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The Best Episodes of House Season 3

Every episode of House Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of House Season 3!

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    House Season 3 Episode 1 - Meaning
    8.0/10(42 votes)

    #1 - Meaning

    S3:E1

    After recovering from his gunshot wounds, House works feverishly on two cases at the same time: a paralyzed man who drove his wheelchair into a swimming pool and a woman who became paralyzed after a yoga session.

    Director:Deran Sarafian
    Writers:David Shore, Russel Friend, Lawrence Kaplow, Garrett Lerner

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  2. House Season 3 Episode 2 - Cane & Able
    7.7/10(43 votes)

    #2 - Cane & Able

    S3:E2

    House and the team treat a young boy who claims there is a tracking device in his neck and believes he has been the subject of alien experimentation. Cameron is outraged when she learns Cuddy and Wilson have been lying to House about the diagnosis on his last case.

    Director:Daniel Sackheim
    Writers:David Shore, Russel Friend, Lawrence Kaplow, Garrett Lerner

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  3. House Season 3 Episode 3 - Informed Consent
    7.7/10(42 votes)

    #3 - Informed Consent

    S3:E3

    House puts a well-known medical researcher through a battery of tests to determine why he collapsed in his lab. When the team is unable to diagnose the problem, the doctor asks the team to help him end his life. House is forced to use his cane again after the ketamine has worn off as he deals with a clinic patient's teenaged daughter who has a crush on him.

    Director:Laura Innes
    Writer:David Foster

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  4. House Season 3 Episode 4 - Lines in the Sand
    8.2/10(44 votes)

    #4 - Lines in the Sand

    S3:E4

    When doctors are unable to diagnose why a severely autistic boy screams loudly for no apparent reason, House takes the case. As the boy's condition worsens, it becomes obvious that House relates to the boy because he has no social niceties.

    Director:Newton Thomas Sigel
    Writer:David Hoselton

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  5. House Season 3 Episode 5 - Fools for Love
    7.7/10(40 votes)

    #5 - Fools for Love

    S3:E5

    House takes the case of a young woman who has been rushed to the hospital with problems breathing and severe stomach pain after she and her husband were robbed. After her husband collapses, the team believes the couple's illnesses are related. Meanwhile, Michael Tritter, a clinic patient, causes problems for House that could have serious ramifications.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:Peter Blake

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  6. House Season 3 Episode 6 - Que Será Será
    7.5/10(40 votes)

    #6 - Que Será Será

    S3:E6

    The team encounters logistical problems while trying to run tests on a 600-pound man due to his extremely large size. Meanwhile, House spends the night in jail after being arrested by Detective Tritter for various charges, including resisting arrest.

    Director:Deran Sarafian
    Writer:Thomas L. Moran

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  7. House Season 3 Episode 7 - Son of Coma Guy
    8.0/10(42 votes)

    #7 - Son of Coma Guy

    S3:E7

    House decides to awaken a comatose patient so he can question the man regarding the family history of his son, who may have a genetic condition and the father is the only living relative. Meanwhile, Wilson confronts House about the stolen prescription pad as Tritter approaches Cameron, Chase, and Foreman in an attempt to divide the team and reveal their loyalties.

    Director:Dan Attias
    Writer:Doris Egan

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  8. House Season 3 Episode 8 - Whac-A-Mole
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    #8 - Whac-A-Mole

    S3:E8

    An 18-year-old teenager is brought to the hospital after having a heart attack. House reviews the boy's file and believes he has the diagnosis. He then turns the case into a game by sealing his opinion in an envelope and challenging Cameron, Foreman, and Chase to guess House's diagnosis on their own. Meanwhile, Tritter's actions against Wilson continue to strain the oncologist's relationship with House and destroy his ability to practice medicine.

    Director:Daniel Sackheim
    Writer:Pam Davis

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  9. House Season 3 Episode 9 - Finding Judas
    7.4/10(43 votes)

    #9 - Finding Judas

    S3:E9

    House takes the case of a young girl who has been diagnosed with pancreatitis. When he takes her divorced parents to court to force them to allow treatment because they can't agree, the judge awards guardianship of the girl to Cuddy. Meanwhile, Tritter continues his strategy to force House to admit to his drug use by offering one of the team members a deal.

    Director:Deran Sarafian
    Writer:Sara Hess

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  10. House Season 3 Episode 10 - Merry Little Christmas
    7.9/10(44 votes)

    #10 - Merry Little Christmas

    S3:E10

    Wilson arranges for House to make a deal with Tritter, but House refuses. Meanwhile, Cuddy cuts House off Vicodin and removes him from the team's case: a 15-year-old little person who entered the hospital with a collapsed lung and anemia.

    Director:Tony To
    Writer:Liz Friedman

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  11. House Season 3 Episode 11 - Words and Deeds
    7.9/10(42 votes)

    #11 - Words and Deeds

    S3:E11

    House splits his time between treating a firefighter for uncontrollable shivering, giving Tritter a piece of his mind, and handling his trial for forging prescriptions.

