The Best Episodes of House Season 1

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

House and his team battle to diagnose a pregnant patient's life-threatening illness, prompting her to make the most emotional decision of her life, and Vogler is determined to fire House.

Director: Bill Johnson

Writer: David Shore, Peter Blake

House has to defend himself when he treats a patient who has legally chosen to refuse treatment.

Director: Frederick King Keller

Writer: David Foster

Dr. House takes Cuddy's challenge to go off his painkillers for a week, but the effects of his withdrawal symptoms may put his patient in danger.

Director: Nelson McCormick

Writer: Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran

The hospital's new Chairman of the Board has it out for Dr. House, questioning his importance to the hospital and threatening to eliminate House and his team.

Director: Randall Zisk

Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

House is faced with a problem he may not be able to solve and Stacy returns.

Director: Frederick King Keller

Writer: Lawrence Kaplow, John Mankiewicz

Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant diagnostician but devoid of bedside manner, and his elite team of young medical experts rush to save the life of a kindergarten teacher who started speaking gibberish and passed out in front of her class.

Director: Bryan Singer

Writer: David Shore

Dr. House and the team treat a homeless woman whose worsening symptoms and unknown identity prove to be a complex mystery.

Director: Daniel Attias

Writer: Joel Anderson Thompson

House and his team battle to save a presidential hopeful, and House refuses to give in to Vogler's ultimatum when given the chance to save one of his team members.

Director: Peter O'Fallon

Writer: Matt Witten

A maternity ward epidemic forces House to decide whether to save the life of one child over another.

Director: Newton Thomas Sigel

Writer: Peter Blake

The case of a schizophrenic mom with a deadly disease and her teenage son who have traded caretaking roles holds a special interest for Dr. House.

Director: Peter Medak

Writer: John Mankiewicz

Dr. House and his team try to uncover the reason a 10-year-old has a heart attack while House suspects one of his team is selling him out to Vogler.

Director: Fred Gerber

Writer: Thomas L. Moran

House and his team race to diagnose a 12-year-old's illness - an illness with a shocking origin - and House asks Cameron to come back to her job.

Director: Deran Sarafian

Writer: Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran

Dr. House goes with his gut and performs an unethical act to prove what he suspects to be the link to a teenage lacrosse player's illness in order to save the boy's life.

Director: Peter O'Fallon

Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

Dr. House and his team race to save a young man who may have not one, but two illnesses killing him.

Director: Bryan Singer

Writer: David Shore

House and his team tackle the case of a young man with a penchant for odd behavior, and House prepares for his date with Cameron.

Director: Bryan Spicer

Writer: Sara B. Cooper

Dr. House's approach is questioned when he treats a nun for what he believes to be an allergy, not realizing the nun's past is coming back to haunt her.

Director: Greg Yaitanes

Writer: Sara B. Cooper

Dr. House's diagnosis of a married woman with a rare sleep disorder forces her and her husband to examine their marriage and question their trust for each other.

Director: Bryan Spicer

Writer: Thomas L. Moran

House and his team have to act fast when a high school student is admitted with a mysterious and lethal poisoning, especially when they discover more teens have been diagnosed with the same deadly illness.

Director: Guy Ferland

Writer: Matt Witten

Dr. House's young patient believes his illness is the result of a curse while House uncovers important information about Chase's father.

Director: Daniel Sackheim

Writer: Peter Blake, Matt Witten

Dr. House and his team race to diagnose a member of the mob and get him well enough to testify and enter the witness protection program while Cuddy works to convince Vogler of House's importance to the hospital.

Director: Tim Hunter

Writer: John Mankiewicz, David Foster

A baseball player's comeback is cut short when he breaks his arm and House and his team have to act fast to figure out what is causing major bone loss that's killing the player and his dreams.

Director: Keith Gordon

Writer: David Shore, John Mankiewicz