crash. In the meantime, he takes Cuddy's challenge to stop taking Vico...

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12

Sports Medicine

Feb 22, 2005

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 is l...

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13

Cursed

Mar 1, 2005

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, ma...

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14

Control

Mar 15, 2005

Billionaire entrepreneur Edward Vogler spends $100 million on Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and becomes the new Chairman of the Board. As...

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15

Mob Rules

Mar 22, 2005

Just before mobster Joey Arnello spills the beans in federal court and enters witness protection, he collapses. Is he faking? A court order instruc...

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16

Heavy

Mar 29, 2005

House must fire one of his doctors at Vogler's insistence and leaves them wondering about it while dealing with a case. House and his team blame an...

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17

Role Model

Apr 12, 2005

At a high-level campaign fundraiser, up-and-coming Senator Tom Wright becomes violently ill. Vogler pushes House to take Wright's case and dangles...

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18

Babies & Bathwater

Apr 19, 2005

While House and his team scramble to discover what's causing brain and kidney dysfunction in a pregnant woman, Vogler is on the warpath to get Hous...

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19

Kids

May 3, 2005

During a meningitis outbreak that overwhelms the resources and staff of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, House singles out a 12-year-old pat...

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20

Love Hurts

May 10, 2005

House apparently scares a meek clinic patient into having a stroke. The team must deal with the patient's odd lifestyle, overbearing "friend," and...

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21

Three Stories

May 17, 2005

House's ex-girlfriend and former hospital legal counsel Stacy Warner returns not to be with House but to get his help diagnosing her ailing husband...

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22

Honeymoon

May 24, 2005

House insists he can handle things when Stacy, the woman he once loved, asks him to diagnose her husband, Mark. But despite Mark's tests coming bac...

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