    Director:Daniel Sackheim
    Writer:Leonard Dick

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  12. House Season 3 Episode 12 - One Day, One Room
    8.5/10(50 votes)

    #12 - One Day, One Room

    S3:E12

    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

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  13. House Season 3 Episode 13 - Needle in a Haystack
    7.4/10(39 votes)

    #13 - Needle in a Haystack

    S3:E13

    House and his staff must deal with a teenage Gypsy boy suffering from inexplicable respiratory distress. However, House has bigger issues on his mind: Cuddy has given away his handicapped spot.

    Director:Peter O'Fallon
    Writer:David Foster

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  14. House Season 3 Episode 14 - Insensitive
    8.0/10(40 votes)

    #14 - Insensitive

    S3:E14

    It's Valentine's Day, and Cuddy has a blind date. Meanwhile, House leaves ER duty to take the case of a child patient named Hannah.

    Director:Deran Sarafian
    Writer:Matthew V. Lewis

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  15. House Season 3 Episode 15 - Half-Wit
    8.1/10(43 votes)

    #15 - Half-Wit

    S3:E15

    House encounters a brain-damaged musical prodigy with inexplicable abilities while the team faces serious concerns about House's own health.

    Director:Katie Jacobs
    Writer:Lawrence Kaplow

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  16. House Season 3 Episode 16 - Top Secret
    7.6/10(40 votes)

    #16 - Top Secret

    S3:E16

    The ex-marine that saved House's life, in a dream he had the day before, is admitted in the hospital with symptoms resembling Gulf War Syndrome. While House is busy dealing with his own health issues, and Chase and Cameron are too busy with each other, the ex-marine gets worse.

    Director:Deran Sarafian
    Writer:Thomas L. Moran

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  17. House Season 3 Episode 17 - Fetal Position
    7.9/10(38 votes)

    #17 - Fetal Position

    S3:E17

    A famous celebrity photographer suffers from a stroke while being pregnant at her early forties. House and his team have to deal with a great dilemma, save the mother or her unborn child.

    Director:Matt Shakman
    Writers:Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner

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  18. House Season 3 Episode 18 - Airborne
    7.8/10(44 votes)

    #18 - Airborne

    S3:E18

    On House and Cuddy's flight from Singapore a passenger gets ill and Cuddy suspects an epidemic. At the hospital, Wilson leads the team as they deal with a middle-aged woman suffering from seizures.

    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writer:David Hoselton

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  19. House Season 3 Episode 19 - Act Your Age
    7.6/10(38 votes)

    #19 - Act Your Age

    S3:E19

    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.

    Director:Daniel Sackheim
    Writer:Sara Hess

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  20. House Season 3 Episode 20 - House Training
    7.6/10(38 votes)

    #20 - House Training

    S3:E20

    The doctors try to find what's wrong with a scam artist who collapses after her brain "freezes," but the case becomes personal for Foreman.

    Director:Paul McCrane
    Writer:Doris Egan

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  21. House Season 3 Episode 21 - Family
    7.8/10(39 votes)

    #21 - Family

    S3:E21

    Wilson prepares to transplant bone marrow from Matty to his brother Nick. But when Matty gets sick, the team must cure him as he's the only safe donor. Meanwhile Foreman deals with the consequences of his mistake and House has a battle of wills with his new pet Hector.

    Director:David Straiton
    Writer:Liz Friedman

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  22. House Season 3 Episode 22 - Resignation
    7.8/10(39 votes)

    #22 - Resignation

    S3:E22

    The team deals with a 19-year-old college student, while Foreman suddenly and without a reason hands in his resignation. House seems to have already found Foreman's replacement, an attractive nutritionist named Honey.

    Director:Martha Mitchell
    Writer:Pam Davis

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  23. House Season 3 Episode 23 - The Jerk
    7.9/10(39 votes)

    #23 - The Jerk

    S3:E23

    House treats a 16-year-old chess prodigy who gets everyone on the team annoyed with his behavior. Foreman is upset with House because he thinks his boss sabotaged his job interview with another hospital.

    Director:Daniel Sackheim
    Writer:Leonard Dick

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  24. House Season 3 Episode 24 - Human Error
    8.1/10(41 votes)

    #24 - Human Error

    S3:E24

    A Cuban couple attempt to get to America by raft... to see House about the wife's heart condition. But when she gets worse House wonders if someone on his staff messed up. Meanwhile Foreman prepares to leave and his departure threatens to shake up the entire team.

    Director:Katie Jacobs
    Writers:Thomas L. Moran, Lawrence Kaplow

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Meaning" is the best rated episode of "House" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by Deran Sarafian and written by David Shore, Russel Friend, Lawrence Kaplow, Garrett Lerner, it aired on 9/5/2006. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Cane & Able".