9.0/1048 votesLoading...#1 - Three Stories
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/17/2005
House must decide whether to take the case of his ex-love's husband and he gives medical students a lecture they'll never forget.
Director: Paris Barclay
Writer: David Shore
9.0/1041 votesLoading...#2 - Wilson's Heart (2)
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 5/19/2008
In the aftermath of the bus accident, House struggles with his head injuries and short-term memory loss, and must deal with a concerned Wilson who believes his friend's health may be in danger.
Director: Katie Jacobs
Writer: Peter Blake, Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, Doris Egan, David Foster
8.9/1032 votesLoading...#3 - Help Me
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/17/2010
Cuddy, House and members of the team join forces with a search-and-rescue team to provide much-needed medical attention at the scene of an emergency.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Peter Blake, Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend
8.8/1048 votesLoading...#4 - House's Head (1)
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 5/12/2008
A bus accident leaves House with serious head trauma and partial amnesia. He comes to believe that a patient on the bus had a life-threatening disease and struggles to recall who it was, and what they had.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Peter Blake, Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, Doris Egan, David Foster
8.8/1036 votesLoading...#5 - Broken
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2009
House is detoxing at a mental hospital and being held against his will by his attending physician, so he concocts an escape plan, aided by his roommate and a visitor named Lydia.
Director: Katie Jacobs
Writer: David Shore, Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, David Foster
8.7/1032 votesLoading...#6 - Both Sides Now
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/2009
House and the team are intrigued by Scott, a man whose left brain and right brain operate independently, leaving him with two distinct personalities and no control over some of his actions. As the two sides of Scott’s brain struggle for dominance, his warring personalities make it increasingly difficult for the team to figure out what is causing the unique problem. The team is forced to use some unusual methods to get him to cooperate with their necessary testing. Meanwhile, when House refuses to make an appearance in the clinic, Cuddy takes an unconventional approach to force House to make up the time with a particular patient.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Doris Egan
8.6/1044 votesLoading...#7 - No Reason
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/23/2006
House is shot by a former patient and must share a recovery room with the gunman.
Director: David Shore
Writer: David Shore, Lawrence Kaplow
8.6/1027 votesLoading...#8 - Baggage
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 5/10/2010
During a session with Dr. Nolan, House recounts the case of a woman who arrives at the Princeton Plainsboro emergency room with an unexplained illness and no recollection of who she is. While trying to solve the mystery of the woman's illness, House must also help her piece together her identity.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Doris Egan, David Foster
8.5/1028 votesLoading...#9 - Nobody's Fault
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 2/6/2012
House and his team are placed under review after a staff member gets hurt.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, David Foster
8.4/1028 votesLoading...#10 - After Hours
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/2011
When House discovers that the experimental drug he's been using causes fatal tumors, he decides to attempt to excise them himself. However, he can't complete the surgery and ends up needing Cuddy's help. Meanwhile, Thirteen's friend from prison (Amy Landecker), a relapsed drug user, arrives at her apartment needing medical care after being stabbed. With her friend unwilling to go to the hospital, Thirteen enlists Chase's assistance when the friend loses sensation and movement in her arm. Also, Taub receives some unexpected news that could change his life.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Writer: Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, Seth Hoffman
8.4/1026 votesLoading...#11 - Twenty Vicodin
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2011
House is serving out a lengthy prison sentence for his various misdeeds, including his trip outside the country in an attempt to escape responsibility. Entirely cut off from his old life, House determines his current problems are the result of his inability to deal with people. Feeling he will never be able to practice medicine again, he plans instead to go back to university to earn a doctorate in physics - a field that will all but assure his isolation from other human beings.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Peter Blake
8.4/1031 votesLoading...#12 - Everybody Dies
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/2012
Facing a 6-month jail term, and the realization that he won't be there for Wilson at the end, House finds himself examining his entire life while contemplating a dismal future without his best friend.
Director: David Shore
Writer: David Shore, Peter Blake, Eli Attie
8.3/1034 votesLoading...#13 - Euphoria (1)
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/2006
When a police officer with a gunshot wound to the head and uncontrollable laughter is admitted, House and the team are baffled. When Foreman begins showing the same symptoms, they race to determine the cause of the illness before Foreman's condition takes the same path.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Matthew V. Lewis
8.3/1040 votesLoading...#14 - One Day, One Room
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/2007
While House is forced to work full-time in the clinic and deal with a rape victim who insists on confiding with him, Cameron deals with a terminal cancer patient trying to take advantage of her state of mind.
Director: Juan José Campanella
Writer: David Shore
8.3/1035 votesLoading...#15 - Locked In
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/30/2009
A man awakens in New York after a bicycle accident unable to move or communicate in any way. House, himself injured in a motorcycle mishap, occupies the hospital bed next to Lee and quickly annoys the doctors treating them both by insisting that Lee has “locked-in” syndrome.
Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, David Foster
8.3/1029 votesLoading...#16 - Under My Skin
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/2009
House and the team take on the case of a ballerina whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance. When the treatment causes her skin to fall off, the dancer faces not only the prospect of never dancing again but also of dying an agonizing death. The team must use their imaginations to carefully choreograph ways to test and treat her delicate body without killing her. Meanwhile, House continues to suffer from what he thinks is insomnia, and he is willing to go to desperate measures to cure it.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Lawrence Kaplow, Pam Davis
8.3/1024 votesLoading...#17 - Selfish
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2010
A seemingly healthy 14-year-old girl collapses during a skateboarding exhibition; House and Cuddy face the challenge of handling their romantic relationship at work.
Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: Eli Attie
8.3/1028 votesLoading...#18 - Chase
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 2/13/2012
Chase's religious faith bubbles to the surface when he treats a young nun. In addition, he and House reach a fundamental disagreement about the patient that may finally end Chase's reputation as House's "yes man" but also bring's House's methods, reputation and objectivity are given more serious scrutiny.
Director: Matt Shakman
Writer: Peter Blake, Eli Attie
8.2/1032 votesLoading...#19 - Euphoria (2)
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/2006
Foreman continues to experience the same progression of symptoms as the police officer. When he realizes he may be facing imminent death, he calls his father who comes to his son's side. As it comes down to a race against time, House believes the solution to the illness is in the police officer's apartment.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: David Shore, Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend
8.2/1030 votesLoading...#20 - Frozen
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/2008
House and his team have to diagnose a case at a distance when a researcher at a South Pole base is taken ill.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Liz Friedman
8.2/1025 votesLoading...#21 - House Divided
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/27/2009
The team takes on the case of a deaf 14-year-old named Seth who collapsed after he started “hearing” explosions while competing in a wrestling match. When the team tries to test him for seizures, Seth loses vision in one eye, complicating House’s bunk theory of “Exploding Head Syndrome.” As his condition worsens, the team has an ethical disagreement about the patient and his mother’s adamant decision to forego cochlear implants to supplement his hearing. When the prospect of giving Seth the ability to hear for the first time in his life arises, House and the team are faced with a resounding decision. Meanwhile, House’s lack of sleep starts to play tricks on his mind, but he finds his insomnia may be a gift instead of a burden
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Liz Friedman, Matthew V. Lewis
8.2/1025 votesLoading...#22 - A Pox on Our House
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2010
After a 200-year-old medicine jar found on an off-shore shipwreck shatters in a teenage girl's palm, she is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro for symptoms closely linked to smallpox.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: Lawrence Kaplow
8.2/1026 votesLoading...#23 - Two Stories
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/2011
House participates in a school’s Career Day and breaks a few rules by sharing explicit medical stories. Waiting outside the principal’s office, he meets two fifth-grade students who assess House’s relationship woes and try to help him understand how his selfish antics get in the way of showing Cuddy how he really feels.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.2/1029 votesLoading...#24 - Out of the Chute
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 3/14/2011
The team treats a professional bull rider who is attacked by a bull. The team must determine the causes behind the patients disappearing symptoms and seizures while taking House's advice from outside the hospital as he attends to issues unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, Masters develops a crush on the patient.
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
Writer: Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran
8.2/1025 votesLoading...#25 - The Dig
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 4/11/2011
Thirteen has been in prison for the past year, but the real mystery for House is what she did to get there. At the hospital, the team treats a science teacher suffering from severe respiratory illness. Taub tries to get back into the dating scene, but winds up retreating to his old habits.
Director: Matt Shakman
Writer: Sara Hess, David Hoselton
The Best Episodes of House
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Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Genres:DramaMysteryComedy
Network:FOX
Best Episodes Summary
"Three Stories" is the best rated episode of "House". It scored 9/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Paris Barclay and written by David Shore, it aired on 5/17/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Wilson's Heart (2)